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Disturbing the Balance: Exploring the Implications of Employment Land Conversions in the City of Toronto
(2015)
The aim of this paper is to explore and understand the implications of employment land conversions in the City of Toronto, and in particular its impact on housing affordability. The municipal government has attempted to ...
Towards a Circular Urban Metabolism with Sewer Wastewater Heat Recovery Systems (SWWHRS): Introducing a SWWHRS Planning Decision Support System
(2016)
In this paper I describe how cities can reduce their dependence on fossil fuels for space and water heating by utilizing sewer wastewater heat as a low carbon energy source. I introduce the first stage of a planning decision ...
'The public' and planning in Toronto
(2015)
As both a science and an art, planning is regulated by public policy, concerned with shaping and guiding the physical growth and arrangement of natural and built environments. Within these environments what is considered ...
The Road Ahead: Disruptive Innovation And Technology In Urban Transportation
(2017)
Technology and cities have long been intertwined in their respective development, and thusly the relationship between them is one that results in noticeable effects when either changes. In the context of the modern city, ...
Re/making the 'Meeting Place' - Transforming Toronto's Public Spaces Through Creative Placemaking, Indigenous Story And Planning
(2017)
The theme of Toronto as a middle ground has been often referenced by historians and archaeologists alike: "geographically a meeting point between Canada's vast natural resource wilderness, such Atlantic Ocean seaports as ...
Urban Acupuncture in Taipei
(2017)
A number of conditions can be attributed to driving the recent revolutionary movement of urban acupuncture and locally-led interventions in cities around the world. Political, economic, and environmental uncertainty; the ...
The Tensions of Food System Localization in Ontario's Buy-Local Procurement
(2016)
Buying local has become a recent trend within the food movement across the world. The purchasing of local foods is seen as a way to support local economies, and relationships while also promoting better environmental ...
Planning for Complete Streets in Toronto: An Exploration of Public Engagement and Policy in Street Design, A Case Study of Queens Quay West
(2017)
This major paper evaluates the concept of complete streets and the impact this approach to street design has on various users through a case study of the Queens Quay West revitalization process in Toronto. A complete street ...
Policies and Praxis: A Comparative Analysis Of Affordable Housing in Toronto, Canada and London, England
(2018)
Housing is a vehicle for access, in that it provides access to a range of services for communities and its material objectivity can extend to provide safety and security. Additionally, housing can be a fixed asset that ...