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The Financialization of Social Services: Implications for Planning Cities that Value Care Over Profit
(2020-10-26)Financialization, often defined as the growing influence of the financial sector in everyday life, is exacerbating the affordability issues that plague many cities today. Drawing on theoretical concepts from ecological and ... -
Anishinaabe & Climate Justice: An Indigenous Food Sovereignty Approach
(2019)Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island are experiencing climate change at an accelerated rate, however the discussion is dominated by western science and often does not accurately reflect the situation in Indigenous communities. ... -
Review of federal policy to mitigate the impact of microplastics: A comparative study of European Commission’s Plastic Directive Vs Canada-wide Strategy on Zero Plastic Waste by CCME
(2019)Water is a renewable resource and is a quintessential need for organisms to survive on earth but only when used sustainably. Water plays an indispensable part in achieving the goals of sustainable development that includes ... -
Trauma Worlds: More-than-Human Stages of Recovery
(2019)This portfolio builds on Judith Herman’s three stages of recovery, detailed in Trauma and Recovery (1997), to explore healing from childhood sexual abuse (CSA). Questions of what a more-than-human, survivor-centric model ... -
Art as an Intervention in Public Space: How Art Can Act as a Medium to Cross Social Divides
(2019)Collaborative community mural-making, as a community arts practice, intends to build community capacity with a focus on the needs and interests of marginalized members of society. Organizational efforts to collectively ... -
From Reclamation to Conservation: A History of Settler Place-Making in Burns Bog, British Columbia
(2019)Wetlands are, in the Canadian settler imaginary, ambiguous spaces that are neither strictly landmasses nor only bodies of water. This paper explores how Canadian settler-colonialism has incorporated wetlands into systems ... -
Natural Places & Digital Spaces: Challenges and Opportunities for Instagram in Biodiversity Conservation
(2019)Science communication through social media is an area of research that has gained much international interest. Yet there lacks robust information of environmental education on Instagram specifically, as well as its ... -
Territorialisation of Public Housing: The Case of Lawrence Heights
(2019)This major paper examines the socio-spatial political process that produces public housing neighbourhoods in Toronto as dominated geographies, demarcating them - and their residents – along stark lines of class, race and ... -
Planning for Sustainability in the Food System Using Demand-Supply Coordination
(2019)The Canadian food system may seem to be functioning normally but it is in turmoil. Food system issues are manifested socially, economically, and environmentally. Too many in Canada are food insecure, and a lot more are ... -
The Use of Electronic Participation Tools in Urban Planning Projects in Toronto, Ontario
(2019)The public’s involvement in urban planning projects has been a contested and evolving topic. In this paper, I address how planners have changed their approach to participation in planning and how they are incorporating ... -
A Multi-Level Policy Mix Analysis on Energy Efficiency Policies Impacting Buildings in Toronto and Calgary
(2019)Strengthening energy efficiency is a quick and cost-effective strategy for reducing energy use in the buildings sector, which accounts for 17% of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. Public policies are a crucial tool for ... -
Matter and Mind: on embodied ethics, education, and the environmental imaginary
(2019)This major research project is the culmination of a visual autoethnographical exploration and experimentation with relationality and environ-mental education in an urban setting. Charting a metamorphosed research process, ... -
A Primer on the Proposal of Social Connectedness through New Urbanism
(2019)Humans are social beings that are driven to communicate and interact with one another. This fact is made evident in the countless apps and media outlets dedicated to increasing social connectedness or the internal sense ... -
City Planning with Land Value Capture: A Comparative Analysis of Capture Policies in New York, London and Toronto
(2019)This paper examines the different ways public transit service providers and governments generate revenue through land value capture (LVC) tools in London, New York and Toronto. In this paper, LVC is examined as a levy that ... -
Planning for Fisheries Co-Management in Canada's Northwest Coast: The case of Prince Rupert, B.C.
(2019)" This major paper explores co-management in Prince Rupert, B.C., between active fish harvesters and Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), the government body responsible for fisheries management. By analysing a combination ... -
A Socio-ecological Approach to Measure Progress for Ontario’s Transition to a Green Economy: The Use of the Happy Planet Index
(2019)Government tends to look at economic growth and GDP as the primary measure of wellbeing in society. However, GDP does not consider many environmental impacts which have critical short and long-term economic effects. Due ... -
Planning for Intensifying Suburbs: Analyzing Markham and Vaughan
(2019)In the North American context suburbs are where the majority of the population resides, as they attract families of all types, provide a variety of housing typologies as well as play critical roles in the economy and ... -
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION & GOOD PLANNING?: FROM THE ONTARIO MUNICIPAL BOARD TO THE LOCAL PLANNING APPEAL TRIBUNAL AND BACK
(2019)"This paper examines the reformation of the land use planning appeals system in Ontario from the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) to the Local Planning Appeal (LPAT) and beyond, and its impact on public participation and ... -
The Cooksville Creek Parkland Acquisition project: Planning a green space retrofit in Mississauga, Ontario
(2019)The push to intensify in the GTA can put development pressures on community green spaces that provide vital public health and environmental services. As cities grow, planners will need to provide adequate green space for ... -
Community Programming in Mental Health Care Planning: A Case Study at the Drinkers Lounge in Vancouver, BC
(2019)The Drinkers Lounge is an innovative harm reduction drop-in centre for drinkers in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver. Drinkers in this community are arguably the most street-entrenched population in the DTES because ...
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