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Shopping for a change: Using GIS to Measure the Food Security Impact of a New Downtown Grocery Store
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2015-05-13)
This is presentation was given at the Association of Assessing Officers of Manitoba: Sympo15 on Thursday May 13 2015. The overall purpose was to illustrate how GIS can be used to measure the food security impact of a ...
Peguis First Nations TLE Selection. Acquisition and Development Background Report and Strategic Framework
(2011-12-20)
This report sets out a framework on which Peguis First Nation can build their land acquisition strategy. The purpose of the framework will be to provide the conceptual and analytical tools the TLE Advisory Committee needs ...
Supporting Successful Tenancies
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2016)
Presentation on Supporting Successful Tenancies: Promising Practices for the Hard to House
City Planning as Ideology and Practice: Ten Speeches by Dr.Earl A. Levin
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2011-01-01)
For more than three decades, Dr. Earl A. Levin delivered extraordinarily eloquent speeches
concerning Canadian cities and city planning. Earl Levin was wont to speak on an
impressively wide range of topics, at great ...
Where's Downtown? Varying Geographic Definitions of Winnipeg's Downtown and Inner City, 1947-2004
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2016-07-27)
This series of maps was created to provide a basic overview of how downtown Winnipeg has been defined over time and by different organizations. These definitions of downtown were downloaded from the Manitoba Land Initiative ...
Downtown Winnipeg: Developments and Investments, 2005-2015 UPDATE
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2015-11-23)
This UPDATE revisits our previous downtown Winnipeg work, bringing the analysis to 2015. We have re-catalogued and mapped developments with improved information, taking note of new development planned while removing a few ...
Supermarket Redlining and Food Deserts: Characterizing Food Insecurity and Urban Decline
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2014-10-10)
In recent decades, the act of supermarkets abandoning and disinvesting in inner city
locations has resulted in increasing food insecurity and urban decline for residents. These
so-called ‘food deserts’, occurring in ...
Report on the Residence Satisfaction Survey
(2014-11-06)
The Residence Satisfaction Survey was undertaken to determine the level of satisfaction felt by students living in the University of Winnipeg's residences. The survey was administered in February 2001 by Janis Pregnall, ...
Confronting the Illusion: Developing a Method to Identify Food Mirages and Food Deserts in Winnipeg
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2016-06)
This In-Brief develops a new method to identify both food deserts and food mirages to broaden the understanding of barriers individuals face in accessing food. We find that while food deserts exist in Winnipeg, food mirages ...
Holding On!: Supporting Successful Tenancies for the Hard to House
(2014-10-27)
The following report assembles a preliminary examination of eviction prevention approaches used across Canada (also known as housing retention practices). The particular focus was to better understanding how persons ...