Making place: design for stable and sustainable growth in Manotick Village

Abstract

Manotick Village is located in Ottawa, Ontario. The village was forced to merge with Ottawa causing local representation to decrease bringing uncertainty in the needs and growth of the community’s future. Research in political science has no solution for mitigating the negative effects of municipal amalgamation while stating de-amalgamation to be unfeasible. This thesis explores Manotick post-amalgamation as a hybrid suburb where suburban developments threaten the village’s place attachment. This poses the question of how can a sensitive place-based design approach play a critical role in leveraging long-term sustainable transportation and urban development growth in Manotick Village, where post-amalgamation threatens place attachment through excessive growth and political setbacks? Thus, by leveraging concepts of place attachment, mitigating the negative effects of post-amalgamation becomes more feasible due to the thesis uncovering the influential power that a community as a group can have on proper growth for Manotick Village.