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We welcome Dr. Sungduck Lee, who is an assistant professor in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. She is also the director of the Geosocial Visualization Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory with research interests at the intersection of social geography and visual communication. Her research focuses on issues related to neighbourhood vitality and social equity. In this episode, we discuss her article: The safety of public space: urban design guidelines for neighbourhood park planning, published in the Journal of Urbanism in 2021. The article explores the under-researched aspects of park design and how urban design influences the users' perceived sense of safety in a neighbourhood park.

Check out more of Dr. Sungduck Lee's work on her Google Scholar page

*Want to learn more about recent social issues and public space? Check out Amina Yasin's article discussing how racism has pervaded social equity issues and the field of planning.

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Music: Ryan Kinnear, Reid Cai, and Becca Mayers

We welcome Irene Gomez Varo, who is a PhD candidate in Human Geography at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. We discuss her article: Jane Jacobs reloaded: A contemporary operationalization of urban vitality in a district in Barcelona published in Cities in 2022 with Xavier Delclòs-Alió and Carme Miralles-Guasch. The article examines the urban vitality of the Nou Barris district in Barcelona according to a revised version of the metrics set out by Jane Jacobs in her 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

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Music: Ryan Kinnear, Reid Cai, and Becca Mayers

We welcome Dr. Ren Thomas, who is an associate professor in the School of Planning at Dalhousie University. She’s an urban planner, and her research uses the qualitative powers of case studies to explore housing, transportation, and policy planning. She’s a Founding Fellow of the MacEachen Institute of Public Policy and Governance and the Academic Director on the Canadian Institute of Planners Board of Directors. Her experience from coast to coast earns her the perspective and insight to challenge our deep-rooted beliefs on housing.

We’ll be discussing her article: Housing as a Collective Investment Versus a Means to Individual Wealth, written as part of a collection of papers entitled: Housing for People, Not for Profit: Models of Community-Led Housing by Dr. Lisa Bates, published in the Journal of Planning Theory and Practice.

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Music: Ryan Kinnear, Reid Cai, and Becca Mayers

We welcome Dr. Jill Grant, who is a professor emeritus at Dalhousie University’s School of Planning. She’s an urban planner whose research centers around improving the spaces that mean most to us. Her latest work studies development patterns in Canadian suburbs and the influence of the creative class in cities.

In this episode, we discuss her article "Path dependencies affecting suburban density, mix, and diversity in Halifax" published in The Canadian Geographer with co-authors Dr. Pierre Filion and Scott Low.

Link to Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cag.12496

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Music: Ryan Kinnear, Reid Cai, and Becca Mayers

Today we welcome Dr. Pascale Jossart-Marcelli and discuss her recently published book "The $16 Taco". She is Professor of Geography and Director of the Interdisciplinary Urban Studies Program at San Diego State University. Pascale’s teaching and research focus on urban poverty and social justice. During the past decade, she has conducted research on urban geographies of food, with a particular interest in the relationship between place, ethnicity, and food. Pascale relies on mixed methods in her research, combining analyses and mapping of quantitative data with ethnographic work, participatory research, and media explorations. She collaborates with several community-based organizations in San Diego that are working towards creating a more just, healthy, and sustainable food system.

Read the Book: The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification, University of Washington Press

Follow Pascale on Twitter: @JoassartPascale

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Music: Ryan Kinnear, Reid Cai, & Becca Mayers

On today’s episode, We welcome Dr. Evan Mallen who is a researcher with Georgia Tech’s Urban Climate Lab where he focuses on urban heat island mitigation and the public health response. He is also an ORISE Fellow in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Climate and Health Program. 

We’re talking about his paper “Climate change and infrastructure risk: Indoor heat exposure during a concurrent heatwave and blackout event in Phoenix, Arizona” recently published in the journal “Urban Climate” with co-authors Brian Stone, Mayuri Rajput, Ashley Broadbent, Scott Krayenhoff, Godfried Augenbroe, Matei Georgescu

Paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100787

Urban Climate Lab: https://urbanclimate.gatech.edu/

Twitter: @UrbanClimateLab

CDC Climate and Health Program: https://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/default.htm

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Music: Reid Cai and Ryan Kinnear

We welcome Dr. Dhiraj Nainani who is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore. We talk about his dissertation entitled The Legal Geography of Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong’s ‘Last Ghetto’. Chungking Mansions is a ‘notorious’ building complex in the business district of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. It's notorious because of its historical association with criminality and its longstanding and continuous association with the city’s ethnic minority population, primarily South Asians and Africans.

Download here: https://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/300400

Artwork: EmilyHIllustrations

Music: Reid Cai and Ryan Kinnear

We welcome Marcel Moran who is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. The paper focuses on the distribution of amenities at bus stops in San Francisco. Transit stops serve as crucial components of journeys for riders, but their condition is often left out of equity considerations. Marcel conducted a census of transit stops in SF to explore the equity within and between neighbourhoods.

We’re talking about his paper Are Shelters in Place?: Mapping the Distribution of Transit Amenities via a Bus-Stop Census of San Francisco. This paper was recently published in the Journal of Public Transportation.

Twitter: @marcelemoran

Article: https://escholarship.org/content/qt3gj1t495/qt3gj1t495.pdf

Here say News Article by Christina Campodonico

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We welcome Dr. Anne Harris, who is an associate professor in the School of Occupational and Public Health at Toronto Metropolitan University. Anne is an epidemiologist interested in patterns of disease and injuries in populations and is particularly committed to studying and improving the methods used to conduct this type of research. She is interested in developing new ways to study occupational and transportation risk relationships. This includes the linkage of large administrative datasets and population-based survey and cohort data.

We’re talking about her paper “Estimating walking and bicycling in Canada and their road collision fatality risks: The need for a national household travel survey” recently published in Preventive Medicine Reports with co-authors Michael Branion-Calles, Kay Teschke, Mieke Koehoorn, and Osvaldo Espin-Garcia.

Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335521000577

Twitter: https://twitter.com/manneharris

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tSlrEYUAAAAJ&hl=en

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*This episode was sponsored by the American Planning Association Transportation Planning Division Small Grant

We welcome Hannah Hook who is a Ph.D. student at Ghent University of Belgium. She is an urban geographer and EIT Urban Mobility Fellow focusing on daily travel behavior and the relationship between travel satisfaction and well-being. Her background is in Sustainable Cities and GIS Technology. Her research aims to understand the motivations for and attitudes toward daily travel, as this can identify opportunities for encouraging sustainable, healthy travel and improving the social equity of travel.

We’re talking about her paper entitled ‘Does undirected travel compensate for reduced travel during lockdown?’. This paper was recently published in Transportation Letters with her co-authors Jonas De Vos, Veronique Van Acker, and Frank Witlox.

Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19427867.2021.1892935

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hook_tweets

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*This episode was sponsored by the American Planning Association Transportation Planning Division Small Grant