The Case-in-Points archived here are the products of collaborative case study research, by each student and a professional practitioner, conducted within the context of the capstone Professional Planning Practice course. Especially notable Case-in-Points are recognized through an MPPI Awards Program (Award-winning Case-in-Points are identified on the MPPI website.
The projects are presented at the annual “Taking the Pulse of Practice” event co-sponsored by MPPI. At that time, students present their projects, along with their Planifesto—a collective statement from the class to the profession. The event also includes a guest speaker.
2012
Grand Award
Larson, Chris (in collaboration with John Guenther MCIP, Planning Director, City of Revelstoke, BC): Parklets – Planning with Placemaking in Mind: Rationale and Strategy for Municipal Planners.
Special Commendation
Beukens, Robin (in collaboration with Jason Locke MCP and Peter Whitelaw MCIP, HB Lanarc-Golder, Vancouver BC; Mark Holland MCIP, New Monaco Enterprise Corp. Vancouver, BC): Experience-Driven Planning: Envisioning and Delivering Sustainable Growth in Ladysmith BC.
Honourable Mentions
Collinson, Jill (in collaboration with Jacueline East MCIP, Dillon Consulting): Working Across Boundaries: Learning from the RPGA (Planning District) Development-Plan-Making Experience.
Li, Shengxu (in collaboration with Ian Hall, City of Winnipeg): Green Lights on Winnipeg’s Back Lanes: Illumination from the Chicago Green Alley Initiative and the Vancouver Country Lanes Program.
Eidick, Ryan (in collaboration with David Jopling MCP, MMM Group, Winnipeg): Place-Privileging Infill Development Planning: When Place is Personal for the Planner-Developer.
Hildebrand, Jonathan (in collaboration with Shaun Loney, BUILD, Winnipeg): BUILDing Change: Integrating Community - Based Planning and Policy Reform Through Social Enterprise.
Horton, Krysti (in collaboration with Richard Mahe MCP, Lombard North, Winnipeg): Sustainability Planning and Community-Building: Learning from the Middlechurch Secondary Plan
Kotak , Caitlin (in collaboration with Nadalene Khan-Cooper, Province of Manitoba and Ryan Nickel, City of Brandon): From Planning to Collabor(a)ction: Making Brandon’s HUB Move-In Ready.
Mbadugha, Marie-Cecile (with Rylan Reed, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corportation): Housing For First Nations: CMHC's Role in First Nations On-Reserve Housing and How Planners Can Be Involved
Miller, Alexis (in collaboration with Susan Freig MCP, Frieg and Associates, Winnipeg): Bridging Connections: An Exploration of the Provencher Bridge/Esplanade Riel Collaborative Planning Process.
Norman, Meghan (in collaboration with Colleen Sklar, Partnership for the Manitoba Capital Region; Gerry Couture FCIP, Urban Edge Consulting): Moving from Communication to Collaboration: Learning from Canadian City-Region Partnerships’ Experience.
Paradis, Ryan (in collaboration with Michael Robertson MCIP, City of Winnipeg; Harry Finnigan MCIP, Mackay Finnigan and Assoc., Winnipeg): Community by Design: Learning from the South Point Douglas Pre-Consultation Study Experience.
Pritchard, Jennifer (in collaboration with Jim Thomas MCIP, Hilderman Thomas Frank Cram, Winnipeg): The Pimachiowin Aki Management Plan: A Case Study of Collaborative Planning in Canada’s Boreal Forest.
Rempel, Laura (in collaboration with Beth McKechnie, Peg City Car Coop, Green Action Centre, Winnipeg): Changing Car Culture: Learning from Peg City Car Co-op.
Washchyshyn, Johanna (in collaboration with Susan Radstrom, New Journey Housing, Winnipeg): Planners Helping House New Canadians: Learning Intercultural Communication Through Practice – The Case of New Journey Housing in Winnipeg.
2011
Grand Award
O’Brien, Carole (in collaboration with Shauna MacKinnon, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives MB): Planning, Participation and Impact: Community Building with CLOUT in Winnipeg’s North End.
Special Commendation
Huck, Erin (in collaboration with Josh Lerner, Co-Director, Participatory Budgeting Project, New York; Joanna Duarte Laudon, Associate, Participatory Budgeting Project; and Gail Johnson, Community Health Manager, Toronto Community Housing): Planning for Bringing People into Budgets—Participatory Budgeting in Transition: Learning from the Toronto Community Housing (TCH) Experience.
Honourable Mention
Maes, Christina (in collaboration with Suzanne Gessler): Planning for People and Places: How Winnipeg’s Bell Hotel Redevelopment will rejuvenate downtown and create opportunities for people living there.
Cseke, Adam (in collaboration with Marcin Pachinski, Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, Salmon Arm, BC): Overcoming Jurisdictional Challenges Via Integrated Basin-Wide Planning: Learning from the Shuswap (BC) Plan-Making Process.
Elias, Pam (in collaboration with Gilles Bugailiskis, Senior Heritage Planner, City of Winnipeg): A Place for Planners in Heritage Preservation: The Resurrection of Upper Fort Garry, Winnipeg.
Farris, Kim (in collaboration with Justin Lee, City of Winnipeg): Rethinking Major Participatory Planning Processes: The Plan-Implementation Implications of SpeakUP!Winnipeg.
Friesen, Mike (in collaboration with Ariel Lupu and Don Malinowski, Manitoba Local Government, Selkirk MB): The Winds of Change: Planning Manitoba’s Transition to Wind-Powered Energy.
Lennon, Mike (in collaboration with Ian Hall, Environmental Coordinator, City of Winnipeg): Ciclovia in Winnipeg: A Global Movement in a Local Context.
Short, Aaron (in collaboration with James O’Neill, Social Planner (Food Policy), City of Vancouver): Planning Local Food Systems—Secure, Sustainable, Green: Lessons from the City of Vancouver.
Velarde-Trejo, Fernando (in collaboration with Paul Chorney, Food Matters MB, Winnipeg, and Janine LaSalle, Vancouver Food Policy Council, BC): Promoting Coordinated Municipal Action on Food System Issues: Winnipeg's Food Policy Council Working Group.
2010
2010 Class Planifesto (a collective statement from the class to the profession) (pdf)
Address delivered by Claudette Toupin, ADM Community Planning Services, Manitoba Local Government (pdf)
Grand Award
Lange, Lauren (in collaboration with Jason Granger): Planning as the Uniting of Multiple Perspectives: Learning from the Transformation of Winnipeg’s United Way
Honourable Mention
McCullough, Scott (in collaboration with J. Glen Doney MCIP): City of Winnipeg Which Public? The Limits and Conflicts of Environmental Responsibility
Feenstra, Brock (in collaboration with Doug Allan MCIP): ‘Bright’ Green Development: The Evolution of DNV’s Comprehensive Green Building Checklist
Harris, John-Paul (in collaboration with Justin Lee): The Next Evolution of Public Participation in Planning: Engaging the e-Citizen Through SpeakUpWinnipeg.com
Lister, Brodie (in collaboration with Michael Dudley MCIP): Planning Between Worlds: A look at how a Town/Gown partnership created ‘Sustainable Churchill’
Maclean, Lacey: The Price of Planning: Supporting Community-Based Planning Approaches
Saftiuk, Elisabeth (in collaboration with Jeff Palmer MCIP) Optimizing the TIF Contribution to Downtown Revitalization: Learning from Past Challenges and Pertinent Precedents in the Winnipeg
2009
Grand Award
Cooper, Sarah (in collaboration with Lisa Hardess Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources, Winnipeg, MB): Planning for Planning: The CIER Comprehensive Community Planning Training Program
Special Commentation
Webb, Robyn (in collaboration with Detlef Beck, Vancity Credit Union and Stan Dueck, City of Winnipeg): Dockside Green A Model for Creating Affordable Housing & Inclusionary Neighbourhoods
Honourable Mention
Moradzadeh, Fereshteh (in collaboration with Shaun Loney, BUILD): Warm Up Winnipeg Lower Utilities, Stronger Communities
Albakry, Waleed (in collaboration with Linda Ring): Housing Opportunity Partnership Hand up not a Hand out
Baker, Chris (in collaboration with Don Malinowski and Bob Nicol): South Basin Lake Manitoba Secondary Plan
Barletta, Vince (in collaboration with Kurtis Kowalke, City of Winnipeg): Partnership for Learning South Point Douglas Secondary Plan
Besner, Barbara (in collaboration with Richard Walls, The Edge Gallery): The Edge Artist Village: Using the Arts to Revitalize a Community
Bwalya, Bwale (in collaboration with Peter Reed, MCIP and Margaret Shipley, Urban Strategies Inc. Toronto ON): Regenerating Downtown: Lessons for Winnipeg from St. Louis’s Gateway Mall
Clark, Devin (in collaboration with Dr. David Witty, FCIP): Waverley West innovative subdivision?
Kliewer, Karin (in collaboration with Susan Freig, Susan Freig and Associates): Disraeli By Design a Clear Way Forward through Muddy Waters
Kuxhaus, David (in collaboration with Michael Cleland MCIP RPP, city of Mississauga ON): A Brighter Shade of Grey Mississauga’s Plan for an Age-Friendly City
Mahé, Richard (in collaboration with Paul McNeil, MCIP MMM Group and Patty Malone, SAM Management): Pocket Suites rethinking private public partnerships
Raddatz, Becky (in collaboration with Lloyd Talbot, MCIP, Selkirk District Planning Board): Sewage Infrastructure Development and the Red River Corridor
Reaney, Vicky (in collaboration with Tom Young, City of Edmonton): Potter Greens Study Area Transit-oriented development in Edmonton
Ross, Andrew (in collaboration with Michael Robinson MCIP, City of Winnipeg): Making the Plan Count: The West Alexander & Centennial Planned Development Overlay
Sakiyama, Marli (in collaboration with Jeff Palmer MCIP, Centre Venture): Waterfront Drive Development
Wiseman, Kaeley (in collaboration with Ian Hall and Brett Shenback, City of Winnipeg): SpeakUpWinnipeg: The use of online public consultation tools in the Plan Winnipeg Initiative
2008
Grand Award
Lee, Ludwig (in collaboration with Jessica Roder, O’Neill O’Neill Procinsky Architects, Edmonton): Informing Sustainable Design on The Downtown Edge: Lessons for Winnipeg from The Quarters
Honourable Mention
Fitzgerald, Matt (in collaboration with Veronica Hicks MCIP, MMM Group): Infilling Community The Case of Pocket Suites and the Integration of Affordable Housing into Established Neighbourhoods
Honourable Mention
Graham, Shelagh (in collaboration with Jean Trottier MCIP, and Jeff Palmer MCIP Centre Venture): Generating Design Excitement: Urban Design Awards for Winnipeg
Brown, Quincy (in collaboration with Elisabeth Miller, City of Saskatoon): An Integrated Approach to Neighbourhood Safety Through Planning Lessons from Saskatoon
Ferguson, Erin (in collaboration with Cathy van Poorten, City of Coquitlam): Collaboratively Defining Municipal Roles in Addressing the Housing Crisis: Learning from Updating the Coquitlam Affordable Housing Strategy
Gratton, Mathew (in collaboration with Tom Young, City of Edmonton): Community Knowledge Campus Planning Learning from an Edmonton Experiment in School Site Planning and Neighbourhood Development
Koole, Reuben (in collaboration with John McNairnay, Consultant to Manitoba Capital Region Committee): Engaging a Region in Dialogue Making Decisions Together with Capital Region Quest
Moore, James (in collaboration with Brent Magnan, Regional District of the Central Okanagan, and Lloyd Talbot, MCIP, Selkirk and District Planning Area): Building Bridges Over Boundaries An Investigation of the Okanagan Collaborative Conservation Program
Nichols, Cara (in collaboration with Yvonne Stich, City of Richmond, BC, and Harry Finnigan MCIP, McKay Finnigan and Associates): Social Fertilizer: Participatory Planning of Community Gardens Learning from Terra Nova Park Richmond, BC
Pearce, Tom (in collaboration with Jeff Patterson MCIP, City of Vancouver, snd Susanne Dewey-Povoledo, City of Winnipeg): Downtown Transportation Planning by Design with Complete Streets in Mind: Engineering Planning Collaboration
Poirier, Marcella (in collaboration with Wins Bridgman and Michael Robertson, BridgmanCollaborative Architecture): Integrated Design Process: A Participatory Tool for Planning, Design and Construction.
Whitehouse, Stephanie (in collaboration with Jason Granger, Art City): City Planner, Do Your Thing! Developing Creative Tools and Techniques to Encourage Democratic Citizenship
2007
Grand Award
Shenback, Brett (in collaboration with Martin Sandhurst MCIP, City of Winnipeg): Guiding Infill Development in Winnipeg Looking to Seattle’s Design Review Program for Answers
Special Commendation
Walsh, Katy (in collaboration with Alec Stuart, City of Winnipeg and Beth McKechnie, Resource Conservation Manitoba): Sustainable Transportation Planning Community-Based Travel Marketing in the Winnipeg WinSmart Showcase
Honourable Mention
Peralta, Tamara (in collaboration with Myra Cruz Arado is a Senior Project and Policy Analyst at the Province of Manitoba, Urban Development Branch; Nadalene Khan, Province of Manitoba, Intergovernmental Affairs Neighbourhoods Alive!; Dr. Sheri Blake MCIP): Neighbourhoods Alive! A Multi-Pronged Initiative for Community Based Neighbourhood Revitalization
Honourable Mention
Sandhu, Simi (in collaboration with David Danyluk, Save Our Seine, and Kvin Nixon, City of Winnipeg): Winnipeg’s Seine River Greenway: A Community Creates Place Through Stewardship
Honourable Mention
Schulz, Kari (in collaboration with David Dessens, Winnipeg Housing Policy Coordinator): Flora Place, Winnipeg: Integrating the Public and Community Sectors in a Place-based Approach to Affordable Housing
Honourable Mention
Woitenko, Tracy (in collaboration with Doug Clark MCIP): Mountain Equipment Co-op Innovations and Challenges of Sustainable Retail Development
Glavin, Matt (in collaboration with David Boles and Greg Kaletzke Manitoba Provincial Planning Services Branch): Geographical Information Systems for Rural Land Use Planning and Livestock Policy: Selkirk and District Planning Area
Graham-Dyck, Lindsey (in collaboration with Marilyn Hamilton, Daniel Garrison and Lyn Jardine): Reframing the Approach to Homelessness What might Winnipeg and Manitoba Learn from Vancouver BC and Scotland UK?
Koch-Schulte, John (in collaboration with Chris Laing, Town of Canmore; Dr. Raymond Chipeniuk UNBC; Carole Stark, Chinook Institute for Community Stewardship, Canmore): Balancing Rights and Responsibilities of Primary and Secondary Residents - A Taxing Situation: Learning from Canmore’s Experience
Lee, Justin (in collaboration with Jason Granger, Art City): Art City: Community Participation & Decision Making at a Community Art Centre
Locke, Jason (in collaboration with Lisa Hardess, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources): Climate Change Planning Tools for First Nations Using Indigenous and Western Knowledge for Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change
Raza, Allahyar (in collaboration with Dwayne Rewniak, MCIP, Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation): Cross Cultural Community Participation in Planning: The Case of Grand Rapids Housing Pilot Project
Warren, Richard (in collaboration with Derek Eno MCIP): Chilliwack's Growth Management Strategy: Agricultural Land Reserve Exclusion-Phases –Submissions
2006
Grand Award
Borbridge, Richard (in collaboration with Kirsten Robinson, MCIP and Derek Eno, MCIP): Southeast False Creek Pacific Admiration — Prairie Application
Special Commendation
Long, Stephanie (in collaboration with Andrew Young, MCIP): The Making of a Sustainable Community: The Case of Northeast Coquitlam
Honourable Mention
Pachcinski, Marcin (in collaboration with Gerry Couture, FCIP): A New Governance Model for Community Centres in Winnipeg
Beaubien, Lee Ann (in collaboration ): Preserving Community: Examining the West Broadway Community Land Trust
Christopher, Gary (in collaboration ): Partnerships in Health Promotion
Deitrich, Devin (in collaboration ): Planning Inclusively With Urban Aboriginal Peoples in Winnipeg: “First Steps: Municipal Aboriginal Pathways”
Gessler, Suzanne and Mulligan, Susan (in collaboration ): Beyond the Status Quo: Planning for a Vital Housing Resource through Research
Hua, Jing (in collaboration ): Promoting Regional Thinking and Cooperation: Reflections on Winnipeg-Manitoba Capital Region Planning
Lypka, Roxanne (in collaboration ): Bringing Downtown to the River’s Edge: Strategies for the River Landing Project
Ramsay, Darin: Handi-Transit Eligibility Criteria Adding People with Cognitive Disabilities: Cutting Edge Practice in Edmonton
Rodder, Jessica: Growing Green Buildings in Winnipeg
Sklar, Misty (in collaboration ): Pocket Suites: Innovative Affordable Housing though Functional Form Fitting Design
Tarulli, Rob (in collaboration ): Community Knowledge Campuses: From Vision to Reality.
Yauk, Noah (in collaboration ): Communicative Planning Practice: Planning for Housing Affordability Through the Canada-Manitoba Affordable Housing Initiative (AHI)
2005
Grand Award Winner
Young, Tom (in collaboration with Alex Regiec MCIP and Erik Backstrom): TOD in Edmonton Greyfields: A promising project, but is ad hoc planning good enough?
Special Commendation
Jacobucci, Christa (in collaboration with Dwayne Rewniak and Terry Kozak): Building Partnerships and Affordable Housing: Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation’s Infill Housing Program
Honourable Mention
Gao, Haijing (in collaboration with David Pelubeski MCIP, Lombard North Group): Planning Deliberatively: Reflections on the Brandon Assiniboine River Corridor Master Plan
Honourable Mention
Lazaruk, Allison (in collaboration with Dr. Ian Skelton MCIP and Tom Yauk, Housing Opportunity Partnership),: Planning Partnering for Housing: The Case of the Home Ownership Project (HOP), Winnipeg 1995-2005
Bao, Dana (in collaboration with Rajinder Singh): Implementing Sustainable Development in Rural Land of Manitoba: Modifying Intensive Livestock Operations by Utilizing Overlay Zoning Designation.
Henke, Meghan (in collaboration with Peter Spearey, Municipality of Wood Buffalo, AB): Urban Greenway Planning and Active Transportation: The Recent Brandon, Manitoba Experience.
Jenkins, Jennifer (in collaboration with Stephen Wilson, Graffiti Gallery): The Writing’s on the Wall: Graffiti ART Programming’s Transformative Role in Point Douglas.
Jordan, Amy (in collaboration with Scott Stephens, Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre).: Community Engagement as Effective Community Development: The Case of Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata’s Community Based and Community Driven Practice.
Joshi, Om: Alternative Development Standards as a Post-Modern Planning Tool: Lessons from Markham, ON and Surrey, B.C.
McCleery, Erin (in collaboration with Linda McFadyen): Building the Capacity for Regional Planning in the Manitoba Capital Region ... Exploring the Role of the Provincial Government in Bottom-Up Regional Strategizing and Policymaking.
Mohammed, Khalid (in collaboration with Robert Nicol MCIP, City of Winnipeg): From Ethnic Residential Segregation to Intercultural Integration - the Role of the Planner: The Case of Collingwood Neighbourhood House.
Radstrom, Susan (in collaboration with Lloyd Talbot MCIP, Community Planning Services in Selkirk, MB; .Henry Sikora, Super Six Development Corporation): Sustaining Stories of Cultural Identify: Lessons in Story From St. Laurent, Manitoba.
Ross, Leah (in collaboration with Linda Ring): Aboriginal Youth and Planning: Celebrating Diversity
Sechele, Jayson (in collaboration with Wes Paetkau MCIP, Landmark Planning & Design Inc.): Laying the Foundation for City-Region Planning Under the New-City-Regionalism: A Case Study of the Manitoba Capital Region’s Initiative
Selig, Cheryl (in collaboration with Jason Granger, Executive Director, Art City): Innovative Community Development: Art City and Youth Leadership
2004
Special Commendation
Shaun Klassen (in collaboration with Michelle Richard, City of Winnipeg): Emerging Partnerships Under TLE: Redefining the Relationship Between the Town of the Pas and the Opaskwayak Cree Nation
Special Commendation
Stephen Walker (in collaboration with Gerry Couture FCIP, City ofWinnipeg): Reassessing Taxes: Tax Shifting as a Planning Tool
Honourable Mention
Jennifer Ferguson (in collaboration with Jacquie East, City of Winnipeg): Radical Postmodern Planning Practice: Examining the Planner's Role in Housing and Inner City Revitalization
Honourable Mention
Njeri Karanja (in collaboration with Nicholas You, UN-HABITAT): Best Practices in a Globalizing World: A Narrative on Precedent Research
Honourable Mention
Donald Nip (in collaboration with David Lettner, David E. Lettner and Associates): Planning [in] the Process: A Comparative Case Study of the Site Selection Process for the MTS Centre and the Manitoba Hydro Downtown Headquarters Project
2003
Grand Award Winner
Roger Lam (in collaboration with Bill Budd MCIP, Intergovernmental Affairs, Province of Manitoba.) - Approaches to Planning in a Cross-Cultural Setting: Planning to manage the development of on-farm small-scale industries in the South Interlake Planning District
Special Commendation
Gordon McGonigal (in collaboration with Diana Emerson MCIP and Neil Myska, City of Winnipeg, Transportation Division) - The Moray Street Extension - The Public as design team member
Special Commendation
Myra Arado Cruz (in collaboration with Valdene Buckley MCIP, City of Winnipeg) -Neeginan: Our Place - The Rebirth of Winnipeg's North Main Street
Honourable Mention
Jason Granger (in collaboration with Tom Carter and Anita Friesen, Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg) - Planning Emergence: The Convergence of Theory and Practice Through Collaborative Efforts of the Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance
Honourable Mention
Martin Frigo (in collaboration with Bill Budd MCIP and Lloyd Talbot MCIP, Selkirk Community Planning Services, Selkirk, MB.): Community Development Corporations and Inter-Municipal Partnerships: The Pelly Trail CDC