People

LAEQ is staffed with three professors and supervises some fifteen students and research trainees.

Members

Research

LAEQ is currently supported by three research grants.

Research projects

Laboratory

LAEQ offers state-of-the-art instruments and a data analysis laboratory on the urban environment.

LAEQ Infrastructure

News

  • Launch of a Website on exposure to air pollution and noise in Montreal

    LAEQ is proud to announce the launch of a website on exposure to noise and atmospheric pollution in Montreal. The main objective of this project is to compare levels of exposure of individuals to air pollution and traffic noise and the inhalations doses in rush hour in Montreal according to the transportation mode (cycling, car and public transport).  The website is available at http://atlaspollutionmtl.ucs.inrs.ca/

  • Congratulations to Stéphanie Potvin!

    Stéphanie Potvin,  Master’s student in urban studies, has obtained a FRQSC scholarship.

Seminars

  • 11 May 2017

    85th Annual ACFAS Congress, McGill University (May 11th and 12th)

    Colloquium l’Équité environnementale et la Ville

    LAEQ’s team will hold a colloquium on May 11th and 12th at McGill University during the 85th Annual ACFAS Congress. Philippe Apparicio, Anne-Marie Séguin and Thi Than Hien Pham will organize the presentations. The two days will be divided into seven thematic sessions:

    1. Environmental Equity and Parks
    2. Environmental Equity and Vegetation
    3. Environmental Equity and Cycling
    4. Environmental Equity and Health
    5. Environmental Equity, Urban Noise and Air Pollution
    6. Equity and Seniors Mobility
    7. Environmental Equity, Mobility and Methodological Issues

    Take a look at our program and looking forward to seeing you all!

  • 10 February 2017

    INRS Urbanisation Culture Société, 385 Sherbrooke E., Montréal

    LAEQ’s seminar, Wednesday, February 10, 2017, 12:30, room 2107

    • Dominique Mathon
      Using 2SFCA for assessing cross-border healthcare spatial accessibility: Preliminary results
    • Simon Charron
      Montreal’s urban green spaces then and now: Institutional representations and environmental equity
    • Jérémy Gelb, Philippe Apparicio et Anne-Sophie Dubé
      The approaches to measuring the potential spatial access to urban health services revisited: Distance types and aggregation-error issues
    • Déborah Delaunay
      Quiet area distribution in Montreal Island, equity or inequity?
  • 30 November 2016

    INRS Urbanisation Culture Société, 385 Sherbrooke E., Montréal

    LAEQ’s seminar, Wednesday, November 30, 2016, 12:30, room 2109

    • Thomas Audrin
      Aircraft noise in an urban environment: an approach from the perspective of environmental equity
    • Maxime Houde
      Mediatic snowstorm. Winter cycling representation in daily newspaper LaPresse
    • Élaine Lesage-Mann
      Gentrification and revitalization of public spaces: the consequences of drug addicts scattering
  • 26 October 2016

    INRS Urbanisation Culture Société, 385 Sherbrooke E., Montréal

    LAEQ’s seminar, Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 12:30, room 1106

    • Simon Charron
      Institutional discourses about Montreal’s parks since 1950: How urban history enables the contextualization of environmental equity
    • Isabel Wiebe
      Older adults’ mobility practices and experiences in the borough of Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie
    • Anne-Marie Séguin, Philippe Apparicio et Jérémy Gelb
      Does park design encourage a generational divide in Montreal?
    • Jérémy Gelb
      Measuring Quality of Place in urban areas in Saint-Lazare
  • 23 September 2016

    INRS Urbanisation Culture Société, 385 Sherbrooke E., Montréal

    LAEQ’s seminar, Friday, September 23, 2016, 12:30, room 1106

    • Élaine Lesage-Mann
      Geography of discarded needles
    • Déborah Delaunay
      The Quiet Urban Areas
    • Maxime Houde
      A ride for whom? Bicycle network accessibility as an environmental equity issue
    • Bernardo Augusto De Alvarenga
      Digital interventions for physical activity in parks
  • 21 June 2016

    INRS Urbanisation Culture Société, 385 Sherbrooke E., Montréal

    LAEQ’s seminar, Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 12:00, room 1106

    • Philippe Apparicio, Mathieu Carrier, Jérémy Gelb and Anne-Marie Séguin
      Cycling in Montreal: Individual exposure to air and noise pollution in the central neighbourhoods
    • Mathieu Carrier, Philippe Apparicio, Anne-Marie Séguin, Yan Kestens, Hien Pham, Dan Crouse and Jack Siemiatycki
      Development of an environmental equity index to evaluate socio-economic disparities of traffic-related pollutants, urban heat-island and access to amenities on the Island of Montreal, Canada
All seminars

Management team

Philippe Apparicio

Philippe Apparicio

Full Professor
INRS Urbanisation Culture Société

Research areas:

  • Environmental justice, air pollution, road traffic noise, urban quality of life, poverty, residential segregation
  • Spatial analysis, geographical information systems, remote sensing, spatial data fusion, web cartography
Anne-Marie Séguin

Anne-Marie Séguin

Full Professor
INRS Urbanisation Culture Société

Research areas: 

  • Poverty and social exclusion, segregation, socio-spatial aspects of aging, social urban policy
  • Methodology of research, mixed methods

Recent publications

  • Article

    Anticipation and post-construction impact of a metro extension on residential values: The case of Laval (Canada), 1995–2013

    Devaux, N., J. Dubé & P. Apparicio. 2017. Journal of transport geography, 62: 8-19.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2017.05.002
  • Article

    Spatial Logic and the distribution of open and green public spaces in Hanoi: Planning in a dense and rapidly changing City

    Pham, T.-T.-H. & D. Labbé. 2017. Urban Policy and Research, 1-18.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2017.1295936
  • Article

    Is poverty concentration expanding to the suburbs? Analyzing the intra-metropolitan poverty distribution and its change in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver

    Ades J., P. Apparicio & A.-M. Séguin. 2016. Canadian Journal of Regional Science / Revue canadienne de sciences régionales, 38(1/3), 23-37.
    http://www.cjrs-rcsr.org/V39/cjrs_rcsr39-1-3AdesApparicioSeguin.pdf
  • Article

    Disentangling the effects of urban form and socio-demographic context on street tree cover: A multi-level analysis from Montréal

    Pham, H., P. Apparicio, S. Landry & J. Lewnard. 2017. Landscape and Urban Planning, 157: 422-433.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.09.001
  • Article

    Cyclists’ exposure to air pollution and road traffic noise in central city neighbourhoods of Montreal

    Apparicio P., M. Carrier, J. Gelb, A.-M. Séguin & J. Dubé. 2016. Journal of Transport Geography, 57:63-69.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.09.014
All publications