Ian Maclachlan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1474964 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ian Maclachlan |
| PRENOMES | Ian |
| SOBRENOME | Maclachlan |
| ASSINATURA | MACLACHLAN I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Lethbridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8584-4063 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Grower-squatters in a Shenzhen urban garden
This case study presents qualitative observations and interview data to explore the operation of an informal urban garden in Shenzhen. In contrast with formal urban horticulture practices in neighboring areas, observation reveals that grower-squatters claim usufructuary rights to engage in informal horticulture activities which are commonly transferred through informal transactions. Non-confrontational land claims, social networks governed by tac…
Charlotte Thevenet , Derrida et ses doubles
Shareholding Land Readjustment Led by Local Government During Peri-Urbanization
This paper focuses on a new model of land readjustment integrated with shareholding in Zhaoqing, China. It determines whether this innovation reduces transaction costs throughout the land development process. To cope with the uncertainty during rapid urbanization in peripheral areas, shareholding land readjustment provides opportunities for the original landowners to share the long-term sustainable land value increment. This is accomplished throu…
Homelessness and migration
Homeless people have become more visible in China in recent years. However, research on Chinese homelessness in general and homeless migrants in particular is still very limited. Based on the China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this pioneering exploration of the geography of homeless migrants in China arrives at three conclusions. First, although homeless migrants are often scorned as an underclass of derelict drifters, the majority are educated, marr…
The lived housing experience of the urban poor in Chengdu
Current research on the housing careers of urban low‐income groups, dominated by quantitative modelling, has discussed the housing predicament faced by the urban poor at length. While much is known about the factors influencing their housing careers, these studies have failed to provide a satisfactory understanding of the intricacy and depth of human struggles those vulnerable groups experienced in the urban housing market. This contributes a fou…
Urban orchard in a megacity
This anonymized Research Note reports qualitative observations and interview evidence to explore the operation of a U-pick lychee orchard located in China's Pearl River Delta. Observation reveals the ironic juxtaposition of an owner-built cottage on a forested hillside surrounded by an intensively planned, densely populated urban environment featuring high-rise apartment towers. Field data show that informality, social networks, and petty entrepr…
Modelling the Impacts of land finance on urban expansion
From Proximity to Quality
Housing prices are significantly influenced by the presence of public facilities, such as schools, parks, and transport infrastructure. Whereas existing literature has mainly focused on the proximity of public facilities, this study goes beyond proximity and introduces the concept of quality metrics to evaluate public facilities. By employing the gradient-boosting decision trees approach, we analyze the nonlinear relationships between public faci…
Community formation in talent worker housing
Policies to provide housing of a quality and price suitable for young talent workers have become a priority in cities such as Shenzhen that are managing the transformation to a knowledge economy. Based on qualitative data gathered through interviews and participant observation, this article examines the lived experience of talent workers and their extended families to gain an understanding of community formation in high-rise housing. Five key fin…
China's new age floating population
Talent workers are becoming a critical factor in the urbanization of China. Government programs encourage the attraction of these skilled and university educated workers by providing subsidized housing. Talent workers are responding to these incentives, yet many are not settling in the urban communities that woo them. This micro-scale case study of talent worker housing in Shenzhen explores some aspects of the lived experience of these “floating”…
The role of social capital in the collective-led development of urbanising villages in China
The ‘urbanising village’ is a uniquely Chinese urban form that emerged during the period of rapid urbanisation in the reform era. The absence of state governance in rural areas relegates considerable decision-making power to village collectives, and the social capital inherited from traditional rural villages may remain in place after villages are urbanised. To explore the role of social capital and its mobilisation in solving the land use challe…
Modeling the trade-offs between urban development and ecological process based on landscape multi-functionality and regional ecological networks
The process of urbanization and urban land use conversion inevitably disturbs the structure and function of ecosystems and their capacity to provide ecosystem services. Integrating ecosystem services into effective policies and planning at the regional scale to achieve sustainable urban development is still a challenge. The goal of this research is to optimize spatial patterns of urban development by assessing and comparing multiple trade-off sce…
Housing allocation with Chinese characteristics
Since 2008, the Chinese state has been developing new public housing programs, which are widely used to distribute public housing among talent workers. This paper examines public housing allocation to talent workers, especially to talent migrants. It argues that local governments have established a unique housing allocation approach best described as a state-employer model and that this model demonstrates a state-market hybridity in urban governa…
Migrant housing choices from a social capital perspective
Changing Neighbourhoods
Identifying ranching landscape values in the Calgary, Alberta region
In recent years, ranching landscapes in the region of Calgary, Alberta have experienced intensifying land‐use pressures related to urban growth and development. At the same time, Alberta's land‐use policies have introduced voluntary, market‐based incentives to encourage the conservation and stewardship of private land. Given this new emphasis, this study aims to better understand different perspectives of ranching landscapes among residents and l…
Roger Laporte The Orphic Text
This is the first full-length study devoted to Roger Laporte, whose lifelong exploration of the stakes of writing has produced a body of work on the borderline of literature and philosophy. Charting the development of Laporte's writing in relation to the work of Heidegger, Levinas, Blanchot and Derrida, this study offers both a comprehensive reading of Laporte's oeuvre and a new perspective on an important strand of recent thinking about literatu…
So Far and yet So Close
Reviewed by: So Far and yet So Close: Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia by Warren M. Elofson Ian MacLachlan Elofson, Warren M. – So Far and yet So Close: Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015. Pp. 329. So Far and yet So Close is an environmental history comparing the nineteenth-century cattle-ra…
Economic shock and regional resilience
This article analyses regional resilience to economic shock in Canada from 1987 to 2012, a period that included severe recessions and major free-trade agreements. Employment is cross-tabulated by region, industry and gender and partitioned cumulatively using three-way multifactor partitioning for each period from 1987-1988 to 1987-2012. Employment loss in each recession is found to be more closely associated with industry-mix in the preceding gro…
Derrida and narrative
It is well known that Derrida begins the lecture ‘Mnemosyne’, given some thirty years ago as the first of a series dedicated to the memory of his friend and sometime Yale colleague Paul de Man, with the autobiographical disclosure: ‘I have never known how to tell a story’ (MPD, 3). As he repeats the declaration a few pages later, it becomes clear that this singular revelation shares the uncertain exemplarity characteristic of autobiographical utt…
Restoring the “Regional” to Regional Policy
The analysis and definition of economic regions at the sub-provincial scale is a neglected policy issue in Canada notwithstanding the severity and persistence of disparities in regional growth. Employment growth in the 30 Economic Regions (ERs) of Western Canada 2001–2006 is partitioned into region and industry-mix effects and the resulting regional typology identified. Western Canada became a single development-region in 1988, a quarter of a cen…
Kwinana Industrial Area
The Kwinana Industrial Area is nearing its 60th anniversary as a resource-processing industrial cluster. Its longevity may be understood in the traditional terms of industrial inertia resulting from three types of agglomeration economies: localisation, transfer, and urbanisation economies. However, industrial ecology provides an alternative approach to describe the environmental impacts of interplant linkages: utility/infrastructure sharing, supp…
Peer review
A bloody offal nuisance
British slaughter-house reformers campaigned to abolish private urban slaughter-houses and establish public abattoirs in the nineteenth century. Abolition of London's private slaughter-houses was motivated by the congestion created by livestock in city streets, the nuisance of slaughter-house refuse in residential neighbourhoods and public health concerns about diseased meat in the food supply. The butchers successfully defended their private sla…
Contingencies
These pages can end here, and nothing that follows what I have just written will make me add anything to it or take anything away from it. This remains, this will remain until the end. Whoever would efface it from me, in exchange for that end which I am seeking in vain, would himself become the beginning of my own story, and he would be my victim. In darkness, he would see me: my word would be his silence, and he would think he was holding sway o…
Migrant housing choices from a social capital perspective
Measures of Income Inequality and Social Polarization in Canadian Metropolitan Areas
Rising inequality and polarization of employment earnings have been clearly documented in Canada and most other developed economies in the 1990s. Following a critical discussion of the use of the Cini coefficient as a measure of inequality in geography, the level of inequality and social polarization of household incomes at the census tract level is assessed for Canada's 22 largest Census Metropolitan Areas. The distribution of household income a…
China's new age floating population
Talent workers are becoming a critical factor in the urbanization of China. Government programs encourage the attraction of these skilled and university educated workers by providing subsidized housing. Talent workers are responding to these incentives, yet many are not settling in the urban communities that woo them. This micro-scale case study of talent worker housing in Shenzhen explores some aspects of the lived experience of these “floating”…
The role of social capital in the collective-led development of urbanising villages in China
The ‘urbanising village’ is a uniquely Chinese urban form that emerged during the period of rapid urbanisation in the reform era. The absence of state governance in rural areas relegates considerable decision-making power to village collectives, and the social capital inherited from traditional rural villages may remain in place after villages are urbanised. To explore the role of social capital and its mobilisation in solving the land use challe…
Housing allocation with Chinese characteristics
Since 2008, the Chinese state has been developing new public housing programs, which are widely used to distribute public housing among talent workers. This paper examines public housing allocation to talent workers, especially to talent migrants. It argues that local governments have established a unique housing allocation approach best described as a state-employer model and that this model demonstrates a state-market hybridity in urban governa…
Economic shock and regional resilience
This article analyses regional resilience to economic shock in Canada from 1987 to 2012, a period that included severe recessions and major free-trade agreements. Employment is cross-tabulated by region, industry and gender and partitioned cumulatively using three-way multifactor partitioning for each period from 1987-1988 to 1987-2012. Employment loss in each recession is found to be more closely associated with industry-mix in the preceding gro…
A bloody offal nuisance
British slaughter-house reformers campaigned to abolish private urban slaughter-houses and establish public abattoirs in the nineteenth century. Abolition of London's private slaughter-houses was motivated by the congestion created by livestock in city streets, the nuisance of slaughter-house refuse in residential neighbourhoods and public health concerns about diseased meat in the food supply. The butchers successfully defended their private sla…
Restoring the “Regional” to Regional Policy
The analysis and definition of economic regions at the sub-provincial scale is a neglected policy issue in Canada notwithstanding the severity and persistence of disparities in regional growth. Employment growth in the 30 Economic Regions (ERs) of Western Canada 2001–2006 is partitioned into region and industry-mix effects and the resulting regional typology identified. Western Canada became a single development-region in 1988, a quarter of a cen…
From Proximity to Quality
Housing prices are significantly influenced by the presence of public facilities, such as schools, parks, and transport infrastructure. Whereas existing literature has mainly focused on the proximity of public facilities, this study goes beyond proximity and introduces the concept of quality metrics to evaluate public facilities. By employing the gradient-boosting decision trees approach, we analyze the nonlinear relationships between public faci…
Community formation in talent worker housing
Policies to provide housing of a quality and price suitable for young talent workers have become a priority in cities such as Shenzhen that are managing the transformation to a knowledge economy. Based on qualitative data gathered through interviews and participant observation, this article examines the lived experience of talent workers and their extended families to gain an understanding of community formation in high-rise housing. Five key fin…
Plant Closure and Market Dynamics
This paper examines the role of market dynamics and competitive strategy in industrial plant closure using a case study of Sheller-Globe Corporation's Canadian Steering Wheel Division. The dominant motive for plant closure is to reduce production capacity in markets that have surplus supply. The market dynamics that precede rationalization are often complex, however, and the adaptive and competitive strategies of plant-closing firms need to be ex…
Kwinana Industrial Area
The Kwinana Industrial Area is nearing its 60th anniversary as a resource-processing industrial cluster. Its longevity may be understood in the traditional terms of industrial inertia resulting from three types of agglomeration economies: localisation, transfer, and urbanisation economies. However, industrial ecology provides an alternative approach to describe the environmental impacts of interplant linkages: utility/infrastructure sharing, supp…
Identifying ranching landscape values in the Calgary, Alberta region
In recent years, ranching landscapes in the region of Calgary, Alberta have experienced intensifying land‐use pressures related to urban growth and development. At the same time, Alberta's land‐use policies have introduced voluntary, market‐based incentives to encourage the conservation and stewardship of private land. Given this new emphasis, this study aims to better understand different perspectives of ranching landscapes among residents and l…
Settlement Pattern Evolution and Catastrophe Theory
Playing dead
Mergers and Acquisitions
1. Mergers and geography 2. The process of mergers and aquisitions 3. Resource dependency and spatial structure 4. Data and procedures 5. U.S. mergers: state patterns 6. U.S. mergers: SMSA patterns 7. U.S foreign mergers 8. Canadian aquisitions 9. Industrial class patterns 10. Concluding remarks
Plant Closure and Market Dynamics
This paper examines the role of market dynamics and competitive strategy in industrial plant closure using a case study of Sheller-Globe Corporation's Canadian Steering Wheel Division. The dominant motive for plant closure is to reduce production capacity in markets that have surplus supply. The market dynamics that precede rationalization are often complex, however, and the adaptive and competitive strategies of plant-closing firms need to be ex…
Measures of Income Inequality and Social Polarization in Canadian Metropolitan Areas
Rising inequality and polarization of employment earnings have been clearly documented in Canada and most other developed economies in the 1990s. Following a critical discussion of the use of the Cini coefficient as a measure of inequality in geography, the level of inequality and social polarization of household incomes at the census tract level is assessed for Canada's 22 largest Census Metropolitan Areas. The distribution of household income a…
Time Returning
Kill and Chill
A history of the structural changes in Canada's cattle and beef commodity chain, beginning with calf production and cattle feeding on farms and feedlots. It goes on to describe the changes in cattle marketing and the historical development of meatpacking
Kill and Chill
Contingencies
These pages can end here, and nothing that follows what I have just written will make me add anything to it or take anything away from it. This remains, this will remain until the end. Whoever would efface it from me, in exchange for that end which I am seeking in vain, would himself become the beginning of my own story, and he would be my victim. In darkness, he would see me: my word would be his silence, and he would think he was holding sway o…
A bloody offal nuisance
British slaughter-house reformers campaigned to abolish private urban slaughter-houses and establish public abattoirs in the nineteenth century. Abolition of London's private slaughter-houses was motivated by the congestion created by livestock in city streets, the nuisance of slaughter-house refuse in residential neighbourhoods and public health concerns about diseased meat in the food supply. The butchers successfully defended their private sla…
Peer review
Restoring the “Regional” to Regional Policy
The analysis and definition of economic regions at the sub-provincial scale is a neglected policy issue in Canada notwithstanding the severity and persistence of disparities in regional growth. Employment growth in the 30 Economic Regions (ERs) of Western Canada 2001–2006 is partitioned into region and industry-mix effects and the resulting regional typology identified. Western Canada became a single development-region in 1988, a quarter of a cen…
Kwinana Industrial Area
The Kwinana Industrial Area is nearing its 60th anniversary as a resource-processing industrial cluster. Its longevity may be understood in the traditional terms of industrial inertia resulting from three types of agglomeration economies: localisation, transfer, and urbanisation economies. However, industrial ecology provides an alternative approach to describe the environmental impacts of interplant linkages: utility/infrastructure sharing, supp…
Derrida and narrative
It is well known that Derrida begins the lecture ‘Mnemosyne’, given some thirty years ago as the first of a series dedicated to the memory of his friend and sometime Yale colleague Paul de Man, with the autobiographical disclosure: ‘I have never known how to tell a story’ (MPD, 3). As he repeats the declaration a few pages later, it becomes clear that this singular revelation shares the uncertain exemplarity characteristic of autobiographical utt…
Roger Laporte The Orphic Text
This is the first full-length study devoted to Roger Laporte, whose lifelong exploration of the stakes of writing has produced a body of work on the borderline of literature and philosophy. Charting the development of Laporte's writing in relation to the work of Heidegger, Levinas, Blanchot and Derrida, this study offers both a comprehensive reading of Laporte's oeuvre and a new perspective on an important strand of recent thinking about literatu…
So Far and yet So Close
Reviewed by: So Far and yet So Close: Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia by Warren M. Elofson Ian MacLachlan Elofson, Warren M. – So Far and yet So Close: Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015. Pp. 329. So Far and yet So Close is an environmental history comparing the nineteenth-century cattle-ra…
Economic shock and regional resilience
This article analyses regional resilience to economic shock in Canada from 1987 to 2012, a period that included severe recessions and major free-trade agreements. Employment is cross-tabulated by region, industry and gender and partitioned cumulatively using three-way multifactor partitioning for each period from 1987-1988 to 1987-2012. Employment loss in each recession is found to be more closely associated with industry-mix in the preceding gro…
Identifying ranching landscape values in the Calgary, Alberta region
In recent years, ranching landscapes in the region of Calgary, Alberta have experienced intensifying land‐use pressures related to urban growth and development. At the same time, Alberta's land‐use policies have introduced voluntary, market‐based incentives to encourage the conservation and stewardship of private land. Given this new emphasis, this study aims to better understand different perspectives of ranching landscapes among residents and l…
Modeling the trade-offs between urban development and ecological process based on landscape multi-functionality and regional ecological networks
The process of urbanization and urban land use conversion inevitably disturbs the structure and function of ecosystems and their capacity to provide ecosystem services. Integrating ecosystem services into effective policies and planning at the regional scale to achieve sustainable urban development is still a challenge. The goal of this research is to optimize spatial patterns of urban development by assessing and comparing multiple trade-off sce…
Housing allocation with Chinese characteristics
Since 2008, the Chinese state has been developing new public housing programs, which are widely used to distribute public housing among talent workers. This paper examines public housing allocation to talent workers, especially to talent migrants. It argues that local governments have established a unique housing allocation approach best described as a state-employer model and that this model demonstrates a state-market hybridity in urban governa…
Migrant housing choices from a social capital perspective
Changing Neighbourhoods
The role of social capital in the collective-led development of urbanising villages in China
The ‘urbanising village’ is a uniquely Chinese urban form that emerged during the period of rapid urbanisation in the reform era. The absence of state governance in rural areas relegates considerable decision-making power to village collectives, and the social capital inherited from traditional rural villages may remain in place after villages are urbanised. To explore the role of social capital and its mobilisation in solving the land use challe…
Community formation in talent worker housing
Policies to provide housing of a quality and price suitable for young talent workers have become a priority in cities such as Shenzhen that are managing the transformation to a knowledge economy. Based on qualitative data gathered through interviews and participant observation, this article examines the lived experience of talent workers and their extended families to gain an understanding of community formation in high-rise housing. Five key fin…
China's new age floating population
Talent workers are becoming a critical factor in the urbanization of China. Government programs encourage the attraction of these skilled and university educated workers by providing subsidized housing. Talent workers are responding to these incentives, yet many are not settling in the urban communities that woo them. This micro-scale case study of talent worker housing in Shenzhen explores some aspects of the lived experience of these “floating”…
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