Browsing by Subject "Transit Oriented Development"
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Active Transit as Urban Infrastructure: The Vehicle for Promoting Public Health through Architecture
(2015-04-06)This thesis studies ways that architecture and urban infrastructure can encourage the citizens of a sprawling city to engage with their environment and thereby improve their physical and mental health. This is done by ... -
Forward Moving Growth: Dartmouth as a Candidate for Transit Oriented Development
(2014-05-23)Urban sprawl is becoming an increasingly serious problem faced by the Halifax Regional Municipality. It is an unsustainable form of growth whose consequences include traffic congestion and the elimination of open space and ... -
Playing on the Tracks: Rethinking Transit Infrastructure as Event Space to Generate a City of Culture and Play
(2018-07-31)This thesis investigates the potential of a combination between event spaces and transit infrastructure. The project explores the city of Edmonton, Alberta, and a new typology of infrastructure called transit oriented ...