Gerda R Wekerle
Biographic Data
| ID | 834547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerda R Wekerle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerda R |
| FAMILY NAME | Wekerle |
| SIGNATURE | WEKERLE G R |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Planning, Art, and Aesthetics
Robin Hood Gardens (RHG) was a brutalist social housing estate in Poplar, East London, built in 1972 by British architects Alison and Peter Smithson, and since 2017 has been undergoing demolition to be turned into luxury flats as part of the Blackwall Reach Development scheme. Its recent trajectory has followed a similar pattern of state led gentrification experienced by many other inner-city housing estates; with a history of managed decline, pu…
Competing claims in land-use policy
This paper offers an empirically grounded understanding of the historical processes by which economic and institutional actors, particularly industry networks operating over time, influenced regional-scale land use policies at critical junctures involving land conflicts. The research addresses understudied discourses, practices and relationships associated with changes in land use policy. The paper draws on theories of land conflicts and industry…
Land developers as institutional and postpolitical actors
Land developers play an active role as institutional actors that shape the development and governance of urban regions. In this paper, we find that developers not only influence state institutions governing land use, they are place-based actors whose influence is normalized as invited strategic stakeholders in planning exercises. Our analysis highlights the complementarity of institutional and postpolitical theories in offering a nuanced understa…
Gendered Spaces of Activism in Exurbia
Gendered Spaces of Activism in ExurbiaPoliticizing an Ethic of Care from the Household to the Region Teresa V. Abbruzzese (bio) and Gerda R. Wekerle (bio) Introduction Women are often at the forefront of place-based struggles against development and sprawl in the exurban regions of North American cities. This paper analyzes the convergence of women, environment, and place through a case study of women’s engagement in an antisprawl campaign that r…
Producing regionalism
Neoliberalizing environmental governance? Land trusts, private conservation and nature on the Oak Ridges Moraine
From Surf to Turf
In their analysis of growth policies and planning in Toronto in From Surf to Turf: No Limits to Growth in Toronto?, Gene Desfor, Roger Keil, Stefan Kipfer, and Gerda Wekerle argue that the widely accepted characterization of the visions in conflict — one urban and reform, the other suburban and developer-dominated — is oversimplified. Tracing the changing discourses of governance, they show that the development of Toronto today as a competitive c…
Local Responses to Development Pressures
There is an increasing opposition to the absorption of farmland and natural habitats by housing subdivisions and infrastructure, a symptom of urban sprawl. Through an analysis of these challenges at a regional scale, we address the contradictions and tensions in the politics of sprawl and environmental conservation. This article compares environmental conservation on the Oak Ridges Moraine in Richmond Hill and Caledon (two towns in the Greater To…
Urbanizing the security agenda
The meanings of “terrorism” and “anti‐terrorism” are socially constructed and highly contested. Timothy Luke’s (2004) term “propaganda of the deed” suggests that terrorism is linked to a war of signs. Each deed can be mobilized for different interests to energize and embed each act with layers of politics and culture as a frame for retaliation. According to Robert W. Williams, “Contemporary terrorism is characterized by the randomness of its atta…
Food Justice Movements
This article examines the emergence of food justice movements through the lens of social movement theories, which emphasize the politics of place as a resource and strategies of networked movements operating across scales. It examines the creation of a political space for food justice from three perspectives: first, food security from below—the projects and initiatives that serve as alternative practices and precedents for policy change; second, …
Captive Rider, Captive Labor
We examine the impact of residential and workplace location and mode of transportation to work on the incomes of female and male workers. We first review the literature on transportation to work and local labor markets with the goal of integrating aspects of the behavioral and structural approaches. We then present the results of our analysis of household survey data collected in suburban Toronto in 1983. Using the concepts of choice and captive …
A Woman's Place is in the City
A Woman's Place is in the City
Women in the Urban Environment
Vertical Village
This paper examines the characteristics of community life in a age-segregated highrise complex and the implications of this new form of housing for the quality of urban life. The physical characteristics of the housing do not determine behavior of occupants, but use of the residential environment is shaped by the image of the community and is also affected by the characteristics of residents and their housing expectations. The reputation of the c…
Food Justice Movements
This article examines the emergence of food justice movements through the lens of social movement theories, which emphasize the politics of place as a resource and strategies of networked movements operating across scales. It examines the creation of a political space for food justice from three perspectives: first, food security from below—the projects and initiatives that serve as alternative practices and precedents for policy change; second, …
Neoliberalizing environmental governance? Land trusts, private conservation and nature on the Oak Ridges Moraine
Captive Rider, Captive Labor
We examine the impact of residential and workplace location and mode of transportation to work on the incomes of female and male workers. We first review the literature on transportation to work and local labor markets with the goal of integrating aspects of the behavioral and structural approaches. We then present the results of our analysis of household survey data collected in suburban Toronto in 1983. Using the concepts of choice and captive …
A Woman's Place is in the City
Land developers as institutional and postpolitical actors
Land developers play an active role as institutional actors that shape the development and governance of urban regions. In this paper, we find that developers not only influence state institutions governing land use, they are place-based actors whose influence is normalized as invited strategic stakeholders in planning exercises. Our analysis highlights the complementarity of institutional and postpolitical theories in offering a nuanced understa…
Urbanizing the security agenda
The meanings of “terrorism” and “anti‐terrorism” are socially constructed and highly contested. Timothy Luke’s (2004) term “propaganda of the deed” suggests that terrorism is linked to a war of signs. Each deed can be mobilized for different interests to energize and embed each act with layers of politics and culture as a frame for retaliation. According to Robert W. Williams, “Contemporary terrorism is characterized by the randomness of its atta…
From Surf to Turf
In their analysis of growth policies and planning in Toronto in From Surf to Turf: No Limits to Growth in Toronto?, Gene Desfor, Roger Keil, Stefan Kipfer, and Gerda Wekerle argue that the widely accepted characterization of the visions in conflict — one urban and reform, the other suburban and developer-dominated — is oversimplified. Tracing the changing discourses of governance, they show that the development of Toronto today as a competitive c…
Women in the Urban Environment
Vertical Village
This paper examines the characteristics of community life in a age-segregated highrise complex and the implications of this new form of housing for the quality of urban life. The physical characteristics of the housing do not determine behavior of occupants, but use of the residential environment is shaped by the image of the community and is also affected by the characteristics of residents and their housing expectations. The reputation of the c…
Gendered Spaces of Activism in Exurbia
Gendered Spaces of Activism in ExurbiaPoliticizing an Ethic of Care from the Household to the Region Teresa V. Abbruzzese (bio) and Gerda R. Wekerle (bio) Introduction Women are often at the forefront of place-based struggles against development and sprawl in the exurban regions of North American cities. This paper analyzes the convergence of women, environment, and place through a case study of women’s engagement in an antisprawl campaign that r…
Vertical Village
This paper examines the characteristics of community life in a age-segregated highrise complex and the implications of this new form of housing for the quality of urban life. The physical characteristics of the housing do not determine behavior of occupants, but use of the residential environment is shaped by the image of the community and is also affected by the characteristics of residents and their housing expectations. The reputation of the c…
Women in the Urban Environment
A Woman's Place is in the City
A Woman's Place is in the City
Captive Rider, Captive Labor
We examine the impact of residential and workplace location and mode of transportation to work on the incomes of female and male workers. We first review the literature on transportation to work and local labor markets with the goal of integrating aspects of the behavioral and structural approaches. We then present the results of our analysis of household survey data collected in suburban Toronto in 1983. Using the concepts of choice and captive …
Food Justice Movements
This article examines the emergence of food justice movements through the lens of social movement theories, which emphasize the politics of place as a resource and strategies of networked movements operating across scales. It examines the creation of a political space for food justice from three perspectives: first, food security from below—the projects and initiatives that serve as alternative practices and precedents for policy change; second, …
Urbanizing the security agenda
The meanings of “terrorism” and “anti‐terrorism” are socially constructed and highly contested. Timothy Luke’s (2004) term “propaganda of the deed” suggests that terrorism is linked to a war of signs. Each deed can be mobilized for different interests to energize and embed each act with layers of politics and culture as a frame for retaliation. According to Robert W. Williams, “Contemporary terrorism is characterized by the randomness of its atta…
From Surf to Turf
In their analysis of growth policies and planning in Toronto in From Surf to Turf: No Limits to Growth in Toronto?, Gene Desfor, Roger Keil, Stefan Kipfer, and Gerda Wekerle argue that the widely accepted characterization of the visions in conflict — one urban and reform, the other suburban and developer-dominated — is oversimplified. Tracing the changing discourses of governance, they show that the development of Toronto today as a competitive c…
Local Responses to Development Pressures
There is an increasing opposition to the absorption of farmland and natural habitats by housing subdivisions and infrastructure, a symptom of urban sprawl. Through an analysis of these challenges at a regional scale, we address the contradictions and tensions in the politics of sprawl and environmental conservation. This article compares environmental conservation on the Oak Ridges Moraine in Richmond Hill and Caledon (two towns in the Greater To…
Neoliberalizing environmental governance? Land trusts, private conservation and nature on the Oak Ridges Moraine
Producing regionalism
Gendered Spaces of Activism in Exurbia
Gendered Spaces of Activism in ExurbiaPoliticizing an Ethic of Care from the Household to the Region Teresa V. Abbruzzese (bio) and Gerda R. Wekerle (bio) Introduction Women are often at the forefront of place-based struggles against development and sprawl in the exurban regions of North American cities. This paper analyzes the convergence of women, environment, and place through a case study of women’s engagement in an antisprawl campaign that r…
Land developers as institutional and postpolitical actors
Land developers play an active role as institutional actors that shape the development and governance of urban regions. In this paper, we find that developers not only influence state institutions governing land use, they are place-based actors whose influence is normalized as invited strategic stakeholders in planning exercises. Our analysis highlights the complementarity of institutional and postpolitical theories in offering a nuanced understa…
Competing claims in land-use policy
This paper offers an empirically grounded understanding of the historical processes by which economic and institutional actors, particularly industry networks operating over time, influenced regional-scale land use policies at critical junctures involving land conflicts. The research addresses understudied discourses, practices and relationships associated with changes in land use policy. The paper draws on theories of land conflicts and industry…
Planning, Art, and Aesthetics
Robin Hood Gardens (RHG) was a brutalist social housing estate in Poplar, East London, built in 1972 by British architects Alison and Peter Smithson, and since 2017 has been undergoing demolition to be turned into luxury flats as part of the Blackwall Reach Development scheme. Its recent trajectory has followed a similar pattern of state led gentrification experienced by many other inner-city housing estates; with a history of managed decline, pu…
Geography (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works)