Contributors
Preface
PART A: FUNDAMENTALS OF PLANNING
1. An Introduction to Canadian Planning (Ren Thomas)
PART B: CASE STUDIES
2. Community Development and Social Planning: Introduction
2.1 Promising Practices in Social Plan Development and Implementation:
Applying Lessons Learned from Canadian Urban Municipalities in the City of Richmond, British Columbia (John Foster, Olga Scherbina, and Leonora Angeles)
2.2 Cultural Planning in Canada (Kari Huhtala)
2.3 Cultivating Intercultural Understanding: Dialogues and Storytelling among First Nations,
Urban Aboriginals, and Immigrants in Vancouver (Umbreen Ashraf, Kate Kittredge, and Magdalena Ugarte)
2.4 Social Vulnerability to Climate Change: An Assessment for Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (Michaela Cochran)
2.5 Reconceptualizing Social Planning: A Case Study of the Spatialized Impacts of Urban
Poverty for Lone Parent, Female-Headed Families in Vancouver (Silvia Vilches and Penny Gurstein)
3. Urban Form and Public Health: Introduction
3.1 Design and Beyond: The Mobility and Accessibility Community Gardens in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario (Luna Khirfan)
3.2 A Comparison of
Cross-Alberta and Cross-Canada Health Initiatives (Kyle Whitfield)
3.3 Building up While Sprawling Out? Paradoxes of Urban Intensification in Ottawa (Donald Leffers)
3.4 Planning for Diversity in a Suburban Retrofit Context: The Case of Ethnic Shopping Malls in the Toronto Area (Zhixi
Cecilia Zhuang)
4. Natural Resource Management: Introduction
4.1 Resource Development Proposal, Drybones Bay, Northwest Territories (Darha Phillpot and Todd Slack)
4.2 Climate Adaptation Planning in British Columbia: The Elkford Approach (Timothy Shah)
4.3 Government-to-Government
Planning and the Recognition of Indigenous Rights and Title in the Central Coast Land and Resource Management Plan (Janice Barry)
5. Housing: Introduction
5.1 Saskatchewan's Affordable Housing Challenge: Allocation of Public Funding in a Thriving Province (Jenna Mouck)
5.2 We Call Regent
Park Home: Tenant Perspectives on Redevelopment of Their Toronto Public Housing Community (Laura C. Johnson)
5.3 Energy-Efficiency Retrofits and Planning Solutions for Sustainable Social Housing in Canada (Sasha Tsenkova)
5.4 Meeting the Workforce Housing Needs of a Resort Municipality: The
Whistler Example (Marla Zucht and Margaret Eberle)
6. Participatory Processes: Introduction
6.1 People and Plans: Vancouver's CityPlan Process (Ann McAfee)
6.2 Cultural Planning and Governance Innovation: The Case of Hamilton (Jeff Biggar)
6.3 Taking It Online: How the City of
Vancouver Became Comfortable with Engaging Residents in Their PJs: Vancouver's Use of Online Crowdsourcing to Engage Residents during the Development of the Greenest City Action Plan (Lisa Brideau and Amanda Mitchell)
6.4 Reaching Youth: Tools for Participating in the Upgrading and Evaluation of
Municipal Equipment and Services (Juan Torres and Natasha Blanchet-Cohen)
6.5 I "Like" You, You Make My Heart Twitter, but..." Reflections for Urban Planners from an Early Assessment of Social Media Deployment by Canadian Local Governments (Pamela Robinson and Michael DeRuyter)
7. Urban
Design: Introduction
7.1 What's Public about Public Markets? Beyond Public and Private Space in Community-Building (Leslie Shieh)
7.2 Planning as Placemaking? The Case of the East Bayfront Precinct Planning Process (James T. White)
7.3 Developing the Community Plan and Urban Design Plan
for Benalto, Alberta (Beverly Sandalack and Francisco Alaniz Uribe)
7.4 Variations on Empire: Planning the US Embassy in Ottawa (Jason R. Burke)
7.5 The Toronto Avenues and Mid-Rise Buildings Study (Cal Brook and Matt Reid)
8. Urban Redevelopment: Introduction
8.1 Urban Regeneration
in a Mid-sized City: A New Vision for Downtown Sudbury (Alison Bain and Ross Burnett)
8.2 After "Ours": Creating a Sense of Ownership in Winnipeg's Downtown Plan (Gerald H. Couture)
8.3 The Quartier des spectacles, Montréal (Laurie Loison and Raphaël Fischler)
8.4 Places to Grow: A Case
Study in Regional Planning in a Rapidly Growing Urban Context (Jason Thorne)
9. Transportation and Infrastructure: Introduction
9.1 The Death and Life of "Transit City": Searching for Sustainable Transportation in Toronto's Inner Suburbs (Anna Kramer and Christian Mettke)
9.2 Declining
Infrastructure and Its Opportunities: Gardiner East Environmental Assessment (Antonio Medeiros)
9.3 Hamilton's Red Valley Parkway: Fifty-Seven Years in the Making (Walter G. Peace)
9.4 Travel Demand Management and GHG Emission Reductions: Meeting Multiple Objectives through Partnerships and
Multi-Level Co-ordination (Ugo Lachapelle)
Suggestions for Further Readings
Glossary
List of Web Links
- Thematically organized with brief annotations
Image Bank
- All figures, tables, and photos from the text
E-Book ISBN 9780199008087
Ren Thomas has taught at the University of British Columbia, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Oregon. She has extensive experience researching and consulting on public- and private-sector planning projects in various locations across Canada.
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