Browsing by Subject "City planning"

About the theme of the 1999 CIP/OUQ conference - why should we be interested in the city-region?

Trudel, Jacques (Canadian Institute of Planners, 1999)

The essential goal of the 1999 CIP Conference in Montréal can thus be stated as follows: to ensure that planners, here and abroad, individually and collectively, play a central role and are fully capable of exercising their ...

Back to the future again: Are planners relearning the traditions of civic design?

Berelowitz, Lance (Canadian Institute of Planners, 2018-07)

A version of the following article was published in Plan Canada’s 2000 Millennium special edition. It was a call to action. Since then, much has changed of course, and today’s urgent planning priorities were largely ...

Back to the future? Relearning the tradition of civic design

Berelowitz, Lance (Canadian Institute of Planners, 2000-01)

Lance Berelowitz enters a plea for rethinking what planners do and how they do it. His challenge to current planning education and practice entails a "back to the future" proposal to relearn our tradition of civic design.

Beauty, truth and order or something like that

Berridge, Joe (Canadian Institute of Planners, 2000)

Inspired by his experience of the new Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Joe Berridge hopes that we will resolve to achieve a better balance between order and beauty - specifically by restoring beauty to its rightful place.

The best so far: Vancouver's remarkable approach to the Southeast False Creek redevelopment is a big step towards sustainable redevelopment planning for urban sites

Alexander, Don (Alternatives, Inc., 2000)

The story of SEFC is the story of two radically different visions of urban sustainability - one put forward by activists and designers who want to see an ecologically sound and socially just neighbourhood on the site and ...

[Book Review] Local places in the age of the global city

Alexander, Don (New City Magazine, 1997)

Don Alexander reviews "Local places in the age of the global city" edited by Roger Keil, Gerda R. Wekerle, and David V.J. Bell (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1995).

[Book Review] Small change: About the art of practice and the limits of planning in cities

Alexander, Don (Wilfrid Laurier University, Geography and Environmental Studies, 2004)

Book review of "Small change: The art of practice and the limits of planning in cities" by Nabeel Hamdi (London: Earthscan, 2004).

[Book Review] The prospect of cities

Grant, Jill (Canadian Institute of Planners, 2003)

Jill Grant reviews "The prospect of cities" by John Friedmann (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002).

Can planning save the suburbs?

Grant, Jill (Canadian Institute of Planners, 1999)

Can planning save the suburbs? In the last decade, the new urbanism has penetrated Canadian planning theory and practice. Plans have been rewritten and standards revised to reflect a commitment to greater "urbanity." ...

Capital cities at a glance

Dubé, Pierre (Canadian Institute of Planners, 2001)

Summary of one of the seven themes of the 2001 CIP conference in Ottawa - "capital cities".

Capital cities, special cities: How to ensure their successful development

Andrew, Caroline; Taylor, John (Canadian Institute of Planners, 2000)

In order to think about how to plan and develop successful capital cities, one has to be clear about what capital cities are, and in what ways they are special. Once this is understood, it is possible to identify ...

The changing role of capital cities

Hall, Peter (Canadian Institute of Planners, 2000)

The first point to make is the elementary one: that not all capital cities are alike. Some owe that role solely to the fact of being the seat of government; at least one (Amsterdam) is a capital even though it is not ...

A community perspective : conflicting environmental interests and barriers to effective collaborative management in Clayoquot Sound

Henn, Rebecca (2010-01-20)

Our increased knowledge and awareness of the environment and the finite capacity of the world‘s resources has seen increased regional tensions and conflicts over natural resource development and land use planning. This ...