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Compact Living: Rethinking Calgary's Laneways
(2012-09-21)
Through architectural design, this investigation explores a strategy for defining the back alley as a new place of community and dwelling. The study considers ideas to design living spaces that offer amenities in a compact ...
Dysnosties: Le récit du retour au pays natal dans la littérature canadienne francophone contemporaine
(2014-11-24)
This project examines the development of the theme of return to the native land in eleven texts that attest to the diversity of the communities built and represented by contemporary French Canadian literature: Pélagie-la-Charrette ...
IDENTIFYING AND OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO COMMUNITY POWER IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2012-09-13)
Community power is an alternative to the fossil-fuelled, centralized approach to electricity generation. Typically, community power involves low-carbon or renewable forms of electricity generation developed in relatively ...
Exploring Place for Community Mental Health Support in Natural Environments
(2012-08-07)
The thesis looks at developing a new model for a mental health support program which is integrated into a natural recreational environment. Its starting point is Beginning Again, a registered charity in Richmond Hill, ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
FROM ANOMIE TO AGRICULTURE: ON SPATIALLY PRODUCED VIOLENCE, SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND ARCHITECTURE
(2019-04-04)
This thesis investigates the transformative potential of architecture as means of mitigating violence in West Garfield Park, Chicago (Illinois, United States). The unremitting violence that plagues the area has accelerated ...
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 ...
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 ...