»DAVID GORDON: Thanks Liz.  
11:24:31 Talk about a   tough act to 
follow.  Zombie a/POPL /
11:24:39 APOCALYPSE.  And for   
something completely different
11:24:42 .  This is the faculty   
equivalent of Pokemon go.  
11:24:48 This is exciting as it gets as
your professor I think.  This 
11:24:53 is a research that we're   
going for the social sciences 
11:24:57 and humanities research   
counsel on trying to figure 
11:25:03 out where and how extensive   
the suburbs are in Canada.  To
11:25:06 do that, we invented a   
method of classifying 
11:25:10 neighborhoods as the census 
track   level.  That led to a 
11:25:16 whole bunch of fun.  So, let 
me   start sharing my screen 
11:25:19 which I will
11:25:26 do with -- which one   is it 
Megan
11:25:31 ?          
» Do you have multiple screens
11:25:33 as well.          
»DAVID GORDON: It's /
11:25:38 It's hiding.  It's like a   
Pokemon.  So, we're going to 
11:25:40 share my screen
11:25:49 and we're to   start the 
presentation.  I'm here with 
11:25:53 the amazing Megan   Smythe who
's been
11:25:58 on the team

11:26:04 for the last 4 years.  And   
now we're going to switch the 
11:26:07 display settings.           
» That looks great.           
11:26:10 »DAVID GORDON: Away
11:26:17 we go.  So, urbanist,   
geographers, you all know that
11:26:22 Canada is increasingly   urban
society.  You hear this 
11:26:25 number floating around. 
We're 82% you are /TKPWAPB.  
11:26:34 urban.  What does that mean? 
Urban famous place   van /KAO*
11:26:40 Vancouver for its urbanism.  
Do we mean we live on the me  
11:26:43 anyone sue law enforcement in 
an apartment and walk   
11:26:48 everywhere? How about this? 
This is
11:26:56 viewing Vancouver.    Is this 
urban? Houses, single detached
11:26:59 houses as far as I   can see. 
Cars everywhere.  How about 
11:27:05 this? The whole   lower 
mainland.  This is what the 
11:27:09 definition of urban   means 
from the OECD and statistics 
11:27:13 Canada.  Urban simply
means
11:27:20 nonrural.  This is the 
definition of the area
11:27:25 in   Vancouver is not rural.  
If you ask anyone at stats   
11:27:28 Canada how many people live in
an urban area like what we   
11:27:32 thought of urban like
11:27:36 p by anyone sue law 
enforcement.    It may be 16 
11:27:43 which can in Vancouver.  The 
other 84% some   form of 
11:27:47 suburb where 84% of the 
population.  So we have   to 
11:27:53 pay a lot more attention to 
these suburbs.  We atested   
11:28:00 12 different model
for 33 metropolitan areas.  We
11:28:02 found   the incredible results
with this model for /TRAPB /PO
11:28:08 for   transportation,
the active core, transit 
11:28:12 suburbs, transit   use greater
than 150% of the average.  
11:28:17 Auto suburbs which   most of 
you think is upper.  Transit /
11:28:21 use less than and
11:28:30 exyou are an areas, we have a 
lot of commuting
11:28:35 .  This   model after
5 years of trial and mostly 
11:28:40 error is what we   mapped all 
of Canada with?.  Every census
11:28:44 tracked.  Every   neighborhood
.  Using very simple census 
11:28:50 day that we just   talked 
about and Arc map.  It over 
11:28:54 laid on google earth   to do 
some basic checking if we didn
11:28:58 we didn't know the   
neighborhood.  We would zoom 
11:29:01 in and figure out with this   
definition of this area of 
11:29:07 outside the green belt and   
what y was that being called 
11:29:09 urban.  It had a bunch of   
townhouses.  So that deaf /
11:29:15 finition of what made urban   
(indiscernible).  That's how 
11:29:18 we use street view and check  
it.      What do we find? We 
11:29:22 found that 67%
11:29:25 of Canadians   live in some 
kind
11:29:37 of suburb.  Transit suburb, 
auto   suburb.  Canada
11:29:41 isn't an urban nation, we're a
Suburban   nation.  Probably 
11:29:46 two-thirds of you grew up in 
the   suburbs.  So, we 
11:29:50 totalled it all up.  We 
checked it again   with 2011 
11:29:55 and 2016 census.  We're going 
to do it again
11:29:59 in   2021.  Now we're going to
do a fast tour from one side 
11:30:06 of   the country to the other.
Looking at ever METROPOLITAN  
11:30:09 area.  If you live
11:30:12 in a metropolitan area, you 
will see   your hometown for 
11:30:15 about 10 seconds.  I'm going 
to start   with Victoria and 
11:30:19 end up in St. Johns.  Ready, 
here's   Victoria.  Victoria 
11:30:26 is 21% urban and 79% /SUR burr
ban.    Here
11:30:36 's Vancouver.  84% Suburban.  
Huge suburbs out in   Langley,
11:30:41 Abbotsford 100%
11:30:51 , Kelowna, 90% urban, Calgary 
88%
11:30:59 88%   Suburban.  Not much of a
surprise.  Edmonto, actually  
11:31:11 more Suburban that Calgary.  
Lethbridge, rejina 91%.    
11:31:18 Winnipeg, thunder bay 84%.  
Windsor 88%.  London where   
11:31:22 Liz is, 86%
11:31:30 some form of suburb or anoth
the population   lives
11:31:46 in.  Guelph, 73% /SUR burr ban
.  Hamilton 88%,   Barri, 96%.
11:32:03 Toronto, the metropolitan area
is 89%   Suburban.  St. 
11:32:05 Catherines
11:32:21 ; oshawa 7% Suburban.  Pe
borough, only 74%.  Here in 
11:32:33 king ton 86%.  Ottawa the   
nations capital, 85% Suburban.
11:32:40 Montreal, that's the only   
places we visit, 93 -- sorry, 
11:32:43 8 /#% Suburban
11:32:57 .    Sherbrooke, inquiry beck
81%.  Saguenay, 94%.  Saint   
11:33:00 John, 88%
11:33:07 .  Halifax 85% Suburban
11:33:11 .  One of the highest   
exurban, lots of people living
11:33:17 in Halifax way out in the   
country side.  St. Johns 85%. 
11:33:20 There we go.  Went through   
the entire country and how do 
11:33:23 we do this? We went and   
checked each neighborhood 
11:33:27 using google earth and street 
view.  And we attached the 
11:33:31 data which is easy
to do to   the maps.  So we 
11:33:36 could see the data and then 
zoom in on   the neighborhood,
11:33:45 
y is this Suburban and this 
11:33:48 one not.    Click on any of 
these maps and the data pops 
11:33:52 up.  As part   of the 
demonstration, we're going to 
11:33:59 show you how to do   this 
yourself with our data's all 
11:34:05 in public at a website   
called Canadian website.  We'
11:34:09 We're giving instructions for 
you to do this later if you 
11:34:11 feel like it
11:34:17 .  Here's the   Canadian 
suburbs website and in this 
11:34:22 site, you'll find   maps 
already made in PDF form but 
11:34:25 also and this is the   fun 
part, you can download a 
11:34:28 google earth
11:34:33 file for your   town.  Liz is 
from Vancouver
11:34:38 .  We're going to go to   
Vancouver, British columbar 
11:34:40 British Columbia and select 
from all the   different 
11:34:43 models we did in years.  The 
most recent data   with the 
11:34:49 the model which is the 
transportation model for   
11:34:54 Vancouver.  Click on that and
the file drops down.  You   
11:34:58 can drag and drop that into 
google earth which we'll do.  
11:35:06 I've got google earth open 
here trying valiantly to   /
11:35:10 to crash   the system.  All 
you need to do is drag this 
11:35:13 for your   home
11:35:17 city in and all the data and 
the map is there for us   to 
11:35:19 use
11:35:24 .  So here we are at google 
earth prowhich you all   have 
11:35:29 and I'm sure you have played 
with some point or   another. 
11:35:32 And we found this really 
useful
11:35:34 which you all   have and I'm 
sure you have played with some
11:35:38 course in   google earth, you 
can play with
11:35:45 the transparency, turn   off 
the roads, et cetera.  When we
11:35:48 go in and look at   this
11:35:54 ; how come this
11:36:03 area, we click on it and see 
the   data.  How come this one
11:36:06 is classified as an active 
core,   a walking area.  And 
11:36:10 right beside it is an 
automobile   suburb, not a 
11:36:15 transit suburb but an 
automobile suburb.    This is 
11:36:19 the fancy neighborhood of (
indiscernible) in   Vancouver.
11:36:23 This side, the data is just 
big enough number   of people 
11:36:28 walking to work, walking and 
taking active   transport we 
11:36:31 call it
11:36:35 .  So that it's more
an one and a   half times
11:36:42 average of the Vancouver area.
Really in this   area, this is
11:36:49 a hhigh end suburb and mostly 
and most   people are driving 
11:36:54 71% are driving.  Across the 
road   here, how come this is 
11:36:58 an automobile suburb.  Well, 
not   quite the same number of
11:37:02 people.  Only 13% are walking 
or   biking to work.  So this 
11:37:05 thing popped up
11:37:11 as an auto   suburb.  Zoom in 
and it's certainly looks like 
11:37:16 one.  Now   we're going to get
participatory.  We've got 
11:37:24 every
sen   metropolitan area on 
11:37:28 google earth.  If you put an 
address   in the chat, the QA,
11:37:32 put an address in the chat 
with the   city, we'll zoom in
11:37:37 and you can tell me whether 
you agree   or not with
11:37:42 the designation.  Megan, why 
don't you try   your first.  
11:37:49 Okay, we got 80 Maple Avenue
in Barri from   Linda
11:37:53 .  Linda, what kind
11:37:58 of -- what kind of area do you
think -- is this a walkable 
11:38:02 downtown or is this a suburb  
do you think
11:38:14 ? This is the closest 
processors have to have   any 
11:38:16 fun
11:38:29 .  We're going to find.  
Click on it.  Make it   
11:38:35 translucent.  So this is 80 
Maple Avenue.  We got it   
11:38:38 right? So the definition
11:38:42 here is it says, this is
11:38:50 active   core.  So this is 
close enough to downtown 
11:38:54 Barrie.  The   neighborhood
it's in senses track
11:39:00 six has 14% people   walking 
or biking to work.  It is 
11:39:05 actually possibl
to do   that in Barrie.  Most
11:39:09 to do   that in Barrie in this
place, just close you have to 
11:39:11 downtown, just enough people 
are walking and biking to   
11:39:14 work.  So it shows
11:39:17 up
11:39:20 as a (indiscernible).  I'm 
going to   try 401 ranking in 
11:39:22 Windsor
11:39:44 .  In is showing as an active 
core as well.  Wonder why.  
11:39:50 Let's have a look.  All   
right.  We go to London
11:40:04 .  Translucent.  Okay, you're 
really close to why is this a 
11:40:08 walkable core do you think?   
So, this is because we're 
11:40:13 right beside the University of
Windsor.  So, in the 
11:40:17 neighborhood close to the   
universities, there are lots 
11:40:20 of people who walk and bike   
to work.  Doesn't include 
11:40:25 students though.  So this is 
my   latest research grant 
11:40:29 that we're working on.  
Actually,   all you students 
11:40:31 have messed up the research 
model.  When   we looked 
11:40:35 around the campus
11:40:42 at in Windsor a
in London   and Kingston, we 
11:40:45 found the occupied dwelling 
units,   there's a whole bunch
11:40:53 of what are called unoccupi
dwelling units.  They are a 
11:40:56 whole bunch of dwelling units 
that are quote, not okay 
11:41:00 ccupied.  That's because 
statistics   Canada, if a 
11:41:04 house can completely full of 
students says   there's nobody
11:41:09 living there.  You as students
are   attached to your parents
11:41:13 home for the purpose of the   
census.  There is a really 
11:41:17 weird quirk.  Only in Canad
We're using this right now and
11:41:20 one of my grad students
11:41:24 Matt was using this to map 
places like Windsor.  Which   
11:41:31 are the neighborhoods that are
being identified.  Okay,   why
11:41:39 don't we try 42 Aspen hill 
court or crescent.  Aspen   
11:41:44 hill crescent.  That's kind of
a include of downtown   
11:41:48 neighborhood this is. 
Go to the east coast
11:42:03 .  We're going   to zoom out a
bit.  The raw map says this is
11:42:08 an exurban   area.  So, it's 
an area with rural densities 
11:42:12 but a lot of   people living
in single detached homes and 
11:42:14 driving is
11:42:18 .    We now look at the 
Halifax
11:42:27 .  Translucent.  So we can 
zoom   through.  Here's Aspen 
11:42:29 hill
11:42:38 court which looks
to be a   cul-de-sac in the 
11:42:44 woods in bed Ford just past 
the part of   Halifax where it
11:42:50 it's solid suburbs.  So, the /
TKEPSties   would be much 
11:42:57 lower in this neighborhood.  
This is   typical Halifax
11:43:00 in the exurban area.  This is 
what we   call sprawl
11:43:05 people.  These are low
11:43:09 density, single   detached 
homes on water that are on 
11:43:18 well and septic tanks
that sprinkled through the 
11:43:22 Halifax area.  Aspen court,   
that looks like it might 
11:43:25 approximate serviced which
11:43:28 the   others isn't.  A 
neighborhood that's so low 
11:43:32 density, I   bet you wanted a 
car when you grew up when you 
11:43:38 were a   teenager.      So, I'
m going to stop
11:43:44 here and I think I want to   
thank everybody who worked
11:43:49 on the back to the final   
presentation slides.  And 
11:43:53 thank everybody who worked on 
this especially
11:44:00 Megan Sythe who help put this 
presentation together.  Our 
11:44:03 research, you can download   
the working papers for the 
11:44:08 down of Canadian urbanism and 
that is entirely open and 
11:44:13 available to you by Canadian  
(indiscernible) dot ca.  We 
11:44:15 hope it's useful for your   
research.          
11:44:19 » I wonder if Megan has been 
really on the   ball with them
11:44:25 putting some links on the chat
.  If you   the link to that 
11:44:28 paper, I'm sure people would 
love to   have it as well.    
11:44:31 
»DAVID GORDON: It's embedded
11:44:33 in the   PowerPoint.          
» We'll make sure to link the 
11:44:36 presentation   as well then.