About Me:
Avid traveler, recovering academic, investment strategy researcher, home owner, urban parent…and fascinated by cities and how they work.
My interest in cities is personal and professional, as well as academic. From travels abroad and exploring my own city I have become fascinated with the ways in which all cities are different, and yet the same.
I love exploring different vibrant neighborhoods and seeing how they the people are constantly incorporating new influences, blending them with the old and familiar. Buildings, streetscapes and architecture also tell something of a region’s history — and again how the old and familiar continually mixes with the new.
Unraveling the economic and social forces that make a city work — or fail — is another fascination of mine and frequently appears in blog posts.
In addition to extensive traveling, I’ve lived and worked in several different cities in the US and Canada, and hold dual citizenship. As you might guess from my url, I live in Canada – Vancouver in fact.
In my “day job” I provide research and analysis related to urban economic trends for a large Canadian real estate investment management company.
I have a Ph.D. in Comparative-World and Latin American History (Arizona 1999), with a focus on 20th century economic and transportation history.
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[...] Creative Travel Logby Richard FloridaWed Jan 12th 2011 at 7:12pm UTCA Canadian in Tucson Wendy Waters comments on my Atlantic post on the Tucson shootings and the culture of honor.I went to grad school [...]
This morning while surfing the net for “Urban Technologies” I happened to come across your web page.I am still reading them with much interest. I have somewhat similar interest- designing new and augmenting existing buildings, neighbourhoods and cities – but my focus is technology and systems. I work with the more creative and qualified specialists who do the real work. My area , as I name it is performative design. Since I use parametric and dynamic modelling as methods and tools , my challenge is to find relationships. Your work is interesting as it explores the relationships. It will be nice if we can share more and keep in touch. Btw, I am in Asia and an Asian, but have lived in continental Europe and the US for few years.
With Regards
Saibal
I wasnt aware of some of the material that you wrote about so I want to just say thank you.
Great blog Wendy. I’ve just surfed several posts. Good ideas. Good job.
I’m actually working on a housing story at this very minute for West Coast Homes & Design (Vancouver SUN pub) and would love to use an excerpt from your blog! I see you have lived/studied in Arizona. I am reading “Bird on Fire” right now, by Andrew Ross. It is awesome!