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- Thesis completed!
- The cost of urban intensification
- Conclusion
- Preliminary thesis findings – pragmatic and modernistic
- Urban intensification – a challenge and an opportunity
- After thinking and writing comes the talking – on the radio
- Statistically Speaking – different characteristics require different planning approaches
- Putting Downtown Guelph On the Map – optimistic, pragmatic, critical, collaborative and/or technocratic
- The Policy Drafting Process – when ideas morph
- Blueprint models: from suburbs to high-rises, but nothing in the middle
Tag Archives: BarrelYards
Week 11 – Urbanism
It’s all about getting the ideas on the paper as well as presenting them orally, making sense of it all and allowing others to make sense of it as well. This is no little challenge. And I love it! Uptown … Continue reading →
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Tagged BarrelYards, brownfield development, CAPS conference, February 3 - 5 2001, future city, future development, Greater Golden Horseshoe, Jeb Brugmann, Kent Hakull thesis, keynote speaker?, Places to Grow, Praxis, public consultation, public participation, redevelopment, resilience, Shopping Malls, silver bullet city building, Toronto, underground parking, Uptown Waterloo, Urban Growth Centre, urban renewal, urbanism, values, values-rational planning, Welcome to the Urban Revolution
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Week 4, semester 2:at the University of Waterloo, School of Planning
Got the readings done, the reviews completed, the meetings attended and class participation checked off as well. The 1st major paper is under way, and the CAPS PowerPoint presentation is ready to glow. And I’ve added TreeHugger Radio, Sierra Club … Continue reading →
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Tagged BarrelYards, CAPS, green roofs, Green TV, Heden in Gothenberg, Passivhaus, planning, Sierra Club, Treehugger, Waterloo
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Week 2 Semester 2 at Waterloo
The amount of work piling up is uncomfortable. I do my readings at home during the day, including some hide-and-seek play in the snow under a clear blue sunny sky with Cooper. An upcoming student presentation is in the making. … Continue reading →
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Tagged BarrelYards, Cleo Paskal, ecology, Global Warring, Hans Rosling, research methods, statistics, street art, the virtual city, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Urban Planning, Waterloo, Week 2
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