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Recent Posts
- 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: Downtown Guelph
The cost of urban intensification
Laura Murr commented on my previous post, raising concerns over the financial incentives provided by the municipality for developers to initiate urban intensification. In my position as a research assistant at the University of Waterloo, where I’ve asked private developers … Continue reading
Statistically Speaking – different characteristics require different planning approaches
Sir Patrick Geddes, an early town planning pioneer, followed the slogan ‘survey before plan’. The 2006 Census of Canada offers one set of data to survey before drafting a plan, and in the spirit of the Creative Commons I now … Continue reading
A silence before the storm
With September starting and summer ending, I am finally about to put pen to paper, sort of speak. I look forward to advance and formulate observations and interpretations about the planning process taking place at the Woods 1 site Downtown … Continue reading
Citizen Engagement and The Planning Student
Out I left, leaving the class rooms and text books behind, seeking the details of the local and the context of the regional. During the day I interview planners in southern Ontario about their impressions with the Growth Plan and … Continue reading
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