Browsing Department of Geography and Planning Graduate Projects by Title
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School Closures & Community Hubs: Examining Livability in Ontario through School Closures and the Community Hub Framework
(2017-02-22)This report explores the issue of public school closures in Ontario, and the viability of the Province’s recently introduced Community Hub model to address some of the problems associated with school closures. The findings ... -
Second to None: Secondary Suites and Affordable Housing for Seniors in Kingston, Ontario
(2015-04-14)EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Canadian cities are facing a housing crisis, as the cost of homeownership and rental rates are increasing beyond the affordability of many Canadians. As the number of purpose-built rental units has ... -
Security, Crime Prevention and Capital Planning: A Study of Two Embassies in Canada’s Capital
(2017)In a post 9/11 world, fear of crime and terrorism in the West has become increasingly high, especially in important areas or pedestrian-heavy environments. As a result, planning of public spaces has started to shift ... -
Shifting to More Progressive Parking Policy: An Examination of Parking Management Strategies to Complement the City of Ottawa’s Updated Minimum Parking Requirements
(2018-04)The purpose of this report is to provide recommendations on parking management strategies that can further complement the City of Ottawa’s parking management goals. This report examined the City of Ottawa’s 2016 Zoning ... -
Small Town Downtown Revitalization: Applying the Main Street Approach to the towns of Perth and Carleton Place, Ontario
(2016-06-23)The downtown main street of small towns is traditionally the economic, cultural, and social heart of the community, thereby requiring particular attention from planners and researchers alike. Considering modern threats to ... -
A Streetcar Suburb for the 21st Century: Transit-Supportive Design Guidelines & Policy Recommendations for Eglinton Avenue West in Toronto
(2013-01-23)This report develops a series of urban design guidelines, policy changes, and recommendations for intensification along a segment of a suburban arterial road, Eglinton Avenue West, in Toronto, Ontario to foster increased ... -
Streets as Leisure and Social Spaces: Exploring the Relationships between Street Life and the Physical Environment in Two Vancouver Neighbourhoods
(2012-06-27)This report investigates the relationships between street life and the characteristics of street environments in two commercial areas in Vancouver. The physical attributes of each study area were systematically assessed, ... -
Strong Employment Lands, Strong Communities: An Evaluative Framework and Comparative Case Study of the Region of Niagara's Gateway Employment Lands Study (2011) and the Region of Waterloo's Industrial Business Park Vacant Land Inventory and Demand Analysis (2006)
(2013-04-29)Employment lands studies provide the backbone by which information is disseminated to local politicians, councils, decision makers, and citizens (Dempwolf, 2012). Without these studies and strategies, an inherent lack in ... -
Sustainability and Aggregate Resource Extraction in Southern Ontario: A case study of the proposed St Marys Cement Inc. Flamborough Quarry
(2011-08-04)This report is an investigation into the events of a proposed aggregates quarry in the Flamborough region of Hamilton, Ontario. These events serve as a case example of the aggregates management system in the Province of ... -
Sustainability at the Urban-Rural Fringe
(2015-05-20)The growing public interest in local, organic food production and concern around environmental degradation has turned proximity to small-scale, organic farms into a value-adding amenity for residential development. As a ... -
The Sustainable Campus: A Comparison of Comprehensive Sustainability Policies in the Campus Master Plans of the University of Guelph and Queen’s University
(2015-07-21)Higher education institutions are increasingly welcoming the challenge to reassess their operations against today’s sustainability standards and to steadily implement sustainable planning practices on their campuses. Campus ... -
Sydenham Street Revived: A Public Space Experiment
(2016-09-28)In 2015, the Sydenham Street Revived pop-up park project (SSR) transformed Sydenham Street between Princess and Queen Streets into a temporary pedestrian-only public space. The goal of the project was to test out the idea ... -
Tackling Tactical Urbanism: Exploring the Potential for Improved Social Spaces on Campus
(2015-06-05)This report explores the opportunity for improving public social spaces on Queen’s University campus. It compares six sites on campus against a set of evaluative criteria developed from literature on the design of public ... -
These Stations were Made for Walking
(2011-07-18)This report focuses on pedestrian-oriented design considerations as they relate to rapid transit station facilities. BC Transit, the provider of transit services across British Columbia (excluding Vancouver), and the Capital ... -
Three Parish Redevelopments in Ottawa, Ontario
(2012-09-12)This report investigated three Anglican Church of Canada parish redevelopment projects in the City of Ottawa. Each church was evaluated based on physical and heritage evaluation criteria as well as social values in order ... -
Transit-Oriented Development in Smiths Falls, Ontario: A Comparison Between Two Sites
(2010-06-08)In 2007, the Mayor of Ottawa’s Task Force on Transportation suggested connecting Smiths Falls with Ottawa via commuter rail. While planning for this rail line continues, VIA Rail is preparing to move its operations from a ... -
Transitioning Towards a Development Permit System: Recommendations for the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
(2016-06-17)Since 2007, Ontario Regulation 608/06 now provides all municipalities with the authority to establish a development permit system (DPS); however, much of this regulatory power and its functions are largely misunderstood ...