Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Flooding"
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Building Resilience: Connecting Water, Landscape and Community in the Mississippi River Delta
(2021-08-06)Humans have altered the natural flow of the Mississippi River Delta through settlement structures and a layered set of scalar infrastructural systems creating a complex hybrid landscape. These changes to the natural landscape ... -
A META-GREEN A Dynamic Architecture Along the Banks of the Saint John River
(2019-04-04)Through the catalytic theory of cybernetics, this thesis proposes a local intervention within the vast network of synthetic and organic systems that span the watershed of the Saint John River Valley in New Brunswick, Canada. ... -
Response of Mexican mint (Plectranthus amboinicus) plant to various watering regimes
(2024-04-12)Plants are sessile, and their ability to reprogram their metabolism to adapt to fluctuations in soil water level is crucial but not clearly understood. A study was performed to determine alterations in morpho-physiological, ... -
The River is the Solution: Infrastructure of Dwelling in Calgary’s Urban Landscape
(2017-08-30)This thesis explores the architectural implications of flooding through the lens of landscape urbanism. Developing a critical understanding of ecological discourse, I consider dualism as the underlying cause of climate ...