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Tracing the Grotesque: Finding Value in the Urban Villages of Shenzhen
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-06)The rapid urbanization, which has happened since the 1979 economic reform, has fundamentally changed Shenzhen, China. The city was developed to be an Economic Zone, so millions of original village houses were demolished ... -
Tracing the Last Mile: Mobility, Urbanization, and the Journey Home in China’s Spring Festival Golden Week
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-14)Tracing the Last Mile studies the annual migratory journey home during China’s Lunar New Year Golden Week through the convergence of traditional Chinese art and auto-ethnographic research. This thesis highlights individual ... -
Tracing Timber
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-25)Today, the big box store is where we buy our wood, but not long ago the wood that we used for the structures, finishes and furniture for our buildings might have been harvested locally from a nearby forest or even the ... -
Tracings: Unraveling Home in the Diaspora
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-28)Tracings: Unraveling Home in the Diaspora presents works that contemplate the notion of home, post-migration. Inspired by my family’s journey from the Middle-East to Canada, the thesis examines ways in which the juxtaposition ... -
TRANSCENDENCE: Being on the Edge of Meaning
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-13)The erosion of the body, the other, and the tangible world now permeate all facets of contemporary existence, extending beyond the confines of a debilitating disease—a mode of non-existence until death. We are separating ... -
The Transformative City
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-09)The issue of downtown revitalization has been much studied over the past several decades. However, much of the existing knowledge base pertains to our largest urban centres. This leaves a significant information gap with ... -
Transformative Tenements; Strategies for urban renewal in Trench Town, Kingston, Jamaica
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-24)The hardened inner city community of trench town represents one of several impoverished communities that form the heart of the Jamaican capital city, Kingston. As wealth and influence have moved inland, off the coastal ... -
Transforming Suburbia : The Networked Pedestrian Village of Bayview Hills
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The ubiquitous North American suburban model has created devastating challenges for successful community life in the twenty-first century. This thesis addresses those challenges through the transformation of the existing ... -
Transforming the Gardiner Expressway: A Vision for Personal Rapid Transit in 2015
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Urban infrastructure has long been regarded as the lifeblood to any city, essential to urban communities. A successful city cannot exist without a successful infrastructure, and as a city matures, its system must adapt. ... -
Transit-Oriented-micro-Development: Small Marketplaces for Maryvale, Phoenix, Arizona
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-28)Phoenix, Arizona is consistently ranked as one of America’s fastest growing cities. This growth is attributed to pervasive suburban expansion. Since the Second World War, Phoenix’s population has increased by fourteen times ... -
Transitioning in Place: Designing a Co-operative Development for Homeless Families in Ottawa
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-08)It is no secret that Canada is experiencing a housing crisis where people are becoming increasingly excluded from home ownership and rental housing due to the rapid escalation of real estate prices. The unaffordability of ... -
Translating Encounters with Stone: Investigating Rubbing as an Ecological Method of Inquiry within Architectural Material Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-24)This thesis situates the practice of rubbing within the context of an immediate geological feature in Southern Ontario, the Niagara Escarpment, as a site that is admired for its natural and productive qualities. Adverse ... -
Triton: outpost in the ocean
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The ocean, especially the deep ocean, dominates this world; it is the largest single habitat on the planet, a habitat whose inhabitants constitute the most common forms of life on this planet. By its immense influence ... -
Tuning Monuments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-25)This thesis examines the development of historically inaccurate monuments that censor and sanitize reality by questioning their ongoing legacies by using a derivative of counter monument culture. Tuning Monuments seeks to ... -
Two Degrees Celsius, Assessing the Potential of Urban Commercial Buildings in Canada to Reach the 2°C Climate Change Target
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-12)To avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change, scientific consensus and international convention have determined that the mean rise in global temperatures must be limited to between 1.5°C and 2.0°C. The Intergovernmental ... -
(Un)canny Spaces: The Unbecoming of Everyday Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-13)Beginning in the late eighteenth century, socioeconomic changes due to rapid urbanization defined a clear demarcation between public and private realms. In opposition to the chaotic milieu of the cities, the notion of home ... -
[un] Shaded Territories: a design for women empowerment in rural Pakistan.
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-06)The separation between Pakistan and India in 1947 was a direct result of the struggle between two different religious groups in the region; Hindus, and Muslims. Of all the provinces split, Punjab was the only one province ... -
The Unbounded School: Education Beyond the Walls
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-19)Public education has long been a tool for state authorities to establish and indoctrinate societal moral and civic standards, a stance that has shifted in modern society. In Canada, provincial public education systems have ... -
Under a Willow Tree: Demonstrating the Use of Creative Writing in Understanding Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-02)How might our personal state of mind change how space is perceived? At a very emotionally heightened moment, like when someone is dying, how might two people standing in the same room see it differently? This is a thought ... -
An Undivided Landscape: Dissolving Apartheid buffer zones in Johannesburg, South Africa
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-01)Progressive spatial segregation of Whites from other ethnic races in South Africa started in 1886. Apartheid rulers evicted three and a half million Blacks, Coloureds and Indians from white urban and residential areas ...