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The Integration of Green Infrastructure and Equity within Urban Planning: An Academic and Applicative Exploration
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-20)This thesis examines the integration of green infrastructure and equity within academia and in practical applications such as comprehensive city plans. With climate change worsening and affecting urban areas with extreme ... -
The Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS to Facilitate Sustainable Urban Environmental Management: The Case of Bangkok, Thailand
(University of Waterloo, 2002)Cities in developing countries are facing serious problems as a result of rapid urban population growth. Not the least of these problems is the creation of environmental stresses at the rural-urban fringe of these cities ... -
Integration Opportunities at Transit Jurisdictional Borders
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area faces numerous transportation challenges now and in the future: congestion, population growth, and an inadequate public transit network. The metropolitan region has also changed in ... -
Investigating Age-Friendly Communities through Walkability
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-08)Walkability is a measure of how conducive a particular area is to active transportation, specifically towards walking. Research had placed more emphasis on objective measures of walkability, utilizing audits, indices, and ... -
Investigating the Commitment to Official Plan Monitoring and Evaluation in Ontario’s Mid-Sized Cities
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-28)Plans often need updates to stay applicable to evolving needs, experiences and knowledge. In this context, monitoring and evaluation of plans has a critical role to play in guaranteeing the applicability and relevance of ... -
An Investigation into Downtown Revitalization in Mid-Sized Cities in the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-10)Twenty-first century cities are facing complex environmental, economic and social challenges. In growth areas like Ontario’s Greater Golden Horseshoe, the province has implemented a regional-scale plan to address the ... -
An Investigation into the Household and Resident Composition of Higher Density Residential Districts in the Greater Toronto Area
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-19)The intensification of existing urban areas has become a common strategy used by planners to combat the negative aspects associated with unrestrained urban growth. This paper investigates the cultural and socio-economi ... -
Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? An Investigation into the Validity of 3D Computer Landscape Visualizations in Urban Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-14)This study examined the use of computer visualizations in urban planning and whether they facilitate effective decision-making and communication within community engagement. The objective was to determine the potential for ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
Just Resilience? Evaluating Equity and Justice in a Sample of 100 Resilient Cities Plans
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-22)Resilience has become an increasingly prominent discourse within urban planning to address the sustainability challenges faced by many urban areas. Resilience offers a framework to holistically approach environmental, ... -
Knowing Naŝlhiny (Horse), Understanding the Land: Free-Roaming Horses in the Culture and Ecology of the Brittany Triangle and Nemiah Valley
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-24)Free-roaming horses (Equus ferus caballus L.) – also called wild or feral – have been present in the Chilcotin region of British Columbia, Canada and part of Tsilhqot’in First Nations’ culture for over 250 years. The horses, ... -
Landscape Connectivity Analysis for Conservation Planning in Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-02)The strategic planning of land conservation is a critical undertaking in urban/peri-urban areas. Natural areas in cities and their surroundings exist in an environment of competitive land use pressures, where the allocation ... -
Landscape Grammar
(University of Waterloo, 2002)The protection and enhancement of visual resources constitute an on-going challenge to the planning authorities in many communities. The crux of this challenge is to guide development towards built and natural landscape ... -
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. ... -
The Liminality of everyday life - Creatives in the context of the Islands Trust
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-11)The Liminality of everyday life – Creatives in the context of the Islands Trust Creative communities excite and invigorate individuals and may also provide opportunity for some local economies. Although desired, ... -
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 ... -
Making Sense of the Fractal Urban Form and Function: an Agent-Based Modelling Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-27)Despite their complexity, cities exhibit very similar fractal properties in various aspects of their form and function, including their social and spatial profiles. These similarities reveal underlying forces behind the ... -
The Management of Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-10)Abstract: Pharmaceuticals and their metabolites, collectively known as pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs), have been detected in surface water, groundwater, and drinking water, in a number of countries, since ... -
Managing Accessibility: A Case Study at the University of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-23)This study examined how a quality management system, which includes a crowdsourcing application, could improve accessibility. As a result this research captured the interactions a person with impairment has with the built ...