Theo Lim
@chaolim85.bsky.social
Associate Prof, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia
Environmental Sci and Planning | Local-Scientific Knowledge Integration | Urban Climate Adaptation
Environmental Sci and Planning | Local-Scientific Knowledge Integration | Urban Climate Adaptation
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'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
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June 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'
Thinking about democracy, action, and the process of producing research a lot recently. This article reflecting on Patsy Healey's work by @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social was a pleasure to read. I also very much enjoyed the reflection at the end on the importance of intellectual inspiration and exchange
Democracy as Lived Experience. In his article "The Essential Tension: Patsy Healey's Conception of Democracy in Planning and Public Policy" @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social reflects on two major themes in Patsy Healey's work: democracy and epistemology. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Essential Tension: Patsy Healey’s Conception of Democracy in Planning and Public Policy
Patsy Healey was a major democratic theorist. Although often implicit, it is easy to discern in her work a normative-empirical theory of democracy that is characterized by a focus on improving stat...
www.tandfonline.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Thinking about democracy, action, and the process of producing research a lot recently. This article reflecting on Patsy Healey's work by @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social was a pleasure to read. I also very much enjoyed the reflection at the end on the importance of intellectual inspiration and exchange
I love how this Interface collection on Inspirations in Planning for Planning Theory & Practice came out. I contributed a piece reflecting on a quotation from Paolo Freire's "We Make the Road by Walking," and my experience on the feeling of 'being unfinished' in community-engaged planning.
A new Interface collection edited by John Forester includes contributions from twelve planning practitioners, researchers, and educators, each reflecting on where they draw their inspiration. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Inspirations in Planning
Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 26, No. 1, 2025)
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May 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I love how this Interface collection on Inspirations in Planning for Planning Theory & Practice came out. I contributed a piece reflecting on a quotation from Paolo Freire's "We Make the Road by Walking," and my experience on the feeling of 'being unfinished' in community-engaged planning.
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A grad student at the University of Minnesota has been abducted by ICE.
March 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
A grad student at the University of Minnesota has been abducted by ICE.
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regional public Us serve the vast majority of the 20 million students enrolled in higher ed, are largest employers in countless regions, and are being demolished for the oligarch’s pleasure
It's not just the most visible universities being damaged by the administration. It's all of them.
A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education
The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural regi...
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March 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
regional public Us serve the vast majority of the 20 million students enrolled in higher ed, are largest employers in countless regions, and are being demolished for the oligarch’s pleasure
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Getting harder and harder to call Columbia a legitimate university.
March 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Getting harder and harder to call Columbia a legitimate university.
Very cogent arguments here on the crisis in/facing higher education in the US
Out today: A new series, organized by @jpygold.bsky.social and @veenadubal.bsky.social and jointly published by Academe and @lpeblog.bsky.social, brings together legal experts who weigh the implications of Trump’s early executive orders: www.aaup.org/article/trum... 1/6 🧵
Trump Is Revealing Our Higher Ed Crisis
This article is part of a preview to the spring 2025 issue of Academe. The full issue will be published in May. This is an introduction to a series of articles focusing on the impacts of the Trump adm...
www.aaup.org
March 29, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Very cogent arguments here on the crisis in/facing higher education in the US
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With the rise of generative AI tools and the use of words in brazenly untruthful ways by rising right-wing ideologues, what does the production of words mean today? @chaolim85.bsky.social muses on this question in his editorial for Planning Theory & Practice: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Words and Meaning in 2024
Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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February 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
With the rise of generative AI tools and the use of words in brazenly untruthful ways by rising right-wing ideologues, what does the production of words mean today? @chaolim85.bsky.social muses on this question in his editorial for Planning Theory & Practice: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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February 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Very timely...
In her article "Populism, Planning, and the Politics of Discontent" Harriet Dunn shows how the state is reframed as a "guardian" of the public interest to redefine planning as supporting conservatism, rather than as a means for transformative change. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Populism, Planning, and the Politics of Discontent
The article provides an analysis of contemporary localist-populist movements’ understanding of, and approach towards, spatial planning and urban development. This is achieved through an in-depth ca...
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February 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Very timely...
With the rise of gen AI, and the dizzying fire hose of (illegal) policies out of the new US administration, what do words mean anymore? I muse on this question for planning practice, research, and education in this editorial for @planningtheory.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Words and Meaning in 2024
Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
With the rise of gen AI, and the dizzying fire hose of (illegal) policies out of the new US administration, what do words mean anymore? I muse on this question for planning practice, research, and education in this editorial for @planningtheory.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Looking fwd to this week's methods class: What Values Animate Your Research? What does / shld matter beyond prestige, metrics + funders’ egos? What abt access, civic engagement, social justice, etc., and when are those values @ odds w/ The Academy's? cimsmethods.wordsinspace.net/2024/portfol...
September 10, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Looking fwd to this week's methods class: What Values Animate Your Research? What does / shld matter beyond prestige, metrics + funders’ egos? What abt access, civic engagement, social justice, etc., and when are those values @ odds w/ The Academy's? cimsmethods.wordsinspace.net/2024/portfol...
The mobilizing power of youth in planning. I made a 5-minute video summarizing our participatory action research project to address adaptation to rising temperatures in Roanoke, VA: youtu.be/WEM5ASM-QXY?...
The H.O.P.E. for Heat Resilience Project
YouTube video by Theo Lim
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September 6, 2024 at 6:41 PM
The mobilizing power of youth in planning. I made a 5-minute video summarizing our participatory action research project to address adaptation to rising temperatures in Roanoke, VA: youtu.be/WEM5ASM-QXY?...
What can the development of a serious game for urban park design teach us about community planning? A lot! Understanding diverse park user preferences, facilitation skills, conflict resolution, spatial synergies and tradeoffs in design, empathy, and care. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPjo...
Learning about community planning through serious games
What can the co-development of a serious game for urban park design teach us about community planning? Turns out, a lot: understanding diverse park user pref...
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March 26, 2024 at 4:06 PM
What can the development of a serious game for urban park design teach us about community planning? A lot! Understanding diverse park user preferences, facilitation skills, conflict resolution, spatial synergies and tradeoffs in design, empathy, and care. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPjo...
These letters are going out to eight high school students in Roanoke. Over the next 10 months, they, with the support of Virginia Tech Urban and Regional Planning students, will be creating plans to build community capacity to deal with the effects of rising temperatures in Roanoke, VA.
December 17, 2023 at 8:16 PM
These letters are going out to eight high school students in Roanoke. Over the next 10 months, they, with the support of Virginia Tech Urban and Regional Planning students, will be creating plans to build community capacity to deal with the effects of rising temperatures in Roanoke, VA.
An excellent reflection on Science Policy over the decades. Incl explanation of how we find ourselves in current anti-expert anti-elite culture. What role has our “belief in” science as separate from/superior to values & interests played? issues.org/science-poli...
November 10, 2023 at 5:14 PM
An excellent reflection on Science Policy over the decades. Incl explanation of how we find ourselves in current anti-expert anti-elite culture. What role has our “belief in” science as separate from/superior to values & interests played? issues.org/science-poli...
Just back from NSF hq for the kickoff event for our CIVIC Innovation award. This program is doing wonders to legitimize participatory action research (the number of times I've been asked how the kind of research I do counts as "research"! 😡). Now can say, NSF gave us $1M to do it! It's RESEARCH
October 28, 2023 at 3:05 PM
Just back from NSF hq for the kickoff event for our CIVIC Innovation award. This program is doing wonders to legitimize participatory action research (the number of times I've been asked how the kind of research I do counts as "research"! 😡). Now can say, NSF gave us $1M to do it! It's RESEARCH
Check out my new Viewpoint article out in J of the American Planning Assoc— participatory action research reveals roles of social capital and care in heat resilience planning. Also connects to sociotechnical theories of “infrastructure” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Necessary Considerations When Framing Urban Heat Resilience as an Infrastructure Issue
Conceptualizing urban heat resilience as an infrastructure problem emphasizes the urgency with which we must adapt to global climate change, but also risks ignoring the continued marginalization th...
www.tandfonline.com
October 23, 2023 at 2:11 AM
Check out my new Viewpoint article out in J of the American Planning Assoc— participatory action research reveals roles of social capital and care in heat resilience planning. Also connects to sociotechnical theories of “infrastructure” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A new Journal of the Am. Planning Assoc. viewpoint by @chaolim85.bsky.social encourages incorporating social capital and care with infrastructure planning—a much-needed connection of our field to socio-technical theories:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Necessary Considerations When Framing Urban Heat Resilience as an Infrastructure Issue
Conceptualizing urban heat resilience as an infrastructure problem emphasizes the urgency with which we must adapt to global climate change, but also risks ignoring the continued marginalization th...
www.tandfonline.com
October 20, 2023 at 5:52 PM
A new Journal of the Am. Planning Assoc. viewpoint by @chaolim85.bsky.social encourages incorporating social capital and care with infrastructure planning—a much-needed connection of our field to socio-technical theories:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I've been working with the amazing folks at LibraryStack for the past several months on this open-access booklet about "reparative redaction" - or, aesthetic practices that deploy redaction as a protective or reparative technique (that's little me on the cover :) It's coming out tomorrow, I think! 🤗
October 12, 2023 at 3:20 AM
I've been working with the amazing folks at LibraryStack for the past several months on this open-access booklet about "reparative redaction" - or, aesthetic practices that deploy redaction as a protective or reparative technique (that's little me on the cover :) It's coming out tomorrow, I think! 🤗
Just stumbled on this short video a student made after interviewing me last spring... GREAT editing of my rambling on ~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILY5...
The Story of an Urban Planner: Theo Lim
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October 11, 2023 at 1:50 PM
Just stumbled on this short video a student made after interviewing me last spring... GREAT editing of my rambling on ~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILY5...
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“Before they did this activity, if you asked one of these middle school kids if humans can control the temperature outside, they’d say no way."
What @chaolim85.bsky.social's students revealed about urban heat:
What @chaolim85.bsky.social's students revealed about urban heat:
How Much Can Heat Vary Within a City? These Kids Strapped on Sensors to Find Out.
A summer school program in Roanoke, Virginia, could change the way people think about heat.
heatmap.news
October 9, 2023 at 3:30 PM
“Before they did this activity, if you asked one of these middle school kids if humans can control the temperature outside, they’d say no way."
What @chaolim85.bsky.social's students revealed about urban heat:
What @chaolim85.bsky.social's students revealed about urban heat:
My students and I hosted a workshop for a resident activist group trying to save an urban forest from dev't. We put together a series of activities meant to promote authentic engagement through storytelling. They said this was the 1st time they actually felt heard and listened to by outsiders. 🤗
October 6, 2023 at 6:38 PM
My students and I hosted a workshop for a resident activist group trying to save an urban forest from dev't. We put together a series of activities meant to promote authentic engagement through storytelling. They said this was the 1st time they actually felt heard and listened to by outsiders. 🤗