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“Moving in Data”: The Open Data Gaze as a form of Municipal Statecraft in the Entrepreneurial City
DownloadFall 2022
Globally speaking, data-driven urbanism is on the rise. As data becomes more readily available and important in contemporary economies, municipal governments are adopting new ways of managing and planning cities. By transforming themselves via urban data, cities can position themselves to be...
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Fall 2021
The concept of ‘winter cities’ speaks to a particular relationship between place and winter. However, winter cities are largely under examined in urban research, particularly Canadian cities. This thesis asks what type of place is a winter city and what types of placemaking occur in this context?...
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2019-11-23
SSHRC Awarded PDG 2020: Impact assessments (IA) are a crucial tool in the management of disruptions to our climate, ecosystems and communities generated by economic development. Given the growing concerns about the sustainability of socio-ecological systems in Canada and globally, IAs are rightly...
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Crowdsourcing Edmonton's Ribbon of Green: A Case Study of Neogeography in Edmonton's River Valley
DownloadFall 2012
Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) has defined a process to support public expression of place-based knowledge. The central weakness of this approach stems from a lack of collaboration support for groups of citizens. Recent GeoWeb advances are challenging PPGIS in this...
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2013-10-29
SSHRC Awarded Invited PG (stage 2) 2014: We propose to engage Canadians in a discussion of race, place, and the law. Canada continues to bear the legacy of a past in which racism held sway. The importance of race in shaping the very spaces we inhabit is epitomized by the events of World War...
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2019-02-02
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2019: This IDG project aims at developing an inclusive approach to landscape by studying it through the lens of 'biography' and using cutting edge methods of archaeological prospection. I have selected a test area of 600 hectares of forested countryside in Achaia Phthiotis, a...
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Nanotechnology and the Alberta Capital Region: A Case Study of Integrating Communities, Innovation and Development
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SSHRC Awarded PDG 2012: What can cities and communities do to support and benefit from new technologies? How can knowledge-intensive sectors develop in ways which account for local contexts and local needs? How can benefits and prosperity be made to 'stick' to the communities in which new...
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Opioid Prescribing Patterns for Treatment of Acute and Chronic Pain in Rural and Urban British Columbia
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Throughout Canada there has been an increase in both fatal and non-fatal opioid related overdoses, with British Columbia having some of the highest rates. In response to this increase, the Provincial Health Officer of British Columbia declared a public health emergency to mobilize resources to...
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2020-01-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. Overnight on July 24, 2020, a teepee was erected and a sacred fire lit on a triangular patch of grass on Amiskwaciy territory, also known as the Rossdale Flats in downtown Edmonton, Alberta. Ten days later, 170 tents were pitched, providing shelter and community for 300...
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2023-04-25
SSHRC CG awarded 2023: Mine legacies are scattered across Canadian and Australian landscapes in the form of million-to-billion dollar public liabilities, land contamination and degradation, social disruption, and alienation of Indigenous people from their traditional lands. In the northern...