| 2.9.1 | Inching Toward Sustainability: The Evolving Urban Structure of the GTA |
| 2000 - Pamela M. Blais | |
| A study of whether and how quickly the Toronto region is moving towards the goal of sustainable development. ...more | |
| 2.9.2 | Simcoe County: The New Growth Frontier |
| 2004 - Lean Birnbaum, Lorenzo Nicolet, Zack Taylor | |
| A study of plans for several large-scale developments in Simcoe County, Ontario, and their implications for planning and growth management. ...more | |
| 2.9.3 | The Urban Growth Centres Strategy in the Greater Golden Horseshoe: Lessons from Downtowns, Nodes, and Corridors |
| 2007 - Pierre Filion | |
| This report analyses policies in the Ontario government's Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (Places to Grow) relating to Urban Growth Centr ...more | |
| 2.9.4 | Shaping the Toronto Region, Past, Present, and Future: An exploration of the potential effectiveness of changes to planning policies governing greenfield development in the Greater Golden Horseshoe |
| 2008 - Zack Taylor, with John van Nostrand | |
| A study of how density affects the way an area functions and how people use the area based on an analysis of 16 2km-by-2km case studies in the Greater ...more | |
| 2.9.5 | Places to Shop and Places to Grow: Power Retail, Consumer Travel Behavior, and Urban Growth Management in the Greater Toronto Area |
| 2009 - Ron Buliung and Tony Hernandez | |
| This study describes the rise of power retailing, shows where power centres are clustered in the Greater Toronto Area, and draws on data from the Tran ...more | |
| 2.9.6 | Implementing Residential Intensification Targets: Lessons from research on intensification rates in Ontario |
| 2010 - Marcy Burchfield | |
| This paper provides a retrospective examination of residential intensification rates for all municipalities in the Toronto region, or Greater Golden H ...more | |





