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The School of Planning is pleased to announce that Kayleigh Swanson will be serving as the new Student Governing Board Representative for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).  She will be serving a two year term which begins this spring, "the role of the student representative is to ensure that the concerns of students are reflected in discussions and decisions of the ACSP Governing Board."

The School of Planning acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations of the Grand River. 

In addition to our regular faculty complement, the School commonly draws on sessional instructors, many of them registered professional planners, to teach courses relating to specific areas of professional expertise and to substitute in case of faculty leaves. For Fall 2020, we are pleased to welcome the following sessional instructors:

The School of  Planning offers our sincere congratulations to 2014 Alumni Rukshan de Silva for receiving the Young Planner of the Year award in New South Wales! Rukshan also completed a Master of Economic Development and Innovation (MEDI) at Waterloo before

embarking on his very successful career in both the private (HOK) and public (Town of Halton) sectors.

The International Council on Monuments and Sites Canada has selected School of Planning master's student Ashley Rudkevitch as one of two winners of their 2016 juried award.

World Town Planning Day celebrates the role of the planning profession in creating livable communities. It is celebrated annually in more than 30 countries on four continents and has been celebrated for over 55 years.

The AGP Brown Bag lunches have long been an excellent venue for facilitating student-faculty interaction, and contribute positively to the intellectual environment in the School. In conjunction with the AGP, the School is pleased to present the lunch speaker series for the fall term!

A list of winter speakers will be available in the near future.

This series is jointly funded by the School, AGP and UWPAT.

Congratulations to Logan Romphf for receiving the 2015 Esri Canada GIS Scholarship! Logan will receive $1,000 cash, a license for ArcGIS desktop, 3 Esri Press books, registration at one of Esri Canada's user conferences in 2015 as well as registration in two instructor led training courses offered by Esri Canada. Esri Canada is the world’s leading GIS software provider.

Carrie Mitchell

As the debate continues in several cities surrounding the potential

impact of light rail transit (LRT), a researcher from the University of Waterloo is harnessing the power of big data to help gather new insights into how transit systems might transform urban redevelopment and affect the housing market.