Unsettling Ground: Studies on Building and Fluid Geology in Arviat, Nunavut

• Main Author: McMillan, Jason
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2019
• Subjects: architecture; urbanism; planning; housing; arctic; Nunavut; Inuit; indigenous; geology; north; landscape; design; community; mapping; territory; Nuna; ground; colonization; decolonization; negotiation; Arctic; Northern Ground; Arviat; Climate change; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/14570

Ground in the Canadian Arctic is continuously being shaped by the dramatic seasonal cycles of the environment, extreme weather and deep geological processes of glaciation and retreat. The stability of Northern ground is particularly difficult to define on frozen soils suffering the increasing warmin...