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Dr. Dawn Parker (dcparker@uwaterloo.ca) and Xinyue Pi, MES (xinyue.pi@uwaterloo.ca) Executive summary Xinyue Pi’s thesis “Exploring Rental Housing Markets in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario” is nowpublished and available for download at https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/12431 .Xinyue Pi completed her Master’s in Environmental Studies in the School of Planning under thesupervision of Professor Dawn Cassandra Parker. Dr. Xiongbing Jin served as committeemember […]

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Justin Cook (j8cook@uwaterloo.ca ), Dr. Jennifer Dean (jennifer.dean@uwaterloo.ca ), and Dr.Dawn Parker (dcparker@uwaterloo.ca) Executive summary Researchers at the University of Waterloo School of Planning (Justin Cook, a master’s student,supervised by Professor Jennifer Dean, overseen by Professor Dawn Parker) undertook aninvestigation into the perceptions of realtors regarding the impacts of the ION Light Rail Transit(LRT) on […]

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“Exciting times” for K-W residential markets: GTH buyers, Central Transit Corridor impacts, and missing markets by Prof. Dawn Cassandra Parker Co-authors: , Yu Huang, Jennifer Dean, Justin Cook, Xinyue Pi, Robert Babin, Jinny Tran, Emma De Fields Slides available here: KWAR_Parker_HMI_6Nov2018Download

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Tracking impacts of light rail investment through a volatile housing market: Combining qualitative and quantitative methods to understand dynamic influences of demographic change and investment incentives Slides available here: ACSP_DCParker_25Oct2018

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Monitoring and modelling the causes and consequences of urban intensification in Waterloo Region by Prof. Dawn Cassandra Parker  Collaborators: Jeff Casello, Jennifer Dean, Region of Waterloo, Cites of Waterloo and Kitchener, Kitchener-Waterloo Association of Realtors, Coldwell Banker Peter Benninger Realty, plus many undergraduate and grad student team members Slides available here: UGCRG – KWAR PresentationDownload

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Dawn Parker

On April 8, 2016 By

Dawn Parker is Professor in the School of Planning, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research focuses on the development of fine-scale models that link the drivers of land-use change and their socioeconomic and ecological impacts, with completed and ongoing projects on organic agriculture in California’s Central Valley, timber harvest and carbon sequestration […]

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Jeff Casello

On April 6, 2015 By

Associate Provost, Graduate Studies Associate Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and School of Planning, University of Waterloo Professor Casello’s interests lie in urban transportation systems and their impacts on healthy and economically viable urban areas. As such, he conducts research on the design and operation of public transportation systems, urban roadway systems, and […]

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Yu Huang

On April 2, 2015 By

I am Yu Huang, a PhD student at the School of Planning in the University of Waterloo. My research interest lies in land use change, agent-based modelling, and land use and transportation integration. Currently I am working with Prof. Dawn Parker and trying to investigate the potential impacts of light rail transit on housing market […]

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Xinyue Pi

On April 2, 2015 By

Xinyue Pi  obtained her master’s degree of environmental studies in planning at the University of Waterloo in 2017. Her work focused on modeling the rental market using hedonic pricing methods. She has completed a dual degree undergraduate program in 2014 and received bachelor’s degrees in Geomatics from University of Waterloo and Wuhan University with a […]

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Robert Babin

On March 17, 2015 By

Robert Babin is working towards an MA in the University of Waterloo’s School of Planning. After completing a BES in Planning, he continued at the school to work on a large agent-based modeling project to simulate development in Waterloo Region. Within this project he is using spatial econometric techniques to estimate heterogeneous home buyer preferences […]

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