Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Geography, Simon Fraser University
I am a scholar of urban sustainability, leading to studies of urban policy, planning, and related social, environmental and geographical approaches to understanding and promoting a sustainability transition in urban governance and urban life. My research includes empirical and community-engaged research in measuring and monitoring sustainability and pragmatic philosophical investigation.
Green buildings must do more to fix our climate emergency
Feb 06, 2019 23:35 pm UTC| Business Nature
After more than three decades of talk about the potential of building green, weve still failed to change the way we design and construct buildings so that the built environment stops being a dominant contributor to runaway...
Our changing views of the city: A new urban celebration
Jul 19, 2018 14:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The celebration of the city today is widespread. Globally, many cities have fulfilled Louis Wirths prophesy from 1930s Chicago. Wirth said that in the future, cities would no longer be simply large concentrations of human...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight