Alumni & Student Publications

2021

Adams, C. Book Review: The affordable city. Spacing Vancouver. 2021. http://spacing.ca/vancouver/2021/02/02/book-review-the-affordable-city/

2020

Fassihi, F. Thrive Health: a New Venture Connecting Patient Advocacy to Well-Being. International Journal of Community Well-Being. 2020. https://rdcu.be/b383a

Li, C., Banholzer, S., Callihoo, C and Felio, G. Seeing through a New Climate Lens: Canada’s Policy Approach to Climate-Resilient Infrastructure. ASCE Library. 2019.
https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/9780784482650.045

Foong, P. and Lade, C.. Space activation and re-territorialisation. The Urban Transcripts Journal. 2020. http://journal.urbantranscripts.org/article/space-activation-and-re-territorialisation-dr-patrick-foong-chan-camilla-lade/
 

2019

Holden, M. and Holt, R. Green buildings must do more to fix our climate emergency. The National Post. 2019. https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/green-buildings-must-do-more-to-fix-our-climate-emergency2016
 

2018

Brunn, L. Vancouver mayor wants city to become a global model for housing affordability. The Vancouver Sun. 2018. https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-mayor-wants-city-to-become-a-global-model-for-housing-affordability

Farmer, D. and Perl, A.. The role of policy learning in urban mobility adaptation: exploring Vancouver’s plan to remove the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts. Urban Research & Practice. 2018. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17535069.2018.1495758?journalCode=rurp20

Regan, W.. Global planning innovations for urban sustainability. Routledge. 2018. https://www.routledge.com/Global-Planning-Innovations-for-Urban-Sustainability/Darchen-Searle/p/book/9780815357575
 

2017

Evans, T. and Stolhandske, S.. On the bleeding edge of farming the city: an ethnographic study of small-scale commercial urban farming in Vancouver. 2017. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development. https://foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/508

McDougall, K.. Cities in a sea of uncertainty: growing the conversation on regional governance and planning in Metro Vancouver. 2017. https://summit.sfu.ca/item/18312

2016

Guenther, Diana. If Precarious Employment is the New Normal, How Come We're Not Talking About It? Policy Note. October 21, 2016. CCPA. http://www.policynote.ca/if-precarious-employment-is-the-new-normal-how-come-we-are-not-talking-about-it/

Holden, M., Li, C., Molina, A., Sturgeon, D. New actors and intermediary roles in the craft of ecourban neighbourhoods. Articulo Journal of Urban Research 14 [online]: http://articulo.revues.org/3128

Holden, M., D. Sturgeon and S. Fung. Getting to Groundbreaking: Residential building approval processes in Metro Vancouver. Year 2: Focus on woodframe apartments. Vancouver: SFU Urban Studies and Greater Vancouver Home Builders Association. 42 pp http://www.rvu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/G2G_2016_web.pdf

Holden, M., Thumm, A. Bringing the Neighbourhood Into Infill. SFU: Vancouver. Available online: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/16279

Thumm, A., Holden, M. Bringing the Neighbours Into Infill. SFU: Vancouver. Available online: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/16280

Sturgeon, D., Holden, M., Molina, A., Li, C. What does neighbourhood theory mean for Ecourbanism? Introduction to the special issue on ‘Ecourbanism Worldwide.’ Articulo Journal of Urban Research 14 [online]: http://articulo.revues.org/3128

Thumm, A. and M. Holden. Who makes decisions around housing form? Paper presented at the Associate Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Portland, OR.

2015

Holden, M., C. Li and A. Molina. The emergence and spread of eco-urban developments around the world. Sustainability Journal 7(9), 11418-11437; doi:10.3390/su70911418.  http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/7/9/11418.

Holden, M., A. Molina and C. Li. Report of the inaugural meeting of the International Advisory Group: Ecourbanism Worldwide. Vancouver, Simon Fraser University Urban Studies Program. https://ecourbanismworldwide.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/iag-report-2015.pdf

Holden, M. and C. Li. Crafting new assemblages and steering neighbourhood transition. Association of European Schools of Planning Conference, Prague, CZ. http://aesop2015.guarant.eu/aesop-2015-proceedings-2015-07-09.pdf

Holden, M., Scerri, A. and Hadizadeh Esfahani, A. Justifying failures within urban redevelopment success stories: dispute, compromise, and a new test of urbanity. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Online first: DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12182

Malatesta, Sergio. Intangibilidad de las áreas industriales. Revista Mundo Empresarial, May 2015, p22-23. 
http://www.cbb.com.pe/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Malatesta-3.pdf

2014

Gomez, R., Isakov, A. and Semansky, M. 2014. Small Business and the City: The Transformative Potential of Small Scale Entrepreneurship, Rotman-UTP Publishing, University of Toronto Press. 
http://www.utppublishing.com/Small-Business-and-the-City-The-Transformative-Potential-of-Small-Scale-Entrepreneurship.html

Holden, M., A. Hadizadeh Esfahani, and A. Scerri. Facilitated and emergent social learning in sustainable urban development: exposing a mismatch and moving toward convergence. Urban Research and Practice 7(1): 1-19. DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2014.885735

Holden, M., Sidhu T. and Simon, J. Mostly gloom and not enough glimmer in housing report. Georgia Straight. http://www.straight.com/news/817721/meg-holden-terry-sidhu-jacint-simon-mostly-gloom-and-not-enough-glimmer-housing-report

Holden, M., K Cameron, A.Farahbakhsh, C.Hunter, J.Simon, J.Magtoto, M.Friesen, M.Cross, S.Peterson, T. Sidhu. Rethinking the Region: 2^nd annual SFU Urban Studies workshop summary report. Vancouver. https://www.placespeak.com/uploads/assets/Rethinking_the_Region_Summary_report.pdf

Holden, M. and Li, C. 2014. The emergence and spread of eco-urban developments around the world. World Sustainability Forum 2014 – Conference Proceedings Paper. Published online at: http://www.sciforum.net/conference/wsf-4

Holden, M. and Sidhu, T. 2014. Getting to Groundbreaking, Year 1 Focus on Townhouses. Vancouver: SFU Urban Studies Program. 41 pp report. Available online: http://www.refbc.com/sites/default/files/G2G_Report2014_FINAL.pdf

Sidhu, T. and M. Holden. Evaluation of the Potential for Adoption of the STAR Communities Rating System in the City of Surrey. 9 pp. https://www.academia.edu/8604673/STAR_Communities_Evaluation_for_City_of_Surrey

2013

Hall, Peter, Alireza Farahani, Kaleigh Johnston, and Choo-Ming Yeak. 2013. “Pathways to Immigrant Employment in the Port-Logistics Sector”, Metropolis BC, Working Paper No. 13-02.

Jackson, J. and Holden, M. 2013. Sustainable development compromise[d] in the planning of Metro Vancouver’s agricultural lands –the Jackson Farm case. Sustainability 5(11): 4843-69. Available online: http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/5/11/4843

2012

Alix Freiler and Meg Holden,  "Homelessness in the Liveable City: Public space Regulation in Olympic city Vancouver's Poorest Neighbourhood." Critical Planning Journal v.19 (2012), 5-35.

Sikee Liu and Nicholas Blomley, “Making News and Making Space: Framing Vancouver's Downtown Eastside,” The Canadian Geographer, December 2012, 1-14.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2012.00453.x/abstract

Diana Guenther, “Services for at-risk youth in BC: moving from dysfunction to effective support,” CCPA Policy Note, 2012, http://www.policynote.ca/services-for-at-risk-youth-in-bc/

Duncan Wlodarczak, "Smart growth and urban economic development: connecting economic development and land-use planning," Environment and Planning A, 44:5 (2012), 1255-1269

Duncan Low and Peter V. Hall, “The 2010 Cultural Olympiad: Playing for the Global or Local Stage?” International Journal of Cultural Policy, 18:2 (2012): 131-150.

Duncan Low, "Content Analysis and Press Coverage: Vancouver’s Cultural Olympiad", Canadian Journal of Communication, 37:3 (2012), 505-512. www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/download/2581/2330

John Calimente, “Rail integrated communities in Tokyo,” Journal of Transport and Land Use, 5:1 (2012),  19-32. https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/280

Sikee Liu and Nicholas Blomley, “Making News and Making Space: Framing Vancouver's Downtown Eastside,” The Canadian Geographer, December 2012, 1-14. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2012.00453.x/abstract

2010

Peter V. Hall and Anthony Clark, “Maritime ports and the politics of reconnection,” in Desfor, G, Laidley, J, Schubert, D, and Stevens, Q. (eds) Transforming Urban Waterfronts: Fixity and Flow, (New York: Routledge, 2010), 17-34.

Erin O'Melinn, "Broadening Community Engagement: Policy Recommendations that Make Use of Civic Sunk Costs," SPARC BC Newsletter, 2010.

2009

Andre Isakov, Going Local: Inspirational Stories of Local Government and Local Economy in British Columbia,  (Vancouver: Centre for Civic Governance, Columbia Institute, 2009). http://www.civicgovernance.ca/files/uploads/GoingLocal_Web_1_.pdf

Graham Senft, "The conscious city: Traffic congestion and change toward sustainability in metro Vancouver," Urban Environment, 3(2009), 93-103.
http://www.synergiescanada.org/journals/erudit/eue98/eue3236

Meredith Starkey, M. Holden and C. Mochrie, “Finding Common Ground: An evaluation of the municipal engagement strategy on social sustainability indicator development in Metro Vancouver” (Vancouver: Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory, 2009). http://www.rvu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mes-report_20071219_draft.pdf