Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "City planning"
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Community Participation : A Review of Four Participatory Housing Projects in Developing Countries
(1990-08-24)Although community participation is a popular catchword in contemporary development planning in developing countries, there is no consensus as to what it means and what function it should perform. The diversity of definitions ... -
GIVEN ITS ROLE, THE HALIFAX WATERSHED ADVISORY BOARD'S ABILITY TO INFLUENCE WATER RESOURCE PROTECTION: A CASE STUDY
(2007)Stakeholders engaged in land use planning and development in Halifax County and in Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) have recognized Waters Advisory Boards (W ABs) for their expertise in water resource protection for ... -
Integral Architecture: Social Infrastructure for a Gentrifying Neighbourhood
(2017-04-11)We are in a transition period in the growth of American cities. The urban is re-centralizing, rejuvenating old downtowns, and gentrifying previously neglected inner city neighbourhoods. In Canada, gentrification has been ... -
Scar Tissue: Stitching the Divide - Reintegrating Beirut's Central District Into Public Life
(2016-08-22)This thesis examines the role of ruins and memory in triggering public ownership, and using them as a setting for programs that encourage inclusion, reconciliation, and interaction between different sectarian and social ... -
Turning the tide: renewing development practices in Saint John, New Brunswick
(2005)This thesis seeks to explore the idea that the construction of an experimental school of sustainable product design and craft can assist in the renewal process of the Saint John urban waterfront and ,, surrounding region. ... -
Urban Development in Eastern Nigeria -- to 1952
(1975-06)This thesis examines the problem of modernisation in a colonial context. It is not a critique of colonialism as such. It seeks rather to analyse the irony of a colonial situation in which change and modernisation were ...