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Halifax Public Lands Master Plan

Urban Strategies, in partnership with EDM, developed a vision, master plan and urban design criteria to guide the redevelopment of 11 acres of municipal and provincial land holdings in the heart of Halifax’s Spring Garden Road corridor. As part of the visioning process, Urban Strategies developed and led two week-long...

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Marché Central

Urban Strategies has been helping Bentall Kennedy identify opportunities for realizing the full development potential of their Marché Central property in Montreal. As part of this undertaking, our team developed a vision and master plan for a lifestyle centre that included a series of options for how the site could...

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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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Belfast City Centre Regeneration Strategy and Investment Plan

The Belfast City Centre Regeneration Strategy and Investment Plan provides a framework for change at a critical time for Belfast. In April 2015 Belfast City Council assumed new responsibilities including community planning as part of the ongoing reform of local government in Northern Ireland. At the same time new opportunities...

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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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Brantford Downtown Vision and Masterplan

Brantford Downtown Vision and Masterplan (2006 - 2008) Urban Strategies was appointed to lead a Community Visioning exercise to establish a master plan for how this mid-sized city’s downtown should evolve and continue to build on recent investments. The study provided the necessary tools, such as design guidelines, regulatory changes,...

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Lower Don Valley Vision & Master Plan

Vision and Master Plan Phase I (2003 - 2005) British Land and Sheffield City Council retained Urban Strategies to produce a compelling vision and regeneration Framework for this 400 hectare former steel works site in the Lower Don Valley area of Sheffield. The principles of the Lower Don Valley Masterplan...

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Cork South Docklands Masterplan & Vision

Located on the City’s doorstep, the South Docklands represent a unique opportunity to create a diverse, active waterfront district as an extension of the city’s centre - a gateway to the future growth and competitiveness of Cork. Working in consultation with the City of Cork, Urban Strategies was retained by a major private land...

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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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Singapore

1. Greater Southern Waterfront Design Consultancy (2009 - 2010) Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority invited international design firms to harness fresh and innovative master planning concepts for the long term transformation of Singapore’s Greater Southern Waterfront into one of the great urban waterfronts of the world. Urban Strategies led a multi...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...