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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: Jane Jacobs
Urban structure – week 10 at Waterloo
Planners are to aid and facilitate growth and development, according to policies and theories and architectural alternatives (and not to mention economic capabilities). There are ideas to be heard, egos to be addressed, money to be made, politicians, developers, public … Continue reading
Cities of diversity for people, but the capitalist rationale sticks deep in week 9
This week (week 9) we discussed urban social diversity and its challenge to planning, and we looked into some historic champions related to this debate. We also performed a couple of class presentations, based on presenting real-world planning cases, that … Continue reading
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Tagged automobile, capitalism, cities, dichotomies, diversity, humanism, Jane Jacobs, lewis mumford, Master Planning, modernism, north america, patrick geddes, people, planning students, post-modernism, rationale, reflection, Robert Moses, social equality, social justice
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Week 4: The Post-World-War II Period; Transportation-land use relationships; Ethics
What a week! I really like planning, planning theory that is. In truth, I wish I knew more about planning practice itself, because it seems to be very complicated. But that might come later, for now I am all about … Continue reading
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Tagged Advocacy and Pluralism Planning, Brugmann, conservatives, democracy, design, Dolk, Ethics, Faculty of Environment, feminism, Fierce Light, Florida, graduate studies, Jane Jacobs, Justice, land-use, liberals, MA Planning, Miami, Morality, pedestrianism, pedestrianization, Plan 621, Plan 700, Plan 703, planning theory, ridership, Robert E. Jarvis, Robert Moses, School of Planning, stakeholders, stakeholdr values, Toronto, transit, transportation, travel behavior, University of Waterloo, values, waliking
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Why be sweet to people? – week 3
From philosophy to scientific method and innovation to the Industrial Revolution; then from Modernism and Fordism to post-modern and post-fordist, and let’s include New York City’s Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs – in an evolutionary fashion, we’re guided through theoretical … Continue reading
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Tagged Bauer, Bauhaus, Brunham, Building a Better World, Bush, Chicago, CIP, City Beautiful, conference, democracy, elitist, expert-driven, Fordism, Garden City, Geddes, Howard, industrial revolution, innovation, Jane Jacobs, Le Corbusier, Master Planning, modernism, Montreal, Morris, Mumford, New York City, Niagara Falls, Obama, OPPI, philosophy, phoenix, planners, post-Fordist, post-modern, public participation, Radiant City, Robert Moses, scientific method, Stein, students, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, theories, urban development, Utopianism, Voltaire, week 3, Wright
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DOLK and street art; before reading about Urban Planning…
…I take a minute reminding myself why I choose to spend my Saturday reading Urban Planning Theory; it can be fun! Hoping to preserve the resources and places that make our planet beautiful, I believe cities need planners; planners who … Continue reading
