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20240924

Growth and renewal in the City of Hamilton, the location of OPPI's 2024 Adaptation Transformation Conference
Y Magazine - Issue 16
Fall/Winter, 2024


Featured articles include:
  • "Growth and renewal in the City of Hamilton" - BY ANITA FABAC, RPP
  • "Why robust business planning matters to today's planning leaders: Continuous innovations in development services" - BY RORY BAKSH, RPP
  • "Progress through incremental change: The rise of fourplexes and fall of the single-detached neighbourhood in Thunder Bay, Ontario" - BY JILLIAN FAZIO
  • "Defining a roadmap for mental health: Co-creating solutions to planner burnout" - BY LIZ BUCKTON, RPP, AND BECKY HILLYER
  • "Telecommunications infrastructure: An understanding and way forward in planning" - BY SHEHRYAR KHAN, RPP
  • "Farmers and the missing middle: A match made in planning?" - BY JEAN-FRANCOIS OBREGON
  • "Why do we need to embrace digital twin as planners?" - BY LISA PRIME, RPP, GAVIN COTTERILL, AND ADAM BECK
  • "International talent: An answer to the shortage of planners in Ontario?" - BY REGAN ZINK, RAMY SHATH, MARYAM SABZEVARI, RPP, CHRIS TYRRELL, RPP, AND RYAN DES ROCHES, CD, OCT
  • "Paradigm shift: Why accessibility considerations should be part of a truly progressive society" - BY JESS SILVER
  • "Modern information communication technologies for understanding wildland fires" - BY RICHARD PURCELL, ABDUL MUTAKABBIR, KSHIRASAGAR NAIK, SRINIVAS SAMPALLI, CHUNG-HORNG LUNG, THAMBIRAJAH RAVICHANDRAN, AND MARZIA ZAMAN
... and much more!
20240412

Housing for All: Kitchener's Approach to Tackling the Housing Crisis
Y Magazine - Issue 15
Spring/Summer, 2024


Feature articles include: 

• Housing for all: Kitchener’s approach to tackling the housing crisis
BY ROSA BUSTAMANTE, RPP
• An intersectional approach to the affordable housing crisis…
BY OLUSOLA OLUFEMI, RPP, AND ZAHRA JAFFER
• Finding the missing middle from the inside out
BY GREGG LINTERN, RPP
• Planning for Ontario’s housing needs…
BY ERIK KARVINEN, RPP
• A blueprint for equity…
BY CHERYLL CASE
• Planning with Purpose
BY MITCHELL J. SILVER, FAICP, HON. ASLA
• Urbanizing suburbia…
BY DAVID L.A. GORDON, FCIP, RPP, ALEX TARANU, FCIP, RPP, AND MIRANDA BRINTNELL
• Recreation master planning…
BY CHARLES HOSTOVSKY, RPP
• City of Markham and MIIPOC partnership
AN INTERVIEW WITH ELIJAH M. BAWUAH, GIULIO CESCATO, RPP, AND JAMAAL KOSSY
• The Popular Audit of the Historic Centre of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
A CASE STUDY REPORT FROM GLÓRIA CECÍLIA FIGUEIREDO
• Condoland…
REVIEW BY GLENN MILLER, FCIP, RPP (retired)

…and much more!
 

20230918

The National Adaption Strategy and planning for climate change
Y Magazine - Issue 14
Fall/Winter, 2023


Featured articles include:

  • The importance of building knowledge to support intentional action in an era of climate change
    BY MEGAN GEREGHTY, RPP
  • Someone's gotta do it: ...
    BY JACLYN HALL, RPP AND LAURA TAYLOR, RPP
  • Planning in the North: ...
    BY SHANNON DODD-SMITH, RPP
  • Considering climate change in the environmental assessment process in Ontario
    BY MEGHAN MACMILLAN, RPP AND AMANDA VAN WYCHEN
  • Striking the right balance: ...
    BY ALEXANDER ELGIN
  • A systems-thinking approach: ...
    BY ZAHRA JAFFER AND LINDSAY NOOREN
  • Developing a land use plan among old wells, an explosion, and a changing climate
    BY GABRIEL CLARKE
  • New foundations in the City of Barrie: 2023 update
    BY MICHELLE BANFIELD, RPP
  • Climate-resilient planning with housing equity
    BY LINZEY BEDARD, OALA, CSLA
  • Natural hazard emergency management and the role of planners
    BY KATHERINE BIBBY, RPP
  • Honing a sustainable mindset: ...
    AN INTERVIEW WITH LISA PRIME, A CHAMPION OF RESILIENT COMMUNITIES
  • ...and much more!
20230428

Rethinking social and physical infrastructure investments
Y Magazine - Issue 13
Spring/Summer, 2023


Featured articles include:

  • Sustaining the heart of the city: Rethinking social and physical infrastructure investments in the public realm
    BY LEELA VISWANATHAN, RPP, FCIP
  • Our park, in the middle of our street
    BY ANDRIA SALLESE, RPP AND WILL LAMOND
  • Region of Waterloo connect Grant River Transit's light rail line to famous apple fritters with Market Trail
    BY KEVAN MARSHALL
  • Equity in planning and design of public open space
    BY ALISONO LUMBY, OALA, CSLA, ALLISON BROWN, OALA, CSLA, AMANDA GEBHARDT, OALA, CSLA
  • ...and much more!
20220914

Balancing farmland protection with on-farm diversification for agricultural viability
Y Magazine - Issue 12
Fall 2022


Featured articles include:

  • It's not enough to just preserve farmland anymore: Balancing farmland protection with on-farm diversification for agricultural viability
    BY PAM DUESLING, RPP, EMILY C. SOUSA, AND WAYNE CALDWELL, RPP
  • Meaningful interdisciplinary work is key to solving complex issues
    BY SHANNON BAKER, RPP, AND EHA NAYLOR, RPP
  • It's time to ReThink Zoning in Canada
    BY LISA D. ORCHARD
  • Linking rural planning and agri-food systems
    BY WAYNE CALDWELL, RPP, NATASHA GAUDIO HARRISON, SHANLEY WESTON, AND REGAN ZINK
  • Implementing on-farm diversified uses and agriculture-related uses in comprehensive zoning by-laws
    BY BOBBY GAUTHIER, RPP, ROB RAPPOLT, RPP, AND MATT RODRIGUES, RPP
  • Preparing for growth: Fostering partnerships between school boards and municipalities
    BY CASSANDRA HARMS, CHRISTOPHER HARRIS, AND ERIC MILES, RPP
  • ...and much more!
20220606

Ontario housing crisis
Y Magazine - Issue 11
Spring/Summer 2022


Featured articles include:

  • OPPI's Top 10 Housing Supply & Affordability Recommendations
  • New Foundations in the City of Barrie
    BY MICHELLE BANFIELD, RPP
  • A case for transit-oriented transit
    BY SEAN HERTEL, RPP
  • Shifting our thinking on how to tackle the housing crisis
    BY BRAD BRADFORD
  • Planning for cemeteries as community assets and green infrastructure: What the pandemic revealed
    BY NICOLE NATALIE HANSON, MCIP, RPP
  • Tiny but mighty villages: Homes for Heroes Foundation's approach to housing Veterans experiencing homelessness
    BY JILL MACDONALD AND MICHAEL FLOWERS
  • Equitable access and enjoyment of green spaces
    BY SKY CARVILLE, ALISON LUMBY, AND ANDRIA SALLESE, RPP
  • Radial development strategy: The answer to the future realities of South-Central Ontario Growth
    BY DALE TAYLOR
  • The only law that really matters: An interview with Kerry-Ann Charles-Norris about sustainability and Indigenous wisdom
    BY CAROLYN CAMILLERI
  • ...and much more!
20220131

The changing premise of urban planning
Y Magazine - Issue 10
Winter 2022


Featured articles include:

  • The changing premise of urban planning
    BY DAVE HARDY, RPP
  • Embedding the principle of "Do No Harm" into planning practice
    BY LEELA VISWANATHAN, RPP
  • The value of qualitative research and community engagement in planning
    BY IZABELA MOLENDOWSKI, RPP
  • What is good planning? If the public consistently disagrees, have planners failed?
    BY GLENN MILLER, RPP AND GORDON HARRIS, RPP
  • Event barns: Good or bad for the Golden Horseshoe?
    BY PAM DUESLING, RPP
  • Building a community hub: From concept plan to implementation
    BY SONJA MACDONALD AND PAUL SHAKER
  • Cultural planning in the everyday
    BY CHRISTY CHRUS, RPP
  • The future is not the past: Challenging the use of historical propensities to determine future housing mix
    BY KEVIN EBY, RPP
  • ...and much more!
20210927

Technology
Y Magazine - Issue 9
Fall 2021


Featured articles include:

  • Building a city for everyone: Kitchener's approach to breaking down barriers through technology
    BY GARETT STEVENSON, RPP, MCIP, AND MARGARET LOVE
  • Using technology to boost participatory planning
    BY SONJA MACDONALD AND PAUL SHAKER, RPP
  • Technology helps define neighbourhood character: Kitchener's comprehensive neighbourhood planning approach
    BY MICHELLE DRAKE, RPP
  • Mapping for collaboration and data-driven policy
    BY KARA NAKLICKI, RPP, PHILIP PARKER, AND BILL WARREN
  • Waterloo Region shows that solving climate change is a winning economic development approach
    BY KATE HAGERMAN, RPP, AND KATE DALEY
  • Online community consultations: Revisiing the challenges experienced and the opportunities embraced during the pandemic
    BY REKA SIVARAJAH
  • Green development standards
    BY ROB RAPPOLT, CHRISTINA SCHWANTES, AND ANDRIA SALLESE, RPP
  • ...and much more!
20210531

Economic Development and Sustainability
Y Magazine - Issue 8
Spring/Summer 2021


Featured articles include:

  • Economic development and sustainability
    BY LIDY ROMANUK
  • Fast-tracking to sustainable rental housing: Belleville's new affordable rental housing CIP
    BY STEPHEN ASHTON, RPP, RORY BAKSH RPP, MONICA BELLIVEAU, RPP, AND DESTA MCADAM, RPP
  • Fluxing: Ontario on-farm diversification during COVID-19
    BY PAM DUESLING, RPP
  • Addressing equity through community improvement plans
    BY REBECCA CONDON, RPP, AND DAVID FITZPATRICK, RPP
  • Nurturing independent business success on main streets
    BY JUDY MORGAN, RPP
  • Assessing rural municipal climate change planning in Ontario
    BY DAVE GUYADEEN, RPP
  • Line of sight: Asset management planning
    BY AIYSHA SYED-ALI
  • Sustainability for foresight
    BY LISA PRIME, RPP, AND NADIA DOWHANIUK
  • Getting land use compatibility right
    BY CHAD B. JOHN-BAPTISTE, RPP, ANDRIA SALLESE, RPP, AND STEPHANIE CLARKE
  • The Vaughn Metropolitan Centre: Creating a new downtown
    BY CHRISTINA BRUCE, RPP
  • MZOs: A caution for planners
    BY BRIAN BRIDGEMAN, RPP
  • ...and much more!
20210215

Truth and Reconciliation
Y Magazine - Issue 7
Winter 2021


Featured articles include:

  • Our home on Native land
    BY CALVIN BROOK, RPP
  • Exploring the truths about planning
    BY MITCHELL AVIS, RPP
  • Planning with an open heart
    BY JOHN MEEK, RPP, WITH JANNA CHEGAHNO, SUZANNE LAMBERT, AND BRIAN MICHATTIE, RPP
  • Education as medication: Shared Path Consultation Initiative
    BY DALI CARMICHAEL
  • Building trust and respectful relationships: The City of Hamilton's Urban Indigenous Strategy
    BY SHELLY HILL
  • Keep Reading: The Planning Exchange
  • Shared responsibilities: Land, treaties, and the planning profession
    AN INTERVIEW WITH SHERI LONGBOAT, PHD
  • Learn the truth so you can plan for a better future
    BY KERRY-ANN CHARLES-NORRIS
  • Special feature: We are all treaty people
  • Notes on treaties from Shared Path Consultation
  • ...and much more!
20200915

Resiliency and Recovery from COVID-19
Y Magazine - Issue 6
Fall 2020


Featured articles include:

  • Our "new normal" will be a doubling down on good planning
    BY BRAD BRADFORD
  • The wake-up call to do better
    BY LEITH MOORE
  • Planning in an age of overwhelm
    BY LEELA VISWANATHAN, RPP
  • COVID-19: A First Nation's response
    BY COLETTE ISAAC AND DAVID J. STINSON, RPP
  • Airport planning in a pandemic world
    BY BEN CROOKS AND ANDREW MACDONALD
  • Public health and planning: Collaborating for resilient communities
    BY CAROLYN CAMILLERI
  • Trauma due to COVID-19: How planners can support healing and recovery
    BY NANCY REID, MES, RPP, MCIP
  • Aging in place through COVID-19
    BY ALICE HUTTEN, RPP
  • Post-COVID-19 adaptation may strain good, balanced planning
    BY PATRICK ROBSON, RPP, MCIP
  • Boulevard of dreams: Rethinkiing Suburban corridors
    BY TIM SMITH, RPP
  • Keeping the spacing public spaces
    BY NATALIE BOODRAM, RPP, AND TÜNDE PACZAI
  • ...and much more!
20200521

Demographics
Y Magazine - Issue 5
Spring/Summer 2020


Featured articles include:

  • Locally, planning explains two-thirds of demography
    BY MARKUS MOOS, RPP
  • Understanding the potential of age- friendly communities in the decade of the old
    BY GLENN MILLER, RPP
  • Friendly Streets lead the way with healthy, connected neighbourhoods for all
    BY BEATRICE EKOKO
  • Planning for Student Accommodation: A Primer on School Board Planning
    CHRISTIE KENT RPP, MCIP, JACK AMMENDOLIA, AND CASSANDRA HARMS
  • Child-friendly Cities: Designing for children with children
    BY SIVA VIJENTHIRA AND CANDICE LEUNG
  • All by Ourselves: Isolation and Loneliness in our Growing Communities
    BY YASMIN ASHFAR
  • Is the Missing Middle Really Missing?
    BY RUSSELL MATHEW, RPP, AND TRAJCE NIKOLOV
  • Spatial Justice on Turtle Island: Indigenous, Black, and Newcomer Perspectives
    BY ABIGAIL MORIAH, RPP, AND BENJAMIN BONGOLAN
  • ...and much more!
20200123

Housing
Y Magazine - Issue 4
Winter 2020


Featured articles include:

  • Affordable housing in an age of uneven growth
    By Gregg Lintern, RPP
  • Barrie at the start of the decade: Looking into 2020 and beyond
    By Michelle Banfield, RPP
  • Addressing the rental supply gap
    By Carolyn Camilleri
  • There’s something missing: Addressing the attainable housing challenge
    By Robert Voigt, RPP, MCIP
  • The role of land use planning in the sharing economy: Airbnb and other future disruptors
    By Caroline Samuel, RPP, MCIP
  • Building stronger communities: Evolution of the social housing provider
    By Ferenaz Raheem, RPP, MCIP
  • Building homes on First Nations reserves: A reality check
    Interview With Justin Gee, RPP, By Carolyn Camilleri
  • Addressing the affordable housing crisis and coordinating with city- building objectives
    By Travis Macbeth, RPP, MCIP
  • ...and much more!
20190906

Technology and Planning
Y Magazine - Issue 3
Fall 2019


Featured articles include:

  • On the matter of technology...
    By Eldon Theodore, RPP
  • Planner perspectives on practical applications of new technology
    By Carolyn Camilleri
  • Using technology to map 13,000 years of land use for archaeological management plans
    By Robert Macdonald
  • A bird’s eye view: How Halton is using drone technology
    By Richard Clark, RPP, and Anthony Campese
  • The path of least resistance: An approach to achieving better “Cell Tower” land use planning outcomes
    By Glen Ferguson, RPP
  • Scaling up for a start-up ecosystem: A mid-sized city perspective
    By Ryan Mounsey, RPP
  • Planning, Data, and Technology: What’s new, challenging, and beyond our reach?
    By Pamela Robinson, RPP
20190530

Climate Change
Y Magazine - Issue 2
Spring/Summer 2019


Featured articles include:

  • Growing resilience in Durham region's agricultural sector
    By KRISTY KILBOURNE, RPP, and DORAN HOGE
  • Superior adaptation by nature: Thunder Bay isn't sleeping on climate change
    By AMY COOMES and GRANT MASON
  • Tracking greenhouse gas emissions in London
    By JOHN FLEMING, RPP, and KELLY SCHERR
  • New models for working together in Waterloo
    By KATE HAGERMAN, RPP
  • Combatting heat in parks and basement flooding in Windsor
    By KARINA RICHTERS
  • The Wawa Energy Plan: A small northern community's effort to prepare for the climate ahead
    By MAURY O’NEILL
  • Planners championing natural asset management help prepare cities for climate change
    By MICHELLE MOLNAR AND ROY BROOKE
  • An urban watershed approach to climate change
    By CHANDRA SHARMA, RPP, and JOHN MACKENZIE, RPP
  • R-Hauz: Affordable, mid-density housing that's energy efficient to build and live in
    By CAROLYN CAMILLERI
  • ...and much more!
20190118

Uneven Growth
Y Magazine - Issue 1
Winter 2019


Featured articles include:

  • Uneven Growth Introduction
    By Ed Sajecki, RPP
  • Translating Growth into Possibility (Town of Milton)
    By Barb Koopmans, RPP 
  • Planning for the Missing Middle (City of Mississauga)
    By Graham Haines
  • Variable Growth leads to Authentic Communities (Grey County)
    By Randy Scherzer, RPP, Scott Taylor, RPP, and Hiba Hussain
  • Charting a New Course for the Future (Niagara Region)
    By Tom Villella, RPP
  • Turning the Tide on Population Loss (Municipality of Chatham-Kent)
    By Bruce Mcallister, RPP and Ryan Jacques, RPP
  • Choices for Small Communities (Town of Grimsby)
    By Michael Seaman, RPP and Amy Shanks
  • Revitalizating Mid-Sized Cities (Southwestern Ontario)
    By Sean Hertel, RPP
  • RPP Profile: Jason Thorne, RPP (City of Hamilton)
  • ...and much more!

Ontario Planning Journal Issues

20181101

Ontario Planning Journal November/December 2018, Vol. 33, No. 6
Rural Ontario


Featured articles include:

  • A Tale of Two Ruralities
    By Wayne Caldwell, RPP
  • Mennonite and Social Planning Perspectives  
    By Sara Epp 
  • Rural Economic Development  
    By Katherine Howes & Terry Rees
  • Size and Scale Matters
    By Pam Duesling, RPP 
  • Resources to Explore 
    By Danielle Collins, Michele Doncaster, Helma Geerts, RPP, Carolyn Puterbough
  • Our People Are the Planners 
    By Stephanie Burnham, Jake Bastedo & Sheri Longboat
  • and many more!
20180901

Ontario Planning Journal September/October 2018, Vol. 33, No. 5
The Digital City


Featured articles include:

  • On Disruption, Transformation and Dividends
    By Rob Horne, RPP
  • New Technologies and Toronto's Transit Pilot  
    By Michael Noble, RPP 
  • Waterloo's Community-based Smart City Principles  
    By Matthew Chandy, RPP
  • Ottawa's Blueprint for Smart City Success
    By Geraldine Wildman, RPP and Sheilagh Doherty 
  • Stratford - Real Life. Real Tech. Real Smart. 
    By Joani Gerber
  • Planning Open and Inclusive Smart Cities 
    By Steven Coutts
  • and many more!
20180424

Ontario Planning Journal May/June 2018, Vol. 33, No. 3
Retail Revolution: How Communities Are Adjusting to a Fast-Changing Industry


Featured articles include:
  • Planning for an Uncertain Future
    By Maureen Atkinson
  • Revitalization of an Iconic Tourism Destination 
    By Andrew McNeil
  • Mississauga Reimagines the Mall 
    By Andrew Davidge, RPP and Jordan Lee, RPP
  • Challenges of Retail in Mixed-Use Buildings 
    By James Tate and Sameer Patel 
  • Ottawa's Proactive Approach to Retail Disruption 
    By Brian Simpson and Alain Miguelez, RPPP
  • and many more!
20170501

Ontario Planning Journal May/June 2017, Vol.32 No.3
Big Data


Featured articles include:
  • Big Data
    By Chris Tyrell, RPP and Yousaf Shah
  • Planning for Digital Disruption
    By Dr. Rick Huijbrechts
  • Improving cities starts with better data
    By Simon Lapointe, RPP
  • Focus on the small things
    By Daniel Hoornweg and Lisa Prime, RPP
  • Big Data, Open Data in Planning
    By Bianca Wylie, Dr. Pamela Robinson, RPP and Ian Malczewski
  • and many more!

20170101

Ontario Planning Journal January/February 2017, Vol.32, No.1
Symposium 2016


Featured articles include:
  • Bike Share Toronto
    By Aaron Baxter & Sean Wheldrake
  • Ottawa's Minimum Parking Review
    By Tim J. Moerman, RPP
  • Elgincentives CIP
    By Kate Burns Gallagher
  • U of Ottawa Campus Master Plan
    By Eric Turcotte, RPP
  • Hamilton Keith's Neighborhood: Blue Collar Revival
    By Al Fletcher, RPP & John Ariens, RPP
  • Symposium Photo Album

20161101

Ontario Planning Journal November/December 2016, Vol.31, No.6
Planning in the Districts


Featured articles include:
  • Expand Your Knowledge
  • Eastern Rural Planning Workshop
  • Lakeland Embracing Interconnections
  • Peterborough Participatory Planning
  • Western Lake Ontario Unique Challenges
  • Duty to Consult
  • Hamilton School and Municipal Design Workshop
  • Grimsby Receives 2015 Prince of Wales Prize
  • SouthWest District Sharing
  • Agri-Tourism in Norfolk County
  • Northern District Connections
  • Toronto Year in Review
20160823

Ontario Planning Journal September/October, 2016, Vol. 31, No. 5
Planning the Public Realm


Featured articles include:
  • Designing the Public Realm
    By Antonio Gómez-Palacio, RPP
  • Waves of Change
    By Robert Ouellette
  • The Girl in the Park
    By Chris Winter
  • Get on Board
    By Ariel Stagni
  • A Blurring of Boundaries
    By Terrance Galvin
  • The 8 80 Rule
    By Gil Penalosa & Amanda O’Rourke
  • Influencing the Game Changers
    By Kathryn Holden
  • Parks that Matter
    By Paul Nodwell
  • A Lesson Plan for Change
    By Michael Alex
  • Design Paranoia
    By Cara Chellew
  • Lessons Learned from Pokémon GO
    By Kyle Gatchalian

20160627

Ontario Planning Journal July/August, 2016, Vol. 31, No. 4
Planning School Edition


Featured articles include:
  • City Building through Partnership
    By Chris De Sousa, RPP
  • Libraries as Inclusive Public Spaces
    By Bailey Bradshaw
  • Development Permit System Benefits
    By Kelly Graham
  • Columbia Placemaking Case Study
    By Nikolas Koschany
  • Engaging Youth
    By Catriona Moggach & Kailey Laidlaw
  • Students take on Madison's Development Review
    By Scott Plante
  • Reimagining Spaces through Design Competitions
    By Michael Uttley
  • Measuring What Matters
    By Yvonne Verlinden & Christoper Yuen
  • A Successful Year
    By Emma Abramowicz
  • Global to Local Partnerships
    By Dave Gordon, RPP
  • Land Management in Oaxaca, Mexico
    By Caroline Morrow
  • Rebuilding Christchurch, New Zealand
    By Shazeen Tejani
  • Revitilizing Ontario Small Towns
    By Jessica D'Aoust
  • Knowledge Transfer from Toronto to Amman
    By Jessica Jiang
  • Bridging Socio-Spatial Divides in Cape Town
    By Miranda Spessot
  • Community Engagement in Auroville
    By Caroline Morrow
  • Name Change Reflects Thriving Department
    By Richard J. DiFrancesco, RPP
  • Designing Vibrant Communities
    By Kelsey Carriere & Louise Willard
  • Improving Public Participation
    By Matthew Hilder
  • Why Planners Should Care About Food Waste
    By Tammara Soma
  • Securitization and Planning
    By Michelle Kearns & Nathan Steward
  • Interdisciplinary and Innovative Education
    By Jennifer Foster, RPP
  • Public Transit and the Public Good
    By Michael Collens & Sean Hertel, RPP
  • Preparing for Electric Vehicles
    By Brandon Slopack
  • Homelessness and Recidivism
    By Julia Bahen
  • Spotlight on Students
    By John Fitzgibbon, RPP
  • Measuring Prime Farmland Conversion
    By Sara Epp, Anissa McAlpine & Jame Newlands
  • First-ever Rural Romp
    By Rebecca McEvoy & Taylor Wellings
  • Ontario Green Legacy Program
    By Matthew Colley, Heather Glasow, James Newlands & Jonathan Pauk
  • Partnerships Driving Excellence
    By Clarence Woodsma, RPP
  • WatOx-OxWat Partnership
    By Robert Shipley, RPP (Ret.)
  • Augmented Reality and Cultural Heritage
    By Katy Belshaw
  • Innovation through Community Collaboration in Design
    By Sarah Brown
  • Emergency Planning and the Sharing Economy
    By Kevin McKrow
  • Fresh Ideas from future planning professionals
    By Kelly Graham
  • In Conversation with Andrea Bourrie
    Public Realm
  • On the Public Realm
    By Fred Kent

20160427

Ontario Planning Journal May/June, 2016, Vol. 31, No. 3
Transportation Edition


Featured articles include:
  • New mobility paradigm
    By Dennis Kar, RPP
  • Transportation-as-a-service
    By Bern Grush & John Niles
  • Peering into the crystal ball
    By Antonio Gomez-Palacio, RPP
  • Facilitating integrated mobility
    By Asher Mercer, RPP
  • What role for transit?
    By Patrick Leclerc
  • Expanding mobility options
    By Ian Black
  • Status and trends
    By Barrie Kirk
  • Ready for automated vehicles?
    By Sean Rathwell
  • Preparing for automated vehicles
    By Stephen Buckley, Ryan Lanyon & David Ticoll

20160218

Ontario Planning Journal March/April, 2016, Vol. 31, No. 2
Focus on Ecohealth


Featured articles include:
  • Healthy people and ecosystems
    By Mike Puddister & Pegeen Walsh
  • Reducing stress
    By Melissa Lem
  • Green city
    By Marianne Kingsley, Tara Zupancic & Ronald Macfarlane
  • Creating green places
    By Aryne Sheppard & Tara Zupancic
  • Promoting ecohealth
    By Chris Gosselin
  • Placemaking
    By Rob Voigt & Loretta Ryan
  • Stepping into nature
    By Jane Lewington & Mike Puddister
  • Health by design
    By Marina Whelan
  • Public health
    By Kevin Haley
  • Aging in place
    By Arlene Etchen
20151216

Ontario Planning Journal January/February, 2016, Vol. 31, No. 1
Excellence in Planning awards winners


Featured articles include:
  • Downtown Welland revitalization
    By Paddy Kennedy & Luciano Piccioni
  • The Living City
    By Carolyn Woodland, Laurie Nelson & Mary-Ann Burns
  • Tunney's Pasture Master Plan
    By Vance Bedore, Bryan Jones & Jordan Lambie
  • Oakville inZone
    By Joe Nethery
  • Imagine Niagara
    By Daryl Barnhart & Katelyn Vaughan
  • The Active City
    By Andrew Davidge, Brent Raymond & Ronald Macfarlane
  • Exploring ethnoburbs
    By Dr. Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang, Philip Liu & Leah Cooke
  • Ottawa's neighbourhood zoning by-law
    By Elizabeth Hemens-Desmarais
  • Evolution of zoning
    By Joe Nethery
  • Mixed-use development
    By Vrinda Vaidyanathan
20151023

Ontario Planning Journal November/December, 2015, Vol. 30, No. 6
Northern Ontario Edition


Featured articles include:
  • A northern perspective
    By Leslie McEachern
  • Indigenous peoples
    By Shelagh McCartney
  • Ring of Fire
    By Victoria Prouse & Don McConnell
  • Wildland fire assessment
    By Cindy Welsh & Peter Tonazzo
  • Downtown revitalization
    By David Welwood & Kasper Koblauch
  • Bike Summit in Thunder Bay
    By Robert Eady & Adam Krupper
  • Provincial Policy Statement, 2014
    By Bridget Schulte-Hostedde
  • Impacts of the Cold War
    By Sue Heffernan
  • Aging in the North
    By Maryse Raymond, Kris Longston & Krishnan Venkataraman 
  • Unincorporated territory
    By Shannon Dodd Smith
20150817

Ontario Planning Journal September/October, 2015, Vol. 30, No. 5
Zoning Edition


Featured articles include:
  • Enbracing change
    By Rory Baksh
  • Conditional Zoning
    By Elizabeth Howson & Alan Drozd
  • Effective communication
    By Randall Roth & Chris Tyrrell
  • Kingston's Amenity Area Review
    By Rory Baksh, Christina Hovey & Cherie Mills
  • Leveraging investments
    By Dave Powers
  • Zoning for complete communities
    By Alan Theobald & Jane Welsh
  • Writing zoning
    By Bobby Gauthier
  • Documenting the zoning by-law
    By Joe Nethery
  • Complete and healthy communities
    By Andrew McCreight
  • Zoning Aboriginal archaeological sites 
    By Joe Muto
20150624

Ontario Planning Journal July/August, 2015, Vol. 30, No. 4
Fifth Annual Planning School Edition


Featured articles include:
  • Engaging internationally
    By John F. Devlin
  • Farmland Preservation
    By Anissa McAlpine
  • A Vermont trip
    By David Scott
  • Walking the walk
    By Kevin McKrow
  • Towards the optimal modal split
    By Sanathan Kassiedass
  • Creating functional communities
    By Stephanie Mirtitsch
  • Shrinking cities
    By Daniel Grandilli & Maxwell Hartt
  • Wildlife-road conflicts
    By Kristin Elton & Michael Drescher
  • Forget the box
    By Sonya De Vellis
  • Transportation & market dynamics
    By Robert Babin
  • Enhancing urban agriculture
    By Dilys Huang
  • Repurposing schools
    By Sarah Chu
  • A time to reflect
    By Christopher De Sousa
  • Urban waterfront motorways
    By Alex Gaio
  • Weird civic engagement
    By Kahlin Holmes
  • The urban sidewalk
    By Emeline Lex
  • Cultural diversity lens
    By Jahnavi Ramakrishnan & Sunjay Mathuria
  • Open Streets Toronto
    By Polina Bam, Nicholas Hiley, Julien Kuenhold, Rajaram Lamichhane, Patrick Miller, Julia Smith & Raymond Ziemba
  • Greater Riverdale
    By Kaylan Bubeloff, Jean Chung, Alexander Davies, Shahinaz Eshesh, Zachary Henderson, Alexander Jarzabek, Evan Kataoka, Curtis Laurin, Sze Francis Lee & Karen Lei
  • Lots going on at York
    By Laura E. Taylor
  • The new urban century
    By Roger Keil
  • Workshop in Shanghai
    By Laura Taylor interviewed Victoria Ho
20150422

Ontario Planning Journal May/June, 2015, Vol. 30, No. 3
Rural Planning: The challenges ahead


Featured articles include:
  • Evolving rural planning
    By Wayne J. Caldwell
  • Ontario Planning Framework
    By John Turvey and Arthur Churchyard
  • Mitigating land use conflict
    By Sara Epp and CHristopher Fullerton
  • Rural planning in the U.S.
    By Tom Daniels
  • Fostering leadership
    By Kara Van Myall
  • Healthy rural communities
    By Wayne Caldwell, Paul Kraehling, Erica Arnett and Karen Loney
  • Health & built environment
    By Emily Hill
  • Addressing rural mobility gaps
    By Stephanie Simard and Dennis Kar, contributing editor
  • The Humbertown Master Plan
    By Cyndi Rottenberg-Walker, Leigh McGrath, Christine Fang-Denissov
20150218

Ontario Planning Journal March/April, 2015, Vol. 30, No. 2
Integrated Mobility: Transportation from the customer's perspective


Featured articles include:
  • Integrated mobility
    By Dennis Kar
  • Ottawa TMP
    By Colin Simpson
  • Bicycle parking standards
    By Jana Neumann
  • The story of Eglinton
    By Lorna Day
  • Transit stations
    By Maria Doyle
  • Ottawa TIA guidelines
    By Shawn Doyle
  • Sustainable transportation
    By Vrinda Vaidyanathan
  • ACT Canada
    By Roxane MacInnis
  • GTA West transportation corridor
    By Sandy Nairn & Dick Gordon
  • Bayview station district
    By David Powers
  • Transportation demand management
    By Darryl Young & Stephen Oliver
  • The evolution of TMAs
    By Wayne Chan, Jacquelyn Hayward Gulati & Meaghan Mendonca
20150101

Ontario Planning Journal January/February 2015, Vol.30, No.1
Charting the Progress of Heritage


Featured articles include:
  • Ontario Heritage Act turns 40
    By Michael Seaman
  • Railway heritage
    By Ron Brown
  • Evolving provincial context
    By David Cuming
  • Planning for cultural heritage
    By Robert Shipley
  • New heritage is important too
    By Christy Chrus
  • Niagara-on-the-Lake
    By Leah Wallace
  • Regional cultural heritage planning
    By Kate Hagerman
  • Municipal heritage registers
    By Kayla Jonas Galvin
  • Owen Sound's big commitment
    By Sandra Parks
  • Kingston and Sir John A.
    By Ryan Leary
  • Byward Market conservation district
    By Sally Coutts
  • Ontario's main streets
    By Alison Faulkner & Jim Mountain
  • The art of diplomacy
    By Michael Seaman
20140701

Ontario Planning Journal July/August 2014, Vol.29, No.4
Fourth Annual Planning School Edition


Featured articles include:

  • Q & A with Meric Gertler
  • Queen's University
    Development Indicator System
    Code of Small Downtowns
  • Ryerson University
  • University of Waterloo
    Resilient Communities
    Adapting to climate change
    Confirming Career Goals
    Evaluating the Growth Plan
    Transferring transport knowledge
    Across the pond and back
  • York University
    Sustainability policy
    Biking with George
    The 21st century planner
  • University of Toronto
    Detroit's resilience
    Inclusionary zoning
  • University of Guelph
    Individual & collective interests
    Review of four municipalities
    Making the most of it
  • Post-conflict planning
20140501

Ontario Planning Journal May/June 2014, Vol.29, No.3
Laying the Groundwork for Economic Development


Featured articles include:
  • Competition & employment lands
    Paddy Kennedy, MCIP, RPP
  • The new age employee
    By Justine Giancola, MCIP, RPP & Ann Joyner, MCIP, RPP
  • Tourism Planning data gap
    By Jasmine Frolick
  • Greater Sudbury Action Strategy
    By Ross Burnett, MCIP, RPP & Jason Ferrigan, MCIP, RPP
  • Adding downtown vibrancy
    By Mark Gladysz, MCIP, RPP & Robin Etherington, MCIP, RPP
  • Tall buildings
    By Frank Lewinberg, MCIP, RPP
  • Re-using waste disposal sites
    By Robert Ryan, MCIP, RPP

20140301

Ontario Planning Journal March/April 2014, Vol.29, No.2
How do we engage the public? Surviving, rethinking, inspiring participation


Featured articles include:
  • Surviving public participation
    Sue Cumming, MCIP, RPP
  • Rethinking consultation
    By Sean Galloway, MCIP, RPP, Liz Nield & David Dilks
  • Online community engagement
    By Anthea Brown, Karla Kolli, MCIP, RPP & Ruth Marland, MCIP, RPP
  • Can we over engage?
    By Dana Anderson, MCIP, RPP
  • Inspired waterfront vision
    By Michael Seaman, MCIP, RPP & Ute Maya-Giambattista, MCIP, RPP
  • Heritage conservation districts
    By Christy Chrus, MCIP, RPP
  • IAP2 tools
    By Tracey Ehl, MCIP, RPP, Karla Kolli, MCIP, RPP & Mike Sullivan, MCIP, RPP
  • The Ideas Cafe
    By Khaldoon Ahmad, MCIP, RPP
20140101

Ontario Planning Journal January/February 2014, Vol.29, No.1
Framing the provincial context: Reviews pending


Featured articles include:
  • Provincial plan reviews
    Jason Thorne, MCIP, RPP
  • Petticoat Creek Watershed Action Plan
    By Maryam Nassar
  • Toronto's ravine system
    By Aaron Cameron, Michael Chung, Kristen Flood, MEgan Ketchabaw, Jenny Kluke, Emily Osborn, Jennifer Roth & Lauren Sauve
  • 2015 Greenbelt Plan review
    By Danielle De Fields & Eric Acs, MCIP, RPP
  • Guelph Secondary Plan
    By Tim Smith, MCIP, RPP
  • Niagara's new economic gateway
    By Paddy Kennedy, MCIP, RPP & Luciano P. Piccioni, MCIP, RPP

20131101

Ontario Planning Journal November/December 2013, Vol.28, No.6
The London Conference: A new lens on city building


Featured articles include:
  • The geometry of happiness
    OPPI interviews writer Charles Montgomery
  • President's Message: Transformational Change
    By Paul J. Stagl, MCIP, RPP 
  • Toronto's Thorncliffe Park
    By Sandeep Agrawal, MCIP, RPP, Job Rutgers & Huda Tariq
  • Ottawa's postwar HCD
    By Lesley Collins, MCIP, RPP
  • 2013 Minden flood
    By Heather Sadler, MCIP, RPP
  • Road ecology
    By Mandy Karch
  • Heritage bridge conservation
    By Lindsay Benjamin & Kayla Jonas Galvin
20130901

Ontario Planning Journal September/October 2013, Vol.28, No.5
Planning Knowledge Exchange


Featured articles include:
  • Why is climate changing?
    By Michael Sullivan, MCIP, RPP
  • Planning for shade
    By George Kapelos, MCIP, RPP & Mitchell Patterson
  • The Denhez decision
    By Joe Nethery, MCIP, RPP
  • Religious heritage resources
    By Bob Lehman, MCIP, RPP
  • Vertical growth in the GTA
    By Nick Kazilis
  • Prioritizing brownfields
    By Henry McQueen & Chris De Sousa, MCIP, RPP
  • Third places for older adults
    By Nechama Hirchberg, Edward LaRusic & Patrick Coates
20130701

Ontario Planning Journal July/August 2013, Vol.28, No.4
3rd Annual Planning School Edition: New Voices


Featured articles include:
  • Ahead of the curve
    By Laura Taylor, MCIP, RPP
  • Linking research, policy and practice
    By Chris De Sousa, MCIP, RPP 
  • Students help plan National Capital
    By David Gordon, MCIP, RPP
  • Applied research advances health communities
    By Clarence Woudsma, MCIP, RPP, John L. Lewis & Mark Seasons, MCIP, RPP
  • Local food & agriculture
    By John Devlin
  • From Las Vegas to university presidents
    By Paul Hess
  • Mentoring planning students
    By Darryl Bird, MCIP, RPP
20130501

Ontario Planning Journal May/June 2013, Vol. 28, No.3
Keeping Up with the Changing Planning Environment


Featured articles include:

  • A changing legislative regime
    By Steven Rowe, MCIP, RPP, contributing editor
  • Power plants and communities
    By Dave Hardy, MCIP, RPP 
  • Quarry application withdrawn
    By Steven Rowe, MCIP, RPP, contributing editor
  • Master servicing plans
    By Janet Amos, MCIP, RPP
  • Green infrastructure and human health
    By George McKibbon, MCIP, RPP, Donald Spady, Kelly Graham & Kelly Dixon
  • Planning support tools
    By Katelyn Vaughan & Geoffrey Verkade
  • More new renewable energy rules
    By Heather Sadler, MCIP, RPP
  • Online policy resource
    By Dan Stone, MCIP, RPP & Lija Skobe

20130301

Ontario Planning Journal March/April 2013, Vol. 28, No. 2
Getting Municipal Zoning In Line With Provincial Policy


Featured articles include:

  • Supportive zoning regimes
    By Jason Thorne, contributing editor
  • Overlay zoning
    By Alison Luoma
  • Updating municipal by-laws
    By Nick McDonald
  • Form based zoning
    By Elizabeth Howson
  • Toronto zoning by-laws
    By Joe D’Abramo
  • Implementing the Growth Plan
    By Bob Lehman
  • Zoning for intensification
    By Nick McDonald
  • Participatory planning
    By Beverley Hillier
  • Ontario transit guidelines
    By Robin Kortright, Jeannie Lee, Craig Lametti
  • Aggregate resource planning
    By George McKibbon
  • Legalizing second units
    By Nadia Ali and Sandeep Agrawal
20121205

Ontario Planning Journal September/October 2012, Vol. 27, No. 5
Active Transportation


Featured articles include:

  • A Tale of Two Cities
    By Thora Cartlidge
  • Ontario communities build the way
    By Andrea Feller
  • Encouraging transit use
    By Tamas Hertel
  • Making Ontario communities walk friendly
    By Mandy Johnson
  • Out of the niche and into the mainstream
    By Ryan Anders Whitney
  • Shaping communities through collaboration
    By Travis Macbeth and Denise Landry
  • Pedestrianization pilot project
    By Le' Ann Whitehouse Seely
  • Broadening the dialogue
    By Sean Norman and Jackie Gervais
20121205

Ontario Planning Journal July/August 2012, Vol. 27, No. 4
Second Annual Planning School Edition


Featured articles include:

  • Queen's launches healthy communities stream
    By Dave Gordon
  • Looking back and planning ahead
    By Christopher De Sousa and Abby Besharah
  • Samplings from another whirlwind year
    By Paul Hess
  • Student research shines
    By Clarence Woudsma
  • Meeting up with FES planning students
    By Laura Taylor
  • Collaborations in research and planning
    By Harry Cummings
  • Urban design firmly entrenched
    By Karen Hammond and Sandeep Agrawal
20121205

Ontario Planning Journal May/June 2012, Vol. 27, No. 3
The Toronto Regional Housing Data Bank


Featured articles include:

  • Toronto Regional Housing Data Bank
    By Sean Gadon and Nicole Stewart
  • Oakville's Places of Worship
    By Brad Sunderland, Chani Joseph and Dan Leeming
  • LEED-ND
    By Dan Stone, Chani
  • Toronto's City Planning Division
    By Michael Mizzi
  • York Region Official Plan 2010
    By John B. Waller
  • Brampton heritage
    By Antonietta Minichillo and Stav Kassaris
  • Revitalizing Port Whitby
    By Meaghan Craven and Anne Edmonds
  • Lawrence-Allen Revitalization Plan
    By Kyle Knoech
  • Toronto Heritage
    By Jaclyn Brillinger and Christina Sgro
  • Hamilton Action Plan
    By Suzanne Brown
20111215

Ontario Planning Journal November/December 2011, Vol. 26, No. 6
Planning Toronto's Waterfront Innovation in sustainability


Featured articles include:

  • Planning Toronto's waterfront
    By Randall Roth and Brenda Webster
  • Call to Action: plain transit
    By Nick Poulos
  • Transit-oriented neighbourhoods
    By Alex Taranu, contributing editor
  • The Big Move
    By Amanda Leonard
  • Hamilton's rapid transit planning
    By Christine Lee-Morrison and Trevor Horzelenberg
  • The power of consultations
    By Paul General, George McKibbon and Leigh Whyte
  • iDarts development application data
    By Bruno Romano
  • PFF vote results
    By Mary Lou Tanner and Charles Lanktree
  • Niagara River hydroelectric
    By Ken Forgeron
  • The value of logic models
    By Doug Obright
  • Park planning forum
    By David Marcucci and Geoff Smith
20111214

Ontario Planning Journal May/June 2011, Vol. 26, No. 3
When it comes to health place matters


Featured articles include:

  • Planning/health relationship
    By Gayle Bursey, James Dunn, Christine Gutmann, Daniel Leeming, Dr David Mowat, Bhavna Sivanand
  • Healthier built environments
    By Gayle Bursey, James Dunn, Christine Gutmann, Daniel Leeming, Dr David Mowat, Bhavna Sivanand
  • Full-day kindergarten
    By Lindsay Ford
  • Main street revitalization
    By Charlie Toman
  • Human services planning
    By Christina Gallimore
  • Sudbury/Manitoulin CMHA
    By Jodi Ball and Johanna Hashim
  • Suburbia in Richmond Hill
    By Brian De Freitas, Michelle Dobbie, Maria Flores, Paul Freeman
  • OPPI Call to Action
    By Drew Semple and Loretta Ryan
20111214

Ontario Planning Journal March/April 2011, Vol. 26, No. 2
Cultural Planning A change management tool


Featured articles include:

  • Gananoque Cultural Plan
    By Carl Bray
  • A Tribute to Glenn Miller
    By Sue Cumming
  • A Tribute to Philippa Campsie
    By Glenn Miller
  • Streamlining EA
    By Janet E. Amos
  • Planning for the Future
    By Mary Lou Tanner
  • Development permit systems
    By Joe Nethery
  • Growth plan amendment
    By Drew Semple
  • Source protection
    By Rob McRae and Christine Woodsn
  • Transit supportive guidelines
    By OPPI Policy Development Committee
  • Brampton’s SNAP
    By Michael Hoy, Shannon Logan, Karen Nasmith
20111205

Ontario Planning Journal January/February 2011, Vol. 26, No. 1
A Pattern of Patterns Building on Layers of Past Development


Featured articles include:

  • A Quarter Century of Progress
    By John Livey, first president
  • OPPI Turns 25!
    By Sue Cumming, current president
  • West Coast Musings
    By Gordon Harris
  • Note to New Planning Graduates
    By Kendra FitzRandolph
  • Get Serious about Climate Change
    By Dan Leeming and Diane Riley
  • Ruminations On the Toronto of 2011
    By Joe Berridge
  • Finding the Balance
    By Michelle Taggart
20111205

Ontario Planning Journal September/October 2011, Vol. 26, No. 5
25 Years Looking at the Past, Looking to the Future


Featured articles include:

  • Growth plan implementation
    By John Genest
  • Planning and the environment
    By Leslie McEachern
  • Project X revisited
    By Tony Usher
  • Renewable energy debate
    By William Pol
  • Farm sustainability in Niagara
    By Patrick Robson, Drew Semple, Mary Lou Tanner and Margaret Walton
  • Village growth management
    By Nadia De Santi and January Cohen
  • OPPI Ottawa conference
    By Dennis Jacobs and Rory Baksh
  • OPPI Call to Action
    By Drew Semple and Wayne Caldwell
20111205

Ontario Planning Journal July/August 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4
First Annual Planning School Edition


Featured articles include:

  • Planning students on research:
    • Future Directions in Planning
      By Dilys Huang
    • Planning for District Energy
      By Brad Bradford
    • Urban Environmental Principles
      By Zeinab Yeganeh Keya
    • Overlooked Intensification Model
      By Drew Adams
    • Urban Planning in China
      By Kendra FitzRandolph
  • President’s message
    By Sue Cumming
  • Sault Ste. Marie’s hub trail
    By Don McConnell
20081205

Ontario Planning Journal July/August, 2008, Vol. 23, No. 4
Thinking Before Planning


Featured articles include:

  • Lessons from the Citizens’ Regional Health Assembly
    By Chi Nguyen
  • City of Toronto Green Initiatives Build on OPPI’s Healthy Communities
    By Magda Walaszczyk and Christian Huggett
  • Victorian Planning from a Canadian Perspective
    By Scott Waterhouse
  • Sustainable Communities: Part 2
    By Dan Leeming & Diane Riley
20061205

Ontario Planning Journal November/December, 2006, Vol. 21, No. 6
Visualizing Urban Form


Featured articles include:

  • The Toronto-Centred Region: A New Look at an Old Plan
    By Richard White
  • Bracing for the Demographic Tsunami
    By Glenn Miller, Gordon Harris and Ian Ferguson
  • Rural Development in Ohio
    By Wayne Caldwell
  • Need for EAs slows progress, creates false impression that nothing is happening on the Toronto waterfront
    By Steven Willis
20051207

Ontario Planning Journal November/December, 2005, Vol. 20, No. 6
Collaboration in the Sault


Featured articles include:

  • Well Attended, Well Done - Conference Enthusiastically Received by Participants
    By Philippa Campsie
  • Planners, Please Adjust Your Sets: The World is Changing Faster than You Think
    By Dan Leeming, Deana Warman & Diane Riley
  • Energy: The End of Cheap Oil
    By Daniel Leeming
  • The Loss of Farmland Through Retirement Lot Severances: A Final Word?
    By Robert Dykstra, Wayne Caldwell, and Stewart Hilts
20041101

Ontario Planning Journal November/December, 2004, Vol. 19, No. 6
Planning for Employment Land


Featured articles include:

  • How to Meet the Challenges of Planning For Employment Land
    By Antony Lorius
  • Planning Approaches to Ethnic Enclaves
    By Mohammad Qadeer
  • Planning for Wind Power Generation: A Proposed Strategy
    By Damian Szybalski
  • Understanding how to Appeal to Your Audience
    By Erika Engel and Luisa Galli
  • Forgive Us Our Trespasses
    By Marni Cappe
  • Whatever Happened to the Perils of Overpopulation?
    By Grant E. Moore
20040901

Ontario Planning Journal September/October, 2004, Vol. 19, No. 5
Making the Most of Capital


Featured articles include:

  • Making the Most of Capital: Kingston Plots a Strategy to Re-Invest in its Future
    By Glenn R. Miller and David Mignault
  • A Case for Culturally Responsive Urban Design
    By Sandeep Kumar and George Martin
  • "Moving Hearts and Minds" - Reflections from the Old World
    By Greg Lloyd and Deborah Peel
  • Managing the Production of Beauty: Prescription for a Middle-Aged City
    By Joe Berridge

Ontario Planning Journal May/June, 2004, Vol. 19, No. 3
Rising Above It All


Featured articles include:

  • The Passion of the Chief
    By Ian Graham
  • OCAD Changes Toronto's View of What's Possible
    By Glenn Miller
  • Breadth and Depth of Conference Keynotes Promises to Impress
  • Unlocking the Potential of the Arts and Creative Sector in Cities and Communities
    By Tim Jones
  • The Zoning Trilogy: Grand Epic, Prequel and Sequel in One Package
    By Brent Gilmour
  • Suburbia Is No Place to Grow Old
    By Gordon Harris

Ontario Planning Journal March/April, 2004, Vol. 19, No. 2
The Way of the Future?


Featured articles include:

  • Community Energy Planning - Securing Your Energy Future
    By Ken Church
  • One Planner's Perspective on Bills 26 and 27
    By John Bousfield
  • Green Roofs: Unlocking the Future to More Sustainable Cities
    By Carla Guerrera and Steven W. Peck
  • New Strategies for Farmland Preservation: Sizing up the American Experience
    By Wayne Caldwell, Claire Dodds-Weir, Robert Dykstra, Stewart Hilts and Sarah Thomson
  • Moving Minds: Our Urban Challenge CIP-OPPI 2004 Joint Conference
    By Wendy Johncox
  • Build a Strong Foundation: Better Results Come When There Are Multiple Opportunities for Education and Communication
    By Joanne Hickey-Evans, Linda Harvey and Laurie Payne
  • Cottage Country - Protecting the Dream Demands Skill and Hard Work
    By Stephen Fahner

Ontario Planning Journal January/February, 2004, Vol. 19, No.1
Provincial Policy Shifts in Favour of Protecting Downtowns


Featured articles include:

  • New Provincial Government Loses No Time in Making Its Mark
    By Glenn Miller
  • The Creation of a GTA Agricultural Action Plan
    By John Michailidis
  • Hamilton's Progress Towards "Building a Strong Foundation"
    By Joanne Hickey-Evans, Linda Harvey and Laurie Payne
  • Farmland Preservation and Land Trusts: New Options for Ontario
    By Wayne Caldwell, Stewart Hilts and Sarah Thomson
  • Responding to Change, Vancouver Style
    By Danielle Wiley

Ontario Planning Journal November/December, 2003, Vol. 18, No. 6
Waterloo Region pins its hopes on its Regional Growth Management Strategy


Featured articles include:

  • Managing Growth in Waterloo Region: Planning for a Growing Community
    By Peter Walberg, Kevin Curtis and Jessica Hawes
  • Rural Non-Farm Development and The Future of Ontario Agriculture 
    By Wayne Caldwell, Claire Dodds-Weir and Sarah Thomson
  • Building a Strong Foundation for a Healthy, Vibrant, Hamilton
    By Joanne Hickey-Evans, Linda Harvey and Laurie Payne
  • Forget the hard stuff - Celebrate with culture
    By Marni Cappe
  • GIS-Based Software Cornerstone of Vaughan's "Smart City" Concept
    By Paul Pivato

Ontario Planning Journal July/August, 2003, Vol. 18, No. 4
A Muskoka Conference Presentation


Featured articles include:

  • Making It Happen! The York Region Centres + Corridors Study
    By Ron Palmer and Scott Chandler
  • Using GIS and Spatial Statistics to Compare 2001 Employment Distribution in Mississauga
    By Eric Lucic
  • Understanding what drives today's retail projects: Size may not be the issue
    By Gordon Harris
  • Power of Place - OPPI/OALA 2003 Joint Conference
    By Daniela Kiguel

Ontario Planning Journal May/June, 2003, Vol. 18, No. 3
Regent Park Revitalization


Featured articles include:

  • Regent Park Revitalization: Transforming a Public Housing Neighbourhood
    By John Gladki
  • The Creative City - Finding Meaning Behind the Motif
    By Grace Saunders
  • Sex and the City
    By David Butler and Susan Keir
  • Long Range View of Agriculture From Up Close
    By Tracey Atkinson
  • UK experiments with comprehensive performance assessment (CPA)
    By Marni Cappe

Ontario Planning Journal March/April, 2003, Vol. 18, No. 2
Kitchener's Adaptive Re-Use Program


Featured articles include:

  • Advantage Downtown: How Kitchener is Shifting the Focus of Investment Back to the City Core
    By Terry Boutilier, Leon Bensason and Mitchell Fasken
  • A National Brownfield Redevelopment Strategy: Reflections on an Opportunity for Canada
    By Sara Melamed
  • Less is More - The Evolution of Big Box Retailing
    By Gordon Harris
  • London Diary - Learning to Love That De-Congested Feeling
    By Marni Cappe
  • Smart Growth: Challenges and Choices
    By Neil Rodgers

Ontario Planning Journal January/February, 2003, Vol. 18, No. 1
Markham Centre: A radically different approach could set a new standard for sustainable development


Featured articles include:

  • The Modern Art and Business of Placemaking: The View from Markham Centre
    By Neil Innes
  • There Is A Little Planner In All Of Us
    By Janet Amos
  • The Role of the Planner in Determining Highest and Best Use
    By Robert Hazra
  • Vibrant Nighbourhoods: The Role of Mixed-Use Design
    By Jim Katoh, Michelle Spencer and Stephanie Tencer
  • Worlds Colliding or Collaborating! Protecting Argiculture in Halton - Part 2
    By Helma Geerts
  • Food for Thought: Are We Food-Ready?
    By Alicia I. Bulwik and Dennis Flaming

Ontario Planning Journal November/December, 2002, Vol. 17, No. 6
Port Huron: When public consultation leads to successful


Featured articles include:

  • The Role of Public Consultation in the Revitalization of Port Huron
    By Leah Andrews
  • The future of the GTA: What Others Might Say
    By Ed Sajecki
  • Unintended Consequences for Well-Intentioned Plans
    By John Winter
  • Worlds Colliding or Collaborating? Protecting Agriculture in Halton - Part 1
    By Helma Geerts
  • Conservation Development: Blending Development and Ecology
    By Mike Sullivan and J.P. Warren
  • The Vision and Reality of Toronto's Official Plan
    By Mohammad A. Qadeer
  • Suzuki Puts His Unique Stamp on London Conference
    By Journal staff

Ontario Planning Journal September/October, 2002, Vol. 17, No. 5
100th Issue of the Journal


Featured articles include:

  • The Story So Far: A Contribution to Professional Practice
    By Glenn Miller
  • Reflections for Issue 100: Adjusting to the Global View
    By Tony Usher
  • Bonne Continuation: Some Thoughts on the Urban Condition
    By Joe Berridge
  • How to Talk to Journalists - Seven Ways to Connect
    By JJennifer Lewington
  • Reinventing Retail - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
    By Gordon Harris
  • Restoration of North Toronto Station Puts a New face on Heritage
    By Mitchell Cohen
  • Looking Into the Not So Distant Future
    By Ed Sajecki
  • Community Planning, Then and Now
    By Beate Bowron

Ontario Planning Journal November/December, 2001, Vol. 16, No. 6
Citizens as Developers


Featured articles include:

  • HARPO in Brampton West - A Pattern of Patterns
    By John van Nostrand, Jill Wigle and Carlos Moreno
  • NRU Launches News Service in London, UK
  • Planning to Shop: What Planners Need to Know About Retail
    By Gordon Harris
  • Regional Planning Commissioner's Position on Provincial Policy Statement
    By Alex Georgieff
  • 25 Years of Women & Environments International Magazine
    By Reggie Modlich

Ontario Planning Journal September/October, 2001, Vol. 16, No. 5
Reinventing a Growth Management Strategy for Ontario


Featured articles include:

  • Reflections on Growing Smart - Some first steps to managing growth in Ontario
    By Melanie Hare
  • Transportation Management Association: An Option to Reduce Congestion and Improve Air Quality
    By Wayne Chan
  • Black Creek Regional Transportation Management Association: The First TMA in Ontario
    By Sarah Climenhaga
  • Heritage goes hi-tech in Penetanguishene
    By Elise Hug, Frank Price, Dave Sudeyko and Mike Yaschyshyn
  • Rural Non-farm Development and the Future of Agriculture: Who's Making the Decisions?
    By Wayne Caldwell and Claire Weir

Ontario Planning Journal May/June, 2001, Vol. 16, No. 3
New City, New Image


Featured articles include:

  • Ottawa - On Becoming a Big City
    By Joe Berridge
  • Experience "2001 - A Spatial Odyssey"
    By Pamela Sweet
  • How Good Design Can Help Make Main Streets Successful
    By Dan Leeming
  • Planning Department Ends, Planners' Transitions Begin
    By Reg Lang
  • The Evolution of U.S. Growth Management Policies Can Point to the Right Direction
    By Christopher J. Dunn

Ontario Planning Journal November/December, 1999, Vol. 14, No. 6
A Design Strategy for Downtown Hamilton


Featured articles include:

  • "Putting People First" Design Strategy for Downtown Hamilton
    By Ron Blake and Mark Reid
  • Randall Arendt Lecuture Rural by Design
    By Brenton Toderian
  • More Power than the Bomb: Economic Change and East Manchester
    By Jeff Lehman
  • Classic Parks Design With the Parisian Touch
    By Jill Cherry
  • Lessons from Parc Andre Citroen and Parc de Bercy - Two New Paris Parks
    By Cathie Macdonald

Ontario Planning Journal July/August, 1999, Vol. 14, No. 4
Planning Nirvana?


Featured articles include:

  • Planning in the Home of the Skinny Latte
    By Martin Rendl
  • Cornell: Looking forward or backward?
    By Sean hertel
  • In Defense of Night Life - The Economic Case against "Cinema Parks'
    By Jeff Lehman
  • Bill Dempsey - Living Legend
    By John Mackenzie 
  • 1999 Annual Conference
  • Noted "New Ruralist" Coming to Ontario
    By Brenton Toderian

Ontario Planning Journal May/June, 1999, Vol. 14, No. 3
Fragile nature, Fragile agreement


Featured articles include:

  • From Lands to Life to Living Legacy  Where Do We Go From here?
    By Steven Rowe
  • Rethinking Planning for Brownfield Sites
    By Steve Willis
  • Conservation Authorities Gear for New Era
    By Al Ruggero and James Stiver
  • The Downsview Lands - Another Perspective
    By David Birnbaum 
  • Ontario's Aggregate Resources Inventory Program Responds to Client Demands
    By Ross Kelly and Dave Rowell

Ontario Planning Journal March/April, 1999, Vol. 14, No. 2
Planning for a National Park at Downsview


Featured articles include:

  • Planning for a National Urban Park
    By Calvin Brook and Anne McIlroy
  • Downloading of Provincial Responsibilities to Ontario Conservation Authorities
    By Al Ruggero and James Stiver
  • Taking the High Road on a Bike in the Lowlands
    By Patricia Roset
  • Student Research Tackling Wide Range of Current Issues
  • From Turf to Trees: Alternatives in Urban Design and Management
    By Paul Heeney

Ontario Planning Journal November/December, 1997, Vol. 12, No. 6
Sustainable Transportation in the New Millenium?


Featured articles include:

  • Can Sustainable Transportation be Achieved in the New Millenium?
    By Ron Neville
  • Looking for Benefits to Support a Canadian Policy on Climate Change
    By Glenn Miller
  • How the Social Housing Landscape in Canada is About to be Remade
    By Michael Poulton
  • Stakeholder Group Recommends a Strong Municipal Role in Housing for the New City of Toronto
    By Linda Lapointe

Ontario Planning Journal September/October, 1997, Vol. 12, No. 5
The Promise of New Urbanism?


Featured articles include:

  • New Urbanism - The Promise of the Future?
    By Rudayna Abdo
  • Back to Basics: Lessons from Riga
    By John Farrow
  • A Manner Less Rigid: One Hundred Years of the Ontario Municipal Board (Part Two)
    By Robert Shipley
  • Entertaining Downtown Revitalization in London
    By John Fleming
  • Public-Private Partnerships and Municipal Services: A Lawyer's Perspective
    By Stanley B. Stein

Ontario Planning Journal July/August, 1997, Vol. 12, No. 4
Breaking Ground


Featured articles include:

  • Breaking Ground - A Powerful Sequel to Making Choices
    By Bryan Kozman
  • Retail Market Studies: An Alternative Approach
    By Anna Ritacca
  • Mississauga Chalks Up 15th Year of Urban Design Awards
    By David Harrold
  • A Manner Less Rigid: One Hundred Years of the Ontario Municipal Board (Part One)
    By Robert Shipley

Ontario Planning Journal November/December, 1996, Vol. 11, No. 6
Temagami Cries Out for Self-Determination and Consensus Planning


Featured articles include:

  • Temagami Cries Out For Self-Determination and Consensus Planning
    By Larry Sherman and Andrea Simpson
  • Guildeline for Use at Contaminated Sites in Ontario: The Shifting Sands
    By Josephina Erzetic
  • Rehabilitation and redevelopment grant program in London
    By John M. Fleming
  • New MOEE Guidelines Affect Identification of Potentially Contaiminated Sites
    By Steven Rowe

Ontario Planning Journal September/October, 1996, Vol. 11, No. 5
Site Clean-Up Guidelines Include Land Use Advice


Featured articles include:

  • Site Clean-Up Guidelines Include Land Use Advice
    By Steven Rowe
  • Revitalization/Restructuring: A Strategy for Suburban Areas
    By Bernhard A. Steiger
  • Store Wars Continue in Listowel
    By Don Stewart
  • Britain's "Right to Buy" Legislation: Lessons for Ontario
    By Kristin Marinacci
  • ADR an affordable alternative in times of restaint - Haussmann Consulting
    By Janice Emeneau

Ontario Planning Journal July/August, 1996, Vol. 11, No. 4
Tenth Anniversary Issue


Featured articles include:

  • A Special Issue of the Journal to Mark OPPI's 10th Anniversary
    By Glenn Miller
  • Some Thoughts on the Future of Planning Practice
    By Eudora Pendergrast
  • New Urbanism
    By Dan Leeming
  • Trends on the Home Front: A Look at the Past and Future Ten Years
    By Linda Lapointe
  • Municipalities and First Nations - Can We Talk?
    By Susan Mojgani and Paul General
  • Planning and the arts
    By Ron Sandrin-Litt

Ontario Planning Journal November/December, 1995, Vol. 10, No. 6
Time For Change: Toronto Decides That Less is More in the Challenge to Revitalize Downtown


Featured articles include:

  • Time For Change: Toronto Decided That Less is More in the Challenge to Revitalize Downtown
    By Glenn Miller
  • Cybershopping: implications for planning?
    By Brenton Toderian
  • An Open Letter to the Premier of Ontario
    By Nigel Richardson
  • Halton's Aquifer Management Plan: A Practical Application of GIS Technology
    By S. Holysh and M. Thompson
  • Is Privatization Good for Public Transport? The U.K. Experience
    By Mario M. Bozzo

Ontario Planning Journal May/June, 1995, Vol. 10, No. 3
A Wasted Process?


Featured articles include:

  • Joint Board Decisions Give the Industry Pause
    By David Hardy and Steven Rowe
  • Listowel Plans for Commercial Growth
    By Brenton G. Toderian and W. Brent Clarkson
  • No big boxes please. We're British.
    By Glenn Miller
  • The Lowville Project: A Healthy Community for Aging in Place
    By Russell Mayby

Ontario Planning Journal November/December, 1994, Vol. 9, No. 6
Planning for a Better Future Must Begin Now


Featured articles include:

  • Planning for a Better Future Must Begin Now
    By Neal Irwin
  • Planning and Politics
    By Elisabeth Arnold
  • Governance and relevant professional practice are the big issues for 1995
    By Glenn Miller
  • Cooperating in an Uncooperative World
    By Russell Mawby
  • Mining and Lands Commission Decision Broadens Interpretation of Conservation of Land
    By Paul F.J. Eagles, Jonathan Wigley and Renee P. Jarrett

Ontario Planning Journal September/October, 1994, Vol. 9, No. 5
Housing Ourselves


Featured articles include:

  • Housing Ourselves
    By Russell Mawby
  • Partnerships, Tomorrow's Cities and a Lesson from the Italian Renaissance
    By Joe Berridge
  • Start-ups, persistence and videotape
    By Jim Helik
  • Small is beauiful to supporters of intensification
    By Glenn Miller
  • How I learned to stop worrying and love the megadump
    By Bill Wilson

Ontario Planning Journal May/June, 1989, Vol. 4, No. 2
Canadians at Canary Wharf


Featured articles include:

  • Why No Funding To Debate "The Urban Problem"?
    By Barry Wellar
  • Markham's Planning Action Deemed "Bordering on the Absurd"
    By Pierre Beeckmans
  • Will Network Organizations Change the Structure of Government?
    By John Farrow
  • Voluntary Social Planning in Ontario A Major Voice in Human Services System
    By Dr. Robert Doyle

Ontario Planning Journal November/December, 1988, Vol. 3, No. 5
Planners Must Be Creative, Visible Contributors to Society. Role as Regulations Not Enough.


Featured articles include:

  • Sajatovic: Planners Must Be Creative, Visible Contributors to Society. Role as Regulators Not Enough.
  • Ajax Opposes Day Car Centre in Pickering Village
    By Pierre Beeckmans
  • Heritage Conservation: Where is the Knowledge?
    By Tony Usher
  • Turning Down the Volume - Ways to Reduce the Impact of Noise on Residential Areas
    By John E. Coulter