Youth and young adults increasingly car-free
A couple of years ago, when I presented the results of my Masters thesis on the social travel patterns of youth and young adults to TransLink, I got some mixed reactions. On one hand, the younger...
View ArticleMeasuring well-being
It’s so rare that I see a headline on my parents’ home state of Kerala that I couldn’t resist writing about this article in the Globe and Mail. For those of you who don’t know, Kerala (pronounced...
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Save Transit City
I’m getting pretty tired of writing about great policies and projects that we’ve proposed in Canada, only to have to write later that the government has decided not to fund them. Toronto’s Transit City...
View ArticleSheng and Shanghai
Sheng Zhong recently defended her PhD dissertation at UBC School of Community and Regional Planning. Last year at the Association of American Geographers annual conference, she gave us a little...
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Toronto’s “class divide”
Many researchers in Toronto have become experts at mapping the city’s spatial, cultural, ethnic, and political trends. A few years ago, the Globe and Mail even published a language map of Toronto based...
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Segregated or integrated? American and Canadian ethnic populations
Bill Rankin's map of Chicago A couple of years ago, when I attended the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning annual conference in Chicago, I was stunned to hear that Cleveland and Chicago are...
View ArticleFilipinos: a growing presence in Canadian cities
Filipino immigrants are a rapidly growing group in many Canadian cities: there are almost half a million Filipinos in the country. In many ways, they are distinct: recent studies have highlighted their...
View ArticleVancouver: a hookup nightmare?
Vancouver has a lot of things going for it: beautiful scenery, coffee shops on every corner, and some fantastic local foods. But as my regular readers know, Vancouver also has undesirable...
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Vancouver riot: hooliganism at its finest
Fans watching Game 4 in front of the Vancouver Public Library Two weeks have passed since the Vancouver Canucks’ Game 7 Stanley Cup loss to the Boston Bruins and the ensuing riot. Other events have...
View ArticleNew insights into immigrant employment trajectories
There have been a few interesting articles lately discussing immigrants’ employment success in Canada. Last week, The Globe and Mail published a story about a new project begun by Maytree, a charitable...
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Metro Vancouver’s active transportation trends
The results of a two-year partnership, My Health My Community, give us a lot of insight into Metro Vancouver’s active transportation trends: 43% of residents say their primary transportation mode is...
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Over the Line: A Conversation About Race, Place, and the Environment
I’ll be live blogging from the Over the Line symposium today, a one-day symposium on race, place, and the environment that brings together experts from the US, Canada, and Nova Scotia. This exciting...
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Save Transit City
I’m getting pretty tired of writing about great policies and projects that we’ve proposed in Canada, only to have to write later that the government has decided not to fund them. Toronto’s Transit City...
View ArticleSheng and Shanghai
Sheng Zhong recently defended her PhD dissertation at UBC School of Community and Regional Planning. Last year at the Association of American Geographers annual conference, she gave us a little...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Toronto’s “class divide”
Many researchers in Toronto have become experts at mapping the city’s spatial, cultural, ethnic, and political trends. A few years ago, the Globe and Mail even published a language map of Toronto based...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Segregated or integrated? American and Canadian ethnic populations
Bill Rankin's map of Chicago A couple of years ago, when I attended the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning annual conference in Chicago, I was stunned to hear that Cleveland and Chicago are...
View ArticleFilipinos: a growing presence in Canadian cities
Filipino immigrants are a rapidly growing group in many Canadian cities: there are almost half a million Filipinos in the country. In many ways, they are distinct: recent studies have highlighted their...
View ArticleVancouver: a hookup nightmare?
Vancouver has a lot of things going for it: beautiful scenery, coffee shops on every corner, and some fantastic local foods. But as my regular readers know, Vancouver also has undesirable...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vancouver riot: hooliganism at its finest
Fans watching Game 4 in front of the Vancouver Public Library Two weeks have passed since the Vancouver Canucks’ Game 7 Stanley Cup loss to the Boston Bruins and the ensuing riot. Other events have...
View ArticleNew insights into immigrant employment trajectories
There have been a few interesting articles lately discussing immigrants’ employment success in Canada. Last week, The Globe and Mail published a story about a new project begun by Maytree, a charitable...
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