Browsing by Subject "Urban Design"
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Active Transit as Urban Infrastructure: The Vehicle for Promoting Public Health through Architecture
(2015-04-06)This thesis studies ways that architecture and urban infrastructure can encourage the citizens of a sprawling city to engage with their environment and thereby improve their physical and mental health. This is done by ... -
Dub City: Sample, Remix, and the Techno-Urban Graft
(2012-08-13)This thesis looks to techno music, and subsequently to the DJ, as models for a way of understanding urban spatial ecology. In its compositional use of rhythm to create a sense of musical space punctuated by time, the DJ’s ... -
The Living Yard: Re-Making the Public Square for Community Identity
(2019-08-22)How do we design and develop in urban areas where we are witnessing the social impacts of gentrification? Through adaptive reuse, this thesis will investigate issues of the gentrification process in the North End of Halifax, ... -
Rethinking the Relationship between Stadiums and Public Space
(2020-09-01)This thesis examines how a centrally located stadium can be woven into the public space of a Canadian city to become an active member of the urban fabric. Common community desires for spectator sports have faced difficulties ... -
Rising Sea Level: An Amphibious Community for the Dartmouth Cove
(2012-04-03)To respond to the global issue of sea level rise, this thesis examines architectural adaptation strategies by focusing on a low-lying coastal community in Dartmouth Cove in Halifax, Canada. Without a comprehensive adaptation ... -
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 ... -
Streetscapes in Motion: Urban Remediation of Public Space and Road Infrastructure
(2012-08-07)When undertaking the renovation of large-scale road infrastructure, there is a unique design opportunity to reconsider the role of road networks and their effect on our contemporary urban landscape. This study analyses ... -
Subdivided and Reconnected: Community Integrated Transportation Hubs as a Response to Car-Centric Growth
(2022-07-07)In little over a century Calgary has gone from pioneer beginnings to an expansive urban area. The City of Calgary’s policies have fostered the conditions for automobile-dominated, single-use and low-density neighbourhoods. ...