Working Papers
These are working papers associated with PLACES: Platform on Cities, Engagement and Space.
Items in this Collection
- 2Millwoods
- 2Papaschase
- 2Suburbia
- 2spatialisation
- 1, distance, mobility, travel, Serres, Whitehead, topology
- 11870-2015
- 13PLACES Platform on Cities Engagement and Space
- 13PLACES Platform on Cities Engagement and Space/Working Papers
- 3Sociology, Department of
- 2Sociology, Department of/Presentations (Sociology)
- 1Sociology, Department of/Reports (Sociology)
- 1Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of
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2022-01-01
The following is an experimental video presentation produced for the 2022 Space and Culture Conference on Taking Place and Making Place. The experimental video's aim is to consider the use of multimedia for thought production.
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Reimagining the Suburban Strip-mall: The Future Twist. Architectural Proposal for Petrolia Mall, Greenfield, Edmonton Canada
Download2016-02-01
This architectural design proposal applies the lessons of Strip-Appeal.com. IT envisions a new future for Petrolia strip mall. It questions the potential for these spaces to be redeveloped and re-purposed. The future twist of the strip mall is that it’s main appeal will be as a community hub,...
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2017-04-17
Aiming to increase the importance of pedestrian experience in urban design, we are proposing the development of a participatory walkability rating system, consisting of a mobile application that gathers perceptual and factual data from people’s daily walks. In the first part of this paper we...
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1994-04-24
An interrogation of and dialogue with the Via 13 Editorial Collective . The objective is to go beyond the limits of the original vision of the margin and marginalia. But at the same time, it will become clear that this is an archaeological process where in digging ourselves out from under a...
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Logement social — Right to Housing A Sceptical Overview of Social Housing Research, Policy and Struggle in Montréal
Download2021-06-01
Québec has a history of logement social or social housing. This is a first glance survey for anglophone readers of the French-language literature on community housing in Québec’s large cities, with a focus on Montréal.
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2015
Moran, Kieran, Gillespie, Diane, Shields, Rob
he first suburb of Edmonton, the capital of the oil-rich western Canadian prairie province of Alberta, was arguably the Federal Government of Canada's Papaschase Indian reservation 163. Situated inconveniently close to the settlement of Edmonton-Strathcona that had grown up around a Hudson's Bay...
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2020-09-01
Decolonizing Suburban Research1 Rob Shields, Human Geography EAS and Sociology, University of Alberta. North American Suburbs have been treated as sites of a collective amnesia concerning previous patterns of occupation and occupants. As ‘Greenfield sites’ they often either lack history or local...
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2022-04-01
North American Suburbs have been treated as sites of a collective amnesia concerning previous patterns of occupation and occupants. As ‘Greenfield sites’ they often either lack history or local history is shallow, rarely extending back before the agricultural tenants of the last century. A number...
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2013-07-01
Boundaries and boundary-drawing, a classic geopolitical and urban practice, finds itself in a state of crisis. Boundary-marking as both an administrative and cultural exercise is more fraught in contemporary politics. Boundaries as interfaces and social situations challenge the definition and...