Jill Grant

From urban dispersion to recentralization: lessons from Canadian planning initiatives

Principal investigators: Filion, Pierre

Keywords: urban planning; metropolitan planning; downtowns; sub-centres; sustainable urban development; urban recentralization

Coordinating land use planning in the context of multiple plans

Principal investigators: Grant, Jill L.

Keywords: community planning; planning practice; implementation; land use; transportation

Neighbourhood inequality, diversity, and change: trends, processes, consequences, and policy options for Canada's large Metropolitan areas

Keywords: neighbourhood change; divided cities; socio-spatial inequality; concentrated poverty; housing; gentrification; labour market restructuring; immigrant settlement; Aboriginal issues; urban schooling; crime and safety; urban policy; Canada

Global suburbanisms: governance, land, and infrastructure in the 21st century

Principal investigators: Keil, Roger

Keywords: globalization; urbanization; suburbs; suburbanization; suburbanism; governance; land; infrastructure; comparative urban research

Trends in residential environments: planning and inhabiting the suburbs

Principal investigators: Grant, Jill L.

Keywords: suburbs; planning; private communities; new urbanism; smart growth; theory and practice

Smart growth principles and metropolitan development: bridging the gap between discourse and reality

Principal investigators: Filion, Pierre

Keywords: planning; smart growth; metropolitan regions; urban infrastructures; new urbanism; downtowns; growth management

Theory and practice in planning the suburbs

Principal investigators: Grant, Jill L.

Keywords: investigating trends in suburbs including new urbanism; gated communities

Social dynamics of economic performance: innovation and creativity in city-regions

Principal investigators: Wolfe, David A.

Keywords: innovations; creativity; city-regions; learning; associative governance; social diversity; social inclusion

Gated communities in Canada: the planning response

Principal investigators: Grant, Jill L.

Keywords: community planning; residential environments; suburbs; gated communities; planners

Evaluating the adoption of new urbanism (with an overlay of sustainability) as a model of community design in planning

Principal investigators: Grant, Jill

Keywords: community planning; new urbanism; sustainable development; zoning; practice; values