City Planning News Archive
Faculty of Architecture
Manitoba’s Rent Assist program offers housing solution during COVID-19
May 4, 2020 —
Manitoba’s Rent Assist, a housing allowance program launched in 2014, offers a model that could be the foundation of a national or provincial response to support renters during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Making downtown great again
April 17, 2018 —
Architecture students will show delegates from the City and private industry their fresh ideas
Is the municipal electoral system in need of reform?
October 17, 2017 —
A new paper looks at the potential for electoral reform and its consequences
Faculty of Architecture
Achieving Alumni: Jason Syvixay
October 13, 2017 —
Jason Syvixay, MCP 2017 has been boosting the arts and culture scene of downtown Winnipeg long before he defended his thesis and received his degree in city planning.
Guardian: Can Indigenous culture ever coexist with urban planning?
November 23, 2016 —
Janice Barry, an associate professor in the department of city planning, co-wrote a book with an Australian colleague that recently garnered attention from The Guardian
Faculty of Architecture
Madeleine Koch receives Prestigious Planning Award
September 22, 2016 —
MCP Graduand, Madeleine Koch receives Donald Schon Award for Excellence in Learning from Practice winner
Faculty of Architecture
Department of City Planning Welcomes Post-Doctoral Fellow
August 24, 2016 —
Dr. Dwayne Baker joins the Department of City Planning for a one-year term
Free Press: Master’s students tackling illegal rooming houses
May 20, 2016 —
Students work to resolve the problems caused by illegal rooming houses and student rental homes
Wpg Free Press: Who benefits from public investment in True North Square?
February 24, 2016 —
What does it mean to have a public square on private property? And who benefits from public investment in this project?
CBC: How public will True North Square be?
January 19, 2016 —
'My biggest concerns are probably about how public is the public square and who benefits from the tax increment financing funding that the province and the city are going to provide.'