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East Harbour

Since 2017, Urban Strategies has been working to transform Toronto’s East Harbour, a former industrial area on the banks of the Don River and the site of the abandoned Unilever soap factory. The master plan implements a vision for an animated and complete mixed-use community. The proposed plan is structured...

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Mississauga Community Visioning

Urban Strategies recently led two community visioning processes in the rapidly changing city of Mississauga, MyMalton and Vision Cooksville. The MyMalton visioning project aimed to capture residents’ and stakeholders’ needs and priorities for the community. The goal was to develop a Vision that is not only transformative and supported by...

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Niagara Greenbelt Review

Urban Strategies undertook the Niagara Greenbelt Plan Review, which involved a robust community consultation program that engaged a broad range of Regional stakeholders and members of the public. Two rounds of consultation were held bringing together the perspectives of a range of interests including agriculture, environment and natural heritage, planning,...

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Durham Greenbelt Plan Review

Urban Strategies led a community consultation process for the Region of Durham to capture perspectives from a broad range of stakeholders regarding the Greenbelt Plan and Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan. The consultation program was positioned to identify key benefits, challenges and opportunities for legislative change in advance of the...

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Imagine Fredericton Growth Strategy and Municipal Plan

The City of Fredericton is growing. Due to its stable economy and high quality of life, projections show that the city will grow from 53,600 residents in 2011 to at least 81,000 and as many as 93,600 by 2041. In order to plan wisely for this growth, the City of...

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104 Avenue Corridor Area Redevelopment Plan

Urban Strategies led a multi-disciplinary consulting team that includes ISL Engineering and Land Services to develop a Corridor Plan for the area surrounding three planned LRT stations on the Valley Line in Edmonton. The plan establishes a framework to guide transit oriented development in the area. The planning process...

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Midland Downtown Master Plan

Midland is a town with many strengths, including a rich history, a robust culture, a well-defined historical main street, recreational amenities, a strong employment base and an idyllic setting on Georgian Bay. With so many natural and community assets, residents of Midland enjoy a high quality of life. Significant investments...

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Rideau Heights Regeneration Strategy

The Rideau Heights Regeneration Strategy remakes a 32-hectare, 1960s social housing complex in Kingston into a new mixed-income neighborhood with market condominiums, new park configurations and better street connections. The multi-phased, 25-year Strategy aims to improve the safety and functionality of the neighbourhood, better integrate it with the surrounding community,...

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Realize Troy

Urban Strategies is currently creating a new Comprehensive Plan for the City of Troy, NY. Realize Troy is a three-part community planning initiative: an economic strategy, a waterfront master plan, and a city-wide comprehensive plan. The process has a strong focus on public consultation, both in-person and using a variety of social media...

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Princeton University 2026 Campus Plan

Princeton University is one of the oldest and most distinguished colleges in the United States. A world-renowned research university, Princeton sets itself apart with an equal commitment to undergraduate teaching. The University has a significant regional impact as one of its largest private employers and a destination for almost 800,000...

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Alexandra Park Revitalization

Urban Strategies worked with the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) to develop and implement a revitalization plan for the Alexandra Park neighbourhood. This is an 18-acre social housing development built in the 1970s in Downtown Toronto. Urban Strategies was engaged starting in 2009 to develop a master plan for Alexandra...

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Billy Bishop Toronto Airport Expansion Study

Urban Strategies was retained by the City of Toronto in Spring 2013 to assist in the City’s review of Porter Airlines’ proposal, put forward by the Toronto Port Authority (TPA), to extend the existing Runways 08 and 26 and to introduce jet-powered aircraft. Urban Strategies assisted City Staff in developing and designing an evaluation...

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McMaster University Campus Master Plan

McMaster University has experienced dynamic growth in both facilities and enrolment within the past decade. Urban Strategies has been working with McMaster University to identify opportunities to accommodate this growth on a constrained site within some of Hamilton’s most beautiful historic neighborhoods. Our work has ensured that key campus open spaces are protected and that new development...

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Saint Paul Corridor and Station Area Plans

The planned route for an LRT linking downtown Saint Paul and downtown Minneapolis, the 11-mile long Central Corridor, is the most important east-west transportation corridor within the Twin Cities region, connecting major activity and employment centers with a direct link to almost 280,000 jobs, 123,000 residents and 15 distinct neighbourhoods. The Central...

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Toronto Waterfront Revitalization

Introduction The site contains 2,000 acres of largely vacant and underutilized industrial lands and open space resources including over 170 hectares (400 acres) of new parks, a continuous waterfront promenade, new cultural and tourism facilities, 40,000 new housing units and 10 million square feet of new space to feed new...

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Humbertown Master Plan

Responding to a design competition hosted by First Capital Realty, Urban Strategies and Levitt Goodman Architects joined forces to create a winning proposal that built upon the spirit of the original 1950s plaza design while responding to contemporary planning objectives to create more complete communities. The result is a fully...

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Mimico 2020 Revitalization Action Plan

The goal of the Mimico 20/20: A Revitalization Action Plan was to bring forward the established Mimico Vision & Community Priorities through the creation of an area-wide conceptual redevelopment scheme for this historic waterfront community. A major component of the study process was the four-day Mimico 20/20 Revitalization Charette. The...

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Niagara-on-the-Lake Old Town Vision & Dock Area Secondary Plan

Urban Strategies prepared a Vision document for Old Town, the historic core of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Old Town has a unique character, image and sense of place, but as a small town that attracts some three million visitors annually, it is also subject to an array of complex challenges. Following the Old...

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Ottawa Mid-Centretown Community Design Plan

Urban Strategies led a multi-disciplinary team to create the Mid-Centretown Area Community Design Plan. The project will result in an updated vision and policy document which will replace a 35-year old secondary plan for the area. It brings forward some of the recommendations from the Downtown Ottawa Urban Design Strategy...

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Saskatoon Community Visioning

Saskatoon is a booming mid-sized city with the potential to double its population in the next 50 years. In order to accommodate this growth in a manner that is sustainable and retains the quality of life that residents enjoy, the city initiated a community visioning exercise. Saskatoon Speaks engaged the...

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Allenbury Gardens

Since 2010, Urban Strategies has been providing master planning and development approvals support to Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) to advance the master planned redevelopment of Allenbury Gardens. The Allenbury Gardens community is located in north Toronto and has been a part of TCHC’s social housing portfolio since 1965. Like...

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Youngstown Ohio 2010 Vision

Historically a steel town, Youngstown has suffered from three decades of economic decline. Confronting pervasive scepticism in the community about the prospect of renewal, the City of Youngstown and Youngstown State University joined together to prepare a comprehensive vision and plan for the city of 80,000. The challenge was to...

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Sustainable Niagara

In 2010, Niagara Region, with extensive community consultation, produced a Vision and eight Goals for their environmental initiative, Sustainable Niagara. The Sustainable Niagara Vision imagines the Niagara Region in 2060 as a leader in economic, social, and environmental sustainability. Urban Strategies, in partnership with Halsall, was retained to help Sustainable...

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Vaughan Official Plan

The City of Vaughan is located in York Region, part of the Greater Toronto Area. This area of Ontario is forecast to receive considerable growth in population and employment by 2031. The build-out of the City of Toronto and rapid growth of the surrounding suburbs has had a significant impact...

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Downtown Sudbury Master Plan

Few cities in Canada have undergone the transformations that the City of Greater Sudbury has from its modest beginnings as a lumber town to a world-recognized leader in mining innovation and a growing regional capital for northern Ontario. For the City’s next chapter, Urban Strategies was retained to prepare a...

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Oakville Downtown Cultural Hub

Urban Strategies is currently working with the Town of Oakville on the creation of a Downtown Cultural Hub (DCH). Oakville’s Cultural Plan (2009), along with the Downtown Strategic Action Plan (2010), describe the downtown as a cultural hub with Centennial Square representing a core piece of the hub. However, many...

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Centre for Addiction & Mental Health

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), a World Health Organization Centre of Excellence, was created in 1998 through the amalgamation of four separate mental health and addiction facilities. CAMH decided that its Queen Street site, in a residential neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, would be the hub for the...

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Bremner & Colchester Growth Management Strategies

Between 2013 and 2016, Urban Strategies was retained by Strathcona County to assist them in planning for future growth. The County’s existing urban community, Sherwood Park, was nearly built out, and two potential new growth areas, Bremner and Colchester, had been identified. Urban Strategies was first retained to prepare a...

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Queen’s University

Queen’s University is a distinguished and long-established academic institution with a number of well-known professional programs. It occupies a number of campus locations within the historic city of Kingston and this setting is a fundamental part of the Queen’s campus experience. As the University looks to its future, defining and...

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Western University

Western University occupies a beautiful site within the Thames River valley. At the heart of the University are a number of historic structures, which together with the University’s setting have resulted in a campus of remarkable beauty and amenity. Protecting and intensifying the core of the campus has always been...

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Niagara Complete Streets

Streets are often the physical structure around which our cities are built, organizing patterns of land use, development, place-making and movement. They have a significant impact on the character, livability and economic vitality of our communities. Despite playing such important and diverse roles, they are often overlooked or not given...

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Lawrence Allen Public Realm Master Plan

Urban Strategies worked with the City of Toronto’s Parks, Forestry and Recreation department and Scott Torrance Landscape Architects to complete the Lawrence-Allen Public Realm Master Plan. The Public Realm Master Plan builds on many years of ongoing planning and community engagement which have resulted in Toronto Community Housing’s Revitalization Plan...

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Waterloo Region Central Transit Corridor

The recently completed ION RT corridor in the Region of Waterloo provides enhanced mobility options for the three cities, dozens of neighbourhoods, multiple campuses, the downtowns, major civic institutions, business centres and community hubs along its 36 km (22 miles) extent. Recognizing the transit was about more than just moving...

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Orillia Downtown & Waterfront Revitalization Plan

Historic Orillia, a city of 32,000 located 130 kilometres north of Toronto, has remarkable natural and cultural assets. It is surrounded by lakes and home to numerous festivals and landmark buildings. Despite its riches, however, the core of the city is not as attractive and vibrant as it should be....

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University of Ottawa Master Plan

Urban Strategies created a new Campus Master Plan, (CMP), a process that provides an opportunity to reflect on how the campus has evolved, its strengths and weaknesses, and issues and trends that will influence future development. The plan establishes a vision and framework to guide how the University will transform...

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Saint John Official Plan

Saint John is a waterfront city with a proud industrial past and present. The last municipal plan was over 25 years old and anticipated a tripling of Saint John’s population. The development footprint has continued to sprawl outward. Saint John is engaging in a number of initiatives to attract new...

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Transformation AGO

The Art Gallery of Ontario retained architect Frank Gehry to redesign its building, compelled by the need to accommodate an outstanding gift of over 2,000 works of art from Mr. Kenneth Thomson. To engage the community and the City in the expansion plans, Urban Strategies developed a public communications strategy that included a series...

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is Canada’s largest university. It is known for its excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching and outstanding research, all within a comprehensive range of disciplines, professional schools, and institutes. The University has three campuses, including the historic St. George campus in the heart of downtown Toronto,...

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Inspiration Lakeview

Urban Strategies led a multi-disciplinary team to create a visionary concept plan for the former Lakeview Generating Station lands known as the ‘four sisters’. The site offers a rare opportunity to create new open spaces and a new community while unifying the City’s waterfront. To achieve this objective, our team drew...

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Places to Grow

Urban Strategies was a major contributor to the development of a growth management plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region of Ontario. This mega-region of 110 different municipal jurisdictions (with Toronto at its centre), is expected to grow by 3.7 million people and 1.8 million jobs by 2031, making it one...

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Jasper Avenue New Vision

Over the decades Jasper Avenue has lost much of its vibrancy and role as Edmonton’s premier shopping street. Urban Strategies led a multidisciplinary team in the development of an urban design framework, public realm plan and streetscape design to revitalize the street and act as a catalyst for a generation of city-building initiatives in...

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City of Ottawa

Urban Strategies has been involved in numerous projects that are helping reshape our nation’s capital. We have undertaken assignments for the Federal Government of Canada, the National Capital Commission, The University of Ottawa and the City of Ottawa. We are the authors of the Downtown Urban Design Strategy, The Escarpment...

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City of Guelph

Guelph is a historic city of 125,000 located between the regions of Toronto and Waterloo. Committed to growing sustainably and revitalizing its downtown, the City hired us to prepare a city-wide Urban Design Action Plan and facilitate a visioning charrette for the core. The Action Plan focuses on strategic “areas...