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    • Beyond an Eyesore: Re-Imagining Scarborough’s Strip Malls as a Network of Public Spaces 

      Ahmed, Shahal (University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)
      This thesis celebrates the vitality and public life of the post war era strip malls located in Toronto’s inner suburb of Scarborough. These spaces are ritualistically utilitarian and informal social destinations due to ...
    • Divergent affordability: Transit access and housing in North American cities 

      Kramer, Anna (University of Waterloo, 2014-01-14)
      During the process of post-war Fordist suburban expansion, the American and Canadian city was expanded and built around the automobile as the dominant mode of transportation. This caused an inversion of the pattern of ...
    • Flat Places and Dynamic Spaces 

      Olley, James (University of Waterloo, 2008-05-06)
      As found in modern art and architecture during the 1950’s and 1960’s, North Americans were conditioned through advertising and media to adopt modernism as a new and better way of life. Modernist styles such as Abstract ...
    • A GIS Approach for Evaluating Municipal Planning Capability: Residential Built Form in Markham and Vaughan, Ontario 

      Langlois, Paul (University of Waterloo, 2006)
      This research describes a methodology for measuring built form patterns using spatial data and GIS that is amenable to the study of large geographical areas. This methodology was used to investigate the capability of ...
    • A Living Room for Milton 

      Hu, Rui (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-17)
      Milton, Ontario is one of many smaller Canadian cities that has absorbed the sudden growth brought on by a combination of the lack of affordable housing prices and access to major employment lands in larger urban centres. ...
    • Planning Dementia-Inclusive Suburban Neighbourhoods 

      Biglieri, Samantha (University of Waterloo, 2019-12-19)
      Globally, the population is ageing at a rapid rate, and with that comes the prevalence of dementia. Dementia is an umbrella term to describe a progressive set of symptoms impacting cognition that will affect 115.4 million ...
    • Re-wilding the Neighborhood: Discovering Ecological Harmony Through Design with Habitats Along the Oak Ridges Trail 

      Moseley, Emma (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-19)
      This thesis is a reflection on the impacts of suburban sprawl on ecosystem health and biodiversity in York Region, using a design proposal to repopulate pollinator habitat within the fabric of an existing neighborhood. The ...
    • Retrofitting Suburbia: A Move Towards Multigenerational Living 

      Sin, Hollie (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-22)
      Multigenerational living has become an increasingly popular option in the midst of an impossible housing market and towering costs of living. As trends of multigenerational living intensify, most existing housing developments ...
    • Super GTA: Urban Implications of Ontario's Greenbelt 

      Martin, Edward Johnson (University of Waterloo, 2006)
      In early 2005, increasing social and infrastructural costs associated with the rapidly expanding Greater Toronto Area [GTA] pressed the Province of Ontario to initiate a growth management strategy for the region. The ...
    • Synanthropic Suburbia 

      Gunawan, Sarah (University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)
      Animals are invading the city. Coyotes are sighted on downtown streets with greater frequency, raccoons notoriously forage through greenbins as their primary source of food, and all forms of animals inhabit the surfaces, ...

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