scholarly journals District Energy Within The Planning Context: Exploring The Barriers And Opportunities For District Energy And Community Energy Solutions In Ontario, Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlena Rogowska
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
District Energy ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Barriers And Opportunities

Urban land-use planning guides the way cities look and grow. Good planning leads to orderly growth and helps shape goals and policies for development while addressing important social, economic and environmental concerns. The efficiency benefits that may be garnered by linking land use planning and energy planning remain largely untapped throughout Ontario. In the case of district energy (DE), the absence of a regulatory and policy framework at the national and provincial levels results in much uncertainty regarding the associated costs and benefits of DE relative to traditional energy delivery systems. The purpose of this work is to explore Ontario’s planning framework with respect to meeting energy needs at the community level – including electrical and thermal (heating and cooling) energy needs, providing broad recommendations to all three levels of government that could help facilitate the development of district energy systems and offer more consideration to integrated community energy solutions.

scholarly journals District Energy Within The Planning Context: Exploring The Barriers And Opportunities For District Energy And Community Energy Solutions In Ontario, Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlena Rogowska
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
District Energy ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Barriers And Opportunities

Urban land-use planning guides the way cities look and grow. Good planning leads to orderly growth and helps shape goals and policies for development while addressing important social, economic and environmental concerns. The efficiency benefits that may be garnered by linking land use planning and energy planning remain largely untapped throughout Ontario. In the case of district energy (DE), the absence of a regulatory and policy framework at the national and provincial levels results in much uncertainty regarding the associated costs and benefits of DE relative to traditional energy delivery systems. The purpose of this work is to explore Ontario’s planning framework with respect to meeting energy needs at the community level – including electrical and thermal (heating and cooling) energy needs, providing broad recommendations to all three levels of government that could help facilitate the development of district energy systems and offer more consideration to integrated community energy solutions.

scholarly journals Modernizing Ontario’s thermal energy system through integration of district energy into Ontario’s planning process.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Joseph Lee
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
District Energy ◽  
Heating And Cooling

Energy is fundamental to the economic success and high quality of modern life because of its centrality to economic activity, comfort, and convenience. Significant opportunities for the environmental protection, economic development, and social well-being of communities can be found through the use of district energy systems over traditional means of heating and cooling for buildings. However energy considerations often come as an afterthought to land-use planning, inhibiting the capacity for greater district energy system use and development. The purpose of this work is to examine key components of the land-use planning process in Ontario, and provide recommendations to the provincial and municipal governments to better support district energy systems through land-use planning policies, plans, and tools.

scholarly journals Modernizing Ontario’s thermal energy system through integration of district energy into Ontario’s planning process.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Joseph Lee
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
District Energy ◽  
Heating And Cooling

Energy is fundamental to the economic success and high quality of modern life because of its centrality to economic activity, comfort, and convenience. Significant opportunities for the environmental protection, economic development, and social well-being of communities can be found through the use of district energy systems over traditional means of heating and cooling for buildings. However energy considerations often come as an afterthought to land-use planning, inhibiting the capacity for greater district energy system use and development. The purpose of this work is to examine key components of the land-use planning process in Ontario, and provide recommendations to the provincial and municipal governments to better support district energy systems through land-use planning policies, plans, and tools.

Beyond the Building

Greenovation ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 47-70
Author(s):  
Joan Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
North America ◽  
Community Development ◽  
District Heating ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
Deep Lake ◽  
District Energy ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
The World ◽  
Local Levels

This chapter explains the technology behind district heating and cooling, which has the potential to be used throughout the world, and examines how it can be more widely deployed in North America. It explores the different approaches to district energy employed in Copenhagen, London, and Vancouver. It then examines the ice-cooled system in Austin, Texas, and Toronto’s deep-lake cooling. The cases illustrate different regulatory barriers, funding and ownership models (municipal vs. private utilities), and technologies. It is shown that district energy, at its best, is integrated with land use, transportation, community development, and energy planning. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the policy needed at the regional, national, and local levels for broader implementation of both technologies.

IMPACTS OF URBAN LAND USE ON CRIME PATTERNS THROUGH GIS APPLICATION

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Nazri Muhamad Ludin ◽  
Norsiah Abd. Aziz ◽  
Nooraini Hj Yusoff ◽  
Wan Juliyana Wan Abd Razak
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Spatial Relationship ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Land Use Patterns

Land use planning plays a crucial role in creating a balance between the needs of society, physical development and the ecosystem. However, most often poor planning and displacement of land uses particularly in urban areas contribute to social ills such as drug abuse and criminal activities. This research explains the spatial relationship of drug abuse and other criminal activities on urban land use planning and their implications on the society at large. Spatial statistics was used to show patterns, trends and spatial relationships of crimes and land use planning. Data on crime incidents were obtained from the Royal Malaysia Police Department whilst cases of drug abuse were collected from the National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK). Analysis of the data together with digital land use maps produced by Arnpang Jaya Municipal Council, showed the distribution of crime incidents and drug abuse in the area. Findings of the study also indicated that, there was a strong relationship between petty crimes, drng abuse and land use patterns. These criminal activities tend to concentrate in residential and commercial areas of the study area.

scholarly journals From centralised planning to collaborative urban land use planning: The case of Wat Ket, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 100154
Author(s):  
Somporn Sangawongse ◽  
Robert Fisher ◽  
Sidhinat Prabudhanitisarn
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Chiang Mai

scholarly journals Underground Space Utilization in the Urban Land-Use Planning of Casablanca (Morocco)

Land ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Mariama Zerhouny ◽  
Abdelhamid Fadil ◽  
Mustapha Hakdaoui
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Prototype Model ◽  
Underground Space ◽  
Urban Dynamics ◽  
Integrated Platform ◽  
Underground Infrastructure

With the rapid rate of population growth and economic development, cities face enormous challenges that require both optimal and integrated solutions to meet the needs of growth and to protect the environment and sustainable development. These urban dynamics, which change over time, extend not only horizontally and upward, but also downward. Thus, underground space has been utilized increasingly to relieve the urban surface and to ensure the exploitation of underground resources. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the possibilities of using this space in Casablanca as part of urban land-use planning and, consequently, to suggest an integrated model of exploitation of this space that is adapted to the specificities of the study area. Thus, an analysis of the use of underground spaces in a set of European cities has been performed. The study of the characteristics of this space in Casablanca has been realized according to the levels of geology and hydrogeology and two underground infrastructure projects. This work has led to the implementation of a prototype model named “Sub-Urban Information Modeling”. The model’s objective is to gather all the data and knowledge related to the relevant underground space in an integrated platform that can be shared and updated in order to facilitate the understanding of this environment and its interaction with the surface and to ensure the rational and efficient use of its resources.

Evaluating the strategy of decentralized urban land-use planning in a developing region

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 534-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yousef Sakieh ◽  
Abdolrassoul Salmanmahiny ◽  
Javad Jafarnezhad ◽  
Azade Mehri ◽  
Hamidreza Kamyab ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Developing Region

scholarly journals Using Ontario's Development Permit Systems To Implement Metrolinx’s Mobility Hubs In The Greater Golden Horseshoe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew S. Keenan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Transit Routes ◽  
Vast Network

Through Metrolinx, the province of Ontario seeks to change the sprawling, car dependent character of The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Areas by introducing a vast network of rapid transit routes along a series of corridors, linked by a series of nodes, called mobility hubs. Following Smart Growth principles, these hubs should be buttressed by transit supportive land-use regulations, but the current land-use planning framework in the region makes such changes difficult. By implementing a little used tool in Ontario's

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