Assessing the creative capacity of planners within the GTA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Hans Maximilian Lader
Keyword(s):  
Small Scale ◽  
Resource Limitations ◽  
Greater Toronto Area ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Restrictive Environment ◽  
Creative Capacity

Given the assertion that planners exist within a restrictive environment that inhibits their ability to maximize creativity within their profession, this paper investigates what these restrictions are, and how municipal planners deal with them to maximize creativity. To do this, the opinions and experiences of ten currently practicing planners from municipalities within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are presented. Findings suggest that barriers to creativity can be attributed to four main categories: provincial legislation; corporate standards and regulations; internal culture/leadership: and resource limitations. They also indicate that individual creativity often occurs on a small scale, in a manner that allows for the gradual and incremental overcoming of restrictions.

scholarly journals Assessing the creative capacity of planners within the GTA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Hans Maximilian Lader
Keyword(s):  
Small Scale ◽  
Resource Limitations ◽  
Greater Toronto Area ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Restrictive Environment ◽  
Creative Capacity

Given the assertion that planners exist within a restrictive environment that inhibits their ability to maximize creativity within their profession, this paper investigates what these restrictions are, and how municipal planners deal with them to maximize creativity. To do this, the opinions and experiences of ten currently practicing planners from municipalities within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are presented. Findings suggest that barriers to creativity can be attributed to four main categories: provincial legislation; corporate standards and regulations; internal culture/leadership: and resource limitations. They also indicate that individual creativity often occurs on a small scale, in a manner that allows for the gradual and incremental overcoming of restrictions.

scholarly journals Assessing the creative capacity of planners within the GTA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Hans Maximilian Lader
Keyword(s):  
Small Scale ◽  
Resource Limitations ◽  
Greater Toronto Area ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Restrictive Environment ◽  
Creative Capacity

Given the assertion that planners exist within a restrictive environment that inhibits their ability to maximize creativity within their profession, this paper investigates what these restrictions are, and how municipal planners deal with them to maximize creativity. To do this, the opinions and experiences of ten currently practicing planners from municipalities within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are presented. Findings suggest that barriers to creativity can be attributed to four main categories: provincial legislation; corporate standards and regulations; internal culture/leadership: and resource limitations. They also indicate that individual creativity often occurs on a small scale, in a manner that allows for the gradual and incremental overcoming of restrictions.

Assessing the creative capacity of planners within the GTA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Hans Maximilian Lader
Keyword(s):  
Small Scale ◽  
Resource Limitations ◽  
Greater Toronto Area ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Restrictive Environment ◽  
Creative Capacity

Given the assertion that planners exist within a restrictive environment that inhibits their ability to maximize creativity within their profession, this paper investigates what these restrictions are, and how municipal planners deal with them to maximize creativity. To do this, the opinions and experiences of ten currently practicing planners from municipalities within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are presented. Findings suggest that barriers to creativity can be attributed to four main categories: provincial legislation; corporate standards and regulations; internal culture/leadership: and resource limitations. They also indicate that individual creativity often occurs on a small scale, in a manner that allows for the gradual and incremental overcoming of restrictions.

Building Capacity for Creativity: Rediscovering the Inner “Superhero” as a Mechanism for Developing a Creative Mindset for Entrepreneurial Problem-Solving

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-95
Author(s):  
Emma Fleck ◽  
Jennifer Asmuth
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Childhood Experience ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Resource Limitations ◽  
Childhood Play ◽  
Current Resource ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Creative Capacity

This article delivers a series of activities which help participants to examine and stimulate their capacity for creativity to support entrepreneurial problem-solving. It provides a series of tools which enable entrepreneurship educators to support their students in a review, immersion and reflection of their creative capacity using the concept of childhood play, and specifically the superhero, to stimulate their imagination. Inspired by the creative mindset often found in young children, these activities help to build creative self-efficacy, challenging participants to exercise curiosity to go beyond their current resource limitations to solve problems by immersing them within a positive childhood experience. While students explore the concept of creativity and its fundamental role for entrepreneurial problem-solving, the workshop activity helps them to embody their own “superhero” and revisit their unconstrained, imaginative 5 year old selves through the use of pictures, costumes, masks, and icons. Finally, in reflecting upon the activities and acknowledging their own personal capacity for developing a creative process, participants are encouraged to use these skills for problem-solving both within the exercises of the class and throughout their entrepreneurial journey.

Getting on with the Education of Handicapped Children: A Policy of Partnership

1982 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet W. Bajan ◽  
Phyllis L. Susser
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public School ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Least Restrictive Environment ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
Local District ◽  
State Education ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Adequate Provision ◽  
Restrictive Environment

The state education agency's failure to formulate a clear, consistent public policy regarding use of private schools that serve handicapped children has created problems. Examples of these problems are cited as they affect children—misinterpretation of the term “least restrictive environment,” delays in recommendations for placement, lack of adequate provision of transportation for privately funded children—and as they affect the schools themselves—comparison with public school standards (teacher certification, etc.), local district versus state programmatic and fiscal guidelines, and remedy for public school “misdiagnosis.” A policy which acknowledges the private sector as a level on the educational continuum of services and which produces a uniform set of standards and regulations is suggested.

scholarly journals Resilient Smart Gardens—Exploration of a Blueprint

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2654
Author(s):  
Birgit Penzenstadler ◽  
Jayden Khakurel ◽  
Carl Plojo ◽  
Marinela Sanchez ◽  
Ruben Marin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Resource Limitations ◽  
Team Project ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Student Team

In an effort to become more resilient and contribute to saving water and other resources, people become more interested in growing their own food, but do not have sufficient gardening experience and education on conserving water. Previous work has attempted to develop resilient smart gardens that support the user in automated watering using simple embedded boards. However, none of these solutions proved to be scalable nor are they easy to replicate for people at home. We set up a student team project that created a safe space for exploring this multidisciplinary domain. We developed a smart resilient garden kit with Internet-of-Things devices that is easy to rebuild and scale. We use a small-scale board and a number of sensors connected to a planter. In this paper, we report on a prototypical implementation for multidisciplinary smart garden projects, our experiences with self-guided implementation and reflection meetings, and our lessons learned. By learning about water conservation using automation on a small scale, students develop a sense for engineering solutions regarding resource limitations early on. By extending such small projects, they can prepare for developing large-scale solutions for those challenges.

scholarly journals The utilization of bentonite enhanced termite mound soil mixture as filter for the treatment of paint industrial effluent

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Omobolaji Taofeek Opafola ◽  
Adekunle Olorunlowo David ◽  
Fidelis Odedishemi Ajibade ◽  
Hezekiah Oluwoye Adeyemi ◽  
Olorunfunmi Isimioluwa Solana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Effluent ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Pollutant Removal ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Termite Mound ◽  
Soil Mixture ◽  
Point Of Use ◽  
Percentage Weight ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Indiscriminate Disposal

AbstractThis research investigates the applicability of bentonite enhanced termite mound soil mixture as an alternative filter medium for paint industrial wastewater (PIWW) management in a constructed pilot-scale filtration tank with four different sections. The mixture of bentonite (BC) and termite mound soil (MS) used as the filter was proportioned by percentage weight as (100% MS), $${\text{(5\% BC}} + {\text{95\% MS),}}$$ (5\% BC + 95\% MS), $${\text{(10\% BC}} + {\text{90\% MS),}}$$ (10\% BC + 90\% MS), $${\text{(15\% BC}} + {\text{85\% MS)}}$$ (15\% BC + 85\% MS) and placed into four sections, respectively. The filter materials were compacted, cured and subjected to wastewater loading for 30 weeks. The results obtained from the analysis of the filtrate samples revealed that filter with 15% BC content generally exhibited high and effective pollutant removal efficiencies of 51.3%, 98.9%, and 72.7% for total dissolved solids, total suspended solids, and copper, respectively, while a maximum removal efficiency of 100% was recorded for lead, chromium and cadmium. The pollutants (TDS, TSS, Pb, Cr, Cu and Cd) concentrations of the treated PIWW were below the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency permissible limits for discharge. Hence, the 15% bentonite and 85% termite mound soil mixtures are recommended for the small-scale paint industries as a point of use measure for effective pollutant removal. Its application would mitigate the degradation of environmental resources caused by indiscriminate disposal of untreated effluent.

scholarly journals LBCSM: Load Balanced Constant Scheduling Model for Node Recharging in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks using Multiple Mobile Charging Devices

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 3543-3550
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Network Lifetime ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Resource Limitations ◽  
Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks ◽  
Battery Capacity ◽  
Multiple Charging ◽  
Load Balanced

In large-scale Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks (WRSNs), limited battery capacity of nodes may reduce the network longevity. For enhancing the network lifetime, the nodes in the network can recharged periodically based on their operational executions. The rechargeable sensor nodes in the network are replenished using external sources. Using single charging device can be feasible only for small scale WSNs, whereas in managing large scale wireless sensor networks, multiple charging devices are to be modelled for efficiently recharging the sensor nodes, since single devices are having energy constraints to recharge more number of nodes. On focussing those issues, this paper contributes on developing a new model called Load Balanced Constant Scheduling (LBCS) for the replenishment of the sensor nodes. Moreover, multiple Mobile Charging Devices (MCDs) are used here for recharging the sensor nodes effectively, without facing resource limitations. In this model, constant and time based charge scheduling approach and charging route for MCD has been frame optimally. The scheduling mode focuses on a concrete classification procedure for avoiding needless visits of nodes having adequate energy. Providing further improvement in schedule based node replenishment, algorithm for Charging Route Definition (CRD) is also developed in this work. For evidencing the efficiency of the proposed model, the work is simulated and evaluated. The simulation results are compared with some existing models based on the network lifetime, time taken for recharge and efficiency.

A critical review of emission standards and regulations regarding biomass combustion in small scale units (<3MW)

2012 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joey Villeneuve ◽  
Joahnn H. Palacios ◽  
Philippe Savoie ◽  
Stéphane Godbout
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Biomass Combustion ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Emission Standards ◽  
Standards And Regulations

scholarly journals Identifying the variance in the magnitude of landfill impacts on residential property values using multiple regression analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong Seok Lim
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Property Values ◽  
Multiple Regression Equation ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Management Problem ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Greater Toronto Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
Landfill Sites

The economic advantage of constructing and operating large-scale landfills over small-scale landfills has been used to justify regional landfills as the solution to the municipal waste management problem. However, the availability of sufficient landfill capacity will have dampening effects on the social efforts to reduce waste and/or divert waste away from landfills, especially when external costs of landfills are not appropriately reflected in the estimation of total costs. In this study, the negative effects of a landfill that are capitalized in property values of houses located in the proximity of two landfill sites ("Britannia" and "Keele" landfill sites representing a small and a large landfill respectively) in the Greater Toronto Area are examined in a single multiple regression equation. The results indicate that the large landfill has greater adverse impacts than the small landfill on property values. This study suggests further analysis in a model to which more independent variables that explain locational characteristics should be added.

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