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- Title
Nature as a Cornerstone of Growth: Regional and Ecosystems Planning in the Greater Golden Horseshoe.
- Authors
Wekerle, Gerda R.; Sandberg, L. Anders; Gilbert, Liette; Binstock, Matthew
- Abstract
The Province of Ontario has been successful in passing legislation for a regional growth management plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe in southern Ontario by bundling together two seemingly contradictory notions: growth management and environmental conservation. Over a period of about thirty years, the environment has moved from the background to the foreground in regional planning. Yet the green and region-wide growth planning legislation contains provisions for infrastructure expansion and resource extraction that fuel growth, compromise the protection of ecosystems and agricultural lands, and institutionalize a competitive regional economic agenda. This illustrates the ways in which different, and often contradictory) traditions and value positions can be harnessed in legislation and policy implementation. In this case study, we show how nature can provide a cornerstone, lubricant or new state space for centralized integrative regional planning, and how this complex may operate in contradictory and self-defeating ways to cause continued harm to the non-human environment.
- Subjects
GOLDEN Horseshoe (Ont.); ONTARIO; REGIONAL planning; URBAN planning &; redevelopment law; COMMUNITY development; URBAN planning; REAL estate development; URBAN growth
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 2007, Vol 16, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
1188-3774
- Publication type
Article