Gina Sylvestre
Title: Assistant Professor
Phone: 204.982.1146
Office: 5L11
Building: Lockhart Hall
Teaching Areas:
Urban Geography
Population Geography
Healthy Communities & Cities
Tourism
Courses:
GEOG 1105(3) Challenges of a Changing World: Introduction to Human Geography
GEOG 2412(3) A Geographical Perspective on Tourism
GEOG 2414(3) The Urban Environment
GEOG 2431(3) Population Geography
GEOG 3431(3) Healthy Communities and Cities
GEOG 3511(3) Topical Regions in Geography
Research Interests:
Aging & exclusion
Housing affordability
Mobility and winter conditions
Inclusive, sustainable urban transportation
Publications:
Sylvestre, G., McCullough, S., Dudley, M., Vachon, M. (2023). Shut Out - Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market: Barriers to Tenancy Access and Maintenance, Its Impacts, and Possible Interventions. Ottawa, ON: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Barclay, R., Mbabaali, S., Akinrolie, O., Chan, H., Loewen, H., Ripat, J., Salbach, NM, Scheller, C., Sylvestre, G., Webber, S.(2022). Identifying outdoor winter walking programs and resources for older adults: A scoping review of the grey literature. Accepted to Physiotherapy Canada. November 2022.
Chesser, S. A., Porter, M. M., Barclay, R., Menec, V. H., Ripat, J., Sibley, K. M., Sylvestre, G. M., Webber, S. C. (2020). Exploring University Age-Friendliness Using Collaborative Citizen Science. The Gerontologist, 60(8), 1527-1537.
Sylvestre, G. (2016). Aging and sustainability: Creating a discourse on places of inclusive mobility for the promotion of longevity. In G. Joseph (Ed.), Diverse Perspectives on Aging in a Changing World, pp. 9-23. London UK: Routledge.
Sylvestre, G. and Cristall, N. (2016). Grey ghettos: Inclusion or exclusion in the post-modern Canadian city? In G. Joseph (Ed.), Diverse Perspectives on Aging in a Changing World, pp. 185-202. London UK: Routledge.
Sylvestre, G. (2016). An Icy Response to the Collective Need for Winter Walkability: Mobilities research and the Surefoot Winter Walking Conditions Bulletin. Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays, Volume 18, 24-31.
Sylvestre, G. (2015). Ageing in Winnipeg’s inner city: Exclusion or inclusion in polarized urban spaces? In The Divided Prairie City: Income Inequality Among Winnipeg’s Neighbourhoods, 1970-2010, eds., J. Distasio and A. Kaufman, Winnipeg, MB: The Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg, pp. 62-67.
Distasio, J., Sylvestre, G.M., Wall-Whieler, E. (2013). The migration of First Nations peoples in the Canadian Prairie context: Exploring policy and program implications to support residential stability. Geography Research Forum, 33, 38-63.
Sylvestre, G.M. and Smith, G.C. (2009) Spatial aspects of the residential adjustments of older parents moving to low-income senior housing: A longitudinal study. Geoforum, 40, 918-929.
Smith, G.C. and Sylvestre, G.M. (2008) Effects of neighbourhood and individual change on the personal outcomes of recent movers to low-income senior housing. Research on Aging, 30 (5), 592-617.
Havens, B., Hall, M., Sylvestre, G., and Jivan, T. (2004). Social isolation and loneliness: Differences between older rural and urban Manitobans. Canadian Journal on Aging, 23 (2), 129-140.
Smith, G.C., Sylvestre, G.M., and Anderson Ramsay, H. (2002). Local social and service environments of an urban housing market for seniors. Housing and Society, 29 (1/2), 23-44.
Smith, G.C. and Sylvestre, G.M. (2001). Determinants of the travel behavior of the suburban elderly. Growth and Change, 32, Summer, 395-412.