This study was prompted by a request from Kelvin High School's Nursery Program Parent Committee and nursery teacher, for assistance in designing an outdoor playyard specifically for the pre-schoolers. The purpose was to develop a supportive environment to the play activities of nursery age children, which would not conflict with the sports activiti . . .

This study was initiated by a request from the City of Winnipeg's Neighbourhood Improvement Program for assistance in redeveloping the Butterworth and Krawchyk school yards in Brooklands. Traditionally play facilities have been located, designed and built by specialists, whose major considerations seem to have been neatness and ease of maintenance. . . .

The basic intent of this report has been to demonstrate a method of landscape assessment, whereby the natural resources of a river corridor are evaluated for a range of recreation and conservation uses. The study area, a thirty-five kilometer reach of the Red Deer River valley, has an abundant variety of recreation lands close to a large population . . .

The practicum attempts to develop a method by which a designer can provide opportunities for the average citizen to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of the urban environment. The method is evolved from the development of an urban interpretive trail system using Winnipeg as the study model. The paper discusses trails in other urban centres, . . .

Beach oriented recreation has traditionally based itself on the fulfillment of two basic requirements; first, access to suitable water and beach resources, and second, land adjacent to the beach to service man and his accoutrements (shelter and transportation). When put into the context of the south shore of Lake Manitoba the effect has been disast . . .

This practicum is an analysis of development controls affecting the production of single-family detached housing in Edmonton, Alberta. These regulations, set down in Edmonton's Zoning Bylaw, Edmonton's Servicing Standards Manual, and the C.M.H.C. Site Planning Handbook are shown to be contributors to both design inflexibility and high housing costs . . .