Browsing Theses by Subject "Garrison Creek"
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The Creek That is Not: A Composite Park-way at the Garrison Creek
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)A century after the burial of Garrison Creek, Toronto continues to experience urban floods and unpleasant sewer problems as a result of the unsettling creek. And as gentrification spreads westwards in the city, the ... -
Hidden Stories: Resurrecting the Garrison Creek through a Decentralized Storm-water Management System
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-11)This thesis examines the disconnect that is created when the urban infrastructure of cities absorbs its historic landscape. Toronto’s Garrison Creek is a typical example of such disconnection; where the historic creek was ... -
Lost River: The Artefacts of Toronto's Garrison Creek
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)Once the founding site of the city of Toronto and its second largest watercourse, the Garrison Creek and its original landscape of dense forest and deep ravines have disappeared beneath an aggressive process of development ...