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Showing 1 to 20 of 419 for “"Toronto"”.
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Excavation in Toronto
This thesis is about silence; about emptiness; about absence. "Should we be surprised by the fact that architectural form can be found in the plan of the city? Yes, if one considers the fact that there is no architectural intervention in the design of the plan. No, if one considers architecture as …
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Toronto City Hall and Square
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1958.
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Media portrayal of police: A content analysis of the "Toronto Star", the "Toronto Sun" and "Now" (Ontario).
… examined. These articles appeared in either the Toronto Star, Toronto Sun or Now. In addition articles were also drawn from the Globe and Mail, on days which a large amount of coverage occurred in the previously mentioned papers. A content analysis procedure was then used to examine the newspaper …
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CONTESTED HISTORIES AND IDENTITIES: ROMANI REFUGEES IN TORONTO
This thesis examines the larger themes and processes involved in identity reconstructions, and the appropriation of labels and categories at various levels as part of a struggle by the Roma against their marginalization and persecution. Through a focus on several significant sites of negotiation …
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Quantifying Methane Emissions from the Greater Toronto Area
… by 30% of2005 levels by 2030. The Greater Toronto Area (GTA, pop. 6.4 million) is the most populous city in Canada, thus accurately quantifying GHG emissions from the GTA is an important step towards meeting Ontario’s commitments. In order to quantify GHG emissions and emission trends in an …
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Civitas Peregrina : abject space in early immigrant Toronto
… a detailed study of two areas in early immigrant Toronto, another side of planning's history is told: the stories about the relationship between social control and the transformation of the city. Toronto is particularly relevant as it has undergone rapid social change through the twentieth …
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"Send only your serious cases" : delivering flu to Toronto: an anthropological analysis of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
… at the 1918-19 pandemic influenza experience in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Based on historical records (most notably death registries and archival material) this work strives to understand the social, biological, and environmental conditions that facilitated the spread of this virulent …
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Improvements to our Understanding of Toronto-area Atmospheric Composition
… gas column measurements at the University of Toronto Atmospheric Observatory (TAO), along with data from complementary sources, such as satellites, surface in situ measurements, and nearby rural column measurements, thisthesis aims to improve our understanding of the sources of air pollution …
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Estimating the impact of Airbnb on hotels in Toronto
… estimate the impact of Airbnb on hotels in Toronto since majority of the limited academic empirical studies on the topic to date are focused on U.S. cities. Regression analysis of time series is used to estimate the structural models based on hotel performance metrics, GDP, CPI, tourists, …
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A court house for Metropolitan Toronto including adjacent development
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1960.
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Pathways to the Eighth Fire: Mapping Indigenous Knowledge in Toronto
… knowledge, traditions, and storytelling in Toronto and their prophetic implications for contemporary Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. The analysis is based on a comparative literature review of Indigenous knowledge, traditions, and community as they have been practiced in urban and …
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Determining the temporal and spatial variations of pollutants in Toronto
… spatial and temporal variations of pollutants in Toronto. Annual, seasonal, and monthly pollutant trends were computed from as early as 1974 to as late as the end of 2022. Decreasing NO, NO2, NOx and CO trends were found, perhaps associated with the elimination of coal-fired power plants, and …
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RuPaul's Drag Race and the Toronto Drag Scene
… on one particular geographic community, the Toronto drag scene, which has been active in some capacity for at least 70 years. This ethnographic study is drawn from a year and a half in the field in the Toronto drag scene and a series of semi-structured interivews with nine research …
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Immigrant Identities and Geographies of Belonging: Jamaican Immigrant Organizations in Toronto
… and the organizations they establish in Toronto. I investigate how various axes of identity including generation, race, gender, class and ethnicity influence Jamaican immigrants involvement in immigrant organizations and the impacts of their involvement on sense of belonging and identity. …
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Constellations of Elsewheres: Queer and Trans* Youth Lives in Suburban Toronto
… social infrastructure of suburban Toronto, how their everyday practices of dwelling shift the possibilities that this infrastructure affords, and how they build grassroots social infrastructure in Toronto’s suburban elsewheres. To explore these everyday practices, this research …
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Approaches to accountability in city of Toronto long-term care homes
… funded and publicly delivered by the City of Toronto, within a framework of accountability mechanisms including financial oversight, regulations and information, and professionalism. A case study research design, with both document review and semi-structured interviews, was utilized to …
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Deviancy, Sexuality and the Psy-Disciplines at the University of Toronto
… after the Second World War, the University of Toronto became a unique source of local accreditation for these disciplines' professed knowledge about homosexuality. Clinical education at the university's medical school similarly modelled racist and ableist intake procedures ostensibly evaluating …
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An Exploratory Study of Entrepreneurial Intention Among Hispanic Entrepreneurs in Toronto
… experience of Hispanic immigrants in Toronto has yet to be examined. This quantitative study examined the attitudes, norms, and perceptions influencing entrepreneurial intention and the factors that encourage self-employment continuation among immigrants in Canada.</p> <p>Method</p> …
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Harm Reduction As The Commons of Care: Three Case Studies in Toronto
… on accessible washrooms and bookstores in Toronto’s gay village, Ontario’s supervised consumption sites, and a packed library school classroom, each of these three case studies locates the commons in a different style of constructed social space. On the surface, these three spaces are …
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Unsettling Revitalization in Toronto: The Fantasy and Apology of the Settler City
… large-scale revitalization project underway on Torontos waterfront and argue that settler colonialism is a structure revealed through what I define as the fantasies and apologies that manifest in the revitalizing of settler cities. I contend that revitalization projects reveal the fantasy that …
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