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Fresh City farms - Food Availability in the City of Toronto: Assessing food availability and food deserts in the City of Toronto with respect to Fresh City Farm’s current customers
(2014-04-10)Food security is a global problem that can be solved at the local level. Urbanized areas, such as the City of Toronto, depend heavily on food imports, from within and outside of the country. Without realizing it, we spend ... -
Youth Out of Place Program: Identifying Homeless Youths in Toronto using GIS Applications
(2014-04-10)At any time during the year as many as 65,000 youth in Canada are without a place to call home. In Toronto, it is estimated that there are at least 10,000 homeless youth in any given year, and as many as 2,000 on a given ... -
Implications for hydropower development in Costa Rica: A spatial visualization and analysis of the implications for hydroelectric dams in the Chirripo Valley
(2014-04-10)The hydro electrification of Costa Rica both has a positive and negative theme for the province. At one point the use and shift towards hydroelectricity and ‘clean energy’ is seen as beneficial since they are moving away ... -
Examining Urban Agriculture in Toronto
(2014-04-10)This report focuses on the density of urban agriculture in Toronto. To begin with, the group reviewed literature to determine the current setup of food production and distribution in the city. As a result of our initial ... -
York University: York Neighborhood Renewables
(2014-04-10)Our group aims to develop a solar installation model for the York University campus that takes into consideration the limitations of installing solar photovoltaic systems on all of the building rooftops across the campus. ... -
Homeless Shelter Occupancy in Toronto
(2014-04-10)The objective of this project has been to use GIS software and analytical skills to illustrate and assess the factors which contribute to the homeless shelter occupancy problem in Toronto. This will assist relevant ... -
Ontario Ring of Fire Surface Water Susceptibility Analysis
(2015-04-30)Since the discovery in the early 2000s of North America's first commercial chromite deposit in Northen Onatrio, dubbed the Ontario Ring of Fire (RoF), extensive mining development plans have been in progress. Chromite is ... -
Costa Rica Virtual Corridor Project: Forest Connectivity
(2015-04-30)Professor Felipe Montoya has presented York University’s Las Nubes ecological corridor forest fragmentation as an problem that must be solved. Roads have fragmented the ecological corridor, with a potential for hydrodams ... -
Raccoons' intrusion into urban dwellings: GIS application on urban wildlife study
(2015-04-30)The history of raccoons entering urban life of human can go back to the beginning of the 20th century (Lariviere, 2004; Bateman & Fleming, 2012). While some people see this animals as rewarding wilderness encounter, others ... -
Analysis of Security Incidents in 2014: York University Keele Campus
(2015-04-30)York University’s Keele Campus is an educational facility of over 50 000 students, not including the faculty members, staff, temporary workers, visitors and the Toronto civilians living within the student residential area ... -
Toronto Homeless Shelters Occupancy Levels & Transit Accessibility
(2015-04-30)Homelessness in the City of Toronto is an ongoing problem. While the number of homeless seems to have remained steady, the number living on the streets has actually increased (Peat & Chief, 2013). In fact, this past winter ... -
The Costa Rican Ecological Corridor and Wildlife Connectivity Project Part III: Understanding Animal Movement
(2015-04-30)The Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor located in Costa Rica is home to a region possessing one of the “richest concentrations of species and ecosystem diversity in the world ” (Miller, Chang & Johnson 2001, p.7). The ... -
Does the City of Mississauga need More Car Pool Lots? A Geographic Information Systems Analysis using QGIS Software
(2015-04-30)Traffic congestion is a common issue in many cities across the nation. It is no doubt that the rapidly increasing population and the reliance on automobiles have played a pivotal role in this problem. As Ontario’s third ... -
GIS-based Analysis of a Solar Panel Implementation Project in the North York Region
(2015-04-30)Renewable technologies such as solar panels are clean energy alternatives that have much lower negative environmental impacts than conventional energy technologies. They contribute to mitigate the issue of global warming/climate ... -
Public Health and GIS
(2015-04-30)This report explores the relationship between an individual’s mental health and their environment. We observed the mental health visit percentages for certain demographics among Toronto’s 140 neighbourhoods. For this report ...