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    • Play 

      Rendely, Lisa Raquel (University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)
      Adults in North American society lack the natural ability of children to play and explore their environments in a non-judgemental, non-programmed manner. The underlying theories of James Carse and Johan Huizinga examine ...
    • Plug-In City Outlets: Revisioning the Form of Urban Logistics 

      Shnier, Erin (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 ...
    • The Poetics of Dwelling: China’s Courtyard Homes 

      Huang, Danqing (University of Waterloo, 2017-09-28)
      Dwelling is a notion that describes the feeling of returning home to utter belonging and calmness at the end of an endeavour. It is a notion that differentiates a mere shelter versus a home because we develop intimate ...
    • Poetics of Water 

      Shahed, Syeda Nadia Nahrin (University of Waterloo, 2020-05-27)
      Dhaka was built on the banks of the river Buriganga around 700 AD. Over the last 400 years, it has grown into one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Every year, Dhaka sees an influx of migrants, who move ...
    • Polis and Chora: Recalibrating Natural and Urban Harmony in Porto Rafti 

      Carydis, Christina (University of Waterloo, 2009-05-13)
      The landscape of Attica in Greece suffers rapidly progressing urban sprawl in a culture of over privatization. In the absence of proper legislation, corruption and poor implementation of existing laws, the consequences ...
    • Port Place Reconsidered: Genius Loci and the Renewal of Port Dalhousie 

      Mete, Hannah Elizabeth (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)
      Port Dalhousie, a neighbourhood of St. Catharines located on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, has in recent years experienced an economic, cultural, and social decline. Once the northern terminus of the Welland Canal, ...
    • PORTA: THE LANGUAGE OF DOORS 

      Taravati, Golzar (University of Waterloo, 2008-11-14)
      In my master design studio, I was asked to imagine what I would say, what would be my story, if I was a door.This is the poem I wrote as an answer to this query: IF I WAS A DOOR Come closer; Let me tell you how ...
    • Portable Post-Disaster Home 

      Dialameh, Marieh (University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)
      According to the United Nations statistics, since 2008, an average of 26.4 million people have been displaced per year because of natural disasters. In other words, one person loses his/her home every second. This is ...
    • A Portrait of Porta Portese 

      Yang, Amy Ya-Chih (University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)
      This thesis investigates an informally self-organized street market, Porta Portese, in Rome, Italy. As a response to the contemporary phenomenon of migration, of people and goods, Porta Portese reflects the city’s evolving ...
    • Portraits from the State Mental Hospitals 

      Poon, Victor (University of Waterloo, 2018-12-12)
      The thesis is a short book of fifty sketches. I felt I threw out a significant amount of other material – plans, sketchup models, physical models, and photographs. Many people I had shown my work to were uninterested in ...
    • Portraits of a Landscape & The Trouble With Eden 

      Sorbara, ginger (University of Waterloo, 2007-10-29)
      If there was ever a question about the subject of this work, I had only to return to the landscape. There was a strangness, a newness, an inevitability to those urban spaces around the city that insisted on my attention. ...
    • (Post)Colonial Tectonics: reflections on relations in Indigenous spatial practice between the Beautiful Waters and Willow River 

      Kogan, Anton (University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)
      I find myself studying architecture in Cambridge, Ontario, a settler on lands stewarded by the Neutral, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples for countless generations, on a tract following the Grand River (or Willow ...
    • Post-Oil +15: Designing an "Urban Campus" in Downtown Calgary 

      Chow, Jacqueline (University of Waterloo, 2018-02-20)
      Calgary, Alberta is a city that is economically dependent on the petroleum industry. The inevitable boom and bust cycle surrounding the petroleum industry frequently disrupts Calgary’s socioeconomic health. Since the ...
    • Power, Architecture, Transition: Creating a Safe Space for Victims of Domestic Violence. 

      Semenova, Natalia (University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)
      This thesis examines issues of poverty and homelessness in Toronto, specifically focusing on the needs of women and children who are the most vulnerable group and are homeless as a result of being victims of domestic ...
    • Practices of Furtive Commoning in the [Post]Apartheid, [Post]Colonial City of Cape Town, South Africa 

      Longrigg, Anna (University of Waterloo, 2022-02-09)
      Contemporary neoliberal policies in Cape Town, South Africa repeat and perpetuate colonial and apartheid era patterns of socio-spatial segregation. These patterns result in the sustained quiet encroachment of informal ...
    • Prairie Fabric: Architectural Intensification in Saskatoon 

      Hepworth, Logan (University of Waterloo, 2011-10-05)
      The residential fabric has the capacity and role to interpret and employ the identity, priorities, values and aspirations of a society into physical manifestations of the built environment. To this effect, the residential ...
    • PRELOADING : A Transformative Approach to Flood Preparation and Relief 

      Zhang, Anqi (University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)
      For islands and coastal cities, the body of water that nourishes the land can easily become a leading source of threat. Natural disasters are mostly unpredictable and often have devastating impact on life and property. ...
    • A Present Absence 

      Berry, Stefan (University of Waterloo, 2017-06-14)
      For the last ten years I have travelled with my camera out on the roads of the Canadian prairies, usually for a few days at a time, up and down stretches of highways, grids, and back roads, stopping to investigate whatever ...
    • Prince Edward County in the 21st Century 

      Breckon, Keturah (University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)
      In recent years, Prince Edward County has gained wide-spread attention for the unique experience it offers. Articles published by media outlets in Toronto, Ottawa and Montréal have directed a large urban population to the ...
    • The Production of Space for Entrepreneurship: State-Led Gentrification & Innovation along the ION Light Rail Transit Line in the Region of Waterloo 

      Patange, Poorna (University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)
      The Region of Waterloo is rapidly transforming along the route of the ION Light Rail Transit Line as expansions in the innovation industry and investments in public space enhance a new linear core. As the transit line ...

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