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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: new urbanism
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
Week 2 at UW: Planning purpose, history and predictability
Context and detail, on behalf of rapid progress, summarizes this weeks intellectual dosage. Plan 621: The topic was “Planning, power and institutional structures: What is the real purpose of planning?” Planning takes place within the municipal and provincial institutional and … Continue reading
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Tagged Age Structure, Communicative Planning, Demographics of Canada, Demography, Faculty of Environment, Just-city planning, municipal planning, new urbanism, Organic City, Plan 621, Plan 700, Plan 703, politics of planning, purpose of planning, School of Planning, Structured City, University of Waterloo
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Spending the weekend 'Thesis pondering'
The last weekend of splendid summer, most likely, gloriously passing outside my apartment, while my mind is fully occupied with pondering on graduate thesis alternatives – and it better be worth it! I read about planning theory. I ready my … Continue reading
Why is it important to understand the role of the City?
This is a classic “from space” view of the Earth, which begs the question: “Can humans influence the environment at a global scale?” A new ecological order, an urban biome, is being created on Earth and it is visible … Continue reading
