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20250423

Region of Waterloo’s secret weapon for a sustainable future: the bus
Y Magazine - Issue 17
Spring/Summer 2025


Featured articles include:
  • Harnessing the transformative power of the Yonge North Subway Extension By DAVID FLEISCHER, MCIP, RPP AND KANT CHAWLA, MCIP, RPP
  • Redesigning Upper Wellington Street: Applying a complete streets approach and incorporating equity into planning By MIR AHSAN TALPUR, RPP, MCIP, MEGAN SALVUCCI, RPP, MCIP, and OLIVIA STANCIU
  • In a world with generative AI, what is the role of the planner? By KATHERINE PERROTT, MCIP, RPP, CARRIE MITCHELL, and CALEB MILLER
  • Engaging people with disabilities in shared micro-mobility programs By ARMI DE FRANCIA, MCIP, RPP
  • Under the Gardiner, a hidden gem of public space is emerging By ILANA ALTMAN AND ROBERT MCKAYE
  • Fixing gridlock in Ontario: Time to think regional By ALEX GLISTA
  • Publicly owned parking lots: The affordable housing solution hiding in plain sight? By ANN GODLY, CALEB BABIN, and BRIAN DOUCET
  • Perceptions of road rights: Understanding why cycling infrastructure is so polarizing By EMMA MCDOUGALL
  • Region of Waterloo’s secret weapon for a sustainable future: the bus By BLAIR ALLEN, MCIP, RPP, ADAM FRASER, MCIP, RPP, and KEVAN MARSHAL
....and much more!
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