Carleigh is a young Masters in Planning graduate, with interests in community planning, community engagement, transportation planning, and health and wellbeing. Her Masters Professional Project involved exploring the creation of wellness spaces in airports, with specific interest in providing a post-security passenger yoga room in the terminal at Vancouver International Airport (YVR). The project is now moving forward with YVR.
Carleigh also has experience working as a Summer Student in the consulting field for MMM Group Limited. Some of Carleigh’s tasks included: preparing and submitting various applications to the City of Edmonton; gathering and addressing application comments from the City and the Client; preparing preliminary site analyses using various planning legislation documents in Alberta; attending City and Client meetings, open houses, and stakeholder engagement sessions; assisting the team with RFP and RFQ submissions; and conducting research to help assist the planning department with new work opportunities.
Carleigh is an outgoing, committed, and confident individual who is eager to learn and to take on new opportunities. Carleigh grew up in the Greater Toronto Area, and graduated from Western University, receiving the Gold Medal Award from the Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Geography program. For further information, please visit
www.linkedin.com/in/carleighoudereimerink
Bio and CV
Joseph Armand Bombardier Sustainable Transportation Fellowship Award, The University of British Columbia, 2014 Gold Medal Award, Western University, 2014 Certificate of Merit for Academic Excellence, Western University, 2014 Western Scholarship of Excellence, Western University, 2010
Transportation and Urban Design: PLAN 579 (Health and the Built Environment), PLAN 580 (Introduction to Transportation), PLAN 517 (Theory and Methods of Urban Design), CIVL 586 Audit (Urban Transportation Systems Analysis), Plan 548U (Introduction to Geographic Information Systems)
Community Development & Social Planning: PLAN 595 (Negotiation, Facilitation and Mediation: Principles and Practices), PLAN 548K (Cultural Planning and the City)
Planning Processes & Analysis: PLAN 561 (Urban Development Market and Financial Analysis), PLAN 590A (Land Use and Environmental Policy), PLAN 542 (Planning Practice: City Planning as a Craft), PLAN 548A (Financial Tools for Planning Implementation), PLAN 548M (Strategic Planning), PLAN 548S (Urban Systems and Climate Change)
Core Courses: PLAN 502 (Introduction to Planning Theory and History), PLAN 506 (The Legal Context of Planning), PLAN 515 (Qualitative Methods and Research Design), PLAN 540A (Omnibus: Becoming a Good Sustainability Planning Practitioner), PLAN 548I (Quantitative Tools for Planners)
