Dense City

On this episode, we welcome Swedish author and academic Dr. Stefan Gössling. He’s a professor at the Linnaeus University School of Business and Economics and Lund University's Department of Service Management. We discuss his book: The Psychology of the Car. Automobile admiration, attachment and addiction; published by Elsevier in 2017.

The book explores car culture through the lens of psychology, illustrating the growth of global car use over time and its effect on urban transport systems and the environment. It looks at the adoption of the car into lifestyles and how the car impacts collective and personal identities.

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Music: Ryan Kinnear, Reid Cai, and Becca Mayers

Have you thought about the ways that your recreational pursuits have been influenced by colonization? Dr. Dan Henhawk discusses the history of colonization and recreation, the concept of Indigenous relationality, and how we can adapt to the changes in our environment by engaging in respectful and reciprocal relationships with the natural world.

This episode is based on a syllabus Dr. Henhawk created for the "Introduction to Outdoor and Land-Based Recreation" course at the University of Manitoba. If you are interested in exploring this course, or would like to follow-up with Dr. Henhawk, follow the link below:

Course Information: REC 2130 - Introduction to Outdoor and Land-Based Recreation

Website: https://umanitoba.ca/kinesiology-recreation-management/faculty-staff/dan-henhawk-phd

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Today, we welcome Dr. Alessandro Venerandi and Professor Sergio Porta. We discuss their article "Urban form and COVID-19 cases & deaths in Greater London: An urban morphometric approach" published in Urban Analytics and City Science in 2022. This article takes a finer-grained approach to infection spread, examining urban form and habitable space through several indicators, including floor area ratios, to answer the question of what neighbourhoods are truly conducive to virus spread.

Article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23998083221133397#con1

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Today, we welcome Dr. Tom Cohen and Mariam Almarwani. We discuss their article "Addressing the unjust treatment of pedestrians at signalized intersections," published in Transportation Research Procedia in 2022. The article is premised on the idea that pedestrians wait statistically longer than other road users at signalized intersections and that this is unconducive to walkability and an affront to justice.

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We welcome Dr. Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, who is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute. We’re talking about his paper “Time poverty in transport research: A conceptual framework, standards, and profiles for achieving transport justice”. His co-authors include Dr. Matthew Palm and Professor Steven Farber. This paper connects the concept of time poverty to transportation to ask how pressed for time certain groups feel, especially when they spend a lot of time travelling to their destinations and what policies that can help alleviate this stress.

Website: https://tiznadoaitken.cl/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nacho_tiznado?lang=en

On this special episode of Dense City, we are all about the e-bike! We attended the Squamish E-bike Expo at Junction Park in Squamish, BC. We interviewed e-bike owners, District of Squamish Staff, and E-bike vendors to get to know more about e-bikes. A big thank you to those interviewed!

We welcome Heike Marquart and Juliane Schicketanz. Heike is a Research Associate at the Institute of Transport Research at the German Aerospace Centre in Berlin. Her research focuses include Urban Geography and Mobility, particularly mobility related to health, wellbeing and environmental stressors, using qualitative methods and wearable sensors. Juliane is a PhD student at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research interests include urban geography and its intersection with human health, as well as the sense of place of children.

We discuss their article: Experiences of safe and healthy walking and cycling in urban areas: The benefits of mobile methods for citizen-adapted urban planning ; published in Transportation Research Procedia in 2022. 

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We welcome Dr. Vanessa Mathews, an associate professor of geography and environmental studies at the University of Regina. In her work, she investigates the links between historic buildings and embodied energy, with a particular interest in the role that existing buildings play in urban sustainability. We discuss her article "Planning for craft breweries: neolocalism, third places and gentrification" published in Urban Geography in 2022 with co-author Dr. Roger Picton. The article demonstrates how craft breweries are positioned as agents of urban change and gives some insight into the spillover effects for their neighbourhoods.

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We welcome Rebecca Walker, who is a Ph.D. Candidate in Urban and Regional Planning at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Her research considers the intersection of housing, equity, and the environment in American cities.

We’re talking about her paper “Making the City of Lakes: whiteness, nature, and urban development in Minneapolis,” published in the Annals of the American Association of Geography with co-authors Hannah Ramer, Kate Derickson, and Bonnie Keeler in 2023.

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Mapping Prejudice Project: https://mappingprejudice.umn.edu/about-us/project

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We sit down for a discussion about where we grew up, what inspired our interest in planning, and about life generally. Come by the fire and listen to our stories and plans for the future of Dense City!