This online notebook collects mostly educational but also some personal interest-focused reflections on topics of social science character.
Bent Flyvbjerg’s values-rational questions seems to stick with me, guiding my journey as I explore topics of international development, education, environmental degradation, geography, history, anthropology and sociology, politics, conflict and collaboration, and, most intensely recently, planning (rural, regional and urban).
1. Where are we going?
2. Who gains and who loses, and by which mechanism of power?
3. Is this development desirable?
4. What, if anything, should we do about it?
Follow my current (2010-2011) Graduate Thesis Research (M.A. Planning Candidate, University of Waterloo) at a separate blog:
“Challenges and Opportunities to Implementing Smart Growth: A Downtown Guelph Case Study”
