Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Queen's Univ. Urbanist, Teacher, Author, Cyclist. Research on suburbs, capital cities, planning histories.
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ALT 1948 Vancouver Fraserview veterans housing in a neighbourhood unit, surrounded by the pre-war street grid. LAC PA148474
ALT 1948 CMHC Exhibit at the Pacific National Exhibition, featuring Fraserview as "Good Planning"
ALT 1950 design for Ajax ON by CMHC planner Kent Barker, featuring 4 new neighbourhood units. Note the small wavy grid of the original Wartime Housing subdivision at the top.
ALT 1956 new town design for Oromocto NB by CMHC planner Sam Gitterman and McGill Professor Harold Spence-Sales, featuring 6 neighbourhood units (green) and a town centre (red).
ALT Screenshot of article info including title, author, abstract, keywords, and contact information.
ALT Abstract from Planning Perspectives Journal
ALT Wartime Housing / CMHC small house design
ALT 1948 aerial photo of Renfrew Heights community, Vancouver BC, designed and developed by CMHC. Note the central school and radically different street network from the Vancouver grid that surrounds it on three sides. (Source: Library and Archives Canada, image PA-148474)
ALT Analytic summary of why the 1944 Curtis Report was a critical juncture for major post-war changes in housing and community planning that set Canada on a different course than the UK or USA.
