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James, Gray

Vancouver has a reputation as a city with a strong connection to nature, but much of the city sacrifices this connection for the sake of efficiency. This sense of connection is vitally important, in the words of Nancy Turner “...we need to be able to weave ourselves into the matrix of our world” (Turner 38). Rain defines Vancouver but the city is built as if rain is foreign, storm drains channel water efficiently and discreetly underground. Shortly after hitting the ground the rain is made to disappear. Rain is treated as a problem. This project seeks to determine how the breakdown of infrastructure can become an opportunity for rain to go on a journey.

Vancouver (B.C.)

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University of British Columbia. LARC 598

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0442073

Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/