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  • Design as a Community Catalyst - Rebuilding Downtown Identities 
    Reynolds, Scott (2014-05-16)
    Thriving Post-World War Two America created cities that were no longer dependent upon America’s major city centers, but rather a network of regional developments. Highways allowed metropolitans to rapidly expand and engulf ...
  • Designers, Builders, Users: Messing with Mainstream Architecture 
    Noto, Andrew (2012-05-17)
    The built environment is representative of a society’s health. It grows and diminishes with economic changes and largely affects social behavior. Therefore it is easy to ascertain that healthy and vibrant built environments ...
  • Design for the Public-Private Threshold 
    Autrey, Logan (2019-05-22)
    This research aims to make interpretations of how we define the public and private in contemporary domestic spaces. It will address how due to the age of modernization, the age of industrialism and consumerism, we have ...
  • Designing for Loss 
    Hoppe, David (2012-05-17)
    Floods are the number one most common natural disaster in the United States. Each year they kill hundreds of people and cause billions of dollars in damages to both the natural and the built environment. They are both ...
  • Designing for the Site 
    Smith, Christina (2014-05-20)
    From mountains and hills to valleys and plains, there exists a variety of landscapes of which act as the resting place for architectural designs and buildings. However, when selecting a site on which to construct, the ...
  • Designing the Message 
    Allan, Johanna (2012-05-17)
    “Brands are persuasive lifestyle packagers, powerfully focused on molding our ideas about what our identity should be.” (Klingmann, 2007, p. 2) Many companies use brand identity to persuade people to buy their product, but ...
  • Designing War/An Architecture of Defense & Destruction 
    Suschak, Alison (2013-11-15)
    An institution built around destruction and war can off er insight and innovation into architecture and construction processes. Temporary and permanent military occupation impacts the surrounding environment and community ...
  • Design + Making 
    Cephas, Jana (2012-05-17)
    Drawing is at once a mark made upon a surface and a derivation of meaning from the making of the mark. A cursory look suggests that drawing is merely a communicative medium not dissimilar from written language; the drawing ...
  • Desmond Landing: Riverfront Catalyst 
    Pulcer, Christopher (2015-04-28)
    This is a yearlong study researching, analyzing, and designing the concept of how the riverfront can become an anchor for a city’s economic development from an otherwise unused and abandoned area. The study observes ...
  • DESTINATION: Building a Foundation for Mass Transit 
    Tomlinson, Trevor L. (2012-05-17)
    DESTINATION: Building a Foundation for Mass Transit Every building we design today is designed to incorporate the automobile in some way. Parking must be considered and proportional to the building occupancy. The footprint ...
  • Detroit Justice City: Community Development to Make Jails Obsolete 
    Abbott, Kenya Jr.; Huynh, Tracy; Lofquist, Eric; Watkins, Paige (2023-01-18)
    The goals of this pr oject are: (1) to examine the systems that cause and influence incarceration and criminalization, (2) to identify who is impacted by those systems, and (3) to find alternatives to those systems that ...
  • Detroit_Link 
    Neiling, Ryan (2012-05-17)
    The decentralization of many metropolises began decades ago when people began moving from the city center to suburban areas. This effectively reduced the number of people concentrated in one area in case of nuclear war, ...
  • Detroit's Education Ecosystem Enabling Justice by Reimaging Power & Equitable Collaboration 
    Ayers, Adrienne; Lane Smith, Cornetta; Harris, Kenita; Wilson, Danielle (2023-01-18)
    This project explores/envisions a Detroit education ecosystem--a complex, interconnected system made up of people, physical assets, organizations, industries, all work together to position students, teachers and ...
  • Detroit: Urban Housing [re]Considered 
    Liburdi, Carlo (2012-05-17)
    Detroit's urban landscape transcends all inherent notions of what an urban landscape should resemble. It is within the framework of Detroit's tattered urban fabric that this investigation takes place. The concept of hard ...
  • Development and Characterization of a Composite Cylindrical Column with an Aluminum Foam Core 
    Eghfaier, Mohamed (2014-11-14)
    Energy absorption in automotive structures is very important when one considers the effect of collisions on safety. A literature review reveals a strong emphasis within the field of mechanical engineering on the design ...
  • The Development of an Accreditation Toolkit: A Quality Improvement Initiative 
    Greer, Rebecca (2021-04-06)
    Urgent care centers (UCCs) are not required to be certified or accredited in any state, however, accreditation is an essential measure of healthcare quality and shows outside endorsement of meeting set quality and safety ...
  • Diaspora Directed Development 
    Islam, Farhana (2019-06-07)
    Based on home visits and family interviews and inspiration from traditional Bangladeshi housing forms and concepts, this thesis introduces new housing typologies to accommodate the various types of Bangladeshi-American ...
  • A Different Understanding of Personhood as it Relates to the Abortion Debate 
    Roberts, Cameron (2015-04-20)
    Personhood is an important discussion in many moral issues, most notably in the debate on abortion. The majority of thinkers have placed emphasis on intellect and cognitive reasoning to separate humans from other animals. ...
  • Digital playhouse: thresholds of visual and tactile bodies 
    Seyferth, Staci Lynne (2012-05-17)
    With the increasing speed of our society as our technologies grow, we have become increasingly static in the use and understanding ofour physical bodies as we allow technology to go beyond the simple theory ofmimicking the ...
  • Dining Service Programs SAG 
    Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) (2015-08-21)

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