Hight, Christopher2019-05-162019-05-162019-052019-04-18May 2019Kiefer, Ryan. "North Port." (2019) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105363">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105363</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105363North Port is a projective port city on the Northern Canadian Coast reacting to the circumstances of climate change and resultant landscape instability. Continuing languages established by historical precedents for new-ground urban environments, it posits a negative utopia in a unique northern context; a way-station at the furthest extant of habitation where architecture works as a mediator and sanctuary in a changing terrain. It is a product of an unbalanced economy and reflects the infiltration of mining development pursuance in the north, an increasing pressure contrary to existing modes of habitation.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.Urban StudyArctic DevelopmentMegastructureUtopiaNegative UtopiaArchitectureInfrastructureThesis2019-05-16