Current Students: Thesis / Practicum Projects

This page presents the research project title or key words describing the general area of interest for work in development, reflecting the variety of student research interests. To see list of degree project research titles, see Recent Graduates .

M1 Students:

Jillian Geen: Putting the Action into Climate Action Plans: the role of planners in innovative climate change municipal policy

Ryan Gilmore: Industrial Land Use Intensification in Metro Vancouver: Developing Strategies for Municipalities

Ashlyn Haglund: Contested space: collaborative regional planning between indigenous and non-indigenous communities in the Canadian context

Dylan Harris: Pedal Power: how planning for bikes can help cities achieve their larger scale sustainability goals

Alexander Henderson: Can economic development be socially just?

Sangwoo Hong: Eco-tourism for revitalizing the Exchange District in Winnipeg

Aaron Leckie: Left out in the cold: older adult's perspectives on bus transportation in Canadian prairie cities

Kelly McRae: Planning for newcomers in prairie hinterlands

Joyce Rautenberg: Assessing the impacts of safe injection sites in Zurich and Berlin: Lessons learned for application in the Canadian context

Andrea Spakowski: Caring for our own: an industry-based approach to creating affordable housing for Canada's senior cultural workers

Liam Speirs: Indigenous housing policy in Winnipeg: evaluating the challenges and benefits for indigenous inclusion

Adam Prokopanko: Transit-oriented development in Winnipeg: evaluating development benefits and potential along rapid transit corridors

M2 Students:

Christopher Beauvilain: Determining value of non-markt 'good & services' to be applied in planning practice

Robin Beukens: Regional water planning: Improving water management through collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities

Jill Collinson: Regional planning for growth management: the place for Complete Communities, a case study of the RD Nanaimo's rural village centre strategy

Ryan Edick: The ECCA redevelopment: an exploration

Jonathan Hildebrand

Caitlin Kotak: Examples of indigenous planning in Winnipeg - how these might provide lessons for conventional planning processes

Chris Larson: Planning for outdoor recreation: an integrally informed analysis of Revelstoke, BC's bicycle network

Shengxu Li: Integrating green infrastructure into community planning

Marie Ceclie Mbadugha: Land Use Planning and Transportation Planning; Moving Winnipeg Suburbs towards sustainability by encouraging the use of public transit system

Alexis Miller: Branding Cities: The Triumph of Market Over Place

Meghan Norman: Intermunicipal cooperation and conflict resolution

Ryan Paradis: Manitoba Metis Federation

Jennifer Pritchard: Occupancy Mapping in Fisher River Cree Nation

Laura Rempel: Planning Activism Towards an Age-Friendly Manitoba

Johanna Washchyshyn: Operationalizing Intercultural Communication in our globalizing cities


 



 

M3 and + Students:

Adam Cseke: Containing Costs and Financing Growth in BC: How Community Amenity Contributions Affect the Urban Development Process

Pamela Elias: (Re)creating place: Preserving heritage in redeveloping brownfields

Kimberly Farris: Technology and public participation

Michael Friesen: Planning for Wind Energy: A Participatory Research Method in Uddevalla, Sweden.

Mike Lennon: Gentrification avoidance when land values increase

Marie Cecile Mbadugha: Housing and Homelessness: Stigma and stereotypes attached to homelessness and mental illness

Kyle McStravick: Colonial Planning and the Indigenous People of Canada and Japan

Carole O'Brien: Every image tells a story: how representation affects the places we share

Aaron Short: Planning the Seeds of Agricultural Urbanism through University Community Gardens

Fernando Velarde-Trejo: Farmers markets and role of planners

Brock Feenstra: Green building: Aligning Developer and Municipal Relationships

Andrei Friesen: Energy Matters: A scenario based approach for evaluating the energy implications of neighbourhood development

Pawan Gill: Youth Participation in Urban Planning

John Paul Harris: How cities in cold weather climates can lesson their dependence on personal automobiles and create year round walkable cities

Brodie Lister: A Framework for Restructuring Urban Form In Post Peak-Oil Car
Oriented Developments

Lacey MacLean: The impacts of rural residential developments on Manitoba Municipalities

Scott McCullough: Energy planning for GHG emission reductions

Elisabeth Saftiuk: The Effectiveness of Downtown Development Corporations on Downtown Revitalization: The Case of Winnipeg's Centre Venture

Devin Clark: Transforming Inner Ring Suburbs in Winnipeg towards Sustainability

David Kuxhaus: Housing and the Elderly

Cara Nichols: Social Fertilizer: Community gardens as an effective method of evoking empowerment, hope and change in urban Winnipeg

David Danyluk: Refugee Family Settlement Housing

Erin Ferguson: Green residentiaImplementing Sustainability in BC’s Municipalities and Regional Districts: Exploring the Checklist Approachl development

Allahyar Raza: Integrating Immigrants and Refugees by Community Design

Simi Sandhu: Winter Cities and Active Transportation: A Study of Supports and Barriers for Winnipeg Active Mobility

Khalid Mohammad: City Planning: A Pathway Towards Sustainable Community Ecnomic Development Through Integration of Skilled Immigrants