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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: Kent Hakull
Preliminary thesis findings – pragmatic and modernistic
The City of Guelph’s downtown is currently subject to grand planning, modest investment, and a conscientious public eager for change of the good kind. Located in a growing region and offering a distinguishable urban character, where valuing the true ‘smart’ … 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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Happy New Year
2010 looks promising. I’m excited to get started. My urban planning studies are having a snowball effect inside my head. The challenges are great, particularly if seeking to make downtown public space (currently dominantly private and commercial) and pedestrianism (currently … Continue reading
Posted in Urban Planning
Tagged 2010, Adbusters, Allan Gregg, Alternatives Journal, Canadian Geographic, car, DOLK urban art, Frontline, In Conversation, interesting times, iTunes, Kent Hakull, Municipal World, North American cities, Nova, pedestrianism, Personal Development, PLAN 261 Urban and Metropolitan Planning and Development, PLAN 657 GIS and Spatial Decision Support, PLAN 701 Land Use Planning Fundamentals, PLAN 710 Research Design, podcast, public space, Spacing Radio, Steve Paikin, Teacher Assistant, TED Talks, The Agenda, the Economist, transport energy consumption, TVO, University of Waterloo
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This is Kent Hakull calling: Banksy, the City needs you
Not in a superhero way, but as a voice of the Urban Revolution; an artistic voice among all the other urban revolutionary comrades in the world – in the City. Cities are constantly changing and they are increasingly changing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Amerika, Asia, Banksy, censorship, Chavez, China, Civil Rights Movement, Europe, European Union, Great Urban Migration, internet, Iran, Kent Hakull, Kenya, Latin America, Marcos, multiculturalism, the City, urban revolution, Venezuela
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