Miscellaneous

Team led by David Gordon at Queen’s University shows there is a more suburban element to the ‘urban’ picture of Canada’s population than previously thought.

The Urban Observatory platform launches at ESRI’s International User Conference to compare and contrast crowd-sourced urban data.

MIT’s Density Atlas platform uses 3 measurements of density to compare projects and neighbourhoods across the world.

Canadian student and social mobilizer Gracen Johnson examines sprawl through the lens of social activism.

The Neighbourhood Change Research Group is hosting a panel event on the topic of urban inequality on July 4 in Toronto. Read for more info.

Links have been added to the Cultures of the Suburbs International Research Network project. Read more about this international collaboration and its contribution to the scholarly conversation about suburban development.

A recent Insight report “Boomtown in the Backyard – Suburban Growth in Ontario” from the Martin Prosperity Institute features the work of School of Planning scholars in examining the growth patterns of what many would consider traditional suburbs. Alongside the written analysis is the use of dot-density maps to visually represent population distribution across Ontario’s cities.

University of British Columbia (UBC) geographers David Ley and Nicholas Lynch find Vancouver income inequality on the rise and show the city segregating along racial, income lines, as reported in the Huffington Post.

Krugman notices the connection between the would-be nominee for the World Bank top job, Jim Yong Kim and Arcade Fire (the latter being a popular band among suburbanists).

No website about suburbia in Canada could be complete without the 1982 classic “Subdivisions” by Rush.