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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: Downtown Secondary Plan
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
Conclusion
September 2011 is filled with relief and restlessness; a long summer of writing has brought me to the end, while the end means thesis defense and pursuit of new beginnings. I’m not quite there yet, but it is all so … Continue reading
Posted in Guelph, Urban Planning
Tagged condofication, conflict management, Downtown Secondary Plan, Fusion Homes, Guelph, thesis conclusion, Woods 1
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The Policy Drafting Process – when ideas morph
Sometimes the journey of a conceptual idea (say, Ebenezer Howard’s “Garden City”, Le Corbusier’s “towers in the park”, or Duany & Plater-Zyberk’s “New Urbanism”) morphs in time through policy drafting processes; where planning concepts meet the market praxis and politics, … Continue reading
Why research Smart Growth implementation in Guelph?
From time to time I get asked why I’ve chosen Guelph for my case study, devoting a year of my academic life to follow the planning and community engagement taking place in a city of which I’m not a resident. … Continue reading
Posted in Guelph, Urban Planning
Tagged challenges and opportunities, Downtown Secondary Plan, Envision Guelph Downtown, Greater Golden Horseshoe, Guelph, Implementation, Karen Farbridge, Kent Hakull, Ontario, Places to Grow, Smart Growth, SmartGuelph, The Civic League, the Ward, Urban Growth Centres, Urban Strategies
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Smart Growth & Community Building
According to the City of Guelph website: Downtown Guelph has been designated as one of the Province’s Urban Growth Centres. Envision Guelph Downtown (i.e. the forthcoming Downtown Secondary Plan) will provide a long-term vision for future development; incorporating the goals of: … Continue reading
