Our need for do-it-yourself city building
In his last contribution as a member of the community editorial board at the Waterloo Region Record, Troy Glover promotes tactical urbanism as an exciting placemaking strategy in Waterloo Region.
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Making original contributions to tourism research
Tom Griffin, a member of the Healthy Communities Research Network, received the Peter W. Williams PhD award from the Canadian chapter of the Travel and Tourism Research Association for his original contributions to the advancement research on visiting friends and relatives (also known as VFR), a concept central to tourism research.
Mind the gap: encourage women to bike
Troy Glover, in his latest op-ed for the Waterloo Region Record, encourages city officials to encourage more women to bike. Doing so, he argues, means making our cities more bike-friendly. And making our cities more bike friendly means good things for our communities.
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Troy Glover, in an op-ed for the Waterloo Region Record, explains why urban development that embraces mixed uses, walkability, cycling, transit, parks, and vibrant public spaces has become accepted wisdom across the developed world.
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Troy Glover, the director of the Healthy Communities Research Network, was named to the Placemaking Leadership Council, a group formed by the Project for Public Spaces.
In his latest op-ed as a member of the community editorial board for the Waterloo Region Record, Troy Glover confronts a despicable act witnessed at a local St. Patrick's Day street party in Waterloo. The event offers university students an important opportunity to lay claim to their adopted community, but doesn't give them a license to behave badly.
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Corey Johnson and Diana Parry, a member of the Healthy Communities Research Network, co-edited the first textbook to explore the practice of conducting qualitative research within a social justice paradigm.
Troy Glover, director of the Healthy Communities Research Network, used satire to take on the practice of public placemaking in an op-ed he wrote as a member of the community editorial board of the Waterloo Region Record.