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De/centering the ‘community benefit’ in Toronto’s inner-suburbs

patilpos — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 03:14:00 +0000

In Toronto, Canada, core-periphery relations have shifted through re-mappings of city boundaries and districts over the past seventy years: austerity-led amalgamations resulting in new peripheralizations, with subsequent attempts at addressing disparity with an emphasis on place. Publicly disinvested, the now inner-suburbs of Toronto are driven into new competitive relationships, and therefore becoming vulnerable to private […]

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Peripheral centralities: Lost, past, present and future

inist — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:05:22 +0000

Co-Principal Investigators: Roger Keil with Nicholas Phelps (PI, University of Melbourne) and Paul Maginn (Co-PI, University of Western Australia). Funding: Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Award. Term: 2021-2022. The seminar series brings together a multidisciplinary mix of scholars and practitioners including urban historians, sociologists, geographers, planners, architects, urban designers and property developers to consider the […]

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Reshaping cities: The power of urban planning

paultran — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 19:08:07 +0000

The 15-minute city urban development is an approach which comprises compact and transit-oriented development, mixed-use, smart and strategic growth. It focuses on meeting all the requirements that a person would need within a 15- to 20-minute radius of their household. The main goal of Mariyan Boychev’s MES major paper is to appraise the adoption of […]

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Slope gradient, soil texture, and ground vegetation affecting erosion in the Lovers Creek Ravine

paultran — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 04:15:00 +0000

Lovers Creek is a notable subwatershed that is part of the Lake Simcoe watershed. It is one of several that pass through the City of Barrie’s residential areas in order to connect to Lake Simcoe. Sections of Lovers Creek are characterized by ravines that are regularly accompanied with recreational trails along the slopes or fields. […]

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Women and urban place-making

paultran — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 18:19:22 +0000

Rapid urbanization affects everyone, but women living in poverty represent a disproportionate percentage of the urban poor, bearing the brunt of housing and employment insecurity, inadequate transportation infrastructures, violence, and the climate crisis and other environmental disasters. Through research, public education and policy engagement in strategically chosen cities in the global south, Professor Linda Peake’s […]

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Urban life in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic

paultran — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:30:00 +0000

In an article in The Conversation on February 17, Professors Roger Keil, Creighton Connolly, and S. Harris Ali, stressed that “[o]utbreaks like coronavirus start in and spread from the edges of cities,” noting that merging infectious disease has much to do with how and where we live, and that the ongoing coronavirus is an example of the close […]

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Re-imagining public spaces and designing liveable communities in a COVID-19 world

paultran — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 20:30:00 +0000

How do we reimagine public spaces – such as parks, streets, beaches, schools, libraries, and other areas of communities – in a way that they will be liveable for people in a COVID-19 world? What are the issues around equal access and rights to public and social spaces as we begin to live in this […]

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