Browsing MES Major Papers by Issue Date
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Planning Green Roofs in Toronto: Overcoming Obstacles to Private Investment
(2014)The objective of my research was to gain an understanding of the practical implications of using green roofs in the city of Toronto. The City is a leader in green roof use in North America and is actively encouraging green ... -
Food security in Toronto's shelters for the homeless: Policy alternatives
(2014)The Toronto Shelter Standards were introduced in 2002 as a policy document to aggregate the expectations of social services offered by City funded shelters. The Standards have not been revised in the last 12 years to ... -
Meadow Systems Planning: Analysis of Restoration Strategies at the Don Valley Brick Works Park
(2014)This Major Research Project will assess management alternatives for ecological restoration in the DVBW Meadow in Toronto, with response to the following questions: How can the Don Valley Brick Works Meadow management be ... -
Effects of Climate Change and Fisheries on the Distribution of Marine Fish in the Caribbean Colombian Sea Based on Traditional Artisanal Fishing KNowledge
(2014)Based on their practical experience and traditional knowledge, artisanal fishers have theability to identify the changes in the distribution of marine species, which seem to be related to climate factors and fishing pressure. ... -
Communities of Resistance: The Success and Resilience of Intentional Communities in North America
(2014)Intentional communities are residential developments that are created by noncorporate actors with the primary purposes of meeting the social and environmental needs to the community. Many intentional communities play an ... -
Placemaking for the pedestrian: generative design & the street
(2014)This paper evaluates the influence of placemaking design concepts and historical development processes on the pedestrian experience of three different neighbourhood commercial streets in Toronto. Placemaking is an urban ... -
Major Research Project Reflection Report MES Planning Program
(2014)Characteristics of the built environment have been found to influence the health of the population. Over the last two years of my Planning Program, I have taken several courses and independent studies during which I developed ... -
Gathering Abundance: An Exploration of Urban Foraging Practices in Toronto
(2014)This paper explores different urban foraging practices within Toronto aiming to understand the motivations for foraging within an urban centre, how this is enacted, and how the context of Toronto affects this practice. As ... -
Migrant Dreams: Documentary as Cultural Resistance for Social Change
(2014)I made a documentary fifteen years ago that I still haven’t finished making. I didn’t realize this until I starting writing this paper – but its become clearer to me that the process of creating doesn’t obey spatial or ... -
The Skin of Nostalgia: A Reflection on the Artifice of Postcards, Structuralist Filmmaking, and Home Movies.
(2014)Widespread culture are infamously sentimental, sometimes trite, and often mundane. Feelings of nostalgia are often as benign as they are malevolent: a balm for the troubled soul, a poisonous dependence on the old ways, ... -
Examining the food landscapes of young women of colour and the impact of community food resources on their health and communities survival
(2014)Research aim: The aim of the project is to look at how food consumption and/or food landscapes function as determinants of health. The term 'foodscapes' refers to the food environment within urban communities and describes ... -
Density Bonusing and Development in Toronto
(2014)Height and density bonusing is a planning tool that municipalities in Ontario have authority to use by virtue of Section 37 of the provincial Planning Act, which allows a municipality to grant a developer bonus height or ... -
Sustainable Development Through Resource Extraction Can Nonrenewable Resources Lead to a Sustainable Future?
(2014)The long-term viability of an economic system that relies on the extraction of nonrenewable resources is prone to be questioned and criticized. In a relatively short period of human history the economy has reached a global ... -
Volunteerism and Experiential Learning in the Environmental Education Curriculum of the Province of Ontario
(2014)Environmental education curriculum is framed as the foundation for the successful achievement of goals and objectives related to solving current environmental problems of the planet. While environmental education curriculum ... -
Beyond the Pipes: Planning for Sustainable Stormwater Management in the City of Toronto
(2014)Significant flooding in urban areas from strong storms and heavy rainfall has increased concerns about the ability of municipalities to manage the stormwater generated during these events and thereby protect infrastructure, ... -
Gender and Culture in Postcolonial Zambia: The Life Experiences of Yolanta Chimbamu Mainza Chona
(2014)When I was four years old, in 1991, my family moved from Canada to Kenya. My earliest memories are of our house on the college campus in Nairobi where I grew up. Along with my older brother, I attended an international ... -
Ecology, Politics and Hydroelectric Power in the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor, Costa Rica
(2014)Hydroelectric dam projects are ideal foci for examining ecology, conservation, privatisation, globalisation and water rights. Proposed construction of hydroelectric power projects in the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor ... -
The Incubation of Environmental Disasters: Case Study of the Rana Plaza collapse, Bangladesh
(2014)On April 24th, 2013 Rana Plaza, an eight story garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed killing one thousand one hundred and twenty nine workers and injuring many more. To date, the collapse of Rana Plaza is the worst ... -
Engaging Citizens in Sustainable Development Policy in Regional Planning: A Comparative Study of the Regional Municipalities of York (Ontario) and Wood Buffalo (Alberta)
(2014)This paper explores whether changes in direct settlement patterns by recent visible minority immigrants influence the development and implementation of sustainability planning policy—the Integrated Community Sustainability ...