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Tag Archives: urban planning
Toronto’s Energy Future: Part 2
As promised, here’s Part 2 of Noah’s documentary on, “Toronto’s Energy Future.” Noah Brotman is an Urban Planner at Hardy Stevenson Associates Limited and the newest member of our team. Noah completed his Master of Environmental Studies and Urban Planning at York … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon emissions, climate, community, green, media, social media, sustainability, urban planning
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Toronto’s Energy Future: Part 1
Our newest team member, Noah Brotman, created a compelling documentary on, “Toronto’s Energy Future.” Here’s Part 1. (Part 2 will follow later this week.) Noah Brotman is an Urban Planner at Hardy Stevenson Associates Limited and the newest member of our team. Noah … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Tagged carbon emissions, climate, communication, energy, social media, sustainability, urban planning
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Communicative Planning for the Digital Age
More than ever, planners need to inform and educate people about urban issues. Somehow we need to get across to residents and various stakeholders the importance of the planning processes which will ultimately impact their lives. Our recent work incorporating … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Consultation, New Media, Planning
Tagged communication, community, media, social media, urban planning
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Why Your Communication Plan Sucks
Yes, I said it: your communication plan sucks. No, no – I didn’t mean yours specifically. I’m sure your communication plan is great…just great… [Awkward pause] But there are plenty of communication plans out there that need help! Here are … Continue reading
Are we really building a ‘sustainable’ Toronto?
As a recent transplant to Toronto, I’m often asked by those from my home town where in the city I moved to. When I give them the neighbourhood’s name, their brows furrow quizzically, so I usually have to supplement my … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
Tagged advocacy, community, ethnoracial, minorities, sustainability, Toronto, urban planning
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The Forgotten Third Pillar of Sustainability
Urban planning policies commonly define sustainable development based on the oft cited definition contained in the Bruntland Report: ‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. Furthermore, planning … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability
Tagged advocacy, communication, community, planning, policy, politics, public engagement, sustainability, urban planning
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Book Review: Last Harvest by Witold Rybczynski
Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America From George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-First Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway In this book, Witold Rybczynski, a professor at the University … Continue reading
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Tagged book, community, consultation, design, government, planning, policy, public engagement, review, urban planning
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Is Toronto Growing ‘Smarter’?
As of October, 2011 Toronto, according to Emporis a Frankfurt-based research company that tracks multi-story buildings, had 132 active high-rise construction projects, the most of any North American City, surpassing Mexico City’s 88 projects and New York City’s 86 projects. … Continue reading
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Construction Stakeholder Management
Since Edward Freeman’s (1984) publication of Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, there has been a sharp increase in attention given to ‘the stakeholder’. For those of you who are not familiar with the term, a stakeholder is a person or … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, community, consultation, management, politics, public engagement, stakeholders, urban planning
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World Town Planning Day
A day that celebrates planning may not be on your calendar, but it is on ours here at HSAL. November 8th is World Town Planning Day. Every year, planners from approximately 30 countries on four continents observe this day in … Continue reading
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Tagged community, design, planning, resiliency, transportation, urban planning, waste, water
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