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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: Urban Planning
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
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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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
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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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Week 6: after the storm
We continue our education in urban and regional planning and research approaches, with elements of public participation in GIS to make it extra interesting. It’s a “we” thing, because I don’t feel like I’m doing this on my own. We … Continue reading
