Beverly Sandalack

Dip Hort, BPE,  MLandArch, PhD (Urban Design), FCSLA, MCIP, RPP

After practicing landscape architecture and planning with private sector firms in Alberta and Manitoba, I concentrated in urban design.  The Urban Lab at the Faculty of Environmental Design is the physical setting for my research at the university, and I maintain a professional practice (Sandalack + Associates Inc. urban design/landscape architecture/planning) through which I attempt to integrate my research with the practical realities of contemporary urban and landscape planning and design. Involvement with local and international design review bodies includes co-chair of the City of Calgary Urban Design Review Panel (since 2004), and standing Chair of the Jury for the International Federation of Landscape Architects Design Competition (since 2003).

My research, teaching and practice focus on several topics:

• Sustainable urban design: innovative neighbourhood design, small town planning and design, city studies
• Urban morphology: qualities, urban form and physical activity, typology of the public realm
• Landscape planning: open space planning, site planning, environmental planning
• Sense of place: local and regional identity, place studies

Books

• Graham, John R, Christine Walsh and Beverly A Sandalack (2008) Homeless Shelter Design: considerations for shaping shelters and the public realm Calgary: Detselig Press
• Sandalack, Beverly A and Andrei Nicolai (2006) The Calgary Project: urban form/urban life. Calgary: University of Calgary Press
• Sandalack, Beverly A and Ann Davis, eds. (2005)  Excursions into the Cultural Landscapes of Alberta Calgary: The Nickle Arts Museum
• Davis, Ann and Sandalack. Beverly A (eds.) (2005) Sense of Place: a catalogue of essays Calgary: The Nickle Arts Museum
• Sandalack, Beverly A, Andrei Nicolai and Robert Kirby (eds.) (2003) Making Better Civic Places: Urban Design at the University of Calgary, Calgary: Faculty of Environmental Design
• Sandalack, Beverly A and Andrei Nicolai (1998) Urban Structure - Halifax: An Urban Design Approach, Halifax: Tuns Press

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Sandalack, BA, F Alaniz Uribe, G McCormack (in press, 2013) ‘Walkshed Size and Neighbourhood Type’ Journal of Urbanism

  McCormack, GR, Friedenreich, C, Sandalack, BA, Giles-Corti, B, Doyle-Baker, P, Shiell A (2012) ‘The relationship between cluster-analysis derived walkability and local recreational and transportation walking among Canadian adults,’ in Health and Place, Elsevier 18 (2012), pp. 1079-1087

  McCormack, GR, M Rock, BA Sandalack, FA Uribe (2011) ‘Access to off-leash parks, street pattern and dog walking among individuals’ in Public Health 125, pp. 540-546

  Sandalack, BA (2013) ‘Prairie Towns: Process and Form’, chapter in Place and Replace, University of Manitoba Press

• Sandalack, BA and A Nicolai (2012) ‘Time, Place and Structure: Typo-Morphological Analysis of Three Calgary Neighbourhoods’, chapter in Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia: Green Sprawl KV Cadieux and L Taylor (eds) Routledge , pp. 185-217

• Sandalack, BA and F Alaniz Uribe (2010) ‘Open Space Typology as a Framework for the Public Realm' in The Faces of Urbanized Space, R. Barelkowski (ed.)
• Sandalack, BA (2010) ‘Townscape Analysis of Three Calgary Neighbourhoods on the Edge’, in The Rural-Urban Fringe in Canada: conflict and controversy, Kenneth B. Beesley (ed), Brandon University Press
• Sandalack, Beverly A (2009) ‘In Support of True Urbanism’ in Think Different: urban religious communities: Problem Solvers or Trouble Makers? Geoff Ryan and Robert Joustra (eds), Cardus 
• Sandalack, BA and J Dewald (2005-2008) Regular column on urban design and development issues, The Calgary Herald newspaper (for pdfs see: www.ucalgary.ca/evds/urban_lab_herald_articles)
• Doyle-Baker, PK, J Petersen, K Lambert, and BA Sandalack (2007) ‘Neighbourhood-Based Differences in Physical Activity and Liveability: The NUDGE Project', Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise, Volume 38 (5) S
• Sandalack, BA and Andrei Nicolai (2007) ‘Whatever happened to the public realm?' chapter in A Reader in Canadian Planning  Jill Grant (ed) Toronto: Thomson Nelson
• Sandalack, BA (2005) ‘Bad for your health? current urban design stifles a sense of community' invited paper in Dialogues: A Canada West Foundation Publication, spring, p. 16-19
• Sandalack, BA (2002) ‘The (sub) Urbanisation of Prairie Towns' in Prairie Forum Vol. 27, No. 2 p. 239-48
• Sandalack, BA (1999) ‘Evolution of the Public Realm: streets, squares, parks and open spaces in a prairie town,' Environments: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol. 26, No. 3 p. 49-58

Research Reports

• Sandalack, BA and the Urban Lab (2011) Transitioning Calgary’s Middle Ring: sustainabilty concepts pilot project for The Calgary Urban Alliance

• Sandalack, BA and the Urban Lab (2009) Urban Form and Social Connectivity: What is the Relationship? for The Calgary Urban Alliance
• Sandalack, BA,  F Alaniz et al, The Urban Lab with Dillon Consulting (2009), Red Deer County Open Space Master Plan Phases 1-4, for Red Deer County
• Sandalack, BA and The Urban Lab (2008) Killarney-Glengarry Neighbourhood Study - Initial Stage for Killarney-Glengarry Community Association
• Sandalack, BA,  F Alaniz et al, The Urban Lab (2006) Benalto Area Redevelopment Plan, for Red Deer County
• Sandalack, BA, A Nicolai, F Alaniz, F Shaw (2004) University of Calgary Planning Study part 1
• Sandalack, BA, A Nicolai (2003) High River Open Space Plan, for the Town of High River
• Sandalack, BA, J Marce Santa, the Urban Lab (2001) Beltline Urban Forest Inventory and Analysis - Calgary Beltline
• Sandalack, BA, A Nicolai (2001) Cliff Bungalow-Mission Townscape and Process, Calgary
• Sandalack, BA, A Nicolai (2001) Calgary Cultural District - a framework for the future Calgary Performing Arts Centre and University of Calgary.

Awards

• 2010: AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - PARK AND OPEN SPACE DESIGN Alberta Recreation Industry Awards of Excellence for Red Deer County Open Space Master Plan, with the Urban Lab and Dillon Consulting
• 2010: AWARD OF MERIT Alberta Professional Planners Institute for Red Deer County Open Space Master Plan, with the Urban Lab and Dillon Consulting
• 2009: REGIONAL CITATION AWARD Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards for Red Deer County Open Space Master Plan, with The Urban Lab & Dillon Consulting
• 2007: NATIONAL HONOUR AWARD Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards for The Calgary Project: urban form/urban life, with Andrei Nicolai
• 2007: NATIONAL HONOUR AWARD Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards for Benalto Area Redevelopment Plan, with The Urban Lab   
• 2006: CALGARY HERITAGE AUTHORITY LION AWARD City of Calgary for Sense of Place, with A. Davis, L. Novak, R. Sandford
• 2006 PLACE PLANNING AWARD Environmental Design Research Association (edra) for Sense of Place, with A. Davis, L. Novak, R. Sandford
• 2006: NATIONAL HONOUR AWARD Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards for Sense of Place, with A. Davis, L. Novak, R. Sandford
• 2004: NATIONAL CITATION AWARD Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards for Making Better Places: urban design at the University of Calgary, with R. Kirby & A. Nicolai
• 2003: REGIONAL MERIT AWARD Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards for High River Open Space Plan, with A. Nicolai and The Urban Lab
• 2002: NATIONAL MERIT AWARD Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards for Cliff Bungalow-Mission: Townscape and Process, with A. Nicolai and The Urban Lab
• 2002: REGIONAL HONOUR AWARD Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards for Cliff Bungalow-Mission: Townscape and Process, with A. Nicolai and The Urban Lab
• 2002: REGIONAL CITATION AWARD Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards for Beltline Urban Forest Inventory and Analysis, with The Urban Lab
• 2001: REGIONAL CITATION AWARD Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards for Calgary Cultural District: a framework for the future, with A. Nicolai and The Urban Lab
• 1999: NATIONAL HONOUR AWARD Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards for Urban Structure Halifax: an urban design approach, with Andrei Nicolai
• 1999: REGIONAL HONOUR AWARD Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards for Urban Structure Halifax: an urban design approach, with Andrei Nicolai

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