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dc.contributor.authorCook, Justin
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-11 19:26:54 (GMT)
dc.date.available2019-01-11 19:26:54 (GMT)
dc.date.issued2019-01-11
dc.date.submitted2018-12-17
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/14345
dc.description.abstractTransit oriented development has become a staple of contemporary planning practice that is applied in cities throughout the world to help guide the development of sustainable, economic, and social outcomes in urban regions. Widely perceived as a response to automobile centric and urban sprawl inducing design principals of post war planning approaches, transit oriented development is offered as a means of achieving compact urban form that negates many of the issues associated with sprawl. While considerable effort has been undertaken to examine the extent to which transit oriented development affects change on surrounding urban environments, few studies exist that have investigated how social processes interact with transit oriented development to produce the observed effects. This research uncovers underlying social dynamics and perspectives that shape the potential effectiveness of transit oriented development to restructure Canadian real estate markets, urban and economic development trends, and resident behaviour. A case study of the ION light rail transit project in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, examines how and why resident perspectives and social dynamics are emerging because of the project and subsequently affecting the Region’s development patterns. Focus groups with real estate agents are presented as the primary data of the thesis, which depict the project as a mechanism for attracting creative class economic development and new residents, resulting in an urban landscape divided between automobile and transit centric communities and lifestyles. Findings show the need to increase the use of qualitative methods in transit oriented development research, as they carry the potential to uncover and explain associated trends. To address sustainability, economic development, and social equity concerns related to TOD, recommendations to enact policies that can offset gentrification and unaffordability trends, promote increased behaviour change amongst heterogeneous and automobile centric populations, and to capitalize on homogeneous population preferences are offered.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectUrban Planningen
dc.subjectTransit Oriented Developmenten
dc.subjectLight Rail Transiten
dc.subjectUrban Railen
dc.subjectIntensificationen
dc.subjectHedonic Modelingen
dc.subjectNeighbourhood Changeen
dc.subjectResidential Marketsen
dc.titleLight Rail Transit in the Region of Waterloo: A qualitative examination of urban rail’s effects on real estate, development and urban identitiesen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
dc.pendingfalse
uws-etd.degree.departmentSchool of Planningen
uws-etd.degree.disciplinePlanningen
uws-etd.degree.grantorUniversity of Waterlooen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Artsen
uws.contributor.advisorJennifer, Dean
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Artsen
uws.published.cityWaterlooen
uws.published.countryCanadaen
uws.published.provinceOntarioen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen


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