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Inhabiting Manufactured Landscape: An Architectural Approach to Minnesota’s Post-Industrial Iron Range
(2020-08-26)
Surface mining has created manufactured landscapes all over the world. While often viewed in a negative light as ‘scars on the land,’ they are a tangible imprint of humanity’s action on the landscape. Through the lens ...
Connecting the Storied Landscape of the Shubenacadie
(2020-08-19)
For more than 100 years, the Shubenacadie has been forgotten by the collective consciousness of many Nova Scotians.
This thesis examines the cultural practices of the Mi’kmaq, the Acadians, and the British as they engaged ...
LANDSCAPE DISCOURSES OF AMENITY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN VITICULTURE REGIONS IN CANADA
(2021-12-17)
Shifts from fossil fuels toward renewable energy (RE) are happening worldwide. Although RE contributes to global warming, this shift introduces profound changes to landscapes. Moreover, RE transitions are often happening ...
Scope for the Imagination: Cultivating Craft in the Abandoned Farmscapes of Prince Edward Island
(2022-04-13)
In the year 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery published the widely known novel, Anne of Green Gables. Taking place on Prince Edward Island, a major theme throughout the story is the act of establishing a meaningful connection to ...
Eternal Landscapes: A Reframing of Monuments in the Civic Cemetery
(2022-04-18)
Secular demands on space are shifting Western funerary culture away from traditional individual memorials. New burial modes omit the gravestone, and ash spreading rituals detach the act of remembering from the body. While ...
Impacts of farming systems on landscape heterogeneity in Southern Saskatchewan cropland
(2022-04-13)
Organic farms have been recognized to have higher biodiversity than conventional farms, but it is unclear if organic farms are conserving more perennial habitat in their fields than conventional farms under large scale ...
Framing the Forest: Restoring Nova Scotia's Hidden Landscapes of Extraction
(2022-04-12)
Nova Scotia is home to vast areas of ecologically unique and sensitive Acadian forest, almost all of which has been cut down and regrown several times, damaging its integrity as habitat for wildlife and as economic and ...
Tidal Gardening: An Architectural Response to Flood Mitigation on the Salmon River
(2022-07-07)
As climate change intensifies and sea-levels rise, flooding is once again a problematic event that is predicted to occur more and more frequently worldwide. The destructive power of the flood is a real threat to our habitat, ...
Constructing New Narratives to Reveal Diverse Identities in Richmond, BC
(2022-07-07)
With the capitalist expansion of urban cities today, different physical and social forces exist, collaborate and challenge each other on the land we call home. In Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, where multi-ideologies ...
Narrative City: Latin American Home-City Landscapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2023-08-22)
Storytelling lies at the center of cultural production and exchange. In smaller immigrant
communities without dedicated cultural infrastructure and established networks of
gathering spaces, oral storytelling functions ...