Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Subject "Urbanization"
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Of the River: Unraveling Imaginaries of Water & Resilience in Metro Manila
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)Metro Manila, the Philippines’ capital, emerged from the river delta—bisected by an estuarine river and laced with rivulets. For a long time, the city embraced its wet geography and was adapted to the soak of torrential ... -
Spatial Decision Support System for Urban Streams
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)The change of land use from rural to urban tends to radically alter the implicated streams with many symptoms of the “urban stream syndrome”. The key driver of the syndrome is hydrologic change; the product of increased ... -
Tracing the Last Mile: Mobility, Urbanization, and the Journey Home in China’s Spring Festival Golden Week
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-14)Tracing the Last Mile studies the annual migratory journey home during China’s Lunar New Year Golden Week through the convergence of traditional Chinese art and auto-ethnographic research. This thesis highlights individual ...