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Urban planning research: Downtown Guelph, the Ward & the Woods 1 property

The former W.C. Woods Co. No. 1 property on Arthur Street sits quiet along the Speed River, today viewed as a brownfield redevelopment and intensification land use planning case for primarily residential purposes. It forms part of both a Downtown … Continue reading

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Week 8: The Suburbs and Legally Speaking

The suburbs Between a gentrified inner city and an expanding outer suburban development, there is the inner suburb (where in many cities the low-income households are mostly found). A ton of issues; access to jobs, services (particularly transportation) and an … Continue reading

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Seven times seven days of study – the journey continues

The closer we get to the present, the closer reality is about to hit us; we embrace for the clash and keep wandering backwards into the future… Week 7 Le Corbusier (1887-1965) introduces ‘towers in the park’  with the benefits … Continue reading

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