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A Children's Library: Designing Spaces for Play and Imagination
(2013-12-10)
Children’s understanding of space is a fusion of reality and fantasy, in which the physical environment, play, and imagination assume important roles. The boundary between the imaginative realm of the child and the physical ...
Grey Stations: New Strategies for Senior Housing in Vancouver, BC
(2014-04-04)
This thesis proposes a strategy to capitalize on the abundance of derelict service stations in Vancouver, BC, as a means to address the current crisis of seniors’ housing and services. Vancouver’s glut of vacant service ...
Art in the City: A New Vancouver Art Gallery as a Means of Re-affirming Culture and Vitalizing the Urban Realm
(2011-04-11)
This thesis explores the possibility that a well designed and situated urban art gallery might improve a problematic urban condition in Vancouver. The aim is to vitalize a neglected urban space, and connect the waterfront ...
Emergent Urbanism: A Framework for Responsive Connectivity in Vancouver’s False Creek Flats
(2014-04-04)
The city remains one of humanity’s greatest challenges, demanding solutions to complex problems that arise from a network of interoperating systems at different scales. As urban centres densify across Canada, the dialogue ...
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 ...
Design with Nature: Learning from Ecological Systems to Educate the Urban Dweller
(2013-04-05)
Nature has an effective approach to cycling materials and energy flows to promote life. This thesis aims to expose urbanite users to nature’s way of cycling materials. The seawall is the largest public space in Vancouver ...
"Out of Many Kindreds and Tongues": Racial Identity and Rights Activism in Vancouver, 1919-1939
(2011-05-02)
This dissertation examines “race” politics in Vancouver during the interwar period as one origin of human rights activism. Race-based rights activism is a fundamental element of the modern human rights movement and human ...
Vancouver’s Chinatown: Rebuilding a Community’s Identity
(2019-08-28)
In the competition for space within developing cities, key cultural and social components within working class ethnic neighbourhoods are often found being transformed by outside market forces. In the newest iteration of ...
Nourished by Design: Public Architecture as Social Infrastructure
(2021-04-09)
This thesis reimagines the role of public buildings in urban society arguing that their contemporary value comes not only from providing public services but also from being accessible places for socialization in the public ...
Cultural Competence in Mental Health Services: Learning from Client Experiences
(2015)
Despite the introduction of cultural competence models in mental health services, individuals from marginalized backgrounds with severe mental health (dis)Abilities continue to face health and mental health inequities ...