D Collins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 69967 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D Collins |
| NOMBRES | D |
| APELLIDO | Collins |
| FIRMA | COLLINS D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7981-3586 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 67 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 567 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Residential attractiveness of European space
This study examines the perceived residential attractiveness of Europe from the perspective of university students in Canada and Czechia. A total of 503 respondents produced a data set of over 3,100 sketches supplemented by 4,800 open-ended textual reasons, which were systematically classified into social, environmental, economic and other factors. Results reveal general convergence in preferences: both groups consistently highlight Northern and …
Accessing Home
This paper examines podcasting as both a research method and a knowledge mobilization tool within disability geography. It does so with reference to Accessing Home, a narrative podcast involving disabled people living in social and affordable housing in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It focuses on how podcasting can produce and disseminate knowledge about the socio-spatial dimensions of disability, grounded in lived experiences. It argues that podcas…
Taking away from people in the community? Assessing short-term rentals in a rural Canadian context
The impacts of short-term rentals (STRs) on housing markets have become a topic of academic interest and public concern. Previous studies of STRs have often focused on large cities, emphasizing tourist demand for central locations and urban housing dynamics. However, the impacts of STRs extend into rural areas with high natural amenity values. This research focused on two small communities in rural British Columbia, Canada. Our goals were: (1) to…
Nonprofit Housing in Rural British Columbia
Community housing is central to addressing Canada’s housing affordability crisis. In rural areas, nonprofit organizations play a lead role in the provision of community housing. We conducted research in Kaslo and Nelson, rural communities in British Columbia, to determine the causes of housing affordability challenges and assess the efforts of nonprofit organizations to address them. Key informant interviews revealed that housing demand is fuelle…
Framing the human right to adequate housing
Second thoughts
While secondary suites were once informal and hidden, they are now seen as a key to addressing Canada's housing supply and affordability challenges. Cities such as Edmonton, where this study was conducted, have reformed their urban planning to allow and encourage secondary suites. In this context, it is important to know whether secondary suites meet adequacy standards. We conducted focus groups with 32 postsecondary students who lived in seconda…
Conceptualizing Location Efficiency
The concept of location efficiency is used in academic and gray literature relating to urban form, household location, and associated transportation costs. This paper analyzes the history of this usage of location efficiency and how it evolved into divergent constructs; it then defines three concepts distinguished by scale—household, neighborhood, and municipal location efficiency. These related yet distinct concepts provide clarity use of the te…
Picturing a Home
The photo-elicitation method can provide rich insights into home-making – the process whereby residents use, modify and personalize domestic space. However, previous studies have prioritized the words of participants, gathered in follow-up interviews, over photographs themselves. This paper presents an alternative methodological approach. Specifically, we approach photographs as primary sources, with a focus on their composition. First, we demons…
Adverse childhood experiences in a pathway to single adult homelessness in Hamilton, New Zealand
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can contribute to housing instability and risk of homelessness, featuring disproportionately in the life histories of many people experiencing homelessness. However, little is known about the prevalence and lifelong impact of ACEs among people experiencing homelessness in New Zealand, a country experiencing increasing homelessness levels amid a housing affordability crisis. Drawing on data from 100 questionnai…
Addressing the Continuing Quandary of Theory in Housing Research
Intersecting Barriers
Canada's National Housing Strategy acknowledges that identity factors are closely connected to housing vulnerability. Specifically, it identifies 12 groups at heightened risk of negative housing outcomes in Canada. In this research, we focus on the intersection of two of these groups: LGBTQ people and refugees. Existing studies establish that members of both groups are vulnerable to discrimination, homelessness, and housing unaffordability. Howev…
Assessing mode-specific transport affordability in a car-centric city
Assessing Housing First programs from a right to housing perspective
The notion that Housing First (HF) is a human-rights based approach to housing some of society’s most vulnerable citizens is often alluded to in the literature, but seldom interrogated. In this paper, we examine whether HF in Alberta, Canada is practiced in a way that realizes the right to housing for chronically homeless people. We do so using four human rights principles identified by Fukuda-Parr: non-discrimination, participation, adequate pro…
The reticent state? Interpreting emergency responses to homelessness in Alberta, Canada
Historically, governmental responses to homelessness in Canada have defaulted to the most basic of services such as food and shelter. Even under exceptional circumstances, such as the current coronavirus pandemic, governments still demonstrate reluctance to guarantee permanent, adequate and affordable housing to all. In this policy review we argue that this pattern suggests that reticence is an apt term for describing homelessness responses in Ca…
“When We Do Evict Them, It’s a Last Resort”
Evictions are a common contributing factor to homelessness and are experienced overwhelmingly by vulnerable populations, including low-income households, single parents, and minority groups. At the same time, social and affordable housing providers serve increasingly vulnerable populations. Although all evictions are potentially problematic, those that occur in social and affordable housing can carry particularly severe consequences. Little resea…
Tactical Performance of Talented Youth Soccer Players (Rendimiento táctico de jóvenes jugadores de fútbol con talento)
The evaluation of talented soccer players has been based, traditionally, on physical capacities through technical-tactical tests. However, in the last years, soccer academies are focused their evaluations on technical-tactical and physical capacities, as well. Given that, the purpose of this work has been twofold: 1) to examine the evolution of the tactical performance of a group of talented players previously selected; 2) to compare the tactical…
We embrace winter here”
Weather is an elementary and fundamental characteristic of place. In any given place we encounter the materiality of weather, local meanings attached to weather, and practices adopted in response to living with weather. Winter cities are places defined by their weather—long, cold winters that can pose challenges to urban life. Efforts to address these challenges centre on place‐making activities, such as seasonal festivals, which seek to enrich p…
Growth over resilience
In response to anthropogenic climate change, many governments are adopting policies to reduce carbon emissions. In Canada, federal and provincial governments have implemented carbon pricing. One of the effects of putting a price on carbon is increasing the cost of using private vehicles, which may reduce mobility and increase the risk of social exclusion, especially in contexts where car dependence is high. In this article, we analyse how municip…
Does Housing First policy seek to fulfil the right to housing? The case of Alberta, Canada
Housing First (HF) operates on the premise that permanent housing is the first need of people experiencing chronic homelessness. It understands housing as a resource to which everyone is entitled, not a privilege that must be earned. In these respects, HF is consistent with housing as a human right. However, little is known about if or how HF policy seeks to fulfil this right. To address this gap, we conducted keyword and content analyses of HF p…
Young Adults’ Perceptions of Life-Course Scripts and Housing Transitions
Today’s young adults enter a housing market substantively different from that of their parents, within a life-course path that is also profoundly changed. However, relatively little research considers how life-course and housing norms are perceived by young adults themselves, including in contexts where these norms are difficult to fulfil, such as Canada. We address this gap from the perspective of young adults in Edmonton, Alberta, drawing on fo…
Take whatever you can get’
Housing First (HF) is an increasingly widespread and influential response to chronic homelessness. Programs using an HF approach typically rely on market apartments to house homeless clients as rapidly as possible. This reliance means HF programs are dependent on the availability and affordability of market housing. Little attention has been given to how shortages of affordable rental housing influence the practice of HF. To address this gap, we …
On thin ice
Inner‐city service hubs are vital spaces of survival for homeless populations. They are also vulnerable to gentrification‐induced displacement, putting the populations they serve at increased risk. This paper contributes to recent work on the resilience of inner‐city service hubs through a case study of Edmonton, Canada. Specifically, we theorise the assemblage‐like qualities of Edmonton's service hub, in the context of a major urban redevelopmen…
Campgrounds as service hubs for the marginally housed
The service hub concept is strongly associated with deprived areas of North American inner cities, where agglomerations of low-cost housing and service providers form a space of survival for marginalised populations. In this paper, we contend that service hubs can take other forms, including as small-scale sites of housing and service provision, informally networked across an urban region. We develop this argument with reference to suburban campg…
Considering the camp
As code for spaces of mobile dwelling, the camp and its verb “camping” occupy ambivalent territory. For the well-housed, camping out can be a space and time of recreational discretion, while for those living precariously, the camp can offer temporary respite from forced and continual mobility. We argue that notions of camping are defined in part by their opposite: regular, permanent, secure and formal housing. However, not all campers have housin…
Celebrated, not just endured
A winter city is any urban centre that experiences a long, dark, cold, and/or snowy winter. The Winter Cities movement is a more precise concept, referring to cities taking an active role in becoming more appealing and functional in winter, primarily through physical interventions. The movement also has a social purpose, seeking to counter reclusion and "hibernation" in winter through greater use of the public realm. The movement is increasingly …
Social Geographies of Education
Schools have received less attention from geographers than institutions such as the clinic and the hospital - despite the fact that, for most people, encounters with sites of medicine are rarer than encounters with sites of education. Indeed, schools are central to the geographies of children and young people, and to the organization of much family life. Moreover, they play a central role in shaping social identities. In this article, we provide …
New Zealand children's health camps
Under curfew and under siege? Legal geographies of young people
Nuances of neighbourhood
Feeling for the coast
This paper considers the feelings that are evoked in, and by, coastal places. We are particularly interested in how emotional connections with the coastal environment can be a resource and motivation for place-protective action. We draw on stakeholder interviews undertaken in the northern New Zealand locality of Ngunguru in 2008–2009. This site was a 'hot spot' of community concern around a proposed major residential development. Our data reveal …
The safe journeys of an enterprising school
Pulling up the Tent Pegs?' The Significance and Changing Status of Coastal Campgrounds in New Zealand
This article considers the importance of beach-front campgrounds in New Zealand, both as physical sites offering affordable public access to coastal environments, and as sites of social and psychological meaning. It traces the evolution of coastal campgrounds from 'freedom camping', to more formal (if initially basic) facilities, to the development of relatively up-market holiday parks offering a wide range of services and accommodation options. …
Geographies of inequality
Crossing roads, crossing boundaries
Children's journeys between home and school have become increasingly problematic in Western cities as a result of intensifying traffic and safety concerns. Many parents now take their children to school by car and, through driving, exacerbate congestion. In response to this situation, a number of school communities, in partnership with local authorities, have established walking school buses (WSBs). In this paper the WSB phenomenon is critiqued, …
Prevalence and Causes of Urban Homelessness Among Indigenous Peoples
A scoping review was carried out to investigate the prevalence and causes of urban homelessness among Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Relevant information was sought from both academic and grey literatures. Data on prevalence were sourced from homeless count reports. Analysis reveals Indigenous peoples are consistently over-represented within urban homeless populations, often by a factor of 5 or more. Literature addressin…
Beyond Punitive Regulation? New Zealand Local Governments' Responses to Homelessness
This article investigates the ways in which New Zealand local authorities respond to homelessness. It finds that while some punitive bylaws targeting homeless people exist, they are not widespread, and in three case study cities are accompanied by efforts to support social service providers. This indicates that New Zealand local authorities are prepared to look at alternatives to address homelessness, as opposed solely to following trends towards…
A healthy island blue space
Understanding modal choice for the trip to school
Homelessness, bedspace and the case for Housing First in Canada
Exploring Social Mobilities
Recent studies have discussed the important role of the automobile in shaping contemporary urban social life. This research used a series of focus groups in Auckland, New Zealand, to illuminate the complex social attitudes and values associated with walking as well as driving. While the car is the dominant transport mode in Auckland, the shortcomings as well as the benefits of automobile use and dependence are well known. Moreover, while walking …
Homelessness in Canada and New Zealand
This article provides a comparative perspective on homelessness in Canada and New Zealand, with a focus on three urban regions. It seeks to document homeless numbers in the chosen cities, to evaluate the utility of counting the homeless, and to identify common and divergent approaches in homelessness policy. Research involved document analysis, key informant interviews, and participant observation. Literal homelessness is found to be several orde…
Not a “forever model”
This article investigates how Housing First (HF) is practiced in Alberta, Canada, with a focus on the concept of graduation. The dominant HF model, Pathways, holds that client support should be time-unlimited. However, HF is highly mobile and increasingly characterized by ambiguity and drift away from Pathways principles. In Alberta, one prominent example of drift is the notion that clients can and should graduate – that is, “exit” HF programs af…
Uninterrupted Views
This paper considers the landscape of coastal property in New Zealand through the lens of real-estate advertising. In analyzing a sample of 236 newspaper advertisements, it connects representations of coastal housing to broader concerns about the development of the coastline. Much public anxiety centres on the notion that coastal residential development and escalating property values signal private gain, but public loss. What is lost, it is claim…
Take whatever you can get’
Housing First (HF) is an increasingly widespread and influential response to chronic homelessness. Programs using an HF approach typically rely on market apartments to house homeless clients as rapidly as possible. This reliance means HF programs are dependent on the availability and affordability of market housing. Little attention has been given to how shortages of affordable rental housing influence the practice of HF. To address this gap, we …
It’s a gestalt experience”
An integral part of the children's education”
The walking school bus
In many Western cities, the journey between home and school has become problematic, due to intensifying traffic and growing fears for children's safety. Accordingly, many parents now chauffeur their children to and from school. This situation has compounded congestion, prompting efforts to identify safe alternatives. One recent innovation is the walking school bus (WSB). In this paper we report on the development of this initiative, and its adopt…
Young Adults’ Perceptions of Life-Course Scripts and Housing Transitions
Today’s young adults enter a housing market substantively different from that of their parents, within a life-course path that is also profoundly changed. However, relatively little research considers how life-course and housing norms are perceived by young adults themselves, including in contexts where these norms are difficult to fulfil, such as Canada. We address this gap from the perspective of young adults in Edmonton, Alberta, drawing on fo…
On thin ice
Inner‐city service hubs are vital spaces of survival for homeless populations. They are also vulnerable to gentrification‐induced displacement, putting the populations they serve at increased risk. This paper contributes to recent work on the resilience of inner‐city service hubs through a case study of Edmonton, Canada. Specifically, we theorise the assemblage‐like qualities of Edmonton's service hub, in the context of a major urban redevelopmen…
Considering the camp
As code for spaces of mobile dwelling, the camp and its verb “camping” occupy ambivalent territory. For the well-housed, camping out can be a space and time of recreational discretion, while for those living precariously, the camp can offer temporary respite from forced and continual mobility. We argue that notions of camping are defined in part by their opposite: regular, permanent, secure and formal housing. However, not all campers have housin…
A Preface to Sartre
Dominick LaCapra. A Preface to Sartre. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1978. 250 pages. $12.50
Consultation/liaison psychiatry utilization patterns in different cultural groups
This study examined the effect of cross-cultural factors on psychiatric consultations in a general hospital. Using a retrospective case review, 476 patients receiving a psychiatric consultation were contrasted with 14,620 who did not receive a psychiatric consultation. The rate of psychiatric referral was lower for Hispanics compared with Anglos, blacks, and Asians (p less than 0.001). The reason for requesting psychiatric consultation was also d…
New Zealand children's health camps
The safe journeys of an enterprising school
Water pressure
Under curfew and under siege? Legal geographies of young people
Crossing roads, crossing boundaries
Children's journeys between home and school have become increasingly problematic in Western cities as a result of intensifying traffic and safety concerns. Many parents now take their children to school by car and, through driving, exacerbate congestion. In response to this situation, a number of school communities, in partnership with local authorities, have established walking school buses (WSBs). In this paper the WSB phenomenon is critiqued, …
The walking school bus
In many Western cities, the journey between home and school has become problematic, due to intensifying traffic and growing fears for children's safety. Accordingly, many parents now chauffeur their children to and from school. This situation has compounded congestion, prompting efforts to identify safe alternatives. One recent innovation is the walking school bus (WSB). In this paper we report on the development of this initiative, and its adopt…
An integral part of the children's education”
Geographies of inequality
Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation
A suite of climate change indices derived from daily temperature and precipitation data, with a primary focus on extreme events, were computed and analyzed. By setting an exact formula for each index and using specially designed software, analyses done in different countries have been combined seamlessly. This has enabled the presentation of the most up‐to‐date and comprehensive global picture of trends in extreme temperature and precipitation in…
Culture, religion and curriculum
This article considers the spatial, cultural, and legal dimensions of the controversy surrounding the Surrey School Board's religiously motivated refusal to approve three books portraying families with same‐sex parents. It examines the issue in terms of debates over the public/private distinction, and the notion of a ‘culture war’ between progressive and orthodox stakeholders. The polarized opinions advanced in such debates not only invoke and re…
Legal Geographies—Legal Sense and Geographical Context
This article analyzes the role of geographical context in five leading U.S. Supreme Court cases on religious activities in public schools. These cases are part of a broader, highly controversial jurisprudence that has had the effect of secularizing public education, in large part through the creation of boundaries intended to protect the individual conscience from collective and governmental action. Three types of spatial context are found to be …
Beyond Punitive Regulation? New Zealand Local Governments' Responses to Homelessness
This article investigates the ways in which New Zealand local authorities respond to homelessness. It finds that while some punitive bylaws targeting homeless people exist, they are not widespread, and in three case study cities are accompanied by efforts to support social service providers. This indicates that New Zealand local authorities are prepared to look at alternatives to address homelessness, as opposed solely to following trends towards…
Nuances of neighbourhood
Increased hurricane losses due to growing population and wealth in coastal areas
After more than two decades of relatively little Atlantic hurricane activity, the past decade saw heightened hurricane activity and more than $150 billion in damage in 2004 and 2005.This paper normalizes mainland U.S. hurricane damage from 1900-2005 to 2005 values using two methodologies.A normalization provides an estimate of the damage that would occur if storms from the past made landfall under another year's societal conditions.Our methods us…
Exploring Social Mobilities
Recent studies have discussed the important role of the automobile in shaping contemporary urban social life. This research used a series of focus groups in Auckland, New Zealand, to illuminate the complex social attitudes and values associated with walking as well as driving. While the car is the dominant transport mode in Auckland, the shortcomings as well as the benefits of automobile use and dependence are well known. Moreover, while walking …
Social Geographies of Education
Schools have received less attention from geographers than institutions such as the clinic and the hospital - despite the fact that, for most people, encounters with sites of medicine are rarer than encounters with sites of education. Indeed, schools are central to the geographies of children and young people, and to the organization of much family life. Moreover, they play a central role in shaping social identities. In this article, we provide …
Uninterrupted Views
This paper considers the landscape of coastal property in New Zealand through the lens of real-estate advertising. In analyzing a sample of 236 newspaper advertisements, it connects representations of coastal housing to broader concerns about the development of the coastline. Much public anxiety centres on the notion that coastal residential development and escalating property values signal private gain, but public loss. What is lost, it is claim…
It’s a gestalt experience”
Contesting Property Development in Coastal New Zealand
This article considers the contested process of coastal development in New Zealand and the implications of both governmental regulation and public concern for understanding property. Its empirical focus is a proposal for a substantial, new urbanist development at Ocean Beach, located in the Hawke's Bay region of the North Island. Three key sources of data inform the research: published reports; public submissions to council; and interviews with a…
Understanding modal choice for the trip to school
Homelessness in Canada and New Zealand
This article provides a comparative perspective on homelessness in Canada and New Zealand, with a focus on three urban regions. It seeks to document homeless numbers in the chosen cities, to evaluate the utility of counting the homeless, and to identify common and divergent approaches in homelessness policy. Research involved document analysis, key informant interviews, and participant observation. Literal homelessness is found to be several orde…
Pulling up the Tent Pegs?' The Significance and Changing Status of Coastal Campgrounds in New Zealand
This article considers the importance of beach-front campgrounds in New Zealand, both as physical sites offering affordable public access to coastal environments, and as sites of social and psychological meaning. It traces the evolution of coastal campgrounds from 'freedom camping', to more formal (if initially basic) facilities, to the development of relatively up-market holiday parks offering a wide range of services and accommodation options. …
Gentrification - By Loretta Lees, Tom Slater and Elvin Wyly
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