Nicole Miller, a graduate of the Master’s of Advanced Studies in Architecture program and current PhD student in Resource Management and Environmental Studies, has won a 2009 Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Housing Studies Achievement Award for her research project, Scenarios for Carbon Neutrality in North American Suburbs.
Her research finds that suburban residential development—the predominant residential pattern in North America—has both critical and underused potential to mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions—yet suburban neighbourhood retrofits typically fail to extend beyond renovating individual homes.
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