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    • Capturing Atmospheric Moisture: Towards a Local Water Catchment at the Aral Sea 

      Ho, Miriam (University of Waterloo, 2015-01-21)
      The desertification of the Aral Sea in Central Asia is an iconic example of the devastating local consequences of large-scale water diversion. Critical of the humanitarian consequences associated with trans-boundary water ...
    • The Caravan Citizens: Spatial resistance and resilience in the refugee camp of Za’atari - a Graphic Novel 

      Mazyad, Iynas (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-22)
      In the realm of refugeeism, camps can be perceived as places that sustain the lives of displaced humans, vulnerable environments that contain passive recipients, or territories of sovereign power that enforce state-sanctioned ...
    • Care as Architectural Practice 

      Reid, Brenda Mabel (University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)
      The thesis explores the concept of care and its implications in public wellbeing through architectural practice. The Waterloo Region of Ontario, during the coronavirus pandemic, provides the setting of this investigation. ...
    • Carving Away: An Inquiry into the Act of Making 

      Peddie, Matthew (University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)
      The act of creating anything, from a novel to a simple meal to a building, requires the combination of many elements. Broadly speaking, these elements are technique, technology, and materiality, the three of which are ...
    • Casting the Dollhouse 

      Wong, April (University of Waterloo, 2014-01-09)
      The Dollhouse is a model of domestic life; its material framework, spatiality, passage, function and aesthetic describe the architectural construction of a domestic ideal. Yet, the dollhouse is not simply an architectural ...
    • Cauldron of Forces: Designing a Lightning Observatory on Lake Maracaibo 

      Ganton, Samuel (University of Waterloo, 2018-05-22)
      There are storms in the world, and the world is a storm, and we ourselves are weather. Earth and the universe are continually emerging and dissolving: geological, meteorological, and biological forces interact to create ...
    • The Causeway, the Landfill, and the River: shaping Moncton's Environs 

      Macleod, Michaela (University of Waterloo, 2005)
      The decommissioned Riverside Landfill, located on the Petitcodiac River in Moncton, New Brunswick, has been closed for over ten years. Lack of proper dumping and closure procedures has left the ground and the water ...
    • Ceci n'est pas un parc: Reconsidering the Island Site of Expo 67 

      Hamilton, Edward Jae (University of Waterloo, 2011-08-16)
      This thesis examines the landscape of Expo 67, in both its original and current state, and diagnoses a set of design and programming issues. In the mid-1960s, the city of Montreal undertook a vast construction project in ...
    • Centred in Motion: A Development Proposal for the Suburban Community of Pickering, Ontario 

      Lee, Brian (University of Waterloo, 2009-05-13)
      Centred in Motion presents a strategy for adapting the existing suburban development of Pickering, Ontario to accommodate contemporary needs. The cultural and geographical conditions that generated Pickering, along with ...
    • Changing Lanes: Taking Vancouver’s laneway housing from feeding speculation to an affordable ownership model under a Community Land Trust 

      Hexan, Marius Florin (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) ...
    • Chasing Chopsticks Street: A Sequel to Foshan’s Forgotten Qilous 

      Huang, Yanqi (University of Waterloo, 2022-09-07)
      Since China’s economic reform in the late 1970s, large extents of its cities’ vernacular urban fabrics have been replaced by state-of-the-art high-rises in a building frenzy that was equally unprecedented in its destructive ...
    • Chasing Spadina 

      Huang, Terry (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-10)
      Toronto is a city that operates at the scale of automobiles and subways. Its environments are many and varied— layers of infrastructure, geography, and history create a heterogeneous mix of urban fabric. The Spadina ...
    • The Children in “Orange” 

      Li, Yina (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)
      Behind an increasing rate of parental incarceration, the public is encountering a significant amount of the children of incarcerated parents. The children who experienced the imprisonment of parents become the hidden victims ...
    • Chimera Obscura 

      Friedman, Gabriel (University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)
      Across diverse territories - that might otherwise be considered separate from one another - similar morphogenetic and emergent processes appear to be at play. The continuous re-inscription of the world, and its inner ...
    • Chinatown as Heterotopia: Culture and the Crisis of Commodification in Toronto's Chinatown(s) 

      Lin, Weeney (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-09)
      This thesis studies the historical and present roles that culture plays in the formation of cities by analyzing the evolution of North American Chinatowns as heterotopias within the city throughout the cultural and social ...
    • Chipping, Shredding and Layering – Experiments in Geological Design Thinking 

      Wright, Morgan (University of Waterloo, 2019-07-18)
      In the recent history of the earth, the last 200 years specifically, human activity has changed the very stratigraphy of the planet. This is a direct result of industrialization at the turn of the 19th century, which was ...
    • The Churches of Pelion: Vessels of Faith, Tradition, & Cultural Endurance in Post-Byzantine Greece 

      Vogiatzis, Christina Martha (University of Waterloo, 2022-06-01)
      This research presents a regional, historical, and architectural study of the ecclesiastic landscape of Mount Pelion – a vast, rugged mountain range in Thessaly, Greece. Specifically, it explores the physical and metaphysical ...
    • The City Delimited 

      Bootsma, Michael (University of Waterloo, 2014-05-13)
      Positioning itself as an investigation into the affective capacity of transport, this thesis argues that the potential of a city is both composed and revealed through its systems of movement, contending that the sensorial ...
    • City Familiaris: A Study in Domesticating Infrastructures 

      Gertler, Sarah (University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)
      Hyper dense communities are becoming a norm in Canadian metropolitan areas. CityPlace within Toronto is considered by many the result of a good intentioned, but poorly planned version of this community. The model for its ...
    • City of Rebirth: Revisiting the Place and Memory of Tainan's Multi-generational Homes 

      Chang, Tzu-Yen (University of Waterloo, 2023-09-19)
      This thesis is an interdisciplinary exploration of how the multi-generational homes in Tainan, Taiwan, along with the objects and people found within them, play a fundamental role in shaping the city's individual and ...

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