Browsing by Subject "Community"
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Integral Architecture: Social Infrastructure for a Gentrifying Neighbourhood
(2017-04-11)We are in a transition period in the growth of American cities. The urban is re-centralizing, rejuvenating old downtowns, and gentrifying previously neglected inner city neighbourhoods. In Canada, gentrification has been ... -
Landscapes of Memory: A Study of Memorialization in Northern Uganda
(2016-04-08)In the Western world today, memorialization typically occurs at ‘sites of memory’, such as monuments and museums, where people go to remember or learn about the events being commemorated. This approach to memorialization ... -
The Language of Community in Canada: Social Relationships: Communities Paper
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Liminal Dwelling: Support for Street Residents, a Place of Re-integration and Transition
(2017-04-17)In this thesis, I will argue for the establishment of a ‘shelter-first’ tent city in the South East False Creek area; one that brings collaboration between the housed and unhoused. One which provides a safe and stable place ... -
Living Together: The Architecture and Mutual Symbiosis of Intergenerational Housing
(2021-08-04)Today’s changing demographic and a rising life expectancy are creating communities where different generations live at the same time for longer periods of time. The constantly growing models for housing and care services ... -
Main Street is Dead, Long Live Main Street
(2016-04-08)Deindustrialization is a phenomenon apparent in many countries across the world, but while the majority of the revitalization focus has been on large metropolitan cities, little consideration has been taken into account ... -
Open [Architecture] School
(2013-04-05)The thesis will propose a decentralized building type for the contemporary development of urban architecture schools. The largest component of architecture education left out of universities at present is the ability for ... -
The Parallel and the Perpendicular: Reconnecting Calgarians to the Bow River
(2015)The rapid population growth in Calgary since the oil drilling boom of the 1970s has led to a diversification of Calgarians in terms of ethnicity. socio-economic status, and age. Without any unifying public spaces, the city ... -
The Power of Participation: How Can Community Partners Sustain the Halifax Mobile Food Market?
(2019-12-09)Mobile Food Markets (MFMs) are innovative interventions which can support healthy eating within lower-income communities. MFMs enhance food security by increasing access to healthy food by alleviating travel costs in areas ... -
Preserving Soul: A New Hall for the Village of Prospect
(2024-04-09)As global forces homogenize diverse places, rich local knowledge is eroding, prompting individuals to seek fulfillment beyond their rural communities. The solution lies in reconnecting people with their localities, fostering ... -
Re - Settled: A New Typology for Refugee Housing Promoting Community Assimilation through Integration, Interaction, and Adaptation
(2018-04-06)This thesis aims to analyze the challenges resettled refugees face, propose architectural guidelines that address these needs, and introduce a new typology of public housing that helps to assimilate resettled refugees into ... -
Reconnecting in the Third Place: Social Catalysts to Counter Loneliness and Social Isolation in Urban Environments
(2021-04-08)As contemporary pathologies of urban environments, loneliness and social isolation are consequences of increasingly fragile social networks caused by atomized and mobile customs and the erosion of social infrastructures ... -
Shelter to Gather: A Primitive Future for Resilient Cities in Post-earthquake Urban Environments
(2016-04-07)This thesis focuses on creating a strategic process for addressing the devastation of communities in the aftermath of earthquakes. In Christchurch, New Zealand the site of this thesis, buildings and infrastructure were ... -
Small Craft harbours in Nova Scotia, Canada: Examining Livelihoods Beyond the Commercial Fishery
(2021-08-24)Canadian small craft harbours (SCHs) are vital for connecting the commercial fishery with the global economy. Without the presence of SCHs, many rural communities would fail to sustain individuals’ livelihoods. This research ... -
Urban Waterscapes: Water as Social Infrastructure in Vancouver, BC
(2014-08-22)Vancouver, BC is a rainy city surrounded by water. Climate change analysis predicts the city will begin to experience more frequent and intense rain as well as rising sea levels. If intensities increase, existing systems ... -
Wanting to Sweat Together: The Relationship between Community and CrossFit
(2018-06-15)Physically-active leisure offers numerous physical, psychological and social benefits (Shiraev & Barclay, 2012). Further, heightened benefits occur when physically-active leisure occurs in community environments (Iwasaki, ...