Paul Hess

Active Transportation Planning and Travel Behaviour Change in Post-COVID-19 Canada

Principal investigators: Mitra, Raktim

Keywords: pandemic; transportation policy; active transportation planning; street allocation; travel behaviour; cycling; socio-spatial equity

Building a new Toronto: private development and middle-class apartments, 1945-1972

Principal investigators: Lewis, Robert D.

Keywords: planning; apartments; private development; housing; urban history; city government; Toronto; property

Building a new Toronto: private development and middle-class apartments, 1945-1972

Principal investigators: Lewis, Robert D.

Keywords: planning; apartments; private development; housing; urban history; city government; Toronto; property

Urban cycling facilities and traveller behaviour change

Principal investigators: Mitra, Raktim

Keywords: cycling; travel mode substitution; bike lanes/tracks; suburban; change

New pedestrian spaces in Canada and the United States: urban design, history, and public space

Principal investigators: Hess, Paul M.

Keywords: pedestrian design; public space; pedestrianization; planning; cities; urban design; history of planning ideas

Social equity implications of active transportation: Exploring the experience of daily mobility in socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Montreal

Principal investigators: Manaugh, Kevin

Keywords: (1) Active transportation; (2) Transportation planning; (3) Equity; (4) Health; (5) Pedestrian Safety; (6) Decision making

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

Building Healthier Cities: a Canadian Initiative To Identify Environmental Solutions to curb obesity (The 'Healthy Cities, Healthier Lives' Research Program)

Principal investigators: Booth, Gillian L

Keywords: Built Environment; Diabetes; Food Environment; Obesity; Physical Activity; Population Health; Prevention; Walkability

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

Policy, path-dependence and urban form measuring the prospects for smart growth in the GTA

Principal investigators: Sorensen, Andre B.

Keywords: urban land development; smart growth; sprawl; path dependence