The City Delimited

dc.contributor.authorBootsma, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-13T13:25:31Z
dc.date.available2014-05-13T13:25:31Z
dc.date.issued2014-05-13
dc.date.submitted2014
dc.description.abstractPositioning itself as an investigation into the affective capacity of transport, this thesis argues that the potential of a city is both composed and revealed through its systems of movement, contending that the sensorial and expressive qualities of a city’s transit govern how its citizens perceive and access the scope of experiences available to them. Essays on movement and identity, the limits of the city, immobility, adaptation, and eccentricities, move in parallel with meditations on departures, arrivals, and the time of transit toward a mandate for an amplification of motion and energy. The thesis traces a route from Ontario through London, Rome, and northern Europe before returning to Toronto only to founder in the region’s gridlock. To free the city’s constricted potential, a new passenger rail line running from Pearson Airport, through Toronto on the Canadian Pacific Rail corridor north of Dupont Road, to the site of Pickering’s future international airport is proposed. The key interchange of the new line, Lake Iroquois Station, is developed in detail, feeding on an intense overlap of historic and contemporary infrastructures. Located just south of the historic First Nations trading trail of Davenport Road at Dupont and Spadina, the station gathers the primary midtown electrical corridor, extensions of the Bathurst and Spadina streetcar lines, the existing University/Spadina subway, and expansions of the city’s cycling network, knotting them together with regional passenger rail in order to transport the city and its imagination.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/8438
dc.language.isoenen
dc.pendingfalse
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectmemory and movementen
dc.subjectmotion and emotionen
dc.subjecttransportation infrastructureen
dc.subjectnorth toronto railwayen
dc.subjectde certeauen
dc.subjectaugeen
dc.subjecttransiten
dc.subjectcongestionen
dc.subjectcity limitsen
dc.subject.programArchitectureen
dc.titleThe City Delimiteden
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Architectureen
uws-etd.degree.departmentSchool of Architectureen
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten

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