Browsing Theses by Subject "planning"
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AADT Estimation Models and Analytical Comparison of Pedestrian Safety Risk Evaluation Methods for Signalized Intersections
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-13)Pedestrian road safety is a priority for Canadian municipalities due to the particularly large social and economic impact that pedestrian-vehicle collisions can have on society. There is a constant need to improve roads ... -
Achieving Cultural Diversity in Wilderness Recreation: A Study of the Chinese in Vancouver
(University of Waterloo, 2003)As Canada welcomes immigrants from around the world, planners increasingly strive for policies and initiatives that meet culturally diverse needs. In Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, park planners have directed more ... -
Autonomous Driving: Mapping and Behavior Planning for Crosswalks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)As autonomous driving integrates with every day traffic, early adopters are initially skeptical and designers are overly cautious. With safety as the top priority, current systems are sometimes too slow at executing maneuvers. ... -
Birding Trail Development from a Tourism Planning Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-17)As bird-watching gains popularity, there have been various techniques utilized by tourism planners to attract birdwatchers. One method of drawing birders to a specific region is through the development of a birding trail. ... -
Building inclusive resilience: Exploring justice and social equity in urban resilience planning
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-14)This thesis explores the process and politics of planning for urban resilience with an eye to issues of social equity and justice. Resilience approaches to urban planning have experienced a rise in popularity in recent ... -
Building the Iron Horse: The Evolving Transportation and Land Use Planning Philosophy towards Calgary's Light Rail Transit System
(University of Waterloo, 2013-11-21)Many cities today are contemplating major investments in rail transit systems, especially Light Rail Transit (LRT), to address two significant planning issues which have characterized North American metropolitan growth ... -
Citizen participation in post-disaster flood hazard mitigation planning: Exploring strategic choices in Peterborough, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-20)This thesis explores the role of citizen participation in a post-disaster flood hazard mitigation planning program in Peterborough, Ontario. Recognizing that citizen participation is an integral element of hazards mitigation ... -
Comprehensive Settlement Planning in the MacKenzie River Delta, N.W.T.: A Proposed Planning Theory and Methodology (Northwest Territories)
(University of Waterloo, 1967)The arctic and subarctic regions of Canada are increasingly developing as integral, participating parts of the total Canadian and world scene. Basic to this development in the North are the human, natural physical, and ... -
Contributions of Strategic Environmental Assessment to planning and decision making: The case of York Region, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-17)Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has a prominent position in the ongoing search for instruments that can help governments and other organizations to pursue the goal of sustainability. SEA is presented here as a ... -
The Development of a Household Travel Resource Allocation Model for Kitchener – Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-24)Cities are dynamic and complex. Changes within cities are a result of actions of decision makers – governments, businesses, and households – and interactions within urban systems. An integrated land use - transport model ... -
Dimensions of age and aging in Toronto: An inter-decade socio-ecological analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)The aging of global populations long forecasted by demographers, governments, and other public and private actors is now rapidly being realized in many countries around the world, particularly in advanced, industrial ... -
Electricity Market Participation and Investment Planning Frameworks for Energy Storage Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)The recent trend of increasing share of renewable energy sources (RES) in the generation mix has necessitated new operational and planning studies because of the high degree of uncertainty and variability of these sources. ... -
Electronic Waste in the Technology Triangle
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-27)A contemporary planning issue is how to strategically handle electronic waste (e-waste) within urban environments. E-waste is a fast growing waste stream, resulting in increasingly toxic hazards. This thesis employs ... -
Encouraging Family-Friendly Condominium Development and Creating Complete Communities in Downtown Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-29)This thesis explores the idea of complete communities and discusses how condominium development in downtown Toronto can be made more family friendly by focusing on the proposed ‘Official Plan Amendment to Encourage the ... -
Examining the ecosystem service and social well-being contributions of beach grass (Ammophila breviligulata) and the implications for integrated coastal planning along the southeastern shoreline of Lake Huron, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-21)Beach grass (Ammophila breviligulata) is a key component in maintaining the stability of the prominent beach-dune ecosystems of the Lake Huron shoreline, with benefits to dependent species (e.g., piping plover) and those ... -
Expanding the adaptation toolbox: exploring managed retreat in Grand Forks, BC
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-11)Climate change is likely to continue to increase the frequency and severity of floods in Canada, resulting in increased risk to physical, psychological, social, and economic systems. To effectively reduce flood risk in ... -
Exploring crime in Toronto, Ontario with applications for law enforcement planning: Geographic analysis of hot spots and risk factors for expressive and acquisitive crimes
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-29)This thesis explores crime hot spots and identifies risk factors of expressive and acquisitive crimes in Toronto, Ontario at the census tract scale using official crime offence data from 2006. Four research objectives ... -
Exploring Peel Region’s “Healthy Development Assessment” Healthy Built Environment Tool and Policy-Making Process: Critical Lessons for Future Research and Policy.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-12)The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the critical literature on “healthy built environment” planning policy-making. It applies the theories of post-politics and policy mobilities against a case study of Peel ... -
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 ... -
A GIS Approach for Evaluating Municipal Planning Capability: Residential Built Form in Markham and Vaughan, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This research describes a methodology for measuring built form patterns using spatial data and GIS that is amenable to the study of large geographical areas. This methodology was used to investigate the capability of ...