Browsing Architecture by Subject "ecology"
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A New Wilderness Lookout: Reimagining the Fire Lookout for Ecological Stewardship and Community Engagement
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-02)Canada is steward to 10% of the worlds’ forests. They play a global role in producing oxygen and sequestering carbon. Nationally timber is a major industry that is an integral part of Canada’s economic strategies. Climate ... -
The River is for Washing Carpets
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-25)Contemporary peacebuilding, notably as it is practiced in Afghanistan, consistently fails to address local needs in favour of international priorities for global security. Despite the significant presence of foreign ... -
São Paulo: An Ecological View Of A Theatre For Modernity
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Future challenges for human civilization, especially in the developing world, will increasingly be characterized by both an urban and global condition. What will be the response by design in the face of the implications ... -
Sympathetic Landscapes: an aesthetics for the Leslie Street Spit
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-24)The Leslie Street Spit is a five kilometre rubble breakwater on the eastern waterfront of Toronto. Built during the mid-twentieth-century as an infrastructural add-on to the existing Port Lands Industrial District, the ... -
Synanthropic Suburbia
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)Animals are invading the city. Coyotes are sighted on downtown streets with greater frequency, raccoons notoriously forage through greenbins as their primary source of food, and all forms of animals inhabit the surfaces, ...