This Major Research paper asks the questions: What would an ecologically sustainable, system-thinking based vision for planning and development in the Caribbean look like? And how can systems dynamics modelling help to ...

Housing is a vehicle for access, in that it provides access to a range of services for communities and its material objectivity can extend to provide safety and security. Additionally, housing can be a fixed asset that ...

Buying local has become a recent trend within the food movement across the world. The purchasing of local foods is seen as a way to support local economies, and relationships while also promoting better environmental ...

The aim of this paper is to explore and understand the implications of employment land conversions in the City of Toronto, and in particular its impact on housing affordability. The municipal government has attempted to ...

A number of conditions can be attributed to driving the recent revolutionary movement of urban acupuncture and locally-led interventions in cities around the world. Political, economic, and environmental uncertainty; the ...

In this paper I describe how cities can reduce their dependence on fossil fuels for space and water heating by utilizing sewer wastewater heat as a low carbon energy source. I introduce the first stage of a planning decision ...

As both a science and an art, planning is regulated by public policy, concerned with shaping and guiding the physical growth and arrangement of natural and built environments. Within these environments what is considered ...

This major paper evaluates the concept of complete streets and the impact this approach to street design has on various users through a case study of the Queens Quay West revitalization process in Toronto. A complete street ...

Toronto’s Garrison Creek has gained a near mythical quality in both the minds and the plans of the city’s people. In the century since its burial and integration into the combined sewer network, there has been a growing ...

This major paper attempts to establish the sources of ethnic segregation in Tel-Aviv-Jaffa, Israel, through a comparative study of the city’s development and that of Casablanca, Morocco; through historical research specific ...