Academic literature on the topic 'Neighborhood planning – Ontario – Toronto'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the lists of relevant articles, books, theses, conference reports, and other scholarly sources on the topic 'Neighborhood planning – Ontario – Toronto.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Journal articles on the topic "Neighborhood planning – Ontario – Toronto"
1
Ta, Martha, and Ketan Shankardass. "Piloting the Use of Concept Mapping to Engage Geographic Communities for Stress and Resilience Planning in Toronto, Ontario, Canada." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 20 (October 19, 2021): 10977. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010977.
Full textAbstract:
The physical and social characteristics of urban neighborhoods engender unique stressors and assets, contributing to community-level variation in health over the lifecourse. Actors such as city planners and community organizations can help strengthen resilience in places where chronic stress is endemic, by learning about perceived stressors and assets from neighborhood users themselves (residents, workers, business owners). This study piloted a methodology to identify Toronto neighborhoods experiencing chronic stress and to engage them to identify neighborhood stressors, assets, and solutions. Crescent Town was identified as one neighborhood of interest based on relatively high levels of emotional stress in Twitter Tweets produced over two one-year periods (2013–2014 and 2017–2018) and triangulation using other neighborhood-level data. Using concept mapping, community members (n = 23) created a ten-cluster concept map describing neighborhood stressors and assets, and identified two potential strategies, a Crescent Town Residents’ Association and a community fair to promote neighborhood resources and build social networks. We discuss how this knowledge has circulated through the City of Toronto and community-level organizations to date, and lessons for improving this methodology.
2
Shaker, Richard, Joseph Aversa, Victoria Papp, Bryant Serre, and Brian Mackay. "Showcasing Relationships between Neighborhood Design and Wellbeing Toronto Indicators." Sustainability 12, no. 3 (January 30, 2020): 997. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12030997.
Full textAbstract:
Cities are the keystone landscape features for achieving sustainability locally, regionally, and globally. With the increasing impacts of urban expansion eminent, policymakers have encouraged researchers to advance or invent methods for managing coupled human–environmental systems associated with local and regional sustainable development planning. Although progress has been made, there remains no universal instrument for attaining sustainability on neither regional nor local planning scales. Previous sustainable urbanization studies have revealed that landscape configuration metrics can supplement other measures of urban well-being, yet few have been included in public data dashboards or contrasted against local well-being indicators. To advance this sector of sustainable development planning, this study had three main intentions: (1) to produce a foundational suite of landscape ecology metrics from the 2007 land cover dataset for the City of Toronto; (2) to visualize and interpret spatial patterns of neighborhood streetscape patch cohesion index (COHESION), Shannon’s diversity index (SHDI), and four Wellbeing Toronto indicators across the 140 Toronto neighborhoods; (3) to quantitatively assess the global collinearity and local explanatory power of the well-being and landscape measures showcased in this study. One-hundred-and-thirty landscape ecology metrics were computed: 18 class configuration metrics across seven land cover categories and four landscape diversity metrics. Anselin Moran’s I-test was used to illustrate significant spatial patterns of well-being and landscape indicators; Pearson’s correlation and conditional autoregressive (CAR) statistics were used to evaluate relationships between them. Spatial “hot-spots” and/or “cold-spots” were found in all streetscape variables. Among other interesting results, Walk Score® was negatively related to both tree canopy and grass/shrub connectedness, signifying its lack of consideration for the quality of ecosystem services and environmental public health—and subsequently happiness—during its proximity assessment of socioeconomic amenities. In sum, landscape ecology metrics can provide cost-effective ecological integrity addendum to existing and future urban resilience, sustainable development, and well-being monitoring programs.
3
MacDonald, Susan K., J. Edna Beange, and Peter C. H. Blackford. "Planning for Strategic Change? A Participative Planning Approach for Community Hospitals." Healthcare Management Forum 5, no. 3 (October 1992): 31–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0840-4704(10)61213-6.
Full textAbstract:
Strategic planning is becoming to hospitals what business case analysis is to private corporations. In fact, this type of planning is becoming essential for the professional management of Ontario hospitals. The participative strategic planning process at Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH) is an example of how a professionally structured and implemented strategic planning process can be successfully developed and implemented in a community hospital. In this article, the environmental factors driving planning are reviewed and the critical success factors for the development and implementation of a strategic plan are examined in the context of TEGH's experience.
4
Barrett, Suzanne. "Lake Ontario's Waterfront: Realizing a decade of regeneration." Ekistics and The New Habitat 71, no. 424-426 (June 1, 2004): 123–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e200471424-426237.
Full textAbstract:
The author was the principal author of A Decade of Regeneration: Realizing a Vision for Lake Ontario's Waterfront, in collaboration with editor Ron Reid of Bobolink. She was Director of the Lake Ontario Program Waterfront Regeneration Trust from 1992-2002, leading its work on the Waterfront Trail, Greenway Strategy and Toronto and Region Remedial Action Plan. She is currently a freelance consultant specializing in environmental planning, waterfront revitalization and public engagement. The text that follows was originally published in the Ontario Planning Journal, March/April 2002.
5
Maclellan, Duncan. "Planning Politics in Toronto: The Ontario Municipal Board and Urban Development Aaron A. Moore Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. pp. 254." Canadian Journal of Political Science 48, no. 2 (June 2015): 488–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423915000347.
Full text
6
Simons, Elinor, Sharon D. Dell, Rahim Moineddin, and Teresa To. "Neighborhood Material Deprivation Is Associated with Childhood Asthma Development: Analysis of Prospective Administrative Data." Canadian Respiratory Journal 2019 (May 19, 2019): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6808206.
Full textAbstract:
Rationale. Material deprivation has been proposed as a more comprehensive measure of socioeconomic status than parental income. Stronger associations between childhood emergency department visits for asthma and air pollution have been demonstrated among children living in neighborhoods with high levels of deprivation, but the associations with asthma development and ongoing asthma are not known. Objectives. We determined the associations between neighborhood material deprivation and the development of new and ongoing childhood asthma. Methods. Prospectively collected administrative data housed at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences were examined for Toronto children born from 1997 to 2003. Neighborhood material deprivation, comprising no high school graduation, lone parent families, government transfers, unemployment, low income, and homes needing major repairs, was reported in the Ontario Marginalization Index. Incident asthma was defined by the time of entry into the Ontario Asthma Surveillance Information System (OASIS) database. We measured the risk of incident asthma using Cox proportional hazards models and the associations between ongoing asthma visits and deprivation by year of life with generalized linear mixed models. Results. OASIS asthma criteria were met for 21% of the 326,383 children. After adjustment for characteristics strongly associated with asthma, including male sex, prematurity, obesity, and atopic conditions other than asthma, children with high birth neighborhood deprivation were at increased risk of incident asthma (HR 1.11; 95% CI, 1.09–1.13). High deprivation in a given year of life was associated with increased odds of ongoing asthma during that year of life (OR 1.03; 95% CI, 1.02–1.05). Conclusions. Children living in high-deprivation neighborhoods are at increased risk of incident and ongoing asthma. This study suggests that neighborhood material deprivation may represent a helpful tool for evaluating the effects of disparities in health and social advantages on the likelihood of developing and continuing to need healthcare visits for ongoing childhood asthma.
7
Li, Siyuan, Matthew Muresan, and Liping Fu. "Cycling in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Route Choice Behavior and Implications for Infrastructure Planning." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2662, no. 1 (January 2017): 41–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2662-05.
Full textAbstract:
This research investigated the route choice behavior of cyclists in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with data collected from a smartphone application deployed to many cyclists in the city. For the study, 4,556 cyclists registered and logged more than 30,000 commuting trips over 9 months. In addition to the time-stamped, second-by-second GPS readings on each trip, information on age, gender, and rider history was collected on a voluntary basis. Multinomial logit route choice models were estimated for the commuting cycling trips. The results revealed the critical importance of cycling facilities (e.g., bike lanes, cycling paths and trails) on cyclists’ route choice decisions, and provided valuable information for use in Toronto’s ongoing bicycle network planning.
8
Okamoto, Karen. "Tower Neighborhood Revitalization in Toronto and Canadian Environmental Justice Politics." Environmental Justice 6, no. 2 (April 2013): 41–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/env.2012.0041.
Full text
9
Vaz, Eric, Michael D. Cusimano, Fernando Bação, Bruno Damásio, and Elissa Penfound. "Open data and injuries in urban areas—A spatial analytical framework of Toronto using machine learning and spatial regressions." PLOS ONE 16, no. 3 (March 11, 2021): e0248285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248285.
Full textAbstract:
Injuries have become devastating and often under-recognized public health concerns. In Canada, injuries are the leading cause of potential years of life lost before the age of 65. The geographical patterns of injury, however, are evident both over space and time, suggesting the possibility of spatial optimization of policies at the neighborhood scale to mitigate injury risk, foster prevention, and control within metropolitan regions. In this paper, Canada’s National Ambulatory Care Reporting System is used to assess unintentional and intentional injuries for Toronto between 2004 and 2010, exploring the spatial relations of injury throughout the city, together with Wellbeing Toronto data. Corroborating with these findings, spatial autocorrelations at global and local levels are performed for the reported over 1.7 million injuries. The sub-categorization for Toronto’s neighborhood further distills the most vulnerable communities throughout the city, registering a robust spatial profile throughout. Individual neighborhoods pave the need for distinct policy profiles for injury prevention. This brings one of the main novelties of this contribution. A comparison of the three regression models is carried out. The findings suggest that the performance of spatial regression models is significantly stronger, showing evidence that spatial regressions should be used for injury research. Wellbeing Toronto data performs reasonably well in assessing unintentional injuries, morbidity, and falls. Less so to understand the dynamics of intentional injuries. The results enable a framework to allow tailor-made injury prevention initiatives at the neighborhood level as a vital source for planning and participatory decision making in the medical field in developed cities such as Toronto.
10
Sándor, George Kb, Howard M. Clarke, Hugh G. Thomson, and Ronald M. Zuker. "Pediatric Burns: A Decade Later." Canadian Journal of Plastic Surgery 5, no. 4 (December 1997): 210–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/229255039700500404.
Full textAbstract:
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario serves as a regional pediatric burn centre for metropolitan Toronto and the province of Ontario. The demographics and outcomes of the admissions of burn patients are reviewed periodically to help in future planning of resources and preventive strategies. This study was designed to review recent admissions and detect trends of the past decade by comparing admission and outcome data from two cohorts: one from 1986 to 1988 and one from 1977 to 1979. The number of admissions increased during the past decade. There was a lower proportion of patients with flame burns and a higher proportion with scald burns. This may be due to a combination of preventive measures and changing demographics. The overall mortality rate decreased from 2.2% in the previous decade to 0.78% in the past decade.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Neighborhood planning – Ontario – Toronto"
1
Poiret, Guillaume. "Les stratégies de mondialisation des métropoles : le cas de Toronto, Ontario." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040281.
Full textAbstract:
Ce travail s’inscrit dans un contexte de mondialisation croissante accompagné d’une importante métropolisation qui tout en concourant au développement de certaines villes qui forment désormais un réseau mondial pilotant l’économie, se trouvent face à un certain nombre de défis de nature diverse (sociale, économique ou environnementale) auxquels elles doivent apporter des réponses. C’est la question de la gouvernance métropolitaine, qui constitue la réponse principale à ces challenges que la thèse se propose d’étudier. Au travers d’une analyse de Toronto, capitale économique du Canada et capitale politique de l’Ontario, dans ses dynamiques économiques et sociales actuelles (notamment les effets du multiculturalisme sur l’attractivité de la métropole) ainsi que dans leurs conséquences politiques et au travers d’une série d’entretiens avec les acteurs locaux et provinciaux, publics et privés, ce travail propose de confronter les théories existantes pour mieux cerner leurs limites. Au terme de cette étude, un regard croisé avec l’agglomération parisienne est proposé pour permettre d’élargir le propos et de justifier la nécessité non d’une gouvernance mais d’une politique métropolitaine, menée à l’échelle nationale pour définir périmètres, acteurs, compétences et enjeux. C’est par le biais de cette politique, mettant en place une institution métropolitaine chargée de gérer les problèmes actuels de métropoles que l’on doit parvenir à conjuguer la nécessaire attractivité économique avec le bien-être des populationsThis study examines the social, economic and environmental challenges facing cities that have emerged as global economic hubs as a result of increased globalization and significant metropolitanization. Of particular interest is the issue of metropolitan governance, which is key to overcoming those challenges and is the focus of this thesis. Through an analysis of the city of Toronto, economic capital of Canada and of Ontario politics, its current economic and social dynamics (including the impact of multiculturalism on the attractiveness of the metropolis) and their political consequences; and through a series of interviews with key players from the local and provincial, as well as public and private sectors, this study will examine the existing theories in order to better define their limits. At the end of this study, the juxtaposition of the Parisian agglomeration is explored in order to further the issue and to justify the need, not of metropolitan governance, but of metropolitan policy, exercised at the national level which will define the scope, the players, the competencies and the stakes. It is through this metropolitan policy, which would implement a metropolitan institution in charge of managing the current problems of metropolises, that we need to coalesce economic attractiveness and population well being
2
Gillies-Podgorecki, Benjamin M. (Benjamin Marshall). "Don't get taken for a ride! : designing and Implementing effective autonomous vehicle regulation in Toronto, Ontario." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115704.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-169).
Studies suggest autonomous vehicles can enable a more equitable, efficient, and sustainable transportation network. Yet, experts point out this outcome is not guaranteed, and that without outside policy intervention autonomous vehicle (AV) use might actually exacerbate congestion, sprawl, and inequitable access to travel. These challenges will be most acutely felt in areas under the purview of local governments-such as transportation congestion, land use, and impacts on public transit. As such, the goal of this thesis is to assist municipal policymakers with mitigating these impacts by answering the question: How can local governments effectively regulate autonomous vehicles? Looking at Toronto, Canada, specifically, this thesis addresses the following issues: - When is a contract, and when is a regulation, the most appropriate tool to encourage AV companies to act in ways that help foster a sustainable and equitable transportation network? - What does the City of Toronto require to develop effective AV regulation? - How can the City of Toronto codify broad AV policies into specific, enforceable regulations? This thesis employs three research methods: a literature review, a document analysis, and qualitative interviews with relevant experts. The primary literature review looks at the possible benefits and harms that might come from AV development and the policies local governments can enact to correct for these externalities. Interviews were conducted with 23 experts from the public and private sectors and academia, with responses analysed and themes drawn out to develop answers to the above research questions. Finally, analysis of Toronto's Official Plan and Municipal Code helped inform the creation of a proposed Article 10-A of the code to regulate AV rideshare companies. Chapters three to five of this thesis develop a framework (laid out in Figure 0.1) for thinking about how best to design effective AV regulation. Firstly, the government needs legal capacity to regulate in a given area. Toronto, for example, is responsible for overseeing local rideshare company activity. The remaining four elements all relate to human resources. Interviews show Toronto's bureaucrats believe they have a responsibility and ability to craft effective and ambitious regulations that advance the city's goals. These willing civil servants need the time and the expertise to design good policy, and the Toronto government has an AV working group that provides a forum for such a discussion. To see regulations enacted effectively, however, the mayor and council must not only support rules eventually proposed by the working group; they may also need to approach the provincial government to convince them to craft their own complementary AV legislation. Figure 0.1. The five elements to effective regulation [illustration] Chapter six explores how broad AV policy can be applied concretely. Along with Article 10-A (Appendix C), it offers an example of the specific legal language for AV regulation. Divided into two broad categories--'Equity' and 'Urban Form and Street Space'-the article addresses some of the anticipated issues that might arise with AV rideshare operations including a need to allow citizens without a smartphone are able to use the service, limit AV rideshare travel on local roads, and ensure all neighbourhoods enjoy a relatively similar level of service (accounting for geography and density). Beyond the proposed article itself, chapter six provides feedback from Toronto officials as to the challenges the provisions in the article might face were the government to attempt their ratification. Positively, none of the regulations were unanimously viewed as infeasible, with staff seemingly eager to act boldly when it comes to addressing the challenges of AV activity. As such, this thesis can be used both by Toronto policymakers and their counterparts elsewhere as the basis for discussion in designing the specific rules for AV operations that will be incorporated into a future version of the Municipal Code.
by Benjamin M. Gillies-Podgorecki.
M.C.P.
3
Kong, Yuewei. "Rainwater recycling on green roofs for residential housing : case studies in Richmond, British Columbia; San Antonio, Texas; and Toronto, Ontario." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2507.
Full textAbstract:
Stormwater is the component of runoff that is generated by human activities, and has gradually become a key issue in achieving sustainability in urban environments. When vegetation and soils are replaced with roads and buildings, less rainwater infiltrates into the ground or is taken up by vegetation, and more becomes surface runoff. A greater area of impervious surfaces leads to increased stormwater runoff volume and velocity, and consequently increases the risk off looding and erosion. Being able to reduce stream flows and pollution of surface flows, green roofs are one technology that may help in alleviating this storm water crisis.
This thesis developed a different and effective methodology for quantifying the effects of green roofs on stormwater runoff and calculating the runoff volume and rate for residential housing communities before and after applying green roofs. The method utilizes local climate data like rainfall and evapotranspiration rate, the water use properties of vegetation like crop coefficients of plants, and the areas of impervious surfaces; and then compares the different effects of green roofs in different locations having disparate climatic conditions. It was found that the best way to achieve zero runoff was to green a portion of the total rooftop area and disconnect all impervious surfaces. Implications of this methodology on city planning and site design and for future research are then discussed.
4
Gatti, Maria D. "Growth management : the Toronto and Seattle experiences." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6442.
Full textAbstract:
Increasingly, where, how and when growth occurs has far reaching consequences
for the health of the city and planet. In the past, many growth decisions have been made
at the local level largely within land use terms. In today's highly interrelated and ever-expanding
urban regions, it is recognized that these decisions must be made in a more
comprehensive and consistent intergovernmental manner if the long-term health of all
communities is to be protected. The planning structures as defined by the legislative and
governance frameworks that are in place in many cities often do not address the need for
improved growth management.
Some state/provincial governments are taking an active role in determining the
regional and local planning framework in which the management of growth takes place.
In Canada, many of the initiatives are a refinement of existing planning legislation and
regional governance structures. In the United States, many of the initiatives are the result
of growth management legislation. This study explores the positive and negative
attributes of Ontario's Planning Act and Washington State's Growth Management Act with
respect to adoption and implementation of a regional growth strategy in the Greater
Toronto Area and the Central Puget Sound Area and in facilitating or challenging the
efforts of the cities of Toronto and Seattle in realizing their growth goals and objectives.
Data sources for this study were libraries, government offices, and individuals
active in municipal and intergovernmental relations. The focus of the data search was to
determine what were the major urban issues facing Toronto and Seattle and whether the
planning system was designed to provide effective solutions and expand their capacities to
create the results they desire.
The study contends that planning legislation can play an effective role in growth
management if it embodies three essential characteristics. Firstly, it must facilitate the
adoption and implementation of robust official or comprehensive plans. The plans must
contain clear goals about the distribution, location and quality of future growth and
explicitly detail the steps required to reach these goals. While the plans produced must
integrate all planning functions related to the use of land to allow the development of cities
that are economically, socially and environmentally balanced, the integration of land use
and transportation planning is a prerequisite of effective growth management.
Secondly, the local official or comprehensive plans that are adopted must be tied to
a regional plan that expresses the collective aspirations and responsibilities of the various
cities that constitute today's city-regions. The actions of local as well as senior
governments must be consistent with the vision and policies contained in the regional plan.
Thirdly, the legislation must be effective in promoting the development of
intergovernmental planning relationships that allow all parties to continually learn and act
strategically to realize the local and regional visions. The implementation of the plans is
particularly dependent on the development of complementary governance and financial
arrangements.
5
Wilson, Corey. "Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Buildings in Toronto, Ontario: Evaluating Criteria for Determining Building Selection." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/5540.
Full textAbstract:
Infill development, including the reuse of vacant and derelict industrial buildings, is a desirable form of development as municipalities face the pressure of continuous growth. There have been numerous industrial sites in Toronto that have already been redeveloped through adaptive reuse, but there are still sites that remain underutilized, and additional sites continue to become vacant across the city. As the prior use can no longer be supported, these buildings are demolished in order to construct new buildings, or they undergo adaptive reuse.
The purpose of this report is to explain how the environmental, locational, legislative, market and financial characteristics of industrial buildings located in Toronto affect whether they are chosen for adaptive reuse. Additionally the similarities and differences between public and private sector adaptive reuse projects will be studied. This report will complement existing research completed by others on the characteristics of adaptive reuse projects in Ontario, and provide more specific information regarding the industrial adaptive reuse market in Toronto.
The case study approach used in this report consists of eight industrial adaptive reuse projects in the City of Toronto. Interviews with the developers were completed to gain valuable insight into the factors that were present and affected the selection of the building. The analysis involved reviewing the data from the interviews to identify the similarities and differences between the characteristics of the developers’ projects.
Based on the analysis of the interviews, four recommendations were made. These recommendations are provided with the goal of assisting developers during the selection of industrial buildings in Toronto to undergo adaptive reuse. Each recommendation considers the characteristic that a building and site should or should not possess.
Recommendation 1: The site should not contain ground water contamination
Recommendation 2: Use concrete buildings if planning an addition
Recommendation 3: Select a building with interior demising walls removed
Recommendation 4: Select a building that has financial or development incentives promoting reuseThesis (Master, Urban & Regional Planning) -- Queen's University, 2010-04-16 17:16:07.105
6
Wilson, Tessa. "Informing Municipal Planning: Lessons Learned from the Development of a By-Product Waste Exchange in Toronto, Ontario." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7653.
Full textAbstract:
Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) is becoming an increasing challenge for municipal authorities due to global increases in waste quantities. Other challenges include; changes in waste composition and increasing concern for the environment. As cities continue to grow, so too will the waste. The management of waste therefore becomes critical to municipal planning. Health and sanitation, aesthetics, minimization of pollution and the monitoring of critical resources are just some of the reasons municipalities must manage and control solid waste. Using the Toronto Pearson Eco Business Zone as a case study, this thesis explores how waste (by-product) exchanges might inform municipal planning and how waste exchanges could advise planners and academics in managing growing amounts of municipal waste. The Toronto Pearson Eco Business Zone is a developing Eco Industrial Park which utilizes theories and concepts of ecology and resource recovery to reduce waste. Utilizing a qualitative research approach, data was obtained from businesses throughout the Park to develop a waste exchange database.
The results of this study suggest that the application of concepts underlying Eco Industrial Parks such as a by-product exchange program can assist to drive resource recovery and sustainable waste management practices. However, users of the exchange are highly uneducated or unaware of the links between waste and resources. This was made evident by the fact that companies were more inclined to continue the practice of revenue recycling over the sustainable approach as offered by the exchange. This conclusion suggests that although a waste exchange can help to drive resource recovery, increased education and awareness through mandatory regulations could help to drive resource recovery even further. For the greater success of waste management in Canada, the Government should take action to regulate the planning and organization of waste exchanges in industrial and surrounding areas. The Pearson Eco-Business by-product exchange suggests that cities should not be planned without consideration of solid waste and resource recovery therefore suggesting that concepts related to Eco-Industrial parks should be applied to all municipal and city planning moving forward.
7
Quick, Matthew. "Exploring crime in Toronto, Ontario with applications for law enforcement planning: Geographic analysis of hot spots and risk factors for expressive and acquisitive crimes." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7331.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis explores crime hot spots and identifies risk factors of expressive and acquisitive crimes in Toronto, Ontario at the census tract scale using official crime offence data from 2006. Four research objectives motivate this thesis: 1) to understand a number of local spatial cluster detection tests and how they can be applied to inform law enforcement planning and confirmatory research, 2) explore spatial regression techniques and applications in past spatial studies of crime, 3) to examine the influence of social disorganization and non-residential land use on expressive crime at the census tract scale, and 4) integrate social disorganization and routine activity theories to understand the small-area risk factors of acquisitive crimes. Research chapters are thematically linked by an intent to recognize crime as a spatial phenomenon, provide insight into the processes and risk factors associated with crime, and inform efficient and effective law enforcement planning.
Books on the topic "Neighborhood planning – Ontario – Toronto"
1
Dept, Toronto (Ont ). Planning and Development. Toronto neighbourhoods, the next ten years: Papers delivered at the Neighbourhood Planning Conference, Toronto, November 16-17, 1984. [Toronto, Ont.]: City of Toronto Planning and Development Dept., 1985.
Find full text
2
Neighbourhood Planning Conference (1984 Toronto, Ont.). Toronto neighbourhoods, the next ten years: Papers delivered at the Neighbourhood Planning Conference, Toronto, November 16-17, 1984. [Toronto, Ont.]: City of Toronto Planning and Development Dept., 1985.
Find full text
3
Planning politics in Toronto: The Ontario Municipal Board and urban development. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Find full text
4
Dethier, Jean. 20 key innovations suggested with the project "Crowning the ROM": To improve the cultural and commercial values of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. [Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum], 1997.
Find full text
5
Ontario Ministry of the Environment Workshop on Pollution Control Planning (1987 Toronto, Ont.). Pollution control planning: Ontario Ministry of the Environment Workshop on Pollution Control Planning, Toronto, February 9-10, 1987. Edited by James William 1937-. Markham, Ont: CHI, 1987.
Find full text
6
Toronto (Ont.). Urban Development Services. University of Toronto area plan: Including lands of federated universities (St. Michael's, Trinity, Victoria), affiliated colleges, Queen's Park, Ontario Legislature, Royal Ontario Museum, Clarke Institute, Addiction Research Foundation, other institutions and private landowners. Toronto: Urban Development Services, 1997.
Find full text
7
Toronto (Ont.). Planning and Development Dept. University of Toronto area plan: Including lands of federated universities (St. Michael's, Trinity, Victoria), affiliated colleges, Queen's Park, Ontario Legislature, Royal Ontario Museum, Clarke Institute, Addiction Research Foundation, other institutions and private landowners : October 1996 draft : official plan part II. Toronto: Planning and Development, 1996.
Find full text
8
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Planning cohousing : Creative Communities and the Collaborative Housing Society, Toronto, Ontario : [case study] =: La planification des ensembles d'habitations communautaires : Creative Communities et la Collaborative Housing Society, Toronto (Ontario) : [étude de cas]. Ottawa, Ont: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation = Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement, 1997.
Find full text
9
1940-, Otto Stephen A., ed. Toronto: No mean city. 3rd ed. Toronto: Buffalo, 1986.
Find full text
10
Suburb, slum, urban village: Transformations in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood, 1875-2002. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009.
Find full textConference papers on the topic "Neighborhood planning – Ontario – Toronto"
1
Buszynski, Mario E. "Public Issues Associated With Planning a Large Diameter Pipeline in a Multi-Use Urban Corridor." In 2004 International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2004-0142.
Full textAbstract:
The lack of foresight by municipalities and others in preserving corridors for utilities means that there are increasingly fewer opportunities to locate linear facilities in large urban centers such as the City of Toronto. In those corridors that do exist, there are competing land uses that make it difficult to accommodate any new use. Many of these land uses are directly related to the people living adjacent to and in the vicinity of the corridors. In 2003, the Ontario Energy Board approved new “Environmental Guidelines for the Location, Construction and Operation of Hydrocarbon Pipelines and Facilities in Ontario”. The Guidelines include specific new requirements for planning pipelines in urban areas. Among other things, these new requirements involve the identification of indirectly affected landowners and a more detailed analysis of public issues and how they were resolved. Through the use of a case study, this paper identifies the public issues that were encountered in planning the location of a NPS 36 (Nominal Pipe Size 914 mm or 36 inch diameter) natural gas pipeline through residential neighbourhoods in the City of Toronto and the Town of Markham. It also describes how the public involvement requirements contained in the Ontario Energy Board’s new guidelines were incorporated into the planning process. The case study begins with a rationale for the study area selected. A description of the public issues follows. The techniques used to address these issues and the success of the public involvement program that identified 180 directly affected and 3,200 indirectly affected landowners is documented. The study results illustrate that it is possible to plan a right-of-way through an urban corridor in such a manner as to satisfy the general public, be compatible with existing development, conform to the new Ontario Energy Board Guidelines and minimize the amount of remedial work required to mitigate the impacts occurring on and adjacent to the right-of-way.
2
Buszynski, Mario E. "Securing Pipeline Approvals in a Tough Regulatory Environment." In 2006 International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2006-10478.
Full textAbstract:
The Regional Municipality of York is located immediately north of the City of Toronto. It is the fastest growing municipality in Ontario. The rapid expansion of residential, industrial and commercial development in the municipality has led to a weakness in the electrical and gas infrastructure. The Ontario Power Authority (the agency responsible for managing the power requirements in the Province of Ontario) has recognized this weakness and has developed plans calling for a new gas-fired generating station and improvements to the electrical grid. The shortages of gas supply and electricity have not developed overnight. Hydro One, which runs the electrical grid, initiated a supply study in 2002. The study recommended upgrading a 115 kV transmission line to a double circuit 230 kV transmission line on the existing corridor. The ensuing public outcry resulted in the municipality passing a resolution against the upgrade. Similarly, a large gas-fired generating station proposal was abandoned as the result of citizen opposition. In 2003, the Ontario Energy Board approved new Environmental Guidelines for the Location, Construction and Operation of Hydrocarbon Pipelines and Facilities in Ontario. The guidelines include specific new requirements for planning pipelines in urban areas. Among other things, these requirements involve the identification of indirectly affected landowners and a more detailed analysis of public issues and how they were resolved. It became clear that in order to achieve regulatory success, not only would the public have to become actively engaged in the decision-making early in the process, the technical reviewers (federal, provincial and municipal agencies) would likewise have to be actively involved. Through the use of two case studies of proposed large-diameter natural gas pipelines initiated in York Region in 2005, this paper describes the techniques used to engage the public and the regulators. It also describes how the public involvement requirements contained in the Ontario Energy Board’s new guidelines were incorporated into the planning process. The case studies begin with a rationale for the study area selected. A description of issues follows. The techniques used to address these issues and the success of the program are documented. Techniques include face-to-face project initiation meetings, use of technical and citizens’ advisory committees, sub-committee meetings to resolve specific issues and site-specific field work. The study results illustrate that it is possible to plan a right-of-way in such a manner as to satisfy the general public and regulators, be compatible with existing development, conform to the new Ontario Energy Board guidelines and minimize the amount of remedial work required to mitigate the impacts occurring on and adjacent to the right-of-way.
3
Langaker, John T., Christopher Hamker, and Ralph Wyndrum. "Challenges in Designing and Building a 700 MW All-Air-Cooled Steam Electric Power Plant." In ASME 2011 Power Conference collocated with JSME ICOPE 2011. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2011-55251.
Full textAbstract:
Large natural gas fired combined cycle electric power plants, while being an increasingly efficient and cost effective technology, are traditionally large consumers of water resources, while also discharging cooling tower blowdown at a similar rate. Water use is mostly attributed to the heat rejection needs of the gas turbine generator, the steam turbine generator, and the steam cycle condenser. Cooling with air, i.e. dry cooling, instead of water can virtually eliminate the environmental impact associated with water usage. Commissioned in the fall of 2010 with this in mind, the Halton Hills Generating Station located in the Greater Toronto West Area, Ontario, Canada, is a nominally-rated 700 Megawatt combined cycle electric generating station that is 100 percent cooled using various air-cooled heat exchangers. The resulting water consumption and wastewater discharge of this power plant is significantly less than comparably sized electric generating plants that derive cooling from wet methods (i.e, evaporative cooling towers). To incorporate dry cooling into such a power plant, it is necessary to consider several factors that play important roles both during plant design as well as construction and commissioning of the plant equipment, including the dry cooling systems. From the beginning a power plant general arrangement and space must account for dry cooling’s increase plot area requirements; constraints therein may render air cooling an impossible solution. Second, air cooling dictates specific parameters of major and auxiliary equipment operation that must be understood and coordinated upon purchase of such equipment. Until recently traditional wet cooling has driven standard designs, which now, in light of dry cooling’s increase in use, must be re-evaluated in full prior to purchase. Lastly, the construction and commissioning of air-cooling plant equipment is a significant effort which demands good planning and execution.