Browsing Theses by Subject "place"
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Block 1: Refiguring the Post-Industrial Ruin or Bridging Natural and Cultural Heritage in the Haldimand Tract
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-22)In an ever expanding and quickening world, heritage has become a vestige of authenticity, identity, and placemaking. In a settler colonial country its ties to ideas of inheritance, birthright, and patrimony, complicate ... -
Clay Shapes the Hand
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-16)Clay is a ubiquitous and malleable substance that records history at the scale of geologic time. Present in creation stories and found to be one of the first human tools, clay runs parallel to humanity. Clay acts as a ... -
Condemned to a Perpetual Jacuzzi… With Millions of Your Best Friends
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-21)Condemned to a Perpetual Jacuzzi… With Millions of Your Best friends is a multi-media exhibition that investigates the personal, the socio-political and the cultural notions of home. The mind’s vision of home is most often ... -
Considering the surface: writings on people, occasion, space and place
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)The following collection of writings reflects on people, occasion, space and place. Together, the writings explore how we might respond to and design for human presence. The human figure, as used in architectural representation, ... -
Environmental Behaviour, Place Attachment and Park Visitation: A case study of visitors to Point Pelee National Park
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis explores the relationship between place attachment and pro-environmental behaviour expressed by visitors to Point Pelee National Park. Place attachment, the functional, cognitive and emotional bond with a ... -
Exploring Health and Wellbeing in a Low-to-Middle Income Country: A Case Study of Kenya
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-15)The recent past has witnessed an increased interest in the concept of wellbeing both in academia and public policy. Governments and international organizations have developed a policy agenda with the broad goal of improving ... -
The Importance of Place: A Role for the Built Environment in the Etiology and Treatment of Problematic Substance Use
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-07)Faced with the growing North American drug crisis, and in light of the history of ineffective or even harmful approaches to treating problematic substance use, it is time to examine the problem from a new angle. There is ... -
Locating Self through Adoption Homeland Tours: A Phenomenological Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-01)Tourism and adoption are separate subjects, which are both well-studied. Studies that look at adoption and tourism together are hard to find. Generally, these studies are written from a social work perspective rather than ... -
Mapping the City: Narratives of Memory and Place
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-10)How do we discover a new place and begin to get acquainted with it? In Canadian cities, the sense of place can be difficult to grasp. The relative youth of the built form of our cities and a constant influx of new people ... -
Rethinking Maritime Literary Regionalism: Place, Identity, and Belonging in the Works of Elizabeth Bishop, Maxine Tynes, and Rita Joe
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-08)In this dissertation I argue that the dominant concept of Maritime literary regionalism is informed by a Euro-settler definition of belonging, one that prescribes an author’s long-term residency and family history in a ... -
Vessel: stories from the edge of the world
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-05)From the first instances of human inhabitation on the island of Newfoundland, wooden boats have been crucial facilitators to life on The Rock. Those who called this beautifully rugged land home were able to do so as a ...