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The void in between urban neighborhood: the urban context of Dhaka
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and one of the most crowded cities on earth, is almost three times as dense as Manhattan. The city’s edge is constantly evolving to respond to the never-ending needs. In this thesis, I ... -
Redefining architectural solutions for mental health: Issue 001 : leveraging biophilic design
The connection between architectural design and mental health is significant, yet largely goes unrecognized. Although hospitals are capable of helping treat mental health, an argument can be made that, in many cases, these ... -
Herspace: redefining urban retail space for women
The thesis ‘HERspace’ examines the intersection of gender equity and bazaar/retail architecture in the postcolonial world, with a particular focus on women's right to commercial spaces. Drawing on the works of postcolonial ... -
Exploring the future of ecology and missing middle housing in a dispersed metropolis
As complex beings we are striving for improvement and change. Idealists planned for Garden or Radiant cities to alleviate the filth and disease of crowded industrial cities. Development spurred by the automobile created ... -
The implications of mass timber in high-rise buildings with a focus on innovative hotel design
In the 21st century, the focus of architecture has moved toward sustainability. Sustainability has become a fundamental aspect of each architecture design and there are several certificates including LEED or Passive House ... -
Navigation through space: designing a recreational center with the principle of neuroscience
Neuroscience is a field that explores the nervous system, while NeuroArchitecture is a relatively new branch that examines how environments and places impact our physiological responses. Our neural responses to our ... -
Enabling New Interactions with a Library's Digital Collections: Automatic Gender Recognition in Historical Postcards via Deep Learning
The Walter Havighurst Special Collections from University Archives & Preservation at Miami University’s King Library has a growing collection of over 600,000 historical postcards, with approximately 30,000 digitized, ... -
Researching Lead Exposure Effects on Substance Use Disorders: My Passions in Environmental Health Equity
With underlying neurological effects of lead (Pb) on learning and neuron firing, which is seen in consequential developments of learning disabilities, could the comorbidity of ADHD and SUDs be determined, in part, by Pb ... -
“Documenting Shell Shock”: LAURE Research Story Essay
Since the fall of my junior year here at Miami, I have spent much of my time devoted to studying the topic of shell shock in the United States, specifically examining the ways in which newspapers facilitated the spread ... -
Tokyo voids: Extending Tokyo's public realm through it's forgotten voids
Despite global population growth, Japan's population is experiencing a decrease in population, contractions in part due to low birth rates, aging majority, and high life expectancy. As such, 10% of homes in Japan lay ... -
Riverscape metropark: Educating the public about the aquatic environment
Most of the buildings people encounter simply reside in their environment with no way of being able to tell its story. They are placed in a complex landscape to fulfill a role for humanity-a passive state of being at ... -
Changing views: Exploring pathways in the Motor City
Pathways have informed movement and experience for a hundred years. Those pathways implied how we live, travel and the establishment of place. New modes of transportation shifted how people move, creating the need for ... -
Designing for and from digital narratives
What would it look like if architecture more deeply valued the perspectives of the average people whose lives unfold upon it every day? Architecture exists within a public environment and in urban areas, the effect of both ... -
Regenerating the "Model City"
The post World War II era is famous for the Baby Boomer generation and the birth of suburbia, both of which caused a major demographic shift at the time. The impact of these shifts is still felt today as the population ... -
Outward bound: developing strategies for the future of spaceports
Human desires to reach the cosmos stretch back to prehistory. Only in modern times has this become possible With the advent of an emerging private sector oriented toward space exploration and travel, it is essential to ... -
Neighborhood rebuilding centers: imagining a more cooperative future for urban rust belt neighborhoods
Cohousing and coliving are two housing forms that aim to address loneliness and encourage better social connection through shared common spaces and intentional community design. These housing concepts have not yet taken ... -
Resurrecting Abandoned Inner City Religious Buildings and Campuses as Community Amenities
Once prevalent across the United States, churches acted as community anchors in the homogenized communities situated in cities across the country, providing a communal space for prayer, schooling and social services. ... -
Communication: A Greater Analysis of Storytelling in Music Through Mayuzumi’s Bunraku
Imaginational responses similar to Eugene Gendlin’s “felt sense” appear in both music and writing. By studying a single composition for cello, Toshiro Mayuzumi’s Bunraku, writers, performers, and other creatives can ... -
Onward Echoes the Story: The Study of Religion amid Miami’s narrative of Justice & Change
Since the protests following the death of George Floyd in 2020, we see changes on a global to a local scale. In January of 2021, Apple committed to a $100 million pledge to challenge systematic racism including a new ... -
Everything But Carry a Rifle: An Article Examining the Members of the Women’s Army Corps and their Relationship to Guns
In 1942, the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) was created to help alleviate expected manpower shortages for World War II. Converted to the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) and officially made Army in 1943, the WACs performed ...