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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: Smart Growth
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
Statistically Speaking – different characteristics require different planning approaches
Sir Patrick Geddes, an early town planning pioneer, followed the slogan ‘survey before plan’. The 2006 Census of Canada offers one set of data to survey before drafting a plan, and in the spirit of the Creative Commons I now … Continue reading
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
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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Smart Growth & Community Building
According to the City of Guelph website: Downtown Guelph has been designated as one of the Province’s Urban Growth Centres. Envision Guelph Downtown (i.e. the forthcoming Downtown Secondary Plan) will provide a long-term vision for future development; incorporating the goals of: … Continue reading
