Methods 3 – Fall 2017 – Student Projects

Final projects for Design and Urban Ecologies, Methods 3.


A story of Urban Renewal as told by data

Lahore, Pakistan

It is a case study project centered around finding ways to make data on Lahore accessible and readable to its residents.

Barbados: Mapping the Coast and the Water Crisis

Barbados, West Indies

The goal of this mapping project was to show the privatization and exclusivity of the coast and to show the water crisis in Barbados.

Boyle Heights: Affordable Housing Needs Assessment

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Assessing the need for affordable housing in LA County, particularly Boyle Heights and reviewing potential spaces for a Community Land Trust.

Comparative Location Data of NYPD Lighting in Harlem

Central Harlem

This map attempts to locate correlations between the placement of NYPD floodlights in Central Harlem with crime and community facilities data.

Contextualizing Rehabilitated Industrial Sites: San Antonio

San Antonio, TX, USA

This project examines the residential characteristics of neighborhoods surrounding six rehabilitated industrial facilities in San Antonio.

Coral Bleaching in the Mesoamerican Reef

Mexico; Belize; Guatemala; Honduras

One of the largest coral reefs in the world is in danger of being damaged beyond repair because of urban development and other human activities.

Graffiti Complaints VS. Celebrated Street Art

New York, NY, USA

In QGIS I tried mapping a M. Beardsley's theory of Aesthetic Welfare; in Carto I mapped graffiti complaints vs. celebrated street art.

GREEN IN URBAN FABRIC

New York City, New York, USA

This project is to develop a generalized tool for integrating trees into urban environment.

Informality in Chennai - Settlement Patterns and Trends

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

The project intends to explore and define the Urban Informality that exists within the cities of the Global South.

Mapping NYC's Startups and WeWork Spaces

New York, NY, USA

NYC has become home to thousands of startups impacting work culture and environments. Home to many of these startups is WeWorks.

New Haven's Urban Agriculture

New Haven, CT, USA

This project explores the many different types of urban agricultural spaces in New Haven, their density and relation to race and income.

Reclaiming public space in Brasilia

Brasília, DF, Brazil.

This project explores the contradictions between the planned modernist city of Brasilia and its lived urban space.

Shadows of Development

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

My project is about mapping data about the city and building narratives for collective knowledge sharing to empower vulnerable communities.

Systems of Exclusion: Legacy of Redlining Policies

The Bronx, New York, USA.

Investigating the effects of historical urban policies and their relationship to the current urban life in The Bronx, New York.

Tech Impact on Home Values: Silicon Valley

San Jose, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA; California, USA

Map of home value changes in Silicon Valley between 1997 and 2017. Focus on the impact of prominent tech companies on the region's real estate.

The Bronx and it's Public Elementary Schools

Bronx, NY, USA

My project is seeking to make academic and demographic statistics of elementary schools in the Bronx accessible and transparent