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    • 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 ...
    • A Giant's Quiet Decay: The Latency of Superior North 

      Brown, Heather Kathleen (University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)
      What happens after a place has been exploited, isolated, and neglected? What occurs when that place is bound – confined – by impenetrable voids of dereliction? Its core, slowing diffracting, with no opportunity to ...
    • The Girl in the Wood Frock 

      Ling, Andrea Shin (University of Waterloo, 2007-05-17)
      A GIRL, forced to marry her father after he sees her playing in his dead wife’s wedding gown, runs away wearing five dresses. Four dresses are of silk and they are beautiful. The last dress is of wood. It is in this ...
    • Globalization, Multiculturalism and the Evolution of Suburban Toronto, Richmond Hill Iranian Community 

      FAKHARI TEHRANI, FARIMAH (University of Waterloo, 2015-06-15)
      Canadian cities and their built form will continue to evolve as they are affected, by trends in globalization and its consequent mobilization of populations in mass immigration. This thesis investigates the impact on the ...
    • Globe Park: Hybridizing Cultural, Ecological, and Industrial Spaces on Hamilton's Bayfront Landscape 

      Votruba, Michael Wesley (University of Waterloo, 2008-05-26)
      Applying complex ecosystems theory, this thesis maps and analyzes the codependency of ecological and manufacturing flows affecting cities, the landscape, and the environment. Learning from this analysis, a prototype for a ...
    • Grading Light: Utilizing plastic deformation to functionally grade ceramic light screens 

      Clarke-Hicks, James (University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)
      When interacting with light, surface geometries and clay bodies can work together to heighten the perception of depth and alter illumination. This thesis investigates how clay 3D printing can generate materially responsive ...
    • Grading Light: Utilizing plastic deformation to functionally grade ceramic light screens 

      Ochoa, Isabel (University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)
      When interacting with light, surface geometries and clay bodies can work together to heighten the perception of depth and alter illumination. This thesis investigates how clay 3D printing can generate materially responsive ...
    • Grafting Maple with Cedar 

      Shehab, Hania (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-26)
      Canada’s metaphor for integrating immigrants is the mosaic —vividly colored pieces of ethnicity, culture, racial identity, and language planted side by side, and in contrast to the melting pot of the American states, ...
    • The Grange Hotel: Everyday Leisure in the Grange Neighbourhood 

      Kwak, Dongkyu Dan (University of Waterloo, 2015-05-07)
      The modern metropolis offers a wide variety of experiences to enrich our everyday life. Beyond meeting our daily needs, such a rich and diverse city is a complex system of urban phenomena that also satisfies our need for ...
    • Greater Toronto Chinese Downtown 

      Ip, Pui Yue Iris (University of Waterloo, 2023-01-13)
      Greater Toronto Chinese Downtown (GTCD) is the largest Chinese Canadian community in the Greater Toronto Area and one of the world’s most unique Chinese diasporic cities outside of Asia. Created by the sudden influx of ...
    • Green 

      Knap, Laura Marianne (University of Waterloo, 2013-08-06)
      We insist upon “green space”, but the term’s vague cast brings little into focus. In this thesis I search out what it is that we look for in green space. I consider some ways, within our North American context, that we ...
    • Green Infrastructure and the Sustainable Metropolitan Village 

      Saplamaeff, Holly (University of Waterloo, 2010-09-28)
      The current model of suburban development in Canadian cities has serious consequences for the natural environment. The ubiquitous landscape of sprawl consumes excessive amounts of greenfield land and natural resources, ...
    • The Green Scare: Radical environmental activism and the invention of "eco-terrorism" in American superhero comics from 1970 to 1990 

      Lacy, Brendan (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)
      American environmentalism became a recognizable social movement in the 1960s. In the following two decades the movement evolved to represent a diverse set of philosophies and developed new protest methods. In the early ...
    • GREY TO GREEN 13 GATES TO THE GREENBELT 

      El Filali, Salim (University of Waterloo, 2019-10-21)
      The Greenbelt was created by the Government of Ontario in 2005 to protect working farms, wetlands, natural habitats, woods and river valleys that surround the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Its vast 8000 square kilometers ...
    • Grid + Ghost 

      Neufeld, Stephanie (University of Waterloo, 2013-02-21)
      The thesis begins with a notion to design a school of architecture in Saskatchewan. The context, at first, appears overwhelmingly basic: an agricultural grid superimposed on a horizontal plain, under an endless sky. This ...
    • A Guide for Foreign Trained Newcomer Architects: Identifying barriers to re-licensure in Canada 

      Terzian, Hagop (University of Waterloo, 2021-01-19)
      Canada has a reputation of maintaining a positive outlook on immigration and prides itself on the belief that its doors are open to individuals all around the world. Canada’s government welcomes a diverse number of immigrants ...
    • Guiding the Grand: Journeying into the Grand River's Diverse Histories 

      Kandrack, Carly Lynn (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)
      The Grand River is a dynamic force that acts on and within the landscape of its watershed. Through the course of an eleven-thousand-year relationship with humanity, its identity has evolved most dramatically in the last ...

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