Browsing Theses by Subject "Vancouver"
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The Architecture of Community: Public Space in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-16)The public spaces of many low-income, inner-city neighbourhoods are fundamental in forming strong social networks, nurturing the development of community and supporting the needs of vulnerable residents. This aspect of the ... -
Changing Lanes: Taking Vancouver’s laneway housing from feeding speculation to an affordable ownership model under a Community Land Trust
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-24)Towards the end of 2017, after consultation with a series of reports, studies, and advisory groups, the Vancouver City Council has published the Housing Vancouver Strategy (2018-2027) and 3-Year Action Plan (2018-2020) ... -
Domestic Insurgency - Towards Affordable Housing in Vancouver
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-24)Vancouver’s persisting housing crisis has decoupled dwelling prices from local income through persistent capital investment oriented dwelling typologies and restrictions on land availability. Vancouver, as one of the first ... -
Go on play with the words, the effect is the same: how gentrification and liveability feature in public discourses of neighbourhood change
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-25)Despite its association with displacement, gentrification remains a persuasive model for encouraging economic development and growth. For gentrification strategies to remain politically palatable, policy discourses mask ... -
On Common Grounds
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-29)Canada’s housing market has been unaffordable, inaccessible, and commodified for a long time. Due to the ever-increasing real-estate prices and critical housing shortages, there has been an elevated need for more alternative ... -
The Performance of Rainscreen Walls in Coastal British Columbia
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-11)This thesis examines the widespread moisture problems which emerged over the past twenty years in buildings throughout coastal British Columbia, commonly known as ‘leaky condos’. A literature review of building physics and ... -
Social Resilience to Flooding: The Implications of Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-22)Resilience to environmental hazards refers to the capacities and abilities to resist, adapt and recover from the impacts of a potential hazard, such as flooding. Building resilience is increasingly recognized as a strategy ... -
The Sockeye Special: Reimagining the Arbutus Corridor for a Resilient Vancouver
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-22)An underutilized ribbon of land cuts through the urban fabric of Vancouver, British Columbia. Known as the Arbutus Corridor, it is the right of way for a rail line that once connected industry on opposite sides of the city. ... -
Visioning Diversity: Planning Vancouver's Multicultural Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2002)The roles and responsibilities of planners in managing culturally diverse cities are beginning to be articulated in the literature. "Visioning,"as planners have used it in recent years, has the potential to help realize ...