School of Planning Alum Samantha Biglieri (PhD, 2019), in collaboration with the School of Planning’s Dr. Jennifer Dean, has been awarded the 2023 PlanON Award for Innovation in Research at this year’s OPPI Annual Conference.
The University of Waterloo is remembering Ian MacNaughton (BA ‘68, MA ‘71), a remarkable force in Ontario’s urban planning sector, after his death on Saturday, October 7, 2023.
To honour his rich legacy UWaterloo, which awarded MacNaughton its 50th Anniversary Alumni Award in 2007, is inaugurating an award in his name, the Ian MacNaughton Memorial Award, and naming a space in his honor. With this award and space naming, MacNaughton will continue the impact he made in life by inspiring and supporting future environment students.
The School of Planning's PhD Candidate, Cloé St-Hilaire, has been award the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for her research proposal into the effects of financialization and digital technologies on the Canadian rental housing market.
Professor Moos from the School of Planning collaborated with Skye Collishaw and Professor Tara Vinodrai from the University of Toronto on new research that shows people living in subsidized housing having more sustainable commutes (defined as the shorter distance travelled and lower car use) than otherwise similar renters. The findings have important planning and policy implications for the role of subsidized housing in terms of meeting housing affordability and climate change goals. The findings provide support for policies that promote investment in subsidized and affordable housing near transit as a housing affordability and sustainability strategy, particularly benefiting lower-income earners.
The research relies on Statistics Canada census data and is published in Housing Policy Debate.
The School of Planning is pleased to announce our Planner-in-Residence for the 2023-2024 academic year is Martin Quarcoopome. He will deliver PLAN 403 in the winter term to our 4th year undergraduate students and interact with the School community in various other ways throughout the year.
The prestigious journal Science has recently published an article which the School of Planning's Prof. Dawn Parker helped to co-author. The article contains discussion amongst researchers within the field of social science from University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, Yale University and University of Pennsylvania on the role that AI can play in the future of the research profession.
For those of you who were unable to attend this year's Futures Forum 2023 event, or would like to see it again, a recording of Bianca Wylie's keynote presentation "Public Engagement, Technology and the Art of Living Well Together" is now available on Youtube at the link below.
This afternoon, the School of Planning will celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of our 2023 graduates. Among this group of individuals are three doctoral (PhD) graduands who have proven their extraordinary level of academic aptitude and become subject-matter experts in areas related to planning. One of our newest PhD alumna, Dr. Niloofar Mohtat, was profiled along with other graduating PhD students from across the university.
The School of Planning would like to extend a huge congratulations to Professor Pierre Filion for being inducted into the Canadian Institute of Planners' College of Fellows.
Each year, the students from the University of Waterloo's Planning Students’ Association (PSA) and the Toronto Metropolitan’s Association of Planning Students (TMAPS) host the Waterloo - Toronto Metropolitan Undergraduate Planning Conference (WTMUPC) to build bridges, learn from each other, and connect in a fun way! This year's theme was "Cities in 2050", with threads of future, sustainability, and reconciliation.