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 environmental and social change from the scale of entire cities down to the level of individual buildings and their inhabitants. My ongoing research focuses on various aspects of urban planning and development, urban design, housing, transportation, children's environments, and public health in Canadian cities. This work utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and I have a particular interest in advancing urban and health applications of geographic information systems (GIS).

Publications (past 7 years)

Refereed Journals

Sadler, R., Gilliland, J. and Arku, G. (submitted) 'Retail-Led Regeneration as Economic Development: The Influence of New Food Retail Sources on the Price and Availability of Nutritious Food' Journal of Urban Affairs

He, M., Tucker, P., Gilliland, J., Irwin, J., Larsen, K. and Hess, P. (submitted) 'The influence of local food environments on adolescents' food purchasing behaviors' International Journal of Environmental and Public Health Research

Dunae, P., Lafreniere, D., Gilliland, J. and Lutz, J. (submitted) 'Urban wageworkers and their dwellings in the Pacific Northwest: a GIS case study and new epistemology' Journal of Urban History

Charyk-Stewart, T., Polgar, D., Gilliland, J., Tanner, D., Girotti, M., Parry, N. and Fraser, D.D. (submitted) 'Shaken baby syndrome and triple-dose strategy for its prevention' Journal of Trauma

Vogt, K.N., Charyk-Stewart, T., Gilliland, J., Fraser, D., Williamson, J., McKenzie, S., Girotti, M. and Parry, N.G. (submitted) 'Boys and their toys: A review of recreational vehicle trauma in Southwestern Ontario' Journal of Trauma

Healy, M. and Gilliland, J. (in press) 'Quantifying the Magnitude of Environmental Exposure Misclassification When Using Imprecise Address Proxies in Public Health Research' Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology

Larsen, K., Gilliland, J. and Hess, P. (in press) 'Route based analysis to capture the environmental influences on a child's mode of travel between home and school' Annals of the Association of American Geographers

He, M., Tucker, P., Gilliland, J., Irwin, J., Larsen, K., Hess, P. (in press) 'Obesogenic Neighbourhoods: The Impact of Neighborhood Restaurants and Convenience Stores on Adolescents' Food Consumption Behaviors' Public Health Nutrition

Gilliland, J., Olson, S. and Gauvreau, D. (in press) 'Did segregation increase as the city expanded? Montreal 1881-1901' Social Science History (special issue on Urban H-GIS)

Novak, M. and Gilliland, J. (in press) 'Form, function and fluidity of the central retail district in London, Canada: 1880-1930' Social Science History (special issue on Urban H-GIS)

Gilliland, J, Rangel, C.Y., Healy, M.A., Tucker, P., Loebach, J.E., Hess, P.M., He, M., Irwin, J. and Wilk, P. 2012 'Linking Childhood Obesity to the Built Environment: A Multi-Level Analysis of Home and School Neighbourhood' Canadian Journal of Public Health 103(9): S15-S21

Arku, G., Kemp, J. & Gilliland, J. 2011 'Analysis of Public Debates on Urban Growth Patterns in London, Ontario' Local Environment 16(2): 147-163

Sadler, R., Gilliland, J. and Arku, G. 2011 'An application of the edge effect in measuring accessibility to multiple food retailer types in Southwestern Ontario' International Journal of Health Geographics 10: 34 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-10-34

Dunae, P.A., Lutz, J.S., Lafreniere, D.J. and Gilliland, J.A. 2010 'Making the Inscrutable, Scrutable: Race and Space in Victoria's Chinatown, 1891' B.C. Studies 169: 51-80

Loebach, J. and Gilliland, J. 2010 'Learning with Child Guides: Exploring the Use of Child Led Tours to Uncover Children's Perceptions and use of Neighbourhood Environments' Children, Youth & Environments 19: 3

Forward, K., Chan, M., Stewart, T.C., Gilliland, J., Campbell, C. and Fraser, D.D. 2010 'Injury Analyses in Rural Children: Comparison of Old-Order Anabaptists and Non-Anabaptists' Journal of Trauma 69: 1294-1299

Tanner, D.A., Kloseck, M., Crilly, R.G., Chesworth, B. and Gilliland, J. 2010 'Hip fracture types in men and women change differently with age' BMC Geriatrics 10:12

Gilliland, J. and Olson, S. 2010 'Residential segregation in the industrializing city: a closer look' Urban Geography 31(1): 29-58

Hayek, M., Arku, G. and Gilliland, J. 2010 'Assessing London Ontario’s Brownfield Redevelopment Effort to Promote Urban Intensification' Local Environment 15(4): 389–402

Hayek, M., Novak, M., Arku, G. and Gilliland, J. 2010 'Building a Brownfield database with historical GIS' Planning Practise & Research 25(4): 461 – 475

Novak, M. and Gilliland, J. 2010 ‘Buried beneath the waves: using GIS to examine the social and physical impacts of a historical flood' Digital Studies 1(2): 25 pages

Larsen, K. and Gilliland, J. 2009 'A farmers' market in a food desert: Evaluating the impacts on the price and availability of healthy food' Health & Place 15(4):1158-1162

Larsen, K., Gilliland, J., Hess, P., Tucker, P., Irwin, J, and He, M. 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

Brandon, C.A., Gill, D.P., Speechley, M., Gilliland, J. and Jones, G.R. 2009 (2009) 'Physical Activity Levels of Older Community-Dwelling Adults are Influenced by Summer Weather Variables' Applied Physiology, Nutrition & Metabolism 34(1): 182-190

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

Chapters in Books

Lutz, J., Dunae, P., Gilliland, J., Lafreniere, D. and Harvey, M. (in press) 'Turning Space Inside Out: Spatial History and Race in Victorian Victoria' in Assessing the Landscape: Historical GIS Research in Canada ed J. Bonnell and M. Fortin (Calgary: University of Calgary Press)

Gilliland, J. 2011 (forthcoming) 'Fire and urban form: destruction and reconstruction in nineteenth-century Montreal' in Flammable Cities ed J. Sand, G. Bankoff and U. Luebken (University of Minnesota Press)

Gilliland, J. 2010 'The Built Environment and Obesity: Trimming Waistlines through Neighbourhood Design' in Canadian Cities in Transition (4th Edition) ed T. Bunting, P. Filion and R. Walker (Oxford University Press)

Supervised Graduate Students and Theses Titles

PhD Students	Year	Title
M. Healy	Current	Geographical analysis of children's health issues in SW Ontario
D. Lafreniere	Current	Reconstructing Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Daily Life in the 19th Century City
J. Loebach	Current	Neighbourhood influences on children's play
A. Manning	Current	TBA
S. McCans	Current	TBA
D. Rivet	Current	TBA
R. Sadler (co-supervised)	2013	Evaluating the Food System and Effective Interventions for Health and the Economy
M. Novak	2010	The evolution of retail landscapes in London, Canada, since 1850
MA Students	Year	Title
E. Cleave (co-supervised)	Current	TBA
S. Fitzpatrick	Current	Spatial analysis of children’s health issues
L. McIntosh (co-supervised)	Current	TBA
L. Richard	Current	TBA
T. Thayer (co-supervised)	Current	TBA
E. Hill	2012	Identifying the Influence of Parents' and Children's Perceptions of Their Built and Social Environments on Children's Mode of Travel to and From School
D. Stubbs	2010	Quantitative Analysis of Residential Morphology in SW Ontario
D. Lafreniere	2010	Upgrade from Masters Program to PhD Program
R. Sadler (co-supervised)	2010	Upgrade from Masters Program to PhD Program
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
MSc Students	Year	Title
A. Gartshore	Current	Plume modelling and environmental
X. Qin (co-supervised)	Current	TBA
C. Rangel	2013	The Local Food Environment of Children in London Ontario: A Methodological Comparison
M. Maltby	2012	Case studies of personal exposure to PM25 during children's school journeys and cyclist's morning commutes in London, Ontario, Canada

Department of Geography
Social Science Centre
The University of Western Ontario
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London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2
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Updated May 23, 2013 by geography-web