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Authenticating Cultural Tourism: Folk Villages in Hainan, China
(University of Waterloo, 2001)
Cultural tourism provides opportunities for ethnic minorities to showcase their cultures, customs and heritage. At the same time, it causes a series of tensions and issues of authenticity and commodification have been ...
Worship in the suburbs: the development experience of recent immigrant religious communities
(University of Waterloo, 2006)
Immigration is transforming large Canadian urban regions. Rapidly increasing religious diversity is one dimension of the dramatic, multicultural shift accompanying this sea-change. Over the past decade, many important ...
Social Experiments in Innovative Environmental Management: The emergence of ecotechnology
(University of Waterloo, 2003)
Human production needs are met through the use of modern technology that is increasingly recognised as a threat to the planetary ecosystem and social sub-system. In light of this recognition, there is evidence that a ...
Future climate change impacts on the boreal forest in northwestern Ontario. Implications for the forestry sector and the local community.
(University of Waterloo, 2005)
A large body of research has documented evidence of climate change impact already occurring on different systems on earth, future impacts can be expected. Accordingly, research is urgently needed to analyze the potential ...
The Development of Dark/Cultural Heritage as Attractions in Falmouth, Jamaica, West Indies
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-29)
The Caribbean, which is one of the most tourism-dependent regions of the world, is rich in cultural heritage, but it lacks developed and attractive cultural heritage sites. In particular, this is true for attractions that ...
University, Downtown, and the Mid-size City: An Examination of the Roles of University in Downtown Revitalization within the Context of Community-University Partnerships
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-17)
Planning practitioners and academics continually search for ways to help revive ailing downtowns and to better understand the factors that influence the success or failures of downtown revitalization. Most of the literature ...
Exploring Usage of the Word "Values": Implications and Opportunities for Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2006)
Explicitly and implicitly, planners make choices about values and use values to make choices. Values are presented as reasons to do and not to do in setting goals and during participatory planning processes, cited in ...
Planning for Social Change Towards Sustainability? Investigating Local Government Strategic Sustainability Planning in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-08)
This dissertation investigated the condition of local government strategic sustainability planning (SSP) in Canada as well as the contextual underpinnings of prevailing practices. It asked big questions about where we are ...
Planning Public Transport Improvements in Mexico: Analysis of the Influence of Private Bus Operators in the Planning Process
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)
In Mexico, transportation planning deals with unique social, political, financial and cultural elements when promoting mobility solutions. These elements include the opportunity costs of public investments, institutional ...
Divergent affordability: Transit access and housing in North American cities
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-14)
During the process of post-war Fordist suburban expansion, the American and Canadian city was expanded and built around the automobile as the dominant mode of transportation. This caused an inversion of the pattern of ...