Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Subject "infrastructure"
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DECLAMATION: Embracing the Arid State in the Hetch Hetchy Water System
(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 ... -
Ecological Infrastructures - Reconnecting The Fragments of Garrison Creek through Four Frameworks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-21)Garrison Creek is one of many ravines along Toronto’ s waterfront which have undergone numerous transformations since the establishment of Toronto as a city. Accelerated urbanization of the downtown core and waste dumping ... -
Embedded Boundaries
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-18)This thesis is an investigation of landscape as boundary: a study of its formation, inhabitation, and symbolic meaning. The study is situated in a valley located south of Jerusalem’s Old City walls; known as both Gei ... -
Empowering Los Angeles: A Vision for a New Urban Ecology
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-11)This thesis addresses the future of sustainable energy distribution and transportation in the United States. Predictions of future energy and transportation demands promote localized energy as the most likely situation. ... -
The Mongrel Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-19)Cities are concentrations of diverse populations that undergo continual transformation over time. This thesis deals with the question, how does the individual make place in a constantly changing environment? The entry point ... -
Obus: Intent and Inhabitation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)First proposed by Le Corbusier for the city of Algiers in 1932 but never built, the Plan Obus is Le Corbusier’s ultimate city planning project. The forerunner of the megastructures projects of the 1960s, it sits squarely ... -
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 ... -
Pavement Performance Prediction Using Machine Learning and Instrumentation in Smart Pavement
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-19)The optimization of pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation (M&R) planning and costs has been historically proven as a complex task. In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications in ... -
Plug-In City Outlets: Revisioning the Form of Urban Logistics
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-06)In support of a modal shift towards rail for goods movement, a reconceptualization of urban and interurban mobility frameworks leads to the proposed infrastructural fitting for the urban periphery. Keller Easterling’s ... -
Re:Linking Lachine
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-01)Since the undertaking of urban planning as a prescriptive discipline, landscape projects have demonstrated their ability to integrate valuable cultural spaces with the construction of complex infrastructural systems, ... -
The River is for Washing Carpets
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-25)Contemporary peacebuilding, notably as it is practiced in Afghanistan, consistently fails to address local needs in favour of international priorities for global security. Despite the significant presence of foreign ... -
Spiking the Line: A Megaregional Growth Plan for the Windsor/Quebec Corridor
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)In a truly global context, the contemporary urban landscape is changing dramatically. The megaregion has emerged as the primary scale of economic development and the home of the world’s wealth, innovation and progress. ... -
Sympathetic Landscapes: an aesthetics for the Leslie Street Spit
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-24)The Leslie Street Spit is a five kilometre rubble breakwater on the eastern waterfront of Toronto. Built during the mid-twentieth-century as an infrastructural add-on to the existing Port Lands Industrial District, the ... -
An Undivided Landscape: Dissolving Apartheid buffer zones in Johannesburg, South Africa
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-01)Progressive spatial segregation of Whites from other ethnic races in South Africa started in 1886. Apartheid rulers evicted three and a half million Blacks, Coloureds and Indians from white urban and residential areas ... -
Urban Design and Development of a Public Space at theCity of Kitchener’s Intermodal Transit Hub
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-15)This thesis uses a case study design approach for the proposed Transit Hub for the City of Kitchener. It focuses on opportunities for a high quality public space or square to better integrate a new urban LRT line and a ... -
Wasted Water: Returning to the Fishpond Latrine Amidst Modernity, Pollution, and Stigma
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)Since 1990, Vietnam has made significant efforts to eradicate open defecation in rural areas. With modernized systems and increasing severity of pollution within its rural provinces, local practices for managing human waste ... -
Water Main Life Cycle Analysis Framework for the Economic Evaluation of OM&R (Operation, Maintenance and Renovation) Strategies.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-21)Municipal water systems deliver potable water to residents, businesses, and industries. The potable water infrastructure was mostly laid in 1880-1970`s in North America. Being a buried asset i.e. an out of sight network, ...