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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: School of Planning
Master Coursework Conclusion
That’s right…it’s coming to an end. The University of Waterloo’s Master of Arts in Planning requires the completion of 5 courses, which I’ve now completed. If not a formal one, that’s at least a personal milestone. In fact, it’s Friday … Continue reading
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Tagged Cornerstore, Downtown Guelph, Guelph, idealism, Master of Arts in Planning, Public Participation and Geographic Information Systems, public realm, public space, School of Planning, Smart Growth, thesis research, University of Waterloo, Urban Growth Centre, values
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Municipal Planning Organization and The Quantitative & Qualitative Debate
Week 3 is dry. The organization of municipal Planning Departments is not particularly trilling; the quantitative and qualitative debate is not fully heated; and the Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) technique used in GIS is not…well…it’s actually quite interesting, but it … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Bradford, Brick Brewery, CAPS, Charity Ball, dodgeball, GIS, Habitat for Humanity: Haiti, municipal planning departments, planning practice, Progressive planning is relative, qualitative, quantitative, School of Planning, the Association of Graduate Planners, the Environmental Graduate Student Association, thesis pondering, University of Waterloo, Weighted Linear Combination technique
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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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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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Interesting Times re-used
(Regarding Helen’s below comment about crediting and linking to sources, I’ve added an example of a picture in which the owner’s ID is easy to locate – in contrast to the picture below (assumed same creator), which has limited ID). … Continue reading
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Tagged CG4TV, Future cities, Guelph, interesting times, re-use, School of Planning, Smart Growth, University of Waterloo
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