Browsing by Subject "Community"
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Aging by Design
(2017-04-28)This thesis seeks develop a programmatic strategy that integrates seniors into existing communities by identifying the existing amenities and public services offered, understanding the gaps in services for seniors, and ... -
Architecture for New Energy Futures: Community and Infrastructure in a Post-Coal World
(2023-07-20)For the past 300 years, the coal mining industry has fundamentally shaped the landscapes and communities of Cape Breton, which hosts the majority of Nova Scotia’s fossil fuel infrastructure. This thesis mobilizes Cape ... -
Au-delà des murs: Bridging the Edge between the Living City and the Preserved City
(2018-04-06)This thesis investigates how the bureaucracies of heritage designation such as UNESCO create havens for tourists rather than encourage the continuous inhabitation of historic cities. With the mission of preserving culture, ... -
Barn Raising and the Imagination: Experiencing Life through the Reimagined Barn
(2023-07-17)The mythical historic landscape of Kingsburg, Nova Scotia, Canada becomes a time and place to daydream, as long days spent in the sun end with red skies of sunset. This dream finds an end through a temporal shift to the ... -
Bridge as Anchor: Connecting Neighbourhoods, the City, and the Ravine in Toronto’s Rosedale Valley
(2018-07-31)Toronto is a city characterized by the rich dichotomy between its urban fabric and the natural environment which shaped the city. Ravines are a primary contributor of open space, and a source of social and urban infrastructure ... -
Building Community in Sacred Space: A Method for Adaptive Reuse of Deconsecrated Catholic Churches in Millbank, New Brunswick
(2022-04-11)In an increasingly changeable and defamiliarized society, where attendance at religious services has decreased, many religious buildings are falling into disuse and disrepair. By using sacred qualities of architecture to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
De-capitalizing San Francisco’s Waterfront through the Collective Memory of Resistance
(2023-07-14)For over two centuries, San Francisco’s Waterfront has been a mechanism for capitalism, fostering an environment of economic “advancements” that harbours capital greed. As a line of exchange, the Waterfront is a capitalist ... -
Defunding Halifax Police with an Art Historical and Contemporary Framework in Architecture
(2023-07-19)Policing and surveillance contribute to the segregation and oppression of marginalized communities across North America. The police state’s power is maintained through architecture and urban design, making the architect ... -
DISTINCTIVE DEALINGS: FORMAL AND INFORMAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA
(2018-12-18)Over the past fifty years, the informal economy has emerged as a concept in contradistinction to the formal economy. Literature often assumes that informal economic activities result from precarity and a lack of access to ... -
Drifting to Collective: Combatting a Hidden Epidemic Through Urban Housing
(2023-07-18)Historically, villages have consisted of people choosing to dwell together out of necessity for survival. This social interaction catalyzes what makes these villages successful, interdependent communities. The current ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
The Future-Proof Institution: Adaptive Re-Use of the Abandoned St. Patrick's Alexandra into a Community-Led Institution
(2023-04-12)Institutions that have singular programs (like schools providing Education) end up closing due to their inability to adapt to changes in their communities. One such institution is St. Patrick’s Alexandra, a former K-9 ... -
Housing Relief Through Adaptable Living
(2023-04-14)Housing serves the fundamental human need for shelter. As family structures fluctuate, the living space changes. Instead of the need for multiple dwellings, having a living space that accommodates each life stage in the ... -
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 ... -
Infrastructural Landscapes: Integrating Renewable Energy with Landscape and Community in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia
(2018-07-31)The Bay of Fundy is home to the highest tides in the world and among the strongest currents. The Minas Passage is a narrow body of water in the upper Bay of Fundy with a 13-metre tidal range and water speeds of 7-8 knots, ... -
Inhabiting Urban Landscapes: Reimagining Mono-Programmed Infrastructure as Accessible Public Space
(2023-07-21)Public areas in cities are often overtaken and underutilized by surrounding infrastructure, singularly programmed spaces, a lack of urban amenities, and pedestrian access throughout public zones. This thesis investigates ...
