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Food and the City: An Examination of the Role of Food in Local Neighbourhood Revitalization
(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 ...
The Reading Room: Revitalizing Andrew Carnegie's Vision for the Public Library
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-25)
At the turn of the 20th century, Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in America, was transforming society through the endowment of thousands of free public library buildings to communities around the world. Carnegie conceived ...
Nuna-Regionalism: A Vision of Iqaluit Regionalism
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)
The recent demographic shift, sparked by a combination of political and environmental forces, towards urbanization in the Canadian Arctic has uprooted a tie to the land that largely defines Inuit cultural identity. The ...
Approaching Vertical: A Guide Through Land-Use in Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)
Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment is a landscape 450 million years in the making. Over this immense time line, great natural forces of the earth have aggregated, eroded, and carved this landscape, a 725-kilometer scarp face ...
I Went for a Drive
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-03)
The place is a Tower much like the ones in Cambridge I’ve been so fascinated by, the ones I’m drawn to when I need a break. What makes this Tower of interest is that it just so happens to be the tallest thing in the western ...
Rethinking the Smart City: Interventions for a Post-Digital Age
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-19)
The term Smart City is quickly gaining traction, as it spreads across global cities in a series of urban initiatives. When depicted in mass media, Smart City developments are often portrayed as idealistic technological ...
Mitbach Megasher: Israel's Immigration, Gastronomy, and Design
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-07)
Israel, being the Jewish emigration nation, welcomed over 3.7 million people in the last century. The vast intake of new
immigrants from various ethnicities and cultures created ample strains on the Israeli government. ...
With Chinese Characteristics: Documenting Patterns of Cultural Implantation, Intersection and Infiltration
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)
This thesis explores the global traffic in culture and its effects on the urban environment. Two overlapping forces are documented: first the proliferation of Western models and cultural signifiers in China and second the ...
Emergent Hybridity, Cyborgs in Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-04)
This thesis examines architectural test-beds as an experimental and contemporary mode of creating architecture that realizes the potential of many of the connections and complexities found in living systems. It builds on ...
The Squaring of the Circle: The Body According to Vitruvius – not daVinci
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-07)
An excerpt from a literary work of Classical literature is rendered in a self-directed manner. The literary passage in question is a description that was given at the turn of the current era by the architect, Vitruvius, ...