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    • Approaching Vertical: A Guide Through Land-Use in Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment 

      Holborn, David (University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)
      Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment is a landscape 450 million years in the making. Over this immense time line, great natural forces of the earth have aggregated, eroded, and carved this landscape, a 725-kilometer scarp face ...
    • Aural Landscape Composing an Urban Park 

      Gerstheimer, Geoffrey (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)
      As a culture, the Western World has placed a negative stigma on noise, which has lead to the disregard of the urban soundscape. Researchers have been studying and theorizing ways of understanding the urban sound environment ...
    • The Conscious Landscape: Reinterpreting and Reinhabiting the La Colle Falls Hydro Dam 

      Hurd, Jason John (University of Waterloo, 2007-05-16)
      The ruins of the La Colle Falls Hydro Dam encompass two very distinct topographies: the physical landscape of the vast Canadian Northwest, and the complex emotional terrain of the urban mythology of the city of Prince ...
    • The Creek and the Garden:An insertion of Community Garden System in a Neighborhood Park along the Garrison Creek 

      Sridhar, Srinidhi (University of Waterloo, 2015-06-09)
      ‘The Creek and the Garden’ is about actively preparing Toronto for the surge for gardening and food production within the city and developing a strategy to ensure the future’s growing need for urban food garden space. ...
    • Death in the City: The St. Lawrence Funeral Centre 

      Brown, Liam David Renshaw (University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)
      In contemporary North America, death is contained within a network of cemeteries, crematoria and funeral homes. Death-space and its associative funeral rituals are both sacred and abject resulting in marginalization that ...
    • DECLAMATION: Embracing the Arid State in the Hetch Hetchy Water System 

      Maciel, Sean (University of Waterloo, 2019-01-24)
      Land reclamation is a form of land management, common in the American Southwest, that seeks to alter arid landscapes through a fabricated re-balancing of the hydrological ledger: taking water from one location, sometimes ...
    • Forgotten Landscapes: Restoring our Rural Imagination 

      Beaulieu, Patricia (University of Waterloo, 2015-09-21)
      As our world becomes increasingly interconnected through technology and global trade, urban populations are more and more detached from the realities of our consumption and the cultivated land that supports us. These food ...
    • I Went for a Drive 

      Chimienti, Marco (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-03)
      The place is a Tower much like the ones in Cambridge I’ve been so fascinated by, the ones I’m drawn to when I need a break. What makes this Tower of interest is that it just so happens to be the tallest thing in the western ...
    • The Map is Not the Territory 

      Urbanik, Brian A (University of Waterloo, 2012-01-24)
      Hi Donald, It just occurred to me that I might be finished with this fieldwork. I’m sitting at the side of the road looking over this fucked up landscape of cattle, golf carts, trees with turning leaves, being rained on, ...
    • The Mountain and the Valley: A Planning and Conservation Approach for the Annapolis Valley 

      Perry, Caitlin Michelle (University of Waterloo, 2014-08-28)
      The Annapolis Valley Region is home to a rich and varied landscape. Agriculture, historic sites, the Bay of Fundy Shore, and the inland forests are just some of the aspects that together make up this unique region. ...
    • Natural Grieving, a Method of Preservation: Implementing Natural Burials in Ontario’s Greenbelt 

      Hung, Chieh Yu (University of Waterloo, 2021-05-10)
      We experience an incredible amount of emotion when death touches our lives. With death comes the complexity of loss and grief. The spaces of death, from the morgue, the funeral home to the cemetery, are significant components ...
    • Prosthetic Landscapes: Reclaiming the Iraqi marshes 

      Ghazal, Ammar (University of Waterloo, 2019-10-22)
      Hidden within the sands of the middle eastern desert, there lies a vast aging Petropolis, occupying territories in southern Iraq through the injection of infrastructure such as mechanical drills and mobile machinery. The ...
    • Real Mixed Use: Combining Living and Production on Underused Historic Industrial Sites to Resist Gentrification 

      Cartwright, Brianna Aerin Elise (University of Waterloo, 2018-10-19)
      Changing economic conditions and production requirements have caused manufacturing and other secondary industries to move away from the urban core of mid-sized cities in Southern Ontario, such as London, Hamilton, and ...
    • Sift 

      Kernohan, Sarah (University of Waterloo, 2015-05-01)
      Sift is a suite of drawings that serves as a personal record of a long hike in Iceland. Through an exploration of sediment as a metaphor, and the use of sedimentation as a drawing process, I am sifting through matter and ...
    • Suburban Rites of Passage: Building, Landscape, and the Mediation of Adolescent Aggression 

      Koutsoulias, Michael (University of Waterloo, 2005)
      This thesis questions contemporary society?s understanding and ability to deal with the universal instinct known as aggression. The investigation identifies the driving forces behind adolescent aggression and the myth ...
    • Syntrophic Waters: A Vision for (Co-)Productive Marine Conservancy 

      Tang, I Shan Elsa (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-28)
      The twentieth century witnessed a dietary shift in Japan, which resulted in greater consumption of exotic seafood species that occupy high trophic levels. This, along with the industrialisation of commercial fisheries and ...

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