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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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 ... -
Development of a Mode Choice Model to understand the potential impacts of LRT on Mode Shares in the Region of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)A new light rail transit system (LRT), ION, began operations in the Region of Waterloo in the June of 2019, and the second phase is yet to begin construction. The main thrust of this growth management project for the ... -
Co-Modality: Opportunities and Barriers in the Greater Toronto Area
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)The Greater Toronto Area is said to be one of the fastest growing regions in Ontario experiencing many challenges due to the influx of population and the demand for goods and services. Amongst the challenges include ... -
Framing Urban Resilience: A policy and media analysis of three Canadian Cities
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Urban Resilience, generally understood as the capability to withstand, prepare, and recover from shocks and stresses (100RC, n.d.-b), has risen in popularity as a means of dealing with change and uncertainty in cities. ... -
Growing Compact and Going Compact
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)The food system is a major contributor towards climate change and global environmental deterioration. Agriculture has evolved manifold over the years and use of technology in food production has resulted in highly ... -
"Feeling out of place suddenly, and you haven't even moved": Food gentrification, alternative foods, and sociospatial justice in Downtown Kitchener, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)In recent years, alternative food practices have gained popularity among urban sustainability planners as a way to promote environmentalism and attract affluent residents to the city core. As Slocum (2006) describes, ... -
Perspectives of Older Adult Cyclists on E-bikes As a Way to Prolong Mobility
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-13)In Canada, population aging will become an increasingly challenging issue as the proportion of the senior population is rapidly growing where it is expected to increase from 15.6% to 23% of Country’s total population by ... -
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Community Engagement Strategies for Shifting Attitudinal Behaviour Towards Green Stormwater Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-07)Climate change will cause increased frequency extreme weather events with more frequent stormwater runoff and flooding. Therefore it is increasingly critical to understand how to address the increased runoff as well as ...
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