Date & time
Friday, March 21, 2025
9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
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Greening the city
Speaker(s)
Jochen Jaeger, Dalia Assi, Gaëlle Poirier-Morin, Niraj Dayanandan, Annabel Durr, and Cedric Gazal
Cost
This event is free and open to the public but please register
Organization
Loyola College for Diversity & Sustainability & Loyola Sustainability Research Centre
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Where
Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre
7141 Sherbrooke W.
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Yes
This session will feature several presentations on greening and greenspace in Montreal and beyond, and will end with a final session on phytograms and ethnography (plant voices).
Residential preferences for single-family homes are a key driver of urban sprawl. Using a questionnaire survey among students at Concordia University, we explored how participants’ residential preferences are related to their perceptions of urban sprawl and intergenerational justice. A surprisingly large proportion of participants knew very little about urban sprawl. Preference for single-family homes was not particularly pronounced. Preferences for suburban and urban housing options were similarly strong. Residential preferences were more strongly related to perceptions of future than current urban sprawl. Participants were equally concerned about their own futures and those of future generations, and both concerns were associated with residential preferences. However, evidence was insufficient to conclude that perceptions of urban sprawl were associated with housing choices, but results indicated promising avenues for further research. Respondents are open to more sustainable housing options. Therefore, it will be essential to increase awareness among landowners, developers, urban planners, home buyers, and renters about the intergenerational relevance of housing choices. The presentation will highlight the use of alluvial diagrams (also called Sankey charts) for the presentation of survey results.
This work is co-authored by Mirja B. Reid, Matthias Fritsch, Rebecca Tittler, Craig Townsend, William Bukowski, and Ryan Persram
Using a mixed-methods approach, I am analyzing greenspace access trends across Laval, Quebec, and developing community-informed planning scenarios aimed at enhancing greenspace accessibility for marginalized communities, maximizing coverage citywide, and strengthening climate resilience. My research asks: How can Laval increase municipal greenspace coverage and work towards global climate targets while improving greenspace accessibility in marginalized communities? How can urban greening support and strengthen the intersectionality and community dynamics of different neighbourhoods? How can local knowledge and perspectives be utilized and prioritized in the development of urban greening scenarios?
This work is co-authored by Jochen Jaeger.
Monitoring urban plant biodiversity is essential for informing strategies for environmentally sustainable urban development and planning, thus ensuring benefits for both humans and nature. This research aims to assess the effectiveness of Red-Green-Blue (RGB) drone remote sensing as a reliable and cost-effective method of monitoring urban plant biodiversity.
Thsi work is co-authored by Jennifer Donnini, Angela Kross, and Sarah Turner.
Can the openness of the political party in power to the demands of a social movement contribute to radicalizing the movement? Let's dive into the interactive narratives that led to the hardening of citizen group Mobilisation 6600’s position, as governing party Projet Montréal's ideological openness to the group’s demands to protect Boisé Steineberg from city development grew dissonant with the roadblocks encountered.
This work is co-authored by Amy Poteete.
Presentation on findings on a study comparing urban forest diversity and accessibility to socio-economic condition in Montreal, originally prepared for LOYC420. I compare species diversity and the abundance of cultivar species across census tracts and contrast percentage canopy cover and percentage of census tracts in proximity to green spaces. This project aims to outline the effects of policy frameworks such as the 10-20-30 and 3-30-300 rules in urban forestry, and highlight potential gaps in ecosystem service provision and forest resilience for vulnerable populations.
Through examining foraging practices in Montreal, my honours thesis research explores how human-plant entanglements cultivate a sense of ecological belonging and environmental responsibility and challenge traditional views of urban spaces by transforming the urban into spaces of collaboration and respect for the natural world. I would like to talk about the phytogram technique, which is the process of creating camera-less photographic images using the internal chemistry of plants. Plants grow and orient themselves primarily based on light and chemical signals; subsequently, these aspects are precisely what is used to create phytograms (Doing 2020: 31). In this way, phytograms are a tool to bring humans closer to understanding the sensations of plants but through an image tangible to humans. I would like to explore this art medium as an ethnographic method that brings nonhuman voices to the forefront, allowing plants to tell their own stories and challenging colonial perspectives while enriching ecological narratives.
This event is brought to you by the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre, and the Department of Design and Computation Arts in collaboration with 4TH SPACE, with the support of the Office of the Vice-President, Research, Innovation and Impact; the School of Community and Public Affairs and First Peoples Studies; the Science College; and the Departments of Communication Studies; Geography, Planning and Environment; and Political Science at Concordia University.
This event will contribute to the Sustainability in Research section of Concordia's Sustainability Action Plan by increasing the visibility of sustainability research at Concordia.
This event is part of:
In.site2 and Sustainability across disciplines