Out of Ebenezer Howard’s (1850-1928) Garden City came suburbs (through a gradual evolution naturally), and in Toronto’s Don Mills we took the Wednesday to observe this. We are also given a guest lecture by Mr. Ian Bender, former Director of Planning in Simcoe County, which brings his experience and views on lessons learned.
Toronto Field Trip
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Week 6: The Garden City, City Observations and Regional Planner Experiences
Posted in Urban Planning, tagged Cabbagetown, de-malling, Don Mills, Ebenezer Howard, Field Trip, Garden City, Gardiner Expressway, Ian Bender, New Town 1948, Plan 703, Regent Park, Sierra Club, Simcoe County, Smart Growth, St. Lawrence Market, Toronto, Union Station, Waterfront on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
5th Week of Urban Planning at University of Waterloo
Posted in Urban Planning on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thanksgiving on Monday reduced the number of classes this week from three to one, thus ensuring all my attention to Ray Simpson’s PLAN 703 and this week’s topic of ‘municipal infrastructure financing’.
Financing is Intersting
Financing is interesting. OK, I am somewhat convincing myself of this, but without any consideration planning is removed from reality and not [...]
Week 4: The Post-World-War II Period; Transportation-land use relationships; Ethics
Posted in Urban Planning, tagged Advocacy and Pluralism Planning, Brugmann, conservatives, democracy, design, Dolk, Ethics, Faculty of Environment, feminism, Fierce Light, Florida, graduate studies, Jane Jacobs, Justice, land-use, liberals, MA Planning, Miami, Morality, pedestrianism, pedestrianization, Plan 621, Plan 700, Plan 703, planning theory, ridership, Robert E. Jarvis, Robert Moses, School of Planning, stakeholders, stakeholdr values, Toronto, transit, transportation, travel behavior, University of Waterloo, values, waliking on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What a week! I really like planning, planning theory that is. In truth, I wish I knew more about planning practice itself, because it seems to be very complicated. But that might come later, for now I am all about enjoying the present.
Plan 700, in its evolutionary fashion, has this week brought us to [...]
Why be sweet to people? – week 3
Posted in Urban Planning, tagged students, urban development, Chicago, Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, philosophy, scientific method, innovation, industrial revolution, modernism, Fordism, post-modern, post-Fordist, New York City, Robert Moses, week 3, Morris, Howard, Mumford, Geddes, Stein, Bauer, Wright, Bauhaus, Le Corbusier, Brunham, Utopianism, Garden City, Radiant City, City Beautiful, elitist, expert-driven, Master Planning, theories, democracy, Obama, Bush, phoenix, public participation, Voltaire, Niagara Falls, CIP, OPPI, conference, Building a Better World, planners, Montreal on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From philosophy to scientific method and innovation to the Industrial Revolution; then from Modernism and Fordism to post-modern and post-fordist, and let’s include New York City’s Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs – in an evolutionary fashion, we’re guided through theoretical and evidential urban developments stretching into the presence. We learn how theoretical ideals caused real [...]
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