Category Archives: Scholarship

Planning in the Age of Participation — presentation at SCARP 2010 Student Symposium on Resilience

Last Friday, I had the chance to address a small group of planning students, faculty and (hopefully) others interested in planning about the use of digital media. (Slides embedded below.)
Planning In The Age Of Participation
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I was delighted with the questions that my talk was able to generate. I drew [...]

Canadian Association of Planning Students 2010 Conference at University of Guelph

Phewf! Between all the running around with the start of the second semester of school, the first month of the year is already week-old history, and I’ve just wrapped up one of the major milestones for this year: the Canadian Association of Planning Students (CAPS-ACEAU) annual conference at the University of Guelph, hosted by students of [...]

Farewell 2009; Salut 2010

2009 has gone and 2010 has come. Good time to collect my reflections on the high and low points, for travel, career, health, projects, skills, all setting the stage for what’s on the horizon for 2010.

Re-imagining Britannia Community Centre and surrounding neighbourhood

Live on The Drive? Hung out there? Ever walk its streets and think, “This place is perfect! NEVER CHANGE!” Or, conversely, “Gawds, this place is awful, won’t someone please do something about it?” (Doubtful, but just covering the bases…)
This range of reactions is exactly what me and my class have been going through, every week [...]

Learning the UBC ropes through UBCevents

I’ve hinted here or there at what my latest gig is — on top of being a Master’s student, that is — and I’m now happy to be able to announce it because, after a few delays, my team and I were (finally!) able to launch our blog today.
Since mid-August, I have been working as [...]

Milestone: first conference proposal submitted

I’ve been jokingly referring on Twitter to my self-imposed “Scholar Frosh” — re-habituating myself to the demands of academic life in order to mentally prepare myself for starting my master’s program. Today is a small milestone: I submitted my first proposal to a peer-reviewed conference. Its proceedings will be published online. I had two people [...]