CityStudio Durham Success Stories

Winter 2022

The goal of this project was to understand how we might integrate accessibility and inclusive design considerations into Durham Region’s innovation process. This included answering questions such as:

• What are the principles of accessible and inclusive design?

• What are the practical implications of these principles to the municipal innovation process?

• How might innovation tools be made inclusive?

• How might diverse perspectives be captured throughout the innovation process?

Fall 2021

Sport Durham helps grow sporting events and sport culture in Durham Region. To support this initiative we investigated questions like:

*What value do community sport councils deliver?
*What are some examples of effective community sport councils and what are the measures by which they are recognized as effective?
*Who typically leads community sport councils?
*What are the resources required for community sport councils to be effective (people and time)?
*Are there regions (consisting of.

Fall 2021

In Canada we have a small association of nuclear host communities, based mainly in Ontario. The purpose of this project was to gain a better understanding of whether similar host community organizations exist in other jurisdictions, how they operate (e.

Winter 2021 

This project sought to see wow could we redesign urban cores in Durham Region to entice people to rediscover their downtowns, and how this takes into account social distancing requirements in a COVID-19 world.

Winter 2021

Child care is flexible when it meets the needs of parents who work non-standard or variable hours. The purpose of this project was to investigate how we offer flexible child care in Durham  Region and balance the needs of families with cost efficiency.

Winter 2021

The purpose of this project was to develop ideas for how we can improve the safety of multi-use trails throughout Durham Region. We wanted to investigate ways to make Durham trails safer for all residents.

Fall 2021

There is considerable difficulty in measuring the health of Durham Region’s economy. Traditional methods of measuring economic growth and activity (such as GDP) are not available for Durham Region, so we often rely on numerous individual data points to get a sense of how the economy is performing.

Winter 2021

The purpose of this project is to better understand the key components of successful interventions that have aided early learning professionals in preventing at-risk behaviours in young children. Durham Region’s rebuilding the village project looks at interventions for at-risk behaviours in children five years of age or younger.

Winter 2021

The Region of Durham has offered childcare fee subsidy, in order to help parents with the cost of childcare, for over 20 years. In that time however, there had not been a robust data analysis to assess the impact of the fee subsidy program from either an economic or social perspective.

Winter 2021

Durham Region is one of the fastest growing municipalities in North America with its population expected to grow to approximately 1 million by 2041 from an estimated 700,000 people today. Rapid, diverse population growth and urban intensification will impact the Region’s future service delivery models and the amount of waste the Region will manage.