Brandon Fleming Urban Studies Graduate Student | GIS & Policy Analysis

Work

Four projects, in rough order of how much they say about the work I want to do. Each page explains the question, the method, and what I actually found. The full documents are linked where they exist.

2025 – present In progress

The Affordability Gap

Under what financial and regulatory conditions does small-scale upzoning under Bill 44 produce rental housing affordable to local renters in Surrey, and do those conditions currently exist?

ArcGIS Pro · BC Assessment data · Difference-in-differences · Pro forma modelling · Semi-structured interviews

2023

Land Lost to ALC Applications in Greater Vancouver

A kernel density analysis of 157 Agricultural Land Commission applications, showing that farmland in Metro Vancouver is being consumed by approved houses rather than by exclusions from the reserve.

ArcMap · Kernel Density · ALC Application Portal · ParcelMap BC

2025

Townhouses Before Transit

An op-ed on South Surrey's Grandview Heights, where two decades of townhouse construction arrived without the transit to serve it.

Census of Canada · TransLink performance data · Surrey neighbourhood plans

2025

Protest to Policy

How child safety concerns catalyzed sustainable mobility in the Netherlands, and what made the shift stick.

Archival research · Policy analysis