Year: 1969
Summary: Scan of the platforms of the three political parties.
Year: 1970
Summary: Endorses city acquistion of the CNR belt-line for transformation into a public park.
Summary: Discusses principles for playground planning and the need for Toronto to invest in playgrounds in areas like Regent Park.
Year: 1971
Summary: Investigation into urban open space in the City of Toronto.
Summary: Discuss user behavior, the planning process, and financial and land resources in relation to urban parks.
Summary: Argues that urban redevelopment can compound old problems. As an example, newly approved development harms accessibility to parks in the St. James Town area.
Summary: Describes the legal background enabling expropriation for development.
Summary: Outlines successes and failures of the Yonge Street pedestrian mall, which was built in cooperation between merchants and the city
Summary: Describes the importance of learning from past rehabilitation projects of low-income housing.
Summary: Identifies the need to take planning into account when authorizing demolitions
Summary: Analysis of the planned mixed-use Metro Centre, the lack of enough information made public and the impact it would have on downtown Toronto.
Summary: Examines the advantages and pitfalls of holding a referendum over development issues, using a case study from Kitchener as an example.
Year: 1972
Summary: Examines the trend towards building privately developed new communities in Toronto.
Summary: Describes the Don District model of participatory planning, its structure and advantages
Summary: Analysis of current and planned residential bonus system and endorsement of the need for a more flexible system in future.
Summary: The Bureau suggests possible changes to improve inadequate supervision of quality control in residential construction.
Summary: Suggests that discrepancies between compensation schemes in Federal and Provincial legislation challenge the development plan to build an airport or new community project in North Pickering.
Summary: Draws attention to major election issues in 1972.
Year: 1973
Summary: Suggests that the plan for large-scale East-West beltline routes is falling apart.
Summary: Documents shortcomings of the urban land development process and suggests that public land banking (i.e. large-scale assembly of land in advance of price inflation by urbanization) could be used in Ontario to alleviate some of these problems.
Summary: Investigates the effects of property tax on land use planning. Suggests possible alternative tax structures for Ontario.
Year: 1974
Summary: Discusses urban growth as a problem for prosperity, how it has been tackled in Canada, the US and Europe, and what Toronto should do next.
Summary: The bureau is sceptical about the possibility of making planning progress with the new Metroplan project. This project requires civic engagement in many different areas in the city without enough centralized and professional planning capacity - while endorsing unclear consultation models.
Summary: Programme from the Bureau of Municipal Research's 1974 meeting and seminar. Seminar topics include urbanization, land, planning, property development, issues facing Pickering, and city government in general.
Summary: Summarizes the proceedings of a seminar sponsored by the BMR. Examines new town development and its effects on growth patterns, population, and urbanization.
Summary: Scan of major elections issues in 1974.
Summary: Study of citizen participation, with a focus on on citizen groups whose chief concern is local government decisions about the physical environment.
Year: 1975
Summary: Comprehensive survey of leisure activities and priorities among apartment dwellers in London, Ontario.
Year: 1976
Summary: Scan of major elections issues in 1976.