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Recent Posts
- 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: planning
Citizen Engagement and The Planning Student
Out I left, leaving the class rooms and text books behind, seeking the details of the local and the context of the regional. During the day I interview planners in southern Ontario about their impressions with the Growth Plan and … Continue reading
Posted in Guelph
Tagged Active Transportation, Citizen Engagement, City of Guelph, Develoment, Downtown Guelph, Downtown Secondary Plan, Greater Golden Horseshoe, groundwater, growth, Guelph, NIMBY, Places to Grow, planning, Smart Growth, The Growth Plan, thesis research, Urban Planning, Woods Site
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Connecting all the urban planning ideas and recognizing the diversity, in week 11 and 12
Time passes quickly towards the end. Deadlines approaching. Ideas to be connected. Arguments to be made. Reflections to be uttered. Next semester to be discussed. Beer to be enjoyed. Friends and family to be remembered. Christmas is here. Theory Paradigm … Continue reading
Posted in Urban Planning
Tagged methods, natural science, Paradigm shift, planning, practice, Richmond Hill, social science, theory
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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
