research in the history of planning

publications

REFEREED ARTICLES

Nathan Roth and Jill L Grant. 2015. The story of a commercial street: growth, decline, and gentrification on Gottingen Street in Halifax. Urban History Review 43(2): 38-54.

Jenny Gregory and Jill L Grant. 2014. The role of emotions in protests against modernist urban redevelopment in Perth and Halifax. Urban History Review 42(2): 44-58.

Jill L Grant, Leifka Vissers, and James Haney. 2012. Early town planning legislation in Nova Scotia: The role of local reformers and international experts. Urban History Review 40(2): 3-14.

Jill L Grant and Marcus Paterson. 2012. Scientific cloak/ romantic heart: Gordon Stephenson and the redevelopment study of Halifax, 1957. Town Planning Review 83(3): 319-336.

Jill L Grant. 2011. Commentary on Chapter 7 - Government Policies and Land Development. Rediscovering Thomas Adams: Rural Planning and Development. Edited by Wayne Caldwell, UBC Press, pp 291-294.

Leifka Vissers and Jill L Grant. 2010 Planning experts and local reformers: the 1915 town planning act in Nova Scotia. Urban Transformation: Controversies, Contrasts and Challenges, Conference Proceedings Volume 1. (International Planning History Society conference, Istanbul, July 2010) Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, pp. 487-507.

Jill L Grant and Marcus Paterson. 2010. Scientific cloak / romantic heart: Gordon Stephenson and the redevelopment study of Halifax, 1957. Urban Transformation: Controversies, Contrasts and Challenges, Conference Proceedings Volume 3. (International Planning History Society conference, Istanbul, July 2010) Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, pp. 13-33.

Jill Grant. 2007. Chapter 3: Visions, planning and democracy. In L. Hopkins and M. Zapata, eds. Engaging the Future: Using Forecasts, Scenarios, Plans and Projects. Cambridge: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. pp 39-58.

Jill Grant. 2006. Chapter 18, Shaped by planning: the Canadian city through time. In P. Filion and T. Bunting, Canadian Cities in Transition: Local through global perspectives, Third Edition, Oxford University Press, Toronto, pp 320-37.

Jill Grant. 2004. Sustainable urbanism in historical perspective. Chapter 2, in A. Sorensen, P. Marcotullio, J. Grant (eds.), Towards Sustainable Cities: East Asian, North American and European Perspectives on Managing Urban Regions, Ashgate, pp. 24-37.

Jill Grant. 2001. The dark side of the grid: power and urban design. Planning Perspectives 16(3): 219-241.

Jill Grant. 1994. The Drama of Democracy: Contention and Dispute in Community Planning.  University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS AND POPULAR MEDIA

Jill L Grant. 2015. History matters. Fellow’s Corner. Plan Canada 55(1): 50-52.

2010. Jill L Grant. Fads, fancies… and form-based codes. Plan Canada 50(3): 17-19.

2010. David Gordon, Ian Skelton, Jill L Grant. Fifty years is a long time in planning. Plan Canada 50(3): 8-10.

2005. Jill Grant. Editorial: Our planning legacy. Plan Canada 45(3): 6.

2005. Jill Grant. Rethinking the public interest as a planning concept. Plan Canada 45(2): 48-50.