Meg Holden, Ph.D. Associate Professor Urban Studies and Geography Simon Fraser University 2nd Floor 515 West Hastings St. Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3 tel. 778.782.7888 fax. 778.782.5297 email. mholden at sfu.ca

Home | About | Courses | Publications Selected scholarly writing . . . 2011. "Urban policy engagement with social sustainability in metro Vancouver." Urban Studies. (Early view). 2011. "Public participation and local sustainability: questioning a common agenda in urban governance." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35(2): 312-329. (Download). 2010. Co-edited with Rhonda Phillips. Special Issue: Best Papers from the 2009 Community Indicators Consortium. Applied Research in Quality of Life 5(4). (view online). 2010. "The Rhetoric of Sustainability: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy?" Sustainability 2(2): 645-659. (Online). 2009. [with C.Owens and C.Mochrie] "Lessons from a Community-Based Process in Regional Sustainability Indicator Selection." In M.J.Sirgy, D.Rahtz and R.Phillips (eds) Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases IV. Springer, pp. 59-80. (Book website). 2009. "Community Interests and Indicator System Success." Social Indicators Research 92: 429-448. 2008. "The Tough Minded and the Tender Minded: A pragmatic turn for urban sustainable development policy." Planning Theory and Practice 9(4): 475-496. 2008. "Social learning in planning: Seattle's sustainable development codebooks." Progress in Planning 69(1): 1-40. 2008. [1st author with D.Elverum, S.Nesbit, J.Robinson, D.Yen and J.Moore]"Learning teaching in the sustainability classroom." Ecological Economics 64: 521-533. 2008. [1st author with J.MacKenzie and R.VanWynsberghe] "Vancouver's promise of the world's first sustainable Olympic Games." Environment and Planning C 26: 882-905. 2007. [1st author with M.Roseland, K.Ferguson and A.Perl] "WUF3: The dog that didn't bark." Journal of Urban Technology 14(2): 123-129. 2006. "Revisiting the local impact of community indicators projects: Sustainable Seattle as prophet in its own land." Applied Research in Quality-of-Life 3/4: 253-277.(Download pdf) 2006. [1st author with C. Mochrie] "The Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory: "our view" of sustainability indicator projects." Revista Internacional de Sostenibilidad, Tecnologia, y Humanismo 1(1): 137-158. (Download pdf) 2006. "Reconciling the potential of three world religions in the move toward sustainable development." In D.Spivak & S.Burn (eds) Unity and Diversity in Religion and Culture: Exploring the psychological and philosophical issues underlying global conflict. St. Petersburg, RUS: Eidos, pp. 540-552. 2006. “Urban indicators and the integrative ideals of cities.” Cities Journal 23(3): 170-183. (Download pdf) 2006. "Sustainable Seattle: The case of the prototype sustainability indicators project." In J. Sirgy, D. Rahtz, and C. Patterson (eds.) Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases II. Springer-Verlag. 2001. "Uses and abuses of sustainability indicator studies." Canadian Journal of Urban Research 10(2): 217-236. 2001. "Bringing GIS into democratic land use planning: promises and pitfalls." Urbanistica: Journal of the Italian National Institute of Town and Regional Planning 115: 172-77. 2001. "The great promise of urban environmental policy." Critical Planning Journal 8: 77-89. Reprinted in (2002) Milano Review 2: 89-98. 2001. "Phenomenology versus pragmatism: Seeking a restoration environmental ethic." Environmental Ethics 22: 37-56. Reply to David Abram printed in (2002) Environmental Ethics 24: 111-112. 2000. "GIS in democratic and sustainable land use planning: Lessons from critical theory and the Gulf Islands." Journal of Planning Education and Research 19(3): 287-96. . . . other publications: 2011. "Seeking Livability and Sustainability" Docklands News (June). 2010. [Member of Project Team] "Commission 2: Managing Urban Growth." Melbourne, Australia: Metropolis, the World Orgagnization of Major Metropolises. 2009. [with Kristin McIlhenney] "Online Education in Sustainability Assessment: Evaluation of a pilot course and guide for future work." Vancouver: Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory. 2008. "Paradoxes of Parasitic Urbanization." H-Urban Review of R.A.Beauregard's When America Became Suburban. 2007. "Vancouver Urban Observatory." Alternatives Journal 33(2/3): 40. 2006. [1st author with Clare Mochrie] "Counting on Vancouver: Our view of the region." Vancouver: Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory. (Download pdf) 2004. (With Sean Connelly) "The Learning City: Urban sustainability education and building toward WUF legacy." In H. Peter Oberlander (ed.) The Vancouver Working Group Discussion Papers for the World Urban Forum. Ottawa: Government of Canada. 2001. "New York Burn Out." The Fiddlehead (Winter, No.210): 5-11. 2000. "Perfect Exhilaration and a Manual Transmission" Terrain: Journal of the Built and Natural Environments 7 (Spring).