Season 2 - Conversations on Urban Research

Conversations on Urban Research

In this second season of Temporarily Urbane, the SFU Urban Studies podcast, urban researchers within the program engage with their partners to present their ongoing research project as these develop. The conversations on urban research are exploratory and open, thinking through research questions, choices, and impacts as forks in the road, paths less travelled, and surprise openings for new kinds of insight.

(S2E2) TRANSIT SUBSIDIES, DOWNTOWN COMMUTING AND COMMUTING & EQUITY: FINDINGS FROM SFU RESEARCH

How do transit subsidies affect the commuting choices of workers at downtown Vancouver hotels? SFU Urban Studies professors Peter Hall and Anthony Perl investigate the effects of commuting choices for Vancouver hospitality and tourism workers.

(S2E1) TRANSLANGUAGING: NEGLECTED AND NECESSARY TO URBAN SUSTAINABILITY - This is not currently available.

Examining the ways in which what gets lost in translation to English surrounding questions of urban sustainability and how it can be crucial to progress toward sustainability goals.