Planning
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's School of Planning .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
Waterloo faculty, students, and staff can contact us or visit the UWSpace guide to learn more about depositing their research.
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Flexible Fixtures: An Exploratory Study on the Emergence & Mobilization of the Flexible Streets Concept in Ontario Municipalities
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-16)The most plentiful public space within Canadian cities are the streets; however, these spaces are overwhelmingly dominated by automobiles with much of the space designated for vehicular traffic flows. So often, the leftover ... -
SUBURBAN IMMIGRANT SETTLEMENTS IN TORONTO AND TRANSPORTATION IMPLICATIONS
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-12)Immigrants’ social and economic conditions and lifestyles are strong determinants of their residential and transportation choices. Existing studies that analyze immigrants’ transportation behaviour have predominantly focused ... -
Condocracy: The con-dos and the con-don'ts of condo community
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-28)Condo development, as a form of housing, currently comprises almost half of all housing starts in Ontario. This type of development is aided by policy directives (Lehrer and Wieditz, 2009), and it is what Rosen and Walks ... -
Old Bones: A recent history of urban placemaking in Kitchener, Ontario through media analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)Kitchener, Ontario has experienced significant social and physical changes in its downtown in recent decades. Once an industrial hub, the City's urban core declined as suburban migration and deindustrialization gutted its ... -
"Everybody should have choice": Municipal & Regional Planning, Social Policy, and Housing Options for Disabled Persons in Waterloo Region, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-13)The purpose of this study was to analyze how municipal planning impacts housing options for disabled people in the Waterloo region of Ontario. Through analysis of relevant local and provincial planning-related documents ... -
Detached Accessory Dwelling Units – Who benefits and who pays?
(University of Waterloo, 2020-11-12)Cities across North America are facing unprecedented challenges related to housing affordability, climate resilience and economic sustainability. In many cities, infill housing policies are being adopted in response to ... -
Building healthy cities in the global south: A case study of the City of Lahore, Pakistan
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-22)Building healthy urban communities is one of the most important challenges countries around the world are facing. The industrial revolution and current technological advancements have resulted in the rapid urbanization of ... -
Understanding Perceptions of Climate Change and Resilience in the City of Courtenay, British Columbia
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-17)Faced with extreme weather events like flooding and challenges like sea-level rise, cities across the globe are devising strategies to adapt to climate change. Climate change risk perceptions amongst the public have been ... -
Participatory Budgeting in the City of Kitchener: Influencing Perceptions of Park Access, Park Use and Citizen Engagement
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-04)There is consensus among urban researchers that access to public parks and participation in the planning process are important aspects of urban life. Public parks provide mental and physical health benefits to individuals, ... -
Developing a City Scale Emissions Inventory and Exploring Electrification of Transportation: A Case Study of the City of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-13)Significant growth in the scale of climate action is witnessed globally as cities, nations and environment agencies implement mitigation strategies and try to meet their ambitious emission reduction goals. As a result, ... -
Villagers’ Life Transformation and Community Governance in China’s Land Expropriation-induced Resettlement Neighborhoods: A Shanghai Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-15)In China, urban lands belong to the state and rural lands belong to village collectives. To meet the demand for land to use in expansive urbanization, the state expropriates rural land from village collectives and offers ... -
Urban Sustainability Planning and the Ecosystem Services Approach in select Canadian cities and Ontario watersheds
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-06)Fifteen years ago, the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a global assessment of the world’s ecosystems, found that 60% of global Ecosystem Services (ES) examined were being degraded or used unsustainably. Net economic ... -
Town, Gown and Capital: The Student Housing Submarket and the Production of Urban Space
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-05)Student housing has emerged as a mainstream global asset class, while the concentration of students in particular neighbourhoods through a process of “studentification” has increasingly been recognized as an important ... -
A Relative Landscape-Level Habitat Quality Model for the Burrowing Owls of the Canadian Prairies
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-30)The range and population of the Burrowing Owls as flagship migratory species of the open prairie landscape are in decline across the northernmost portion of their global range in Canada. Multiple sources of degradation, ... -
Analyzing housing market dynamics and residential location choices concurrent with light-rail transit investment in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-29)Transit investment and transit-oriented development (TOD) have become predominant planning policies to manage growth and limit sprawl. Waterloo Region implemented a light-rail transit (LRT) system aiming to provide alternative ... -
Using pragmatism to overcome the perils of monetary valuation: Applying Deliberative Q-method to understand the value of stream ecosystems in Amman, Jordan
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-16)Existing ecosystem service literature is predominated by valuation studies that narrowly ascribe to either positivist or constructionist worldviews; each subject to inherent limitations that make their operationalization ... -
An Urban Morphology Analysis of Urban Innovation Districts in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-14)Since the economic transition towards a knowledge-based economy in the 1990s, technological innovation has been an essential driver of economic growth and development. As a reaction to such phenomena, Urban Innovation ... -
Planning for Skén:nen: Conceptualizing a Haudenosaunee Culture of Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-13)This work is a response to Western planning cultures and Canadian planning cultures in particular which have been complicit in genocidal efforts against Indigenous Peoples. I engage with Indigenous research methodologies ... -
Smart Growth and Parking: An Analysis of Downtown Revitalization in Mid-Sized Cities
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-09)The post-WWII period saw significant suburban expansion in North American cities. This push outward utilized the abundant available land to satisfy the demand for housing, and saw the rise in use of the personal automobile. ... -
Location Choice of the Micro-Creative Enterprises (MCEs): Case Study of Local Creative Clusters in Shanghai, China
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-19)As the creative industries have become some of the fastest-growing sectors in the post-industrial era, their location choice has been focused by both academics and policymakers. Empirical research state that creative ...
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