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Alderney Drive: how people walk on and around an urban highway
(2016-12)Problem, research strategy, and findings: In the 1960s, a short highway was built on the edge of the downtown core of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. I wanted to find out whether this urban highway affected pedestrians’ walking ... -
Assessing Sustainable Building Technologies from a First Nations Perspective: The Community Plan as an Analysis Framework
(2015-12-09)This report addresses knowledge gaps in First Nations housing development by illustrating how community plans can be used to examine sustainable building technologies (SBTs), suggesting that community plans can provide an ... -
Development Plan, St. Patrick's Alexandra School Site
(2015-12-09)To achieve my goal to illustrate the community’s vision and in order to propose a set of criteria for a community-oriented development to the City of Halifax for any development agreement for St. Patrick’s Alexandra site, ... -
Does planning acknowledge the cost of redevelopment on housing affordability?
(2016-12-09)Canadian media is showing increased coverage of residents struggling to afford housing and residents being displaced from their communities due to the rising cost of housing and neighbourhood redevelopment. Simultaneously, ... -
Evaluating Canadian Municipal Energy & Climate Mitigation Plans: Content analysis and potential for effectiveness in small and mid-sized Canadian communities
(2016-12-09)Energy and climate change mitigation plans from 14 Canadian communities across four provinces were evaluated via plan coding to determine general content and potential for effectiveness. Plans provided sufficient background ... -
Evaluating Strategies for Plan Coordination: A Survey of Canadian Planners
(Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2019)In the contemporary context, many Canadian cities have large numbers of plans that present major challenges for coordination and implementation. The paper reports the results of a survey of Canadian planning practitioners ... -
Integrated community sustainability planning in Atlantic Canada: Green-washing an infrastructure agenda
(Sage, 2018)In 2005 the Canadian federal government initiated a New Deal for Cities and Communities. The program, which involved bilateral agreements with provincial governments, promised substantial funding to municipalities to promote ... -
Leadership, Coordination, and Power in Three Public Administrations: Halifax, Edmonton, and Vancouver
(2015-12-09)Coordinating transportation and land use planning is a growing challenge, especially as planning documents proliferate. Good leadership could effectively address the problem; however, the context can disempower leaders and ... -
Opportunities for improving human and ecosystem health through recreation in nature
(2016-12)In Canada, less than 20% of adults and 10% of children and youth are getting the recommended amount of daily physical activity (ParticipACTION, 2015). Concurrently, the amount of sedentary indoor recreational screen time ... -
Perceptions of rooming houses in Halifax and the role of regulatory intervention
(Dalhousie University, 2016-12-09)Rooming houses in Halifax have experienced significant loss in recent decades. Up to 90% of the stock was lost due to social, economic, and regulatory factors. While only 17 licensed rooming houses remain in Halifax, over ... -
Planners’ perceptions of the influence of leadership on coordinating plans
(Sage, 2018)Based on interviews with 92 planners in five Canadian city-regions, we explore planners’ perceptions of the ways that leadership affects their ability to coordinate land-use planning activities in the context of sometimes ... -
Planning for Solar Energy in Halifax Neighbourhoods
(2015-12-08)Solar energy is the cleanest and most abundant energy resource that does not contribute to global warming (Zaidi, 2009, p. 3). Halifax has good resources of solar energy and high energy demand (Natural Resources Canada, ... -
A Policy Guide: Making Parking Lots and Commercial Driveways Safer for Pedestrians
(Dalhousie University, 2016-12-09)Commercial developers do not typically prioritize pedestrians in the design of parking lots and commercial driveways. Everyone who visits a commercial development is a pedestrian. A person may walk from their home, the bus ... -
The production of a suburban main street: Financialization and urban design in Halifax
(School of Planning, Dalhousie University, 2017-11)Given that planning policy calls for mixed use, higher densities, street-oriented facades, walkability, and high-quality urban design, what explains the kinds of segregated, low-density, auto-oriented designs and development ... -
Regulating marginality: how the media characterises a maligned housing option
(Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2019)Communities often stigmatise forms of housing targeting low-income tenants. This paper examines how media sources characterise one such form: rooming houses that provide multiple, low-cost, single-room accommodations ... -
Third-Wave Neoliberalism in Theory and Practice: A Case Study of the Halifax Centre Plan
(2016)This study analyses a significant planning undertaking in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to illustrate the pervasive nature of neoliberalism in planning theory and practice. It shows how smart growth and creative city ... -
Waste Disposal Facility Siting in Nova Scotia: Opportunities to Increase Procedural Equity
(2015-12-09)The inequitable distribution of undesirable and potentially hazardous land uses is an issue across North America. In Nova Scotia no legislation requires equity to be considered during the waste disposal facility site ...