MAJOR DEGREE PROJECTS (THESIS/PRACTICUM) TOPICS
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 completed major degree project research titles, see Major Degree Projects (Completed).
M2 STUDENTS
Geen, Jillian: Putting the Action into Climate Action Plans: the role of planners in innovative climate change municipal policy
Gilmore, Ryan: Industrial Land Use Intensification in Metro Vancouver: Developing Strategies for Municipalities
Haglund, Ashlyn: Contested space: collaborative regional planning between indigenous and non-indigenous communities in the Canadian context
Harris, Dylan: Pedal Power: how planning for bikes can help cities achieve their larger scale sustainability goals
Henderson, Alex: Economic Development: A Social Justice Approach
Hong, Sangwoo: Creating vibrant Downtown, Winnipeg: Redefining interrelations between public spaces and property values
Horton, Krysti
Leckie, Aaron: Left out in the cold: Older adult’s perspectives on bus transportation in major urban centres in the Canadian Prairie Provinces.
Mcrae, Kelly: Here To Stay: The Role of Employment Tenure and Satisfaction in Creating Welcoming Communities for New-comers in Rural Southwestern Manitoba
Prokopanko, Adam: Transit-oriented development in Winnipeg: evaluating development benefits and potential along rapid transit corridors
Rautenberg, Joyce: Assessing the impacts of safe injection sites in Zurich and Berlin: Lessons learned for application in the Canadian context
Spakowski, Andrea: Caring for our own: an industry-based approach to creating affordable housing for Canada's senior cultural workers
Spiers, Liam: Indigenous housing policy in Winnipeg: evaluating the challenges and benefits for indigenous inclusion
M2+ STUDENTS
Beauvilain, Christopher: Determining value of non-market 'good & services’ to be applied in planning practice
Beukens, Robin: Regional water planning: Improving water management through collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities
Collinson, Jill: A local approach to regional planning: A case study of development of the Trans Canada Trail
Cseke, Adam: Retail wetland development in Salmon Arm BC, implications for sustainability and the planning process.
Edick, Ryan: The ECCA redevelopment: an exploration
Elias, Pamela: (Re)creating place: Preserving heritage in redeveloping brownfields
Farris, Kimberly: Technology and public participation
Feenstra, Brock: Green building: Aligning Developer and Municipal Relationships
Friesen, Andrei: Energy Matters: A scenario based approach for evaluating the energy implications of neighbourhood development
Friesen, Michael: People Power Community Ownership and Renewable Energy
Gill, Pawan: Youth Participation in Urban Planning
Harris, John Paul: How cities in cold weather climates can lesson their dependence on personal automobiles and create year round walkable cities
Kotak, Caitlin: Residential development cost charges: planning for affordability through sustainable urban design
Li, Shengxu: Green Infrastructure Planning in an Urban Context: “Green Plans” in Four Winnipeg Inner-City Neighbourhoods
Lister Brodie: A Framework for Restructuring Urban Form In Post Peak-Oil Car Oriented Developments
Lennon, Mike: Gentrification avoidance when land values increase
MacLean Gaudet, Lacey: The impacts of rural residential developments on Manitoba Municipalities
Mbadugha, Marie Ceclie: Land Use Planning and Transportation Planning; Moving Winnipeg Suburbs towards sustainability by encouraging the use of public transit system.
McStravick, Kyle: Colonial Planning and the Indigenous People of Canada and Japan
Miller, Alexis: Branding Cities: The Triumph of Market Over Place
Nichols, Cara: Social Fertilizer: Community gardens as an effective method of evoking empowerment, hope and change in urban Winnipeg
O'Brien, Carole: The meaning of ‘CLOUT’: The influence of Indigenous community planning discourses in Winnipeg’s inner-city.
Paradis, Ryan: Manitoba Metis Federation
Pritchard, Jennifer: Occupancy Mapping in Fisher River Cree Nation
Raza, Allahyar: Integrating Immigrants and Refugees by Community Design
Rempel, Laura: Planning Activism Towards an Age-Friendly Manitoba
Saftiuk, Elisabeth: The Effectiveness of Downtown Development Corporations on Downtown Revitalization: The Case of Winnipeg's Centre Venture
Velarde-Trejo, Fernando: Farmers markets and role of planners
Washchyshyn, Johanna: Literacy Tourism in initiatives in Winnipeg