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Dave Guyadeen is an Associate Professor with practical and academic experience in planning. He is a Registered Professional Planner (RPP) in Ontario. His professional experience includes working as a land use policy planner at regional and local government levels. His research focuses on the implementation and evaluation of planning initiatives, including municipal plans, community official plans, climate change plans, and strategic plans. He is particularly interested in examining the means to produce high-quality plans, designing monitoring frameworks for assessing outcomes of planning initiatives. Guyadeen has taught planning at various schools across Canada and is dedicated to engaging students in their learning, emphasizing the linkages between planning theory and practice. He is involved in multiple funded projects, assessing transportation policies across Canada's populous municipalities and evaluating rural municipal climate adaptation planning in Ontario. His research often includes graduate students, who are expected to take on leading collaborative roles across various projects, engaging in literature reviews, data collection, and analysis, contributing to significant publications.
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