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Planning: Recent submissions
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Climate Change, Forest Fire Management & Interagency Cooperation in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-26)Climate change has begun to affect the frequency, intensity, and duration of weather related disaster events. This trend may foster a greater probability of encountering 2 or more disaster events simultaneously, increasing ... -
Analyzing for Age-Friendliness within Planning Policies in the City of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-22)Planning for individuals with varying degrees of impairments has, over the past 40 years, challenged conventional approaches to community development. However, more recently there has emerged, both within research and ... -
Growth Appropriate Planning in Canada: What factors lead to the implementation of progressive planning and economic development policy in Canadian Communities?
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)ABSTRACT A key feature of Canada’s urban system is the uneven distribution of population and economic growth. The 2011 Census showed that in the past five years more than 80% of the country’s growth was concentrated in ... -
Assessing the Active Transportation Potential of Neighbourhood Models Using GIS
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)This study sought to determine how five neighbourhood models (the Grid, Loop and Cul-de-Sac, Fused Grid, New Urbanist and Greenway) compare in terms of the characteristics known to affect active transportation rates, and ... -
Economic Change and the Inner City Landscape: A Case Study of Hamilton, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)The urban landscape reflects the social, economic, and policy changes that have taken place in a community. The inner city has been previosly called a microcosm that indicates the changes that are occurring in society. ... -
Albuquerque’s Downtown 2010 Sector Development Plan - A Post-Implementation Evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-14)This thesis was a post-implementation evaluation of Albuquerque’s Downtown 2010 Sector Development Plan. The Downtown Plan, commissioned in 2000, has a preset deadline of 2010 for meeting conditions outlined within its ... -
The Role of Social Capital in Community-Based Urban Solid Waste Management: Case Studies From Ibadan Metropolis, Nigeria
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-31)Urban solid waste management (USWM) problems facing cities in the developed and developing world are well documented; however, progress in tackling them is very slow in the latter. There are still many communities, ... -
Biomedical Pollutants and Urban Waste Management in the Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana: A Framework for Urban Management of the Environment (FUME)
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-26)Ecosystems provide essential necessities required for the sustenance of life including food, water, medicine, aesthetics, recreational and spiritual outlets. Preserving and maintaining the integrity, carrying capacity, ... -
Success on the Ground: Case Studies of Urban Agriculture in a North American Context
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-09)Urban agriculture (UA) is an increasingly popular land use concept emerging in industrialized nations of the world. Although the phenomenon of UA is a common and well-documented form of food production in developing nations ... -
Developing an Understanding for Wastewater Treatment in Remote Communities in Nunavut, Canada: Investigating the Performance, Planning Practice and Function of Tundra and Constructed Treatment Wetlands
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)Since humans began to permanently settle locations for extended periods of time there has been the challenge to safely dispose of, or treat human effluent. In specific to the communities of Nunavut and Arctic Canada, the ... -
Analysis of a Potential Hydrogen Refuelling Network Using Geographic Information Systems: A Case Study of the Kitchener Census Metropolitan Area
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)This thesis provides macro-, meso- and micro-level analyses of a potential hydrogen refuelling network with a case study for the Kitchener census metropolitan area in Canada. It provides recommendations on the appropriate ... -
Planning for greyfield redevelopment in Edmonton, AB: impeding and facilitating factors
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-27)Spurred by changing retail and development patterns, as well as continuous suburban growth, greyfield sites can be found at the heart of most postwar suburbs in North American municipalities. Ranging in definition, greyfields ... -
The Evolution of the Built Environment of Heritage Communities: Comparative Case Study of St. Jacobs and Creemore, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-09)Many rural communities utilize heritage resources as a tourism strategy to attract urban residents who desire the amenities found in historic communities. Current research finds that increased investment and popularity ... -
How to Evaluate a Third Sector Approach to Place-Based Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Pathways to Education
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-04)This dissertation examines how to evaluate a place-based poverty reduction program across different sites and scales. Unpacking urban planning’s dominant, normative construction of poverty, neighbourhoods, youth, and ... -
Farmers making sense out of a cartographic landscape: Like a patchwork of clothes, rather than just chunks of... parcels
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-21)Planning maps are not only, as is often silently assumed by planners, neutral technical tools to assist them in their design and analytical tasks or to communicate their findings to others. In complex multi-stakeholder ... -
The effect of in-stream wood on channel morphology and sediment deposition in headwater streams of the Oldman River Basin, Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-14)Headwater streams provide diverse habitat for aquatic organisms, drinking water for downstream communities and abundant recreational activities. The addition of in-stream wood to headwater channels can influence the ... -
Revisiting the Image of the City: Exploring the Importance of City Skylines
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)As the world’s cities have grown, so too, have their skylines, such that they are now common sights to behold both in reality and in media. Despite being one of the most popular sights of a city, the planning profession ... -
Curbside Organic Waste Collection and the 60 percent Waste Diversion Goal: A Case Study of Select Municipalities in the Greater Golden Horseshoe
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)Ontario has provided an interesting canvas for waste management planning. As the home of the world’s first blue box program, a successful deposit return system, an extended producer responsibility initiative, and recently ... -
Knowing Naŝlhiny (Horse), Understanding the Land: Free-Roaming Horses in the Culture and Ecology of the Brittany Triangle and Nemiah Valley
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-24)Free-roaming horses (Equus ferus caballus L.) – also called wild or feral – have been present in the Chilcotin region of British Columbia, Canada and part of Tsilhqot’in First Nations’ culture for over 250 years. The horses, ... -
GIS Tools to Improve the Transit Planning Process
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-10)Public transit provides an important community service by reducing pollution, traffic congestion, and by providing transportation for those who do not or cannot drive. Yet since the 1950s, real investment levels in transit ...