Tag Archives: St. Patrick’s Ward

Mapping Downtown Guelph and the St. Patrick’s Ward

Getting to know the neighbourhood Thanks to Urban Strategies for providing the below map, which identifies properties within the Urban Growth Centre boundaries with capacity for redevelopment and intensification. The below map, which I’ve made myself using ArcGIS, identifies the … Continue reading

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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

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Downtown Guelph vision and values – through images

From here on in, the major focus on this blog will be reflections arising as my thesis research progresses. These are not research findings or any official claims, they are only reflections expressed as part of the overall process. Images … Continue reading

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Communicating Collaborative Planning

The challenge, as I see it, to collaborative planning is communication, due to the political, economic, social and environmental dimensions at stake to various stakeholders. Trust, honesty and respect meets ideology, history and greed – pick up a book by … Continue reading

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Urban planning research: Downtown Guelph, the Ward & the Woods 1 property

The former W.C. Woods Co. No. 1 property on Arthur Street sits quiet along the Speed River, today viewed as a brownfield redevelopment and intensification land use planning case for primarily residential purposes. It forms part of both a Downtown … Continue reading

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