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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: 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
Posted in Guelph, Urban Planning
Tagged Downtown, Envision Guelph, Guelph, St. Patrick's Ward, the Ward, Urban Growth Centre, 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
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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Tagged Brownfield redevelopment, City of Guelph, compromise, Downtown Gueelph, Downtown Secondary Plan, intensification, Kilmer, planning process, Smart Growth, St. Patrick's Ward, the Ward, The Ward Residents' Association, TWRA, Urban Growth Centre, Urban Planning, Woods 1
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