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    • Food & Cultural Center, A New Model for Toronto's Shopping Center - A place for collective memories and un-heard stories of South Asian Immigrants & their future generations in Canada 

      Gupta, Maulshree (University of Waterloo, 2022-09-27)
      With the increase in global migration, the notion of cultural identity is now no longer attached to a single place or time and is a continuous process of re-making. This thesis investigates the role of art, craft, and ...
    • Food and the City: An Examination of the Role of Food in Local Neighbourhood Revitalization 

      Beaulieu, Nadine (University of Waterloo, 2010-06-17)
      The majority of people in North America have lost not only the knowledge of how to successfully sustain themselves from the land but, even more troubling, the basic knowledge of where the food comes from, what real food ...
    • Food for Thought:Reimagining the Ontario Food Terminal 

      Ferro-Townsend, Sacha (University of Waterloo, 2011-06-03)
      Toronto is experiencing a food renaissance. Although there has been a resurgence in the popularity of local food and specialty products, neither supermarkets nor farmers’ markets have adequately responded to meet the ...
    • For Every Line Casts A Shadow 

      Allman, Siobhan (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-08)
      The blank page represents a void, an open area of space that holds the potential for architecture. Through a process of drawing points, lines and planes, the void of the paper is cut to become an arrangement of curated, ...
    • Forgotten Landscapes: Restoring our Rural Imagination 

      Beaulieu, Patricia (University of Waterloo, 2015-09-21)
      As our world becomes increasingly interconnected through technology and global trade, urban populations are more and more detached from the realities of our consumption and the cultivated land that supports us. These food ...
    • Fragments of Sobriquet 

      Stines, Shanne Nathaniel (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)
      As exposited and demonstrated through the work and studies of sociologists Pierre Bourdieu, and Gary Stevens, among others, architects have traditionally represented but a small and demographically homogenous portion of ...
    • Fringe Benefits 

      McMurchy, David (University of Waterloo, 2018-02-21)
      The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) is in a state of constant and massive growth in terms of population, development and economic investment. This growth has generated pressures both within and at the peripheries ...
    • From Houses to Hillsides: Support for Adaptive Housing on Hong Kong's Slopes 

      Leung, Tak Yi (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-22)
      Hong Kong’s urban development is governed by the mountainous terrain of the city. The city is growing, and easily developable low-lying flat land is becoming increasingly scarce. As a result, Hong Kong’s development is ...
    • From Industrial District to Interface City: Re-imagining the Corrugated Metal Sheds of Taiwan 

      Su, Yu-Chu (University of Waterloo, 2021-04-07)
      Manufacturing industries are on the decline in Taiwan, leaving many of the island’s corrugated metal warehouses and factories at the risk of being replaced by more profitable high-rise towers. The result is a gentrification ...
    • From Mountain to Maleh: Water as an Agent of Negotiation in the Kidron Valley/Wadi an-Nar 

      Cohen-Murison, Rachel (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-05)
      In a site with significantly fractured political, social, and environmental governance, it comes as no surprise that the West Bank’s water network is fraught with issues. Over-pumping of groundwater, inadequate sewage ...
    • From Pedagogy to Agency: Learning to Act in Rural China 

      Zhou, Puzhen (University of Waterloo, 2017-09-14)
      From Pedagogy to Agency confronts the imbalances found between rural and urban society in China, exploring the role education plays in their ever-changing relationship. The thesis posits that schools, classrooms, ...
    • From Socialist Estate to City Neighbourhood: A Critical Look at Eastern European Housing Estates 

      Mazowiec, Aleksandra (University of Waterloo, 2009-04-22)
      This thesis presents a critical examination of Eastern European housing estates, examining their unique condition and growing concerns, in order to propose a new model for their regeneration so that they can become vital ...
    • From Suburban to Urban: Increasing Density and Housing Adaptability via Small-Scale Infill Development in Medium Sized Cities. 

      Johnson, Jeremy (University of Waterloo, 2024-01-08)
      Abstract The combination of the drastic rise in housing prices and the post-pandemic emergence of remote work, has resulted in population migration from densely populated urban centres to smaller scale suburban ...
    • The Future of Food in Suburbia 

      Khalid, Sarah (University of Waterloo, 2012-10-22)
      This thesis addresses resilience for the future of Canadian suburbs, through the lens of buildings and food, particularly against the backdrop of peak oil and climate change. Food access is an integral part of how a city ...
    • The Future of Warehouses 

      Behboodikhah Moghadam Tehrani, Nazanin (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-21)
      The focus of this research is on the future of warehouses and how they could adapt to the needs and necessities of the 4th Industrial Revolution. The fact is that new technological achievements in digital and smart production, ...
    • Galt Agora: Vision for a Pedestrian Fabric in the City of Cambridge 

      Dabov, Boian (University of Waterloo, 2015-02-17)
      The ongoing urban renewal occurring within the City of Cambridge, and its Galt city centre has been a long delayed process, yet it is a necessary one for the city and its inhabitants. A latent sense of disintegration within ...
    • The Game with Death : a transgressive tradition of Villa Adriana 

      Mukerjea, shiuli (University of Waterloo, 2024-01-22)
      Villa Adriana has long been hailed as poetry in architectural form. A world building project executed at the scale of landscape, it manipulated the very fabric of the earth with audacity, draining a river plain, conjuring ...
    • The Generic Spectacle 

      Kraler, Kurt (University of Waterloo, 2016-01-13)
      The completion of the CityCenter resort on the Las Vegas Strip in 2009 by MGM Resorts marks the single largest privately funded development in American history. It also marks a departure from all-encompassing themes of ...
    • Geographies of Urban Filth 

      Zhang, Liyang (University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)
      This thesis studies how our cultural understanding of dirt and cleanliness are bound to issues of class and race and how they are manifested within urban and spatial design. Boundaries are formed between clean and dirty, ...
    • Geologic Control: Studies on the Colonial Afterlife of Limestone in Montreal, Quebec Through Artifact 

      Reinhart, Madeleine (University of Waterloo, 2023-05-01)
      This research traces colonial legacies and settler imaginaries of the present across the urban environment of Montreal, Quebec through a single geologic material: limestone. French settlers extracted limestone upon arrival ...

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