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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Institutional Barriers and Enablers for Green Infrastructure Implementation: A Case-Study of the City of Brampton, Ontario, using the Institutional Analysis and Development framework.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-26)Green infrastructure (GI) has increasingly being deliberated in the planning discourse for its multifunctionality and applicability to address a number of urban issues. However, despite the benefits, the mainstream use ... -
Go on play with the words, the effect is the same: how gentrification and liveability feature in public discourses of neighbourhood change
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-25)Despite its association with displacement, gentrification remains a persuasive model for encouraging economic development and growth. For gentrification strategies to remain politically palatable, policy discourses mask ... -
An Examination of Wetland Conversion and Resulting Effects on Landscape Connectivity in Southern Ontario Municipalities.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-25)The few wetlands that remain in the human-dominated landscape of southern Ontario are affected by degradation and conversion to other land use and land cover types. Conversion has negative impacts on wetland-provisioned ... -
Comparing different transit strategies to tackle the last-mile issue in low demand areas Case study: York Region Transit
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-24)Providing public transit service in low-density suburban areas is very challenging and inefficient because development patterns and transit demand do not support regular scheduled bus services while flexible and on-demand ... -
Autonomous Vehicles: Understanding Adoption Potential in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)Many Autonomous Vehicle (AV) researchers have done surveys and interviews to assess the relationships between some population or land use characteristics and people’s intention to adopt private AVs (PAVs) and shared AVs ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A new perspective on urban form with the integration of Space Syntax and MCDA – An exploratory analysis of the city of Xi’an, China
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-07)The research on urban form and its related socio-economic activities have been undertaken for long, while the evolution of research approaches and tools are limited by the conventional medium such as maps to interpret the ... -
Is cancer prevention influenced by the built environment? A multidisciplinary scoping review
(Wiley, 2019-07-09)Background: The built environment is a significant determinant of human health. Globally, the growing prevalence of preventable cancers suggests a need to understand how features of the built environment shape exposure ... -
Exploring the Accessibility Gap: Quantifying Transport Disadvantage in the City of Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-19)Researchers and policymakers have become increasingly interested in understanding the intersection between transportation and equity. Many scholars argue that it is important to understand transportation through an equity ... -
A Planning based Evaluation of Spatial Data Quality of OpenStreetMap Building Footprints in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-24)OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an editable world map where users can create and retrieve data. Building footprints are an OSM dataset that is of particular interest, as this data has many useful applications for planners and ... -
Spatiotemporal crime patterns and the urban environment: Evidence for planning and place-based policy
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-29)Crime and disorder influence individual quality of life, community social cohesion, and processes of neighbourhood and urban change. Existing studies that analyze local crime and disorder patterns generally focus only on ... -
"A New Park, A New Opportunity": Place-Branding, Acculturation, and Cultural Diversity in Rouge National Urban Park
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-15)In 2015, the Rouge National Urban Park Act formally established the ‘newest member to the Parks Canada family’ in the form of Canada’s first-ever national urban park. Located in the eastern end of Toronto, the largest and ... -
Light Rail Transit in the Region of Waterloo: A qualitative examination of urban rail’s effects on real estate, development and urban identities
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)Transit 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. ... -
Pedestrian Activity Model for prioritizing investment – A case study of sidewalk snow clearing in the City of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-07)This research emphasizes the needed integration for the empirical field of pedestrian modeling and the practical field of public works services. This is illustrated by focusing on the winter sidewalk maintenance delivery ... -
"It's Farcical!": Theories, Models, and Recommendations to Improve Public Consultations During Ontario School Closure Reviews
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-21)School closure review processes in Ontario are highly contested and deeply divisive. Though schools are central to their host communities, the closure review process largely ignores the community impacts. Existing research ... -
Establishing baseline travel patterns from smart-phone and spatial data
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-19)Investment in public transit infrastructure and services is essential to providing effective transportation alternatives, and it is important to monitor the progress of key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure goals of ... -
Suite Talk: The Barriers and Opportunities of Providing Secondary Suites in Rural Metro-Adjacent Regions of Eastern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-12)Providing an adequate supply of affordable housing has become an increasing challenge for Ontario municipalities. As a result, changes were made to the Planning Act requiring all Ontario municipalities to implement provisions ... -
Toronto's Ravines: Conditions and Visitor Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)This thesis evaluates whether there are significant similarities and/or differences between how visitors perceive ravine park management and the consultation process in six sites across the City of Toronto. This was done ... -
Planning at the Interface of Nature and Culture: Theory, Methods, and Identification of Cultural Landscapes in the Townships of Woolwich and Wellesley
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)Planning for cultural landscapes requires the inclusion of the public in the decision-making process. Yet, how to include the public in a meaningful way remains poorly understood, especially for rural areas. This study ...
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