Browsing by Subject "Remediation"
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Adapting Tristram Shandy
(2011-09-07)Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, has been noted as an unconventional eighteenth-century novel and it has long been considered unadaptable and unfilmable. In the last decade, however, ... -
[De]constructing Rikers Island: Confronting Architectures of Harm through Reflective Remediation
(2021-04-12)Designed environmental, social, and physical inequalities in American cities have produced sites, systems, and architectures of harm. Rikers Island is at the center of this condition in New York City. The Penitentiary ... -
The Effectiveness of Compost and Biosolids for Land Remediation on Tailings from an Iron Mine
(2014-04-30)Mine tailings inhibit the growth of living organisms and give rise to unstable living conditions for the existing flora and microorganisms. The abandoned iron mine site in Londonderry, Nova Scotia is almost completely ... -
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 ... -
Healing Aquascapes
(2017-05-02)The Healing Aquascape is a strategy to remediate the Burrard Inlet of southern BC and recover the waterway as an integral site in the development of the cultural landscape. As the ecology of the inlet is impoverished by ... -
New Energy Landscapes of a Post-Oil Alberta
(2020-08-26)Energy governs the way society has been structured. Oil is currently the dominant framework that connects society’s political and socio-economic narratives. This framework, the ‘Petroleum Grid’, organizes society around ... -
A Palimpsest Design Approach to Adaptive Reuse of Gas Stations
(2023-04-14)Buildings are designed for social demands, but social demands change faster than our buildings can adapt, leading to a repeating cycle of construction and demolition. This cycle causes not only negative environmental impacts ... -
Reduction of the Organic Load of Industrial Wood Preserving Wastewater via Chemical Oxidation
(2016-11-21)The efficacy of chemical oxidation as a wastewater treatment method for Stella Jones Inc. (Atlantic Canada) was evaluated using 3 chemical oxidants; Fenton’s Reagent, Modified Fenton’s and potassium permanganate. Reduction ... -
A Shared Waterfront: Instilling Public Space Back Into Hamilton's Industrial Port
(2019-08-15)Cities and waterfronts have historically been closely tied through public and private amenities offered in connection to water. Industrial expansion has created an imbalance of public life at the waterfront, eliminating ... -
Taking the Plunge: The Re-use and Re-programming of a Coal Power Plant in Cape Breton
(2021-08-04)With coal power plants being one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, Nova Scotia and its energy providers must address these mounting concerns by initiating the decommission of our coal power ...