Victoria Fast
Biographic Data
| ID | 4971109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Fast |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Fast |
| SIGNATURE | FAST V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7093-3864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
GIScience III
GeoAI’s rapid expansion makes renewed attention to slowness in GIScience necessary. Situating GeoAI within GIScience’s longer history of automation, this progress report revisits fast and slow geographic knowledge production and develops slow GIS as a critical orientation to intelligent automation. Drawing on critical, feminist, Indigenous, participatory, disability, and minor GISciences, I propose four commitments—relevance, reflexivity, relatio…
GIScience II
This second progress report critically reviews the intersection of GIS and disability, tracing its evolution from a few isolated studies toward modest growth in recent scholarship. Through a contemporary literature analysis (N = 240) structured around four themes—wayfinding, spatial accessibility, cartography, and spatial epidemiology—we identify persistent conceptual and methodological gaps, including differing terminology and limited representa…
An international comparison of the scope and instruments of local spatial planning
This article analyses (based on multidimensional criteria) land-use plans at a local level (using selected cities as examples) and their relationships to crucial planning issues identified at both national and local levels. The planning approaches of cities from the following countries were compared: Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Ghana, Iran, Mexico, Mongolia, Portugal and Poland. These countries are diverse in terms of their legal, …
GIScience I
Since the inception of volunteered geographic information in 2007, this area of study has seen a proliferation of terms and concepts representing diverse forms of user-generated geographic data and systems. Despite the rich development of VGI (volunteered geographic information) in geography, recent trends indicate a disjointed research field. This progress report critically examines the trajectory of VGI, mapping its journey from an emergent set…
Mapping for Access
Maps are critical for university campuses, as they help students, staff, and visitors navigate the often-scattered array of buildings that have grown over time. However, most campus maps do not contain critical pedestrian-level navigation information such as sidewalks, stairs, and entrances. This void is especially problematic for one in five people with mobility-related disabilities, whether temporary, permanent, or invisible. In this research, …
Worlding and provincialising smart cities
The diversity of smart city case studies presented in this special issue demonstrates the need for provincialised understandings of smart cities that account for cities’ worlding strategies. Case studies drawn from North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia show that ‘the smart city’ takes very diverse forms, serves very diverse objectives, and is embedded in complex power geometries that vary from city to city. Case studies a…
Smart cities
We introduce key concepts that have guided the diverse case studies of this special issue on smart cities. Calling into question Global North conceptions of the smart city, nine different articles analyse smart city projects around the world, with particular attention paid to the need to provincialise our understanding of these projects as well as to consider their relationship to worlding strategies. These case studies demonstrate the diversity …
Integrating Land-Use and Renewable Energy Planning Decisions
Land-based, utility-scale renewable energy (RE) systems using wind or solar resources to generate electricity is becoming a decisive solution to meet long-term carbon emission reduction goals. Local governments are responding in kind, by adopting their own goals and/or establishing policies to facilitate successful implementations of RE in their jurisdiction. One factor to successful RE development is to locate the most suitable lands, while cont…
Spatial Accessibility to Primary Healthcare Services by Multimodal Means of Travel
Universal access to primary healthcare facilities is a driving goal of healthcare organizations. Despite Canada's universal access to primary healthcare status, spatial accessibility to healthcare facilities is still an issue of concern due to the non-uniform distribution of primary healthcare facilities and population over space-leading to spatial inequity in the healthcare sector. Spatial inequity is further magnified when health-related access…
Smart cities
We introduce key concepts that have guided the diverse case studies of this special issue on smart cities. Calling into question Global North conceptions of the smart city, nine different articles analyse smart city projects around the world, with particular attention paid to the need to provincialise our understanding of these projects as well as to consider their relationship to worlding strategies. These case studies demonstrate the diversity …
Worlding and provincialising smart cities
The diversity of smart city case studies presented in this special issue demonstrates the need for provincialised understandings of smart cities that account for cities’ worlding strategies. Case studies drawn from North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia show that ‘the smart city’ takes very diverse forms, serves very diverse objectives, and is embedded in complex power geometries that vary from city to city. Case studies a…
GIScience I
Since the inception of volunteered geographic information in 2007, this area of study has seen a proliferation of terms and concepts representing diverse forms of user-generated geographic data and systems. Despite the rich development of VGI (volunteered geographic information) in geography, recent trends indicate a disjointed research field. This progress report critically examines the trajectory of VGI, mapping its journey from an emergent set…
Spatial Accessibility to Primary Healthcare Services by Multimodal Means of Travel
Universal access to primary healthcare facilities is a driving goal of healthcare organizations. Despite Canada's universal access to primary healthcare status, spatial accessibility to healthcare facilities is still an issue of concern due to the non-uniform distribution of primary healthcare facilities and population over space-leading to spatial inequity in the healthcare sector. Spatial inequity is further magnified when health-related access…
Integrating Land-Use and Renewable Energy Planning Decisions
Land-based, utility-scale renewable energy (RE) systems using wind or solar resources to generate electricity is becoming a decisive solution to meet long-term carbon emission reduction goals. Local governments are responding in kind, by adopting their own goals and/or establishing policies to facilitate successful implementations of RE in their jurisdiction. One factor to successful RE development is to locate the most suitable lands, while cont…
Worlding and provincialising smart cities
The diversity of smart city case studies presented in this special issue demonstrates the need for provincialised understandings of smart cities that account for cities’ worlding strategies. Case studies drawn from North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia show that ‘the smart city’ takes very diverse forms, serves very diverse objectives, and is embedded in complex power geometries that vary from city to city. Case studies a…
Smart cities
We introduce key concepts that have guided the diverse case studies of this special issue on smart cities. Calling into question Global North conceptions of the smart city, nine different articles analyse smart city projects around the world, with particular attention paid to the need to provincialise our understanding of these projects as well as to consider their relationship to worlding strategies. These case studies demonstrate the diversity …
Mapping for Access
Maps are critical for university campuses, as they help students, staff, and visitors navigate the often-scattered array of buildings that have grown over time. However, most campus maps do not contain critical pedestrian-level navigation information such as sidewalks, stairs, and entrances. This void is especially problematic for one in five people with mobility-related disabilities, whether temporary, permanent, or invisible. In this research, …
An international comparison of the scope and instruments of local spatial planning
This article analyses (based on multidimensional criteria) land-use plans at a local level (using selected cities as examples) and their relationships to crucial planning issues identified at both national and local levels. The planning approaches of cities from the following countries were compared: Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Ghana, Iran, Mexico, Mongolia, Portugal and Poland. These countries are diverse in terms of their legal, …
GIScience I
Since the inception of volunteered geographic information in 2007, this area of study has seen a proliferation of terms and concepts representing diverse forms of user-generated geographic data and systems. Despite the rich development of VGI (volunteered geographic information) in geography, recent trends indicate a disjointed research field. This progress report critically examines the trajectory of VGI, mapping its journey from an emergent set…
GIScience III
GeoAI’s rapid expansion makes renewed attention to slowness in GIScience necessary. Situating GeoAI within GIScience’s longer history of automation, this progress report revisits fast and slow geographic knowledge production and develops slow GIS as a critical orientation to intelligent automation. Drawing on critical, feminist, Indigenous, participatory, disability, and minor GISciences, I propose four commitments—relevance, reflexivity, relatio…
GIScience II
This second progress report critically reviews the intersection of GIS and disability, tracing its evolution from a few isolated studies toward modest growth in recent scholarship. Through a contemporary literature analysis (N = 240) structured around four themes—wayfinding, spatial accessibility, cartography, and spatial epidemiology—we identify persistent conceptual and methodological gaps, including differing terminology and limited representa…
Engineering (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (4 works) · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (4 works) · Regional science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Business (2 works)