Major Research Papers (MRPs)

2012 Graduates

• Barriers to Mid-Rise Development in Suburban Communities in the Greater Toronto Area
  By Arlene Beaumont
• Addressing Challenges to Mobility Hub Implementation at Suburban Commuter Rail Parking Lots in Greater Toronto
  By Marcus Bowman
• Barriers to Mid-Rise Development in Toronto
  By Robyn Brown
• Adaptive Planning and Climate Focused Evaluation in an Era of Evolving Local Governance
  By William Patrick Coates
• Past, Present and Possible: Toward an Integrated Approach for Natural Heritage Conservation
  By Lily-Ann D’Souza
• Innovative Affordable Housing Strategies for Vancouver
  By Gavin Duffus
• What I Should Have Learned in School: Making the Connection Between Land Use Planning & the Duty to Consult
  By Clara MacCallum Fraser
• Lessons for Toronto from Melbourne's City Centre Revitalization
  By Brent Gilliard
• Brownfield Redevelopment in Toronto, Ontario: An Examination of Sustainability and the Toronto Portlands
  By Michael Hayek
• Building Cities for Families: Attracting and Retaining Households With Children in the Downtown Core
  By Nechama Hirchberg
• Taking Youth Engagement to the Next Generation: Lessons from Best Youth Engagement Practices Toward Food Sustainability
  By Daniel Hoang
• What Will the Legacy of the Pan American And Parapan Games 2015 be for Toronto? Looking at Past Successes and Failures to Inform Toronto's Experience
  By Natasha Preya Jailal
• Affordable Housing in Toronto: Legislative and Regulatory Tools for Municipal LED Development
  By Alex Kolsteren
• Towards a More “Reasonable” Ontario Municipal Board: Looking to Nova Scotia
  By Edward LaRusic
• Transit-Oriented Development: Removing Barriers and Realizing Goals Through Leed-ND
  By Melissa Nicole Lotito
• We're on a Mission From G-D: Thornhill as a Walkable Jewish Suburb
  By Daniel Abraham Rende
• An Examination of the Benefits and Constraints of Adaptive Reuse of Surplus School Sites
  By Lauren Sooley
• Growing With the Flow: Planning for Smart Growth in Ontario Through Water & Wastewater Infrastructure Service Provision
  By Jeffrey J Thompson
• Exploring the Nexus Between Heritage and Sustainability: How Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) can Contribute to the Process
  By Matthew Zambri

2011 Graduates

• Markham's New Urbanist Paradigm: Neoliberalism, Gentrification and Competitive Goverance
  By Mark Antoine
• The Political Economy of Mass Transit Infrastructure Investments in the Greater Toronto Area
  By Tommy Au
• Addressing Downtown Vitality in a Canadian Context: The Cases of Brockville and Oakville, Ontario
  By Carly Dodds
• Defining the Need for a New Paradigm for the Redevelopment of Surburban Form
  By Christopher Correia
• Spatial Mismatch in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area: Examining the Commuting Patterns of Immigrants
  By Liam Donaldson
• The Role of Adaptive Reuse in the Building Resilience Urban Communities: A Case-Based Review of Praxis in Toronto, Ontario
  By Katherine Faria
• Creating a Positive Mega-Event Legacy: Exploring the Impact of the Pan American Games on the West Don Lands Community, Toronto
  By Alexandra Goldstein
• Placing the Planner in the Gentrification Discussion: Planning Interventions in Toronto's Downtown West
  By Anthony Greenberg
• Grandma in the Greenbelt: How the Natural Disposal of our Dead Could Save Ontario's Green Space
  By Courtney Heron-Monk
• From Gentrification to Re-Urbanization: The Expanding Terrain of Socio-Spatial Inequality
  By Corey Horowitz
• Assessing the Creative Capacity of Planners within the GTA
  By Alex Lader
• Heritage Incentive Programs: The Key to Acheiving the Potential of Heritage Conservation in Ontario
  By Jenna Langdale
• Wicked Problems: Bridging the Divide Between Health and Urban Planning
  By Jennifer Maestre
• Laneway Redevelopment Programs: A Case Study Review
  By Christine Oldnall
• Brownfield Redevelopment: A Case Study of the Lakeview Waterfront Revitalization in Mississauga
  By Beata Palka
• Feminist Approaches to Design: Improving Spatial Audit Initatives
  By Mitchell Patterson
• Household Size as a Determinant of Annual Shelter and
  Transportation Expenditures in Canada
  By Craig Rohe
• Questioning Densifacation: An Appraisal of the Theoretical and Empircal Basis for Smart Growth in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area
  By Sam Schachar
• Planning for the Social Sustainability of Toronto: Considerations of Governance and Planning Policy
  By Aslam Shaikh
• Inclusive Internet Participation in the Network Society
  By David Sol
• Strategies to Animate Toronto's Transitional, Post-Industrial Waterfront
  By Erin Tito
• Planning Tools for Improving Food Access: Lessons for Ontario's Municipal Planners
  By Bronwyn Whyte

2010 Graduates

• Demographic Changes and Formation of Ethnic Enclaves
  By Irfan Ahmed Ansari
• Encouraging Farm Gate Sales and Marketing Through Land Use Policy
  By Heather Britten
• People, Place & Landscape: A Bottom-up, Adaptive, Catalytic Approach to Tower Renewal
  By Ariana Cancelli
• Ontario's Public Infrastructure: Adapting to Climate Change
  By Mark Carafa
• Understanding Creative Hubs: The Agglomeration of Creativity in Toronto By Amanda XiaoXuan Chen
• A Recommendation for Integrative Public Space in Lawrence Heights
  By Laura Costa
• Affordable Housing in Ontario: Challenging the Current Paradigm
  By Christopher William Dickinson
• The Cost of Building for the Future: The Reconciliation of Sustainable Housing Issues in Toronto
  By Paul Adam Erlichman
• An Evaluation of the Subdivision Approval Process in Kingston and St. Andrew, Jamaica
  By Leonard Ahijah Francis
• The Ideal Neighbourhood? Understanding the Growth of New Urbanist Communities in Toronto: A Markham Case Study
  By Marcanthony Franco
• Is There A Link Between Growth Management Regulations and Housing Affordability in the Town of Markham?
  By Anna Henriques
• Publicly-led Proactive and Privately-led Reactive Planning: A Comparison of Comprehensive Planning and Development Approaches Between East Bayfront and King-Liberty Village
  By Joshua Hilburt
• Live-Work Developments: From Theory to Practice
  By Alfiya Kakal
• Conflicts in Mixed Use Neighbourhoods - Case Study: King-Spadina
  By Bhani Sharan Kaur
• Rust Never Sleeps: Infrastructural Urbanism and Planning for Change
  By Jessica Krecklo
• Emerging Urbanism and Cycling Development: A New Cycling Agenda for the City of Toronto
  By Jennifer J. Laforest
• Park Planning in Ethnic Minority Neighbourhoods: Toronto's Priority Areas
  By Kiran Marok
• Planning Parks for a Multicultural Population
  By Jennifer Renaud
• Assessing Environmental Assessments of Transportation Infrastructure Development for Integration of Sustainable Development Principles
  By Nisha Shirali
• Engaging Farmers Through Facebook: The Use and Potential of Web 2.0 Tools in Agricultural Planning Practice
  By H. Nicholas Weigeldt
• Envisioning the Transformation of Collector Streets Into Public Places: The Revitalization of Edward and Elm Streets 
  By Evan M. Weinberg