Paul He
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul He |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | He |
| SIGNATURE | HE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4579-8346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Was the Covid-19 pandemic a ‘critical juncture’ for active transportation planning in Canada?
Becoming Fully Human in Community
Defined by Desmond Tutu as “a person is a person through other persons”, Ubuntu has contributed a great deal to our theological understanding of personhood. However, this article argues that it is time for a critical theology of Ubuntu. We need to be cognisant of the following dangers within Ubuntu as it has been traditionally been defined: (1) Ubuntu equates community with moral virtue, (2) Ubuntu is premised on idealised notions of community an…
Evaluating the implementation of active transportation infrastructure during the pandemic
The impact of urban transportation on human health is a critical area of study in public health. The pandemic created a need to re-imagine urban public spaces and trial built environment interventions under expedited timelines. By expanding street space for active transportation during the pandemic, cities aimed to enable access to essential destinations and supported physical and mental health during physical distancing regulations through ‘stre…
Covid Street Cafés
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Cities experimented with street design to address health and economic impacts of the COVID pandemic between 2020 and 2023. Scholars have suggested that COVID represented a window of opportunity to transform aspects of urban planning, but the degree to which emergency interventions portend longer-term changes requires study. This study focused on street cafés as one of the more significant COVID-era street…
Ramming attacks, pedestrians, and the securitization of streets and urban public space
Over the last decade, vehicles have been used as weapons to target, kill, and injure pedestrians in cities such as London, New York, and Berlin. In response to these attacks, governments are implementing new policies and physical interventions to securitize pedestrian spaces. A previous wave of urban securitization hardened buildings against explosives delivered by vehicles, but ramming attacks, by using the vehicles themselves as weapons, challe…
Pandemic-time bike lanes in three large Canadian urban centres- differences in use and public perception by socio-demographic groups and geographical contexts
Engaging Disability Theory in Planning Practice
In this commentary, we suggest that disability in planning practice is widely under-theorized. Planners must respond to normalized inattention to disability in the planning field and can begin doing so by engaging disability theory in practice. Five disability perspectives are discussed with a view to providing planners with a disability theory toolkit: (1) the medical, (2) social, and (3) biopsychosocial models; (4) a neoliberal viewpoint; and (…
Living the journey to school
Research about school travel and the built environment developed using positivist and post-positivist onto-epistemologies often relies heavily on travel surveys, activity diaries, GPS tracking, and the "objective" measurement of built environment features using geographical information systems and planimetric data. That work takes up and applies specialized disciplinary and practice-based language (e.g., planning and engineering) and concepts tha…
Livable Streets and Global Competitiveness
Mexico City is rapidly building livable streets (i.e., streets redesigned to accommodate pedestrians, cyclists, and public space users). Livable streets are justified by decision makers as investments to increase urban equity yet tend to reinforce socioeconomic stratification through their location in wealthy and/or gentrifying neighborhoods. Using semi-structured interviews, policy reviews, and participant observation, this article documents Mex…
Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives
Compact, concurrent, and contiguous
In this article, we use parcel-based land-use data to analyze 50 years of residential development in the Toronto region. We test two hypotheses: (1) Toronto's form does not conform to conventional definitions of suburban sprawl and (2) Toronto's suburban development shows high levels of continuity over time with relatively high densities and mixed housing types. Contrary to recent research suggesting a convergence of urban forms among North Ameri…
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
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…
The development of a walkability index
Emerging evidence supports a link between neighbourhood built environment and physical activity. Systematic methodologies for characterising neighbourhood built environment are needed that take advantage of available population information such as census-level demographics. Based on transportation and urban planning literatures, an integrated index for operationalising walkability using parcel-level information is proposed. Validity of the walkab…
Environmental influences on physical activity levels in youth
Fronts and Backs
With New Urbanist ideas reshaping the form of American and Canadian suburban development, this research surveys residents of three Toronto-area neighborhoods to explore how residents use the streets, yards, and alleys immediately adjoining their houses. Despite the presence of attractive front yards and streets, because most of the residents surveyed rely on automobiles stored in alleys for traveling to work or shop, the backdoor is the de facto …
Environmental influences on physical activity levels in youth
Fronts and Backs
With New Urbanist ideas reshaping the form of American and Canadian suburban development, this research surveys residents of three Toronto-area neighborhoods to explore how residents use the streets, yards, and alleys immediately adjoining their houses. Despite the presence of attractive front yards and streets, because most of the residents surveyed rely on automobiles stored in alleys for traveling to work or shop, the backdoor is the de facto …
Engaging Disability Theory in Planning Practice
In this commentary, we suggest that disability in planning practice is widely under-theorized. Planners must respond to normalized inattention to disability in the planning field and can begin doing so by engaging disability theory in practice. Five disability perspectives are discussed with a view to providing planners with a disability theory toolkit: (1) the medical, (2) social, and (3) biopsychosocial models; (4) a neoliberal viewpoint; and (…
Livable Streets and Global Competitiveness
Mexico City is rapidly building livable streets (i.e., streets redesigned to accommodate pedestrians, cyclists, and public space users). Livable streets are justified by decision makers as investments to increase urban equity yet tend to reinforce socioeconomic stratification through their location in wealthy and/or gentrifying neighborhoods. Using semi-structured interviews, policy reviews, and participant observation, this article documents Mex…
Compact, concurrent, and contiguous
In this article, we use parcel-based land-use data to analyze 50 years of residential development in the Toronto region. We test two hypotheses: (1) Toronto's form does not conform to conventional definitions of suburban sprawl and (2) Toronto's suburban development shows high levels of continuity over time with relatively high densities and mixed housing types. Contrary to recent research suggesting a convergence of urban forms among North Ameri…
Environmental influences on physical activity levels in youth
Fronts and Backs
With New Urbanist ideas reshaping the form of American and Canadian suburban development, this research surveys residents of three Toronto-area neighborhoods to explore how residents use the streets, yards, and alleys immediately adjoining their houses. Despite the presence of attractive front yards and streets, because most of the residents surveyed rely on automobiles stored in alleys for traveling to work or shop, the backdoor is the de facto …
The development of a walkability index
Emerging evidence supports a link between neighbourhood built environment and physical activity. Systematic methodologies for characterising neighbourhood built environment are needed that take advantage of available population information such as census-level demographics. Based on transportation and urban planning literatures, an integrated index for operationalising walkability using parcel-level information is proposed. Validity of the walkab…
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
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…
Compact, concurrent, and contiguous
In this article, we use parcel-based land-use data to analyze 50 years of residential development in the Toronto region. We test two hypotheses: (1) Toronto's form does not conform to conventional definitions of suburban sprawl and (2) Toronto's suburban development shows high levels of continuity over time with relatively high densities and mixed housing types. Contrary to recent research suggesting a convergence of urban forms among North Ameri…
Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives
Livable Streets and Global Competitiveness
Mexico City is rapidly building livable streets (i.e., streets redesigned to accommodate pedestrians, cyclists, and public space users). Livable streets are justified by decision makers as investments to increase urban equity yet tend to reinforce socioeconomic stratification through their location in wealthy and/or gentrifying neighborhoods. Using semi-structured interviews, policy reviews, and participant observation, this article documents Mex…
Living the journey to school
Research about school travel and the built environment developed using positivist and post-positivist onto-epistemologies often relies heavily on travel surveys, activity diaries, GPS tracking, and the "objective" measurement of built environment features using geographical information systems and planimetric data. That work takes up and applies specialized disciplinary and practice-based language (e.g., planning and engineering) and concepts tha…
Ramming attacks, pedestrians, and the securitization of streets and urban public space
Over the last decade, vehicles have been used as weapons to target, kill, and injure pedestrians in cities such as London, New York, and Berlin. In response to these attacks, governments are implementing new policies and physical interventions to securitize pedestrian spaces. A previous wave of urban securitization hardened buildings against explosives delivered by vehicles, but ramming attacks, by using the vehicles themselves as weapons, challe…
Pandemic-time bike lanes in three large Canadian urban centres- differences in use and public perception by socio-demographic groups and geographical contexts
Engaging Disability Theory in Planning Practice
In this commentary, we suggest that disability in planning practice is widely under-theorized. Planners must respond to normalized inattention to disability in the planning field and can begin doing so by engaging disability theory in practice. Five disability perspectives are discussed with a view to providing planners with a disability theory toolkit: (1) the medical, (2) social, and (3) biopsychosocial models; (4) a neoliberal viewpoint; and (…
Becoming Fully Human in Community
Defined by Desmond Tutu as “a person is a person through other persons”, Ubuntu has contributed a great deal to our theological understanding of personhood. However, this article argues that it is time for a critical theology of Ubuntu. We need to be cognisant of the following dangers within Ubuntu as it has been traditionally been defined: (1) Ubuntu equates community with moral virtue, (2) Ubuntu is premised on idealised notions of community an…
Evaluating the implementation of active transportation infrastructure during the pandemic
The impact of urban transportation on human health is a critical area of study in public health. The pandemic created a need to re-imagine urban public spaces and trial built environment interventions under expedited timelines. By expanding street space for active transportation during the pandemic, cities aimed to enable access to essential destinations and supported physical and mental health during physical distancing regulations through ‘stre…
Covid Street Cafés
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Cities experimented with street design to address health and economic impacts of the COVID pandemic between 2020 and 2023. Scholars have suggested that COVID represented a window of opportunity to transform aspects of urban planning, but the degree to which emergency interventions portend longer-term changes requires study. This study focused on street cafés as one of the more significant COVID-era street…
Was the Covid-19 pandemic a ‘critical juncture’ for active transportation planning in Canada?
Urban Transport and Accessibility (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Civil engineering (4 works)