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The Walk Home: Re-imagining the Ontario Greenbelt’s Commuter Rail Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)Dominated by a low-density urban sprawl growth model post-World War II, the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) has expanded rapidly without limitation resulting in extensive exhaustion of its open space, greenfield lands, and ... -
Walking City: The transformative role of pedestrians in public space
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-21)Vancouver’s downtown peninsula symbolically describes the sense of place unique to the city as a whole. It is a livable city with a strong connection to its natural surroundings, witnessed in its very active population. ... -
Walls of Air: A Retrofit for Equitable Indoor Air Quality
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-04)Poor indoor air quality and lack of space for adequate isolation within postwar towers increase the risk of negative effects on resident health leaving them more vulnerable to infectious diseases. The unequal ability to ... -
Walmart 2.0
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Processes of industry and economic exchange have significantly and continually defined the underlying structure and formal characteristics of the American city. Contemporary ‘distributed’ systems of economy and industry ... -
Waste as Resource: Recycling housing components in the informal settlement of Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-15)Amidst rapid urbanization, large self-built settlements such as Kibera in the capital city of Nairobi, Kenya, confront numerous environmental crises like flooding, alongside critical issues like limited nutrition, overall ... -
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 as Agent: Restoring Displaced Communities in Gulu, Uganda
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-17)Disasters due to war and conflict or natural forces are responsible for the 26 million people displaced across the world today. The crisis extends into the temporary, yet indefinite, displacement camps where people live ... -
WaterWoven: Living on the margins in the Roncador River region, Brazil
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-20)Informal settlements located on river edges in impoverished Brazilian urban peripheries, such as the Roncador River region in Duque de Caxias city, have been increasingly suffering from the effects of more intense urban ... -
We Belong With the Water: Mobility, temporal habitation, rituals, and other 'incidental' elements surrounding fish harvesting traditions of Indigenous communities in Southern Georgian Bay - A Graphic Novel
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-24)For over 200 years, the delineation of the land and subsequent colonial settlement throughout Canada has subjugated and removed Indigenous presence from the land. This includes their constructions, tools, and laws connected ... -
The Weft House: A Transitional Housing Program to Empower Afghan Refugees in Canada.
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-20)According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of forcibly displaced people is growing yearly. These people flee their country due to war, violence, persecution, famine, and other life-threatening ... -
What Happens After The Mine?: A critique of approaches to the design, remediation, and perpetual care of post-extraction landscapes in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-28)Mining produces enormous amounts of waste, often toxic, that requires containment, record keeping, and monitoring in perpetuity to ensure it does not harm the surrounding ecosystem. Post-extraction landscapes in Canada ... -
What's Up With the Downtown?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-28)What’s Up with the Downtown? uses North Bay, Ontario to examine issues of downtown core usage and design in rural North American cities. As malls and box retail have moved to the forefront of physical spaces catering to ... -
When Nature Goes to School: A Green School Design for Milton, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)It is generally agreed upon that environmental education has an important place in 21st century schools, as the need to educate the current and future generations of young people on how to live in a sustainable way grows ... -
Where Is The House You Will Build For Me?
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)The adaptive reuse of secular buildings as churches signals a return to the fundamental belief that architecture is not necessary for Christian worship. Following are the stories and photographs of fifteen churches in the ... -
Where Ravens Dream: Encountering Property in Relation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-21)This thesis asks a personal question that I have struggled with since before the Masters program: Is Architecture inherently an imposition on place? Through personal relation, reciprocity and dialogue with a particular ... -
Where the River Flows Fast
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-13)Kashechewan, a flood-prone remote First Nation in northern Ontario, is the focus of this thesis. It is an exploration into the factors that have contributed to the community’s decline and current state. By looking at how ... -
The White House, and Other Counter-Narratives from the Lockdown
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-17)Contemporary emplacement demands movement, whether through migration, travel, or transcultural exchange. Identity, as positioned by the postcolonial writer Édouard Glissant, is linked fundamentally with change and contact ... -
The Wilderness
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-19)This thesis is a critical cultural investigation into the meaning of wilderness. It is based on the premise that as a constructed, imaginary landscape wilderness is an expression of cultural impulses. It suggests that the ... -
The Witch’s House
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)The site of this thesis is the witch’s house. A dissident and agitator in society, the witch and her respective home are both grounds for resistance and a place of refuge. The Witch’s House is a playful and experimental ... -
With Chinese Characteristics: Documenting Patterns of Cultural Implantation, Intersection and Infiltration
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)This thesis explores the global traffic in culture and its effects on the urban environment. Two overlapping forces are documented: first the proliferation of Western models and cultural signifiers in China and second the ...