Jason Gilliland
Biographic Data
| ID | 1341091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Gilliland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilliland |
| SIGNATURE | GILLILAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2909-2178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 118 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 308 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 118 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Integrated AI framework combining routing, computer vision, and large language models to assess urban park access disparities among people with and without mobility impairments
Video-based ecological momentary assessment of health and well-being outcomes in nature: Lessons learned from a park-based pilot study
Contact with nature is increasingly recognized for its human health and well-being benefits. However, the mechanisms associated with these outcomes, including the influence of different natural and built features, remain under-researched. Additionally, there has been little empirical examination of the methods used to assess outcomes, in terms of quantity and quality of data. This study addresses these gaps by exploring the effectiveness of video…
Active commuting to and from school among Spanish adolescents: Social inequalities and environmental characteristics
This study examined how socioeconomic status (SES) and parental migration background are associated with two outcomes of active commuting to and from school (ACS): usual travel mode and weekly active trips. It also explored whether home-neighbourhood environmental characteristics help explain these social patterns. We used cross-sectional survey and geospatial data for 366 urban adolescents in Spain. Multilevel regression models examined associat…
Examining disparities in the accessibility of unhealthy food vendors in school neighbourhoods across Ontario: Would the implementation of new distance-based regulations improve equity
Does outdoor advertising correlate with retail food purchases made by adolescents? A cross-sectional study in Canada
Food marketing plays a substantial role in shaping adolescent diets, having wide-ranging ramifications for health behaviours and outcomes throughout the life course. Yet, there remains a dearth of research about how outdoor advertising as a specific channel of food marketing affects purchasing behaviours. We examine self-reported purchases made at retail food outlets by adolescents as it relates to the availability of outdoor food and beverage ad…
“I like seeing people, different cultures, and hearing different music”: Exploring adolescent perspectives of inclusive and healthy high-rise and dense urban environment designs
Due to urbanization more young people will live in high-rises and dense urban areas. • We explored teen perspectives (n = 22) of healthy high-rise and dense area designs. • Social, cultural sites; unique places; and multipurpose designs supported health. • Crowded places, weak social connectivity, and poor transport designs abated health. • Urban designers might consider social/cultural activity sites, connectivity designs. As countries continue …
Psychometric properties of an Adapted Climate Change Coping Scale in a sample of Canadian adolescents
A 16-item Adapted Climate Change Coping Scale (CCCS-A) operationalizes coping with thoughts and feelings about climate change into four dimensions. • The dimensions of coping in the CCCS-A were: de-emphasizing, distracting, problem-focused coping, and meaning-focused coping. • The CCCS-A is evidenced as being a reliable and valid instrument. Climate change is a threat to the health and wellbeing of adolescents. Many adolescents express concern, w…
A Feminist Critical Analysis of Public Toilets and Gender: A Systematic Review
This systematic review explores how the provision and experience of public toilets in urban spaces are gendered in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. A search of 4 bibliographic databases resulted in 19 articles for inclusion. Data were analyzed using a feminist critical perspective and the United Nations (UN) framework on standards to assess the provision of sanitation in public spaces. The framework criteria include availability…
The shifting riskscape: Changes in geographic accessibility to alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco in Ontario, Canada from 2019 to 2022
The substantial changes in accessibility to alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco warrant further investigation, particularly focusing on how these shifting riskscapes influence consumption patterns, disparities in harm, and long-term health outcomes
Restaurant survival during the Covid-19 pandemic: Examining operational, demographic and land use predictors in London, Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic placed considerable stress on restaurants from restrictions placed on their operations, shifting consumer confidence, rapid expansion of remote work arrangements and aggressive uptake of third-party delivery services. Industry reports suggest that restaurants are experiencing a much higher rate of failure in comparison to other sectors of the economy. Restaurant survival was assessed in the Middlesex–London region of Ontario…
Gender, toilets, and the planning gap: A United Nations framework analysis of Canadian municipal parks policies
Gender and toilets are intimately connected. According to the United Nations (UN), access to sanitation, inclusive of toilets, within public spaces is a human right, and tied to the Sustainable Development Goals to achieve gender equality. A framework was developed to assess the provision of toilets in public spaces and includes five criteria: availability; accessibility; affordability; quality and safety; and acceptability, privacy and dignity. …
Urbanization, housing, and inclusive design for all? A community-based participatory research investigation of the health implications of high-rise environments for adolescents
The effect of non-medical cannabis retailer proximity on use of mental health services for psychotic disorders in Ontario, Canada
BACKGROUND: Cannabis is associated with the onset and persistence of psychotic disorders. Evidence suggests that accessibility of substances is associated with an increased risk of use-related harms. We sought to examine the effect of residing in proximity to non-medical cannabis retailers on the prevalence of health service use for psychosis. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study using linked health administrative data, and used geospati…
Applying the multiphase optimization strategy to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of an online road safety education intervention for children and parents: A pilot study
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Environmental influences on E-cigarette use among young people: A systematic review
Impact of non-medical cannabis legalization with market restrictions on health service use and incident cases of psychotic disorder in Ontario, Canada
Echoes of Home: Mapping Vulnerable Places for Cantonese‐Speaking Immigrants Seeking Family Doctors in the Greater Toronto Area
Family doctors serve as the initial contact for individuals seeking regular medical service like routine physical exam, diagnosis, and treatment of illness. Nonetheless, immigrant population who do not speak the official language usually prefers receiving healthcare in their own mother tongues. Past studies have focused on exploring accessibility to family doctors speaking Mandarin Chinese, which is not mutually intelligible with another major Ch…
Invisible, unrecognised and undervalued: Examining stories of unpaid work performed by older adults in their local neighbourhoods
Over the past 40 years, positive ageing discourses that speak to an expectation of continued productivity have gained prominence within research and policy. Such discourses have been critiqued as placing disproportionate value on the extension of older adults' working lives, while obscuring other valuable forms of work performed by older adults. Despite the emergence of theoretical conversations about the expansion of conceptions of work, few stu…
Associations between socio‐demographic factors and change in mobility due to Covid‐19 restrictions in Ontario, Canada using geographically weighted regression
Transportation research has shown that socio‐demographic factors impact people's mobility patterns. During the COVID‐19 pandemic, some of these effects have changed in accordance with changing mobility needs adapting to the pandemic, including restrictions on in‐person gatherings, closure of in‐person businesses, and working from home. We investigate two gaps in current knowledge in this area of transportation research: to what extent the associa…
Household food wasting in a net‐zero energy neighbourhood: Analyzing relationships between household food waste and pro‐environmentalism
To address the prominent “value‐action gap” within pro‐environmental behaviour, this novel, cross‐sectional study investigated relationships between household food wasting and pro‐environmentalism. Research was undertaken in 11 neighbourhoods across London, Ontario, Canada, including a net‐zero energy neighbourhood. A direct measurement methodology was used to measure household food waste, and a survey was created to measure knowledge, attitudes,…
Neighbourhood-based participatory action research with older adults: Facilitating participation through virtual and remote methods
Participatory action research (PAR) is an effective means of collaborating with older adults to support community change. Limited PAR literature exists in which older adults catalyse social change within neighbourhoods, particularly using virtual methods. In this paper, we discuss a virtual PAR process with older adults that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the results of inquiry into our application of PAR principles. We conducted PAR …
Junk Food Accessibility After 10 Years of a Restrictive Food Environment Zoning Policy Around Schools: An Equity-Focused Simulation Study
Problem, research strategy, and findings Zoning has been proposed as a way of reducing unhealthy food access for youth, but little research has evaluated outcomes of proposed or existing junk food bans, and even less research has considered equity implications of such zoning policies. In this simulation study, set in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario (Canada), we examined how secondary student access to fast food restaurants and convenience stores …
The workplace as a therapeutic landscape: Understanding the effects of Covid-19 on the wellbeing of food hospitality employees
This study investigated the pandemic-related modifications to food hospitality businesses in Ontario, Canada and their effects on the health and wellbeing of workers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 food hospitality employees in Ontario between June 2020 and May 2021 as part of the Food Retail Environment Study for Health and Economic Resiliency (FRESHER). Transcripts were analyzed inductively using grounded theory as a means of…
Teens Talk Vaping: A co-produced participatory study exploring teens’ reflections on vaping experiences and exposures in their everyday environments
Increasing youth vaping is a serious public health concern. • Teens Talk Vaping project aimed to co-produce research about teen vaping with teens. • Teen co-researchers facilitated 7 online focus groups with teens across Canada. • Analysis generated five themes revealing how vaping is experienced as ‘everywhere’. • Vaping prevention efforts must be equity-centred and youth-driven
‘Ahhh it was like paradise, but inside’: Children’s experiences and perceptions of a free physical activity program
As most Canadian children are not attaining the recommended 60 minutes of daily physical activity, it is imperative that affordable and accessible programs are implemented to help children become more physically active. Specifically, community-based programs that are free and easy to access have shown to be advantageous for promoting beneficial health behaviours at a population level. The Grade 5 ACT-i-Pass (G5AP) is a community-based physical ac…
A farmers’ market in a food desert: Evaluating impacts on the price and availability of healthy food
The role of place branding in local and regional economic development: Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Practicality
Place branding has become an increasingly integral part of local and regional economic development strategies in the global competition for business investment. Professional and academic understanding remains limited, however, regarding whether place branding can be classified as a ‘high-road’ policy with substantive and effective merits or a ‘low-road’ policy that is generally inefficient and ineffective at fostering sustainable economic growth.…
Linking Childhood Obesity to the Built Environment: A Multi-level Analysis of Home and School Neighbourhood Factors Associated With Body Mass Index
Environmental influences on physical activity levels in youth
Is it sound policy or fast policy? Practitioners’ perspectives on the role of place branding in local economic development
In response to neoliberal policies and globalization pressures over the past three decades, urban governments in advanced economies have, with near-unanimity, adopted place branding as an approach to foster local economic growth. Framed as an outcome of multilevel neoliberal policymaking and local entrepreneurial governance, place branding has been adopted by urban places at all scales and geographic contexts with little regard for its efficacy. …
The Influence of the Physical Environment and Sociodemographic Characteristics on Children's Mode of Travel to and From School
Objectives. We examined whether certain characteristics of the social and physical environment influence a child's mode of travel between home and school. Methods. Students aged 11 to 13 years from 21 schools throughout London, Ontario, answered questions from a travel behavior survey. A geographic information system linked survey responses for 614 students who lived within 1 mile of school to data on social and physical characteristics of enviro…
Opportunities for Video Lottery Terminal Gambling in Montréal: An Environmental Analysis
Splashpads, Swings, and Shade: Parents’ Preferences for Neighbourhood Parks
Neighbourhood play on the endangered list: Examining patterns in children's local activity and mobility using GPS monitoring and qualitative GIS
Children's time and freedom for independent neighbourhood activity is severely declining, which may be adversely impacting their healthy development. This study integrates GPS activity monitoring and environmental analysis in a geographic information system with activity diaries, annotated maps, surveys, and map-enhanced interviews to conduct a deep pattern analysis of children's habitual neighbourhood behaviour (n = 23; aged 9–13 years) from eac…
Historical Spatial-Data Infrastructures for Archaeology: Towards a Spatiotemporal Big-Data Approach to Studying the Postindustrial City
Video Lottery Terminal Access and Gambling Among High School Students in Montréal
Mapping urban morphology: A classification scheme for interpreting contributions to the study of urban form
Urban morphology is a thriving field of enquiry involving researchers from a wide diversity of disciplinary, linguistic and cultural backgrounds. While this diversity has helped advance our understanding of the complexity of urban form, confusion and controversy has also arisen over the various theoretical formulations forwarded by researchers from different philosophical and epistemological backgrounds. With the aim of improving intelligibility …
Residential Segregation in the Industrializing City: A Closer Look
This article maps and measures several dimensions of residential segregation in Montreal in 1881, thereby adding to our understanding of the social structure of the industrial city. Taking advantage of an unusual historical database—a historical geographic information system (H-GIS)—we locate 17,000 individual households with precision, and evaluate the "dissimilarity" of neighborhoods along several social dimensions and at various levels of spat…
Using GPS and activity tracking to reveal the influence of adolescents’ food environment exposure on junk food purchasing
Community Development and the Influence of New Food Retail Sources on the Price and Availability of Nutritious Food
Studies have demonstrated links between the accessibility of food and multiple health outcomes. Policymakers engaged in local community development may use public health concerns as a strategy to procure funding for food retail initiatives. Few studies to date have demonstrated the impact that a new food retailer can have on geographic and economic access to nutritious food in a community, evidence which could support the case for new food retail…
Route-Based Analysis to Capture the Environmental Influences on a Child's Mode of Travel between Home and School
This study examined environmental influences on a child's mode of travel between home and school. Grade 7 and 8 students (n = 614) from twenty-one schools throughout London, Ontario, participated in a school-based travel mode survey. Geographic information systems (GIS) were employed to examine environmental characteristics of the child's mode of travel between home and school measured at the scale of the likely travel route. Logistic regression …
Environmental equity is child's play: Mapping public provision of recreation opportunities in urban neighbourhoods
This paper examines the spatial distribution of recreational opportunities for children and youth in a mid-sized Canadian city (London, Ontario), in relation to the socioeconomic status of neighbourhoods and estimated local need for publicly provided recreation spaces. Public recreation facilities (N = 537) throughout the city were identified, mapped and analysed in a geographic information system. To explore potential socio-environmental inequit…
Modeling Residential Mobility in Montreal, 1860–1900
Gilliland explains the household adjustment process by examining the effects of such factors as socioeconomic status and family situation in household mobility in late-19th-century Montreal. Gilliland suggests an underlying logic of household moves as adaptations to 19th-century conditions of life
Enacting agency: Exploring how older adults shape their neighbourhoods
Within research on ageing in neighbourhoods, older adults are often positioned as impacted by neighbourhood features; their impact on neighbourhoods is less often considered. Drawing on a study exploring how person and place transact to shape older adults’ social connectedness, inclusion and engagement in neighbourhoods, this paper explores how older adults take action in efforts to create neighbourhoods that meet individual and collective needs …
Examining the Social and Built Environment Factors Influencing Children’s Independent Use of Their Neighborhoods and the Experience of Local Settings as Child-Friendly
Neighborhoods have traditionally served as important settings for children’s independent activities, but use has declined dramatically. Global positioning system (GPS) monitors, activity diaries, annotated maps, and Google Earth–enabled interviews captured the neighborhood perceptions, usage, and independent activity ranges of twenty-three children (nine to twelve years) from London, Canada. While few participants used neighborhood settings on a …
Nature makes people happy, that’s what it sort of means: ’ Children’s definitions and perceptions of nature in rural Northwestern Ontario
Nature exposure positively impacts children’s physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive health and development. We know less about how children perceive their connection with nature and what nature means to them. This study uses focus groups to understand how rural Canadian children define, experience, and perceive benefits of nature. Using thematic analysis, we identified three primary themes. First, while children associate nature with specific …
Theoretical issues in the ‘food desert’ debate and ways forward
Urbanization, housing, and inclusive design for all? A community-based participatory research investigation of the health implications of high-rise environments for adolescents
Comparing Household and Individual Measures of Access through a Food Environment Lens: What Household Food Opportunities Are Missed When Measuring Access to Food Retail at the Individual Level
Geographers and public health researchers have long been interested in social, spatial, and economic factors that drive access and exposure to food retail. A growing body of evidence draws on mobility data to capture locations accessed by individuals beyond the home address. Given that food-related activities are shared by household members and often gendered, taking an individual-level approach might limit researchers’ ability to accurately desc…
Did Segregation Increase as the City Expanded: The Case of Montreal, 1881-1901
Montreal in 1881 was highly segregated along four distinct social dimensions: language, religion, socioeconomic status, and sector of employment. By 1901 the population had doubled, and we examine changes in residential distributions over the two decades. Despite the increased integration of certain groups, segregation remains high, and multiple dimensions are still discernible. In addition to long-established communities of French Canadians, Iri…
Claims on Housing Space in Nineteenth-Century Montreal
Space per person is a fundamental measure of equity in an urban society. From small samples of the Montreal population over the years 1861-1901, we infer substantial improvement in the average dwelling space available per person, but an extreme and persistent inequity in the distribution among households. The housing market remained polarised in terms of class and cultural identity. As crowding diminished, urban density increased, and the problem…
Modeling Residential Mobility in Montreal, 1860–1900
Gilliland explains the household adjustment process by examining the effects of such factors as socioeconomic status and family situation in household mobility in late-19th-century Montreal. Gilliland suggests an underlying logic of household moves as adaptations to 19th-century conditions of life
Mapping urban morphology: A classification scheme for interpreting contributions to the study of urban form
Urban morphology is a thriving field of enquiry involving researchers from a wide diversity of disciplinary, linguistic and cultural backgrounds. While this diversity has helped advance our understanding of the complexity of urban form, confusion and controversy has also arisen over the various theoretical formulations forwarded by researchers from different philosophical and epistemological backgrounds. With the aim of improving intelligibility …
The study of urban form in Canada
This paper examines contributions to the study of urban form in Canada by French and English researchers working in a variety of disciplines, especially architecture, planning, geography, and history. Instead of discussing contributions purely along traditional linguistic or disciplinary lines, the authors use a novel classification scheme to identify and categorize significant works according to their particular epistemological perspective, befo…
Opportunities for Video Lottery Terminal Gambling in Montréal: An Environmental Analysis
Environmental equity is child's play: Mapping public provision of recreation opportunities in urban neighbourhoods
This paper examines the spatial distribution of recreational opportunities for children and youth in a mid-sized Canadian city (London, Ontario), in relation to the socioeconomic status of neighbourhoods and estimated local need for publicly provided recreation spaces. Public recreation facilities (N = 537) throughout the city were identified, mapped and analysed in a geographic information system. To explore potential socio-environmental inequit…
Jason A. Gilliland and Mathew Novak on Positioning the Past With the Present: The Use of Fire Insurance Plans and GIS for Urban Environmental History
Video Lottery Terminal Access and Gambling Among High School Students in Montréal
Splashpads, Swings, and Shade: Parents’ Preferences for Neighbourhood Parks
Mapping the evolution of 'food deserts' in a Canadian city: Supermarket accessibility in London, Ontario, 1961–2005
BACKGROUND: A growing body of research suggests that the suburbanization of food retailers in North America and the United Kingdom in recent decades has contributed to the emergence of urban 'food deserts', or disadvantaged areas of cities with relatively poor access to healthy and affordable food. This paper explores the evolution of food deserts in a mid-sized Canadian city (London, Ontario) by using a geographic information system (GIS) to map…
Environmental influences on physical activity levels in youth
A farmers’ market in a food desert: Evaluating impacts on the price and availability of healthy food
Residential Segregation in the Industrializing City: A Closer Look
This article maps and measures several dimensions of residential segregation in Montreal in 1881, thereby adding to our understanding of the social structure of the industrial city. Taking advantage of an unusual historical database—a historical geographic information system (H-GIS)—we locate 17,000 individual households with precision, and evaluate the "dissimilarity" of neighborhoods along several social dimensions and at various levels of spat…
The Influence of the Physical Environment and Sociodemographic Characteristics on Children's Mode of Travel to and From School
Objectives. We examined whether certain characteristics of the social and physical environment influence a child's mode of travel between home and school. Methods. Students aged 11 to 13 years from 21 schools throughout London, Ontario, answered questions from a travel behavior survey. A geographic information system linked survey responses for 614 students who lived within 1 mile of school to data on social and physical characteristics of enviro…
Mapping Industrial Legacies: Building a Comprehensive Brownfield Database in Geographic Information Systems
Brownfields, land containing both actual and perceived contamination from former uses, pose hurdles to redevelopment, but are worthy of consideration due to their potential for aiding inner-city regeneration and providing alternatives to suburban sprawl. Yet the extent of the brownfield land problem is unknown in many cities, and relatively little research has systematically described efficient and effective ways to identify these sites. We demon…
Trading Places: A Historical Geography of Retailing in London, Canada
The economies of modern cities are dependent on an advanced retail system; so too are the people who inhabit them. The origin and evolution of retailing in London, Canada, was studied using a historical geographic information system (GIS) to document the relationship between a city and its retail sector. Visualization and spatial-statistical techniques afforded by the historical GIS were implemented to study change over time. The locations of ret…
Trading Places: A Historical Geography of Retailing in London, Canada
The economies of modern cities are dependent on an advanced retail system; so too are the people who inhabit them. The origin and evolution of retailing in London, Canada, was studied using a historical geographic information system (GIS) to document the relationship between a city and its retail sector. Visualization and spatial-statistical techniques afforded by the historical GIS were implemented to study change over time. The locations of ret…
Did Segregation Increase as the City Expanded: The Case of Montreal, 1881–1901
Montreal in 1881 was highly segregated along four distinct social dimensions: language, religion, socioeconomic status, and sector of employment. By 1901 the population had doubled, and we examine changes in residential distributions over the two decades. Despite the increased integration of certain groups, segregation remains high, and multiple dimensions are still discernible. In addition to long-established communities of French Canadians, Iri…
Did Segregation Increase as the City Expanded: The Case of Montreal, 1881-1901
Montreal in 1881 was highly segregated along four distinct social dimensions: language, religion, socioeconomic status, and sector of employment. By 1901 the population had doubled, and we examine changes in residential distributions over the two decades. Despite the increased integration of certain groups, segregation remains high, and multiple dimensions are still discernible. In addition to long-established communities of French Canadians, Iri…
The Influence of Local Food Environments on Adolescents’ Food Purchasing Behaviors
This study examined the relationship between the neighborhood food environment and the food purchasing behaviors among adolescents. Grade 7 and 8 students (n = 810) at 21 elementary schools in London, Ontario, Canada completed a questionnaire assessing their food purchasing behaviors. Parents of participants also completed a brief questionnaire providing residential address and demographic information. A Geographic Information System (GIS) was us…
Obesogenic neighbourhoods: The impact of neighbourhood restaurants and convenience stores on adolescents’ food consumption behaviours
Objective To examine the relationship between the neighbourhood food environment and dietary intake among adolescents. Design Cross-sectional design using: (i) a geographic information system to assess characteristics of the neighbourhood food environment and neighbourhood socio-economic status; (ii) the modified Healthy Eating Index (HEI) to assess participants’ overall diet quality; and (iii) generalized linear models to examine associations be…
Community Development and the Influence of New Food Retail Sources on the Price and Availability of Nutritious Food
Studies have demonstrated links between the accessibility of food and multiple health outcomes. Policymakers engaged in local community development may use public health concerns as a strategy to procure funding for food retail initiatives. Few studies to date have demonstrated the impact that a new food retailer can have on geographic and economic access to nutritious food in a community, evidence which could support the case for new food retail…
Linking Childhood Obesity to the Built Environment: A Multi-level Analysis of Home and School Neighbourhood Factors Associated With Body Mass Index
Route-Based Analysis to Capture the Environmental Influences on a Child's Mode of Travel between Home and School
This study examined environmental influences on a child's mode of travel between home and school. Grade 7 and 8 students (n = 614) from twenty-one schools throughout London, Ontario, participated in a school-based travel mode survey. Geographic information systems (GIS) were employed to examine environmental characteristics of the child's mode of travel between home and school measured at the scale of the likely travel route. Logistic regression …
A Food Retail-Based Intervention on Food Security and Consumption
The effect of the built environment on diet (and ensuing health outcomes) is less understood than the effect of diet on obesity. Natural experiments are increasingly advocated in place of cross-sectional studies unable to suggest causality. The central research question of this paper, therefore, asks whether a neighborhood-level food retail intervention will affect dietary habits or food security. The intervention did not have a significant impac…
Medicine (65 works) · Psychology (59 works) · Geography (57 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (50 works) · Sociology (46 works) · Environmental health (40 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (40 works) · Economics (27 works) · Political science (27 works) · Demography (26 works)