Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "urbanism"
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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 ... -
Interchange Intervention: Inhabiting Urban Highway Infrastructure
(2013-12-12)Urban highway infrastructure in North America has been singularly designed for the automobile, severing parts of the urban fabric, blighting our once-thriving city centres and resulting in spaces that are void of the human ... -
A Public Architecture to Encourage Plurality
(2019-08-26)A speculative design illustrates an architecture for plurality. The design rests upon George Baird's proposal that a plurality consists of individuals occupying a range of publicness from the collective distraction described ... -
Temporary City: Appropriation for Everyday Life in Hong Kong
(2020-04-14)This thesis challenges the pursuit of permanence in cities and sees temporary and tactical appropriation as opportunities to improve the everyday life of people in Hong Kong. In old districts of Hong Kong Island and ...
