Fonds comprises records that illustrate Jill Grant's work as a planning educator and scholar, including her teaching, research, publishing and professional activities. Types of records include lecture notes, presentations and images, teaching evaluations, research notes and data, publishing contracts, editorial correspondence and reviews, manuscripts, drafts and presentation copies of talks and published papers. There is also a series containing Jill Grant's records from the Joint Review Panel established to review a proposal from Bilcon of Nova Scotia Corporation for a basalt quarry at Whites Point, Digby County.
Item consists of a collection of comments, likely compiled by R.A. Cluney in 1965, stemming from a staff report to Halifax City Council related to an application from Dalhousie University to rezone some areas of its South End holdings as part of the Campus Development Plan.
Item consists of a draft manuscript of Dalhousie University's submission to the City of Halifax for rezoning some of its holdings as part of the 1965 Campus Development Plan.
Item consists of a facsimile of a clipping (likely from the Chronicle Herald of February 22, 1967) titled "Centre Parking for Hospital Zone?" related to rezoning proposals around Dalhousie University.
Item consists of an unattributed hand-drawn, colour map of the Dalhousie University campus, drawn in December 1962, titled "Ground Plan of Dalhousie University".
Item consists of the text of a statement made by a senior official at Dalhousie University before the Halifax City Council in March 1948, regarding initial proposals around rezoning and development of Morris Street (presently University Avenue) from Robie Street to the Studley Quad.
"The suggestion that I have been authorized to convey to you is that you make a zoning regulation that will restrict new building along the Morris Street boulevard from Robie Street to the Studley Gates to buildings having to do university activities, scientific research, public health and kindred purposes."
Item consists of a pamphlet offprint of an article by Douglas Shadbolt titled "A development plan, Dalhousie University : Student project at the School of Architecture, Nova Scotia Technical College, Halifax, N.S.", which appeared the June 1965 issue of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Journal (RAIC), pages 49-52. Also includes a "with the compliments of Douglas Shadbolt" insert laid in.
Item consists of a hand-drawn, colour map of proposed changes to zoning of the Dalhousie University campus, dated December 2, 1965 and drawn by J. Edmonds. Includes proposals of rezoning several blocks from R-3 zone to Park and Institutional zone.
Item consists of a typescript copy of an article prepared by Carleton Stanley discussing the "disgracefully large proportion of Halifax houses [that] may be called 'slum dwellings'" and the general poor state of "housing conditions in Halifax", stating that "Halifax [...] would seem to have had very little town planning" and condemning city contractors for their construction of subpar "so-called houses". The piece was submitted to Mr. Gaul of the Halifax Chronicle.