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Surveying the shield: exploring industrial disturbance in an Ontario mill town

Kenora, Ontario is a city with a strong industrial identity, linked specifically to forestry. Historically sawmills were situated on waterfront properties for purposes of harnessing energy and transporting logs. As technology has evolved, the proximity to water is no longer integral and industry has become less centralized in the city. This practicum explores the implications of the loss of an industrial presence, and the impact of industrial disturbance in both the urban fabric as well as the surrounding region. A design proposal for a specific site, that has been home to a sawmill for over a century, reacts to the research through the design of a large scale public landscape intended to remediate the post industrial conditions and take advantage of the strong historical past.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MANITOBA/oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/23965
Date04 September 2014
CreatorsStruthers, Kristen
ContributorsMarcella Eaton, Marcella (Landscape Architecture), Perron, Richard (Landscape Architecture) Cantrell, Bradley (Landscape Architecture, Louisiana State University)
Source SetsUniversity of Manitoba Canada
Detected LanguageEnglish

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