Betsy Donald

New Housing Alternatives for a Socially-Just, Post-Covid Urban Canada

Keywords: housing policy; housing precarity; housing financialization; community land trusts; models of housing provision

An intersectional minority stress model of the effects of weight and sexuality self-stigma on psychosocial outcomes

Principal investigators: Withnell, Samantha

Keywords: weight stigma; sexual orientation; intersectionality; self-stigma; minority stress

Taking Canada for a Ride? Digital Ride-hailing and its impact on Canadian Cities

Principal investigators: Donald, Betsy J.

Keywords: digital economy; technological change; platform economy; mobility; Uber; uberization; Canadian cities; economic development; innovation; regulation; communities; impact; economic geography; urban geography

Taking Canada for a Ride? Digital Ride-hailing and its impact on Canadian Cities

Principal investigators: Donald, Betsy J.

Keywords: digital economy; technological change; platform economy; mobility; Uber; uberization; Canadian cities; economic development; innovation; regulation; communities; impact; economic geography; urban geography

Creating digital opportunity: Canada's ICT industry in global perspective

Keywords: information and communications technology; digital economy; global production networks; digital infrastructure; intelligent communities; local skills and labour markets

Research partnerships to revitalize rural economies

Principal investigators: Chan, Yolande E.

Keywords: business; community economic development; research partnerships; innovation; human capital; social entrepreneurs; creative economy; new ventures; small business; broadband; infrastructure; transportation; rural Canada; prosperity; sustainability; policy

The creative food economy: a new menu for sustainable economic development

Principal investigators: Donald, Betsy J.

Keywords: new food enterprises; sustainable economic development; organic foods; ethnic foods; local food systems; creativity; innovation; urban and regional economic development

Revitalizing rural economies by mobilizing academic knowledge

Keywords: rural economic development; community development; regional revitalization; knowledge gaps; knowledge needs; knowledge transfer; business growth; entrepreneurship; creative economy; social networks

Social dynamics of economic performance: innovation and creativity in city-regions

Principal investigators: Wolfe, David A.

Keywords: innovations; creativity; city-regions; learning; associative governance; social diversity; social inclusion

Governing the quality-of-life city in the new economy: growth politics in Toronto and Boston

Principal investigators: Donald, Betsy J.

Keywords: new economy; knowledge-based economy; urban political economy; local economic development politics; urban public policy; city-regions; competitiveness; quality of life; talent; creative class; urban elite; governance; Toronto; Boston