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Growing Up: Planning For Children in New Vertical Communities

In 2015, Urban Strategies was retained by the City of Toronto to develop a series of guidelines to support the growing number of families living in buildings with five or more storeys. In order to determine the needs of families living in vertical communities, USI along with its consultant team...

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Transit Oriented Development Opportunities Analysis

This physical development and land use opportunities study was conducted for the Halifax Regional Municipality as part of a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and High Capacity Transit (HCT) Opportunities Analysis. In combination with other components of the TOD and HCT Opportunities Analysis, our study provided recommendations to assist in establishing...

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Ottawa LRT Implementation

Since 2006, Urban Strategies has been retained by a number of public sector agencies in Ottawa to prepare several community design plans (CDPs) and TOD plans for various areas of the City including Tremblay Road at St Laurent, Scott Street, Centretown, the Escarpment District, Preston/Carling, Lees Stations and uOttawa. These...

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PARTS: Midtown & Rockway

Urban Strategies is leading a multidisciplinary team to complete two station area plans for the areas surrounding the Midtown and Rockway ION LRT stops in the City of Kitchener. The Plans represent an important step in the City’s ongoing shift towards reurbanization by advancing the policy framework around each of...

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Metrolinx Regional Express Rail (RER) and Initial Business Cases (IBCs)

Urban Strategies led a consultant team in preparing eight Initial Business Cases to examine the feasibility of proposed new Regional Express Rail (RER) stations across the GO rail network. Potential sites were evaluated using criteria across four business cases: strategic / planning, financial, economic, and operations / delivery. The project...

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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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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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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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Tottenham Regeneration Strategy

Urban Strategies were retained in 2013 to prepare a Strategic Regeneration Framework for Tottenham, a deprived and troubled district in north-east London. Tottenham is however home to Spurs, a premier league football club who have ambitious plans for the construction of a new stadium. The White Hart Lane site is...

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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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London Ontario Transportation Master Plan

Urban Strategies is currently part of a team working on an ambitious 30-year Transportation Master Plan (TMP) for the City of London, Ontario. The goal is to create an integrated multimodal transportation plan built on sound technical foundations and presented in an engaging format. Urban Strategies’ role in the plan...

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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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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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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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Toronto Tall Buildings

Urban Strategies led a multi-disciplinary team in developing a strong, detailed, defensible, and comprehensive set of performance standards for tall buildings in Toronto’s downtown core. The final report identifies appropriate locations and heights for tall buildings and set out regulations for how they should be designed in order to relate...

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Red Deer Environmental Master Plan

In partnership with Halsall Associates, Urban Strategies is developing an Environmental Master Plan for the City of Red Deer. Red Deer, centrally located in the province of Alberta, is a fast-growing community facing environmental issues associated with land consumption and development, population growth and the natural resource-related industries that support...

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Brampton Environmental Master Plan

Over the last seven years, the City of Brampton has implemented numerous environmental initiatives and achieved impressive results. Building upon this success, the City is taking another strategic leap forward through the development of an Environmental Master Plan (EMP). This initiative will establish sustainable directions that will guide and consolidate...

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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...