Jason Gilliland

Associate Professor and
Director, Urban Development Program

Research Interests

My professional and academic background is in architecture, urban planning, and human geography and my research can be characterized as an integration of all three disciplines. I am particularly interested in the dynamics of social and physical (material) landscape change from the scale of entire cities down to the level of individual buildings and their inhabitants. My ongoing research projects focus on various (and interrelated) aspects of urban planning and development, urban morphology, housing, children's environments, transportation, gambling and public health in Canadian cities.

Publications (past 7 years)

Refereed Journals

Gilliland, J. and Olson, S. 2009 (in press) 'Residential segregation in the industrializing city: a closer look' Urban Geography

Brandon, C.A., Gill, D.P., Speechley, M., Gilliland, J. and Jones, G.R. 2009 (in press) 'Physical Activity Levels of Older Community-Dwelling Adults are Influenced by Summer Weather Variables' Applied Physiology, Nutrition & Metabolism

Larsen, K., Gilliland, J. and Hess, P. 2009 Identifying influences of physical environments and socio-demographic characteristics on a child's mode of travel to and from school. American Journal of Public Health 99(3): 520-526

Tucker, P., Irwin, J., Gilliland, J. Larsen, K., He, M. and Hess, P. 2009 'Environmental influences on physical activity levels in youth' Health and Place 15(1): 357-363

Larsen, K. and Gilliland, J. 2008 'Mapping the evolution of 'food deserts' in a Canadian city: Supermarket accessibility in London, Ontario, 1961-2005' International Journal of Health Geographics 7(1)

Tucker, P. Irwin, J.D., Gilliland, J. and He, M. 2008. Adolescents' Perspectives of Home, School and Neighbourhood Environmental Influences on Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviors Children, Youth and Environments 18(2)

Tucker, P. and Gilliland, J. 2007 'The Effect of Season and Weather on Physical Activity: A Systematic Review' Public Health 121(12): 909-922

Tucker, P., Gilliland, J., Irwin, J. 2007 'Splashpads, swings, and shade: parents' preferences for neighbourhood parks' Canadian Journal of Public Health 98(3), 198-202

Gilliland, J., Holmes, M., Tucker, P., Irwin, J. 2006 'Environmental equity is child's play: Mapping public provision of recreation opportunities in urban neighbourhoods' Vulnerable Children & Youth Studies 1(3): 256-268

Wilson, D., Gilliland, J., Ross, N., Derevensky, J., Gupta, R. 2006 'Video lottery terminal access and gambling among high school students in Montréal' Canadian Journal of Public Health 97(3): 202-206

Gilliland, J. and Gauthier, P. 2006 'The study of urban form in Canada' Urban Morphology 10(1): 51-66

Gauthier, P. and Gilliland, J. 2006 'Mapping urban morphology: a classification scheme for interpreting contributions to the study of urban form' Urban Morphology 10(1): 41-50

Gilliland, J. and Novak, M. 2006 'Positioning the past with the present: on integrating fire insurance plans and GIS for urban environmental history' Environmental History 11(1): 136-139

Gilliland, J. and Ross, N. 2005 'Opportunities for video lottery gambling: an environmental analysis' Canadian Journal of Public Health 96(1): 55-59

Gilliland, J. 2004 'Muddy shore to modern port: the redimensioning of Montreal’s waterfront time-space' Canadian Geographer 48(4): 448-472

Gilliland, J. 2003 'It’s About Time: Exploring the Fourth Dimension in the Morphology of Urban Disasters' Urban Morphology 7(2): 110-112

Gilliland, J. and Olson, S. 2003 'Montréal, l’avenir du passé' GÉOinfo, (Jan-Feb): 5-7

Gilliland, J. 2002 'The Creative Destruction of Montreal: Street Widenings and Urban (Re)Development in the Nineteenth Century' Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine 31(1): 37-51

Gilliland, J. 2002 'Society and Space in the Industrial City, Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire urbaine 31(1): 3-4

Chapters in Books

Gilliland, J. (2008 accepted) 'Fire and urban form: destruction and reconstruction in nineteenth-century Montreal' In Flammable Cities ed J. Sand, G. Bankoff, U. Luebken (chapter accepted for peer-reviewed book)

Supervised Graduate Students and Theses Titles

PhD Students	Year	Title
M. Healy	Current	Geographical analysis of children's health issues in SW Ontario
J. Loebach	Current	Neighbourhood influences on children's play
M. Novak	Current	The evolution of retail landscapes in London, Canada, since 1850
E. Paddle	Current	Try before you buy: developing a standard paradigm for visualising urban development
MA Students	Year	Title
A. Gartshore	Current	Plume modelling and environmental equity
D. Lafreniere	Current	TBA
M. Maltby	Current	TBA
R. Sadler (co-supervised)	Current	Comparison of 'food deserts' in Ontario and Michigan
W. Smith	Current	Modelling determinants of home ownership in 1881
D. Stubbs	Current	The morphogenesis of residential developments in London, Ontario
K. Larsen	2008	Environmental Influences on Mode of Travel to School
M. Holmes	2006	Public play spaces for youth in London, Ontario
M. Novak	2006	Fire and urban morphology: a spatial-temporal analysis of destruction and reconstruction
M. Luciani	2005	The geography of emergency food assistance

CONTENTS

• Research Interests
• Publications
• Supervised Graduate Students and Theses Titles

Department of Geography
Social Science Centre
The University of Western Ontario
1151 Richmond Street
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2
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Updated September 23, 2009 by geography-web