Economic Development

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.

• CityStudio Durham Success Stories
• Economic Development

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.

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.

• CityStudio Durham Success Stories
• Economic Development

Fall 2020

Within the context of COVID-19, there is potential for new Federal and Provincial funding to Municipalities for recovery-focused infrastructure projects. Outside of COVID-19 the Finance Department at Durham Region is regularly assessing how to allocate infrastructure funding.

• CityStudio Durham Success Stories
• Economic Development