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Professors Meg Holden and Yushu Zhu's three-year research project focuses on how higher density living is changing the way neighbouring works in Canada. CBC Radio has interviewed both Holden and Zhu to discuss their findings.

- CBC Radio One 91.5FM (CBYG) - May 1, 2024, featuring Professor Meg Holden

Key question from the interviewer: "Is there anything that city planners or municipal governments can do to increase the sense of neighbourliness in their communities?"

Holden's response: "I think that really including the importance of effective neigbouring within housing strategies, within immigration strategies, within public health strategies; this is a subject that touches on so many of those policy domains. And so, it could be some additional funding and supports to landlords who want to create a meal sharing program or who want to work with a non-profit organization like we have in the lower mainland鈥攁n organization called Whole Way House, for example...

 - CBC Radio One 90.5 (CBHA)- May 1, 2024, featuring Professor Yushu Zhu

Key question from the interviewer: How did you measure how neighbourly a person feels?

Zhu's response: "There are many ways to measure it. So, what we did is a quite typical sociological question, that is "How are you interested in getting to know your neighbours better?" It's a very simple, straightforward, consistent question that we asked over the past three years, and we did see a decline...