Dense City

We welcome Dr. Léa Ravensbergen, who is a post-doctoral fellow at TRAM or (Transportation research at McGill) in the School of Urban Planning. Her mixed-methods transport research is driven by an overarching concern for equity in the creation of healthy and sustainable cities. Her doctoral research on the gender gap in cycling won the 2019 American Association of Geographer’s Urban Geography PhD Dissertation award. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at McMaster University where she conducted community-engaged research on older adults’ experiences using public transportation.

We’re talking about her paper entitled 'Toward feminist geographies of cycling'. This paper was published in Geography Compass in 2019 with co-authors Ron Buliung, and Nicole Laliberte.

Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gec3.12461?casa_token=A-QVpilA2lMAAAAA%3ARUH5PtI2wzbYPHmUPk4W6OsS_LiKfVucQNw7m3Y9MDA7g4Xmw-NbmPI0M7UloSppf90cjQcazvqDqw

Read and cite more of Lea's work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JVqj9wxWT0UC&hl=en&oi=sra

Artwork: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/EmilyHIllustrations

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

We welcome Dr. Meghan Winters who is an associate professor in the faculty of health sciences at Simon Fraser University. She is an epidemiologist interested in the link between health, transportation, and city design. She is the founder and lead of the Cities, Health, and Active Transportation Lab at SFU (CHATR).

We’re talking about her paper entitled ‘COVID-19 street reallocation in mid-sized Canadian cities: socio-spatial equity patterns’ published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health with her co-author Jaimy Fischer.

Paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.17269/s41997-020-00467-3

CHATR Site: https://chatrlab.ca/

Room to Move Storymap: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6c8ee50c32e043a0b635426c366aac0c

Artwork: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/EmilyHIllustrations

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

We welcome Dr. Kelcie Ralph who is an assistant professor at Rutgers in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. In her research, Dr. Ralph works to identify and correct common misperceptions about travel behavior and safety to improve transportation planning outcomes. 

We’re talking about her paper entitled “Distracted by ‘distracted pedestrians”? Published in the journal Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives with co-author Ian Girardeau.

This study focuses on the framing of distracted walking, irons out some of the literature on what we know about it, how large a problem it actually is, and what measures we should be focusing on to keep pedestrians safe. As we’ll learn from Kelcie, what we know about distracted pedestrians highly influences how we try to address this issue.

Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198220300294

Website: http://www.kelcieralph.org/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ88Qw1X_DkBRy27SIrFPGw

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

On today’s episode, we welcome Dr. Samantha Biglieri (@s_biglieri) who is an assistant professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University. She is an urban planner, and her research uses critical approaches at the intersection of planning and health and wellbeing, making connections with practice to build inclusive and accessible communities.

We’re talking about her paper The Right to (Re)shape the City as a Person Living with Dementia: Examining the accessibility of a public engagement tool for people living with dementia. Journal of the American Planning Association.

Checkout more of Samantha's work here

Artwork: emilyh.illustrations

Music: Reid Cai and Ryan Kinnear

On today’s episode, we welcome Dr. Brian Doucet who is an Associate Professor in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo. He is the Canada Research Chair in Urban Change and Social Inclusion. He is interested in the lived experiences of urban change, gentrification, and displacement. His work seeks to use this knowledge to elevate marginalized voices in order to enhance debates and shape policy and planning.

We’re talking about his paper “Repeat photography and urban change” which is an examination of streetcar photographs of Toronto since the 1960s. This paper was recently published in the “City” Journal and has a forthcoming book on the topic to be published later this year with the University of Toronto Press with his co-author Michael Doucet.

Read Brian's Paper here

You can also access some of the photos on Brian's personal website

Follow Brian on Twitter @bmdoucet 

Read his other scholarly work through his GoogleScholar page

Artwork: emilyh.illustrations

On today’s episode, we welcome Dr. Lyana Patrick, an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Her research focuses on indigenous health and justice, urban indigenous community planning, and institutional change through decolonizing education.

We discuss her paper “The power of connections: How a novel Canadian men’s wellness program is improving the health and well-being of Indigenous and non-Indigenous men”. This paper was published in the international indigenous policy journal. The other authors on this paper include Iloradanon Efimoff,* Viviane Josewski, Paul Gross, Sandy Lambert, and Vicki Smye.

Learn more about DUDES Club

Read more about Lyana's quantitative work on the same program published in The Conversation

Read more about Lyana and her work on her SFU Website

Artwork by Emily Huang of Watercolouredbyemily

On todays episode, we welcome Dr. Jordi Honey (@jordihoney) and Adam Lind. Jordi is an Associate Professor at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. Adam is a graduate of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he specialized in environmental science and city planning.

We’re discussing their paper “Rule compliance and desire lines in Barcelona’s cycling network” which was published in the International Journal of Transportation Research in 2020.

Citation: Lind, A., Honey-Rosés, J., & Corbera, E. (2020). Rule compliance and desire lines in Barcelona’s cycling network. Transportation Letters, 1-10.

Artwork: Watercolouredbyemily: https://www.instagram.com/watercolouredbyemily/?hl=en

Music: Reid Cai and Ryan Kinnear

On this episode, we’re chatting with Dr. Magdalena Ugarte who is an assistant professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University. Her research and teaching agendas are shaped by her journey across design, planning, and social policy over the past fifteen years, both as a scholar and as a practitioner. In her scholarship, she examines the role of planning, policy, and law in the marginalization of some communities, especially Indigenous peoples and immigrants. 

Today we are discussing Magda's research paper entitled "Ethics, Discourse, or Rights? A Discussion about a Decolonizing Project in Planning" in the journal of planning literature.

Quoted in the episode on colonial timelines of planning: Sierra Tasi Baker is the lead cultural and design consultant at Sky Spirit Consulting. Sierra is a descendant of Squamish, Musqueam, Kwakwaka’wakw, Tlingit, Haida and Hungarian Chieftains and Matriarchs. See the video by Vancouver Planning Commission: http://vancouverplanning.ca/our-work/post-pandemic-city/video/

Today's guest is Alexander “AJ” Wray, who is a doctoral student in geography and environment at the University of Western Ontario, coordinating the Food Retail Environment Study for Health and Economic Resiliency (FRESHER) and ParkSeek projects for the Human Environments Analysis Lab. His research interests span the range of health, GIS, impact assessment, chronic disease prevention, and local policy. AJ recently received his Masters in Geography from Western and holds an undergraduate degree in planning and environmental assessment from the University of Waterloo. We discuss his Master's thesis entitled "Signs with a Side of Fries: The influence of outdoor advertising on retail food outlet purchases by adolescents."

Thesis: Signs with a Side of Fries

AJ's Google Scholar Page

Artwork: Watercolouredbyemily

Music: Reid Cai and Ryan Kinnear

Today’s guest is Dr. Troy Glover. He is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies and Director of the Healthy Communities Research Network at the University of Waterloo. His research explores the role of leisure in advancing or deterring community, primarily through the development of social capital and transformative placemaking. This expertise generally leads him to research topics such as community gardens, neighbourhood festivals, dog parks, playgrounds, tourism. Today, we’ll be chatting about his recent book chapter “Bringing Public Spaces to Life: The animation of public space” in the book “Companion to Public Space” By Vikas Mehta and Danilo Plazzo, published by Routledge in 2020.

Glover, T. D. (2020). BRINGING PUBLIC SPACES TO LIFE. Companion to Public Space. Routledge.

Link to the paper: https://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5urkDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT474&dq=BRINGING+PUBLIC+SPACES+TO+LIFE+TD+Glover+Companion+to+Public+Space&ots=md00DPftbR&sig=4z6VMplk1UeEdcx1Lbvzrarpo-0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Link to read more of Troy's work: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=P8OQyCIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Watercolouredbyemily: https://www.instagram.com/watercolouredbyemily/?hl=en