Research Manager
Health and Community Design Lab
2206 East Mall, Vancouver BC
604-822-3687
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- Management and administration of the Health and Community Design Lab
- Coordinating lab research activities
- Data analysis and paper development
Leonard Machler manages the day-to-day operations of the Health and Community Design Lab, British Columbia’s preeminent research centre specializing in the interaction between land use, travel behaviour, air quality and health.
He recently obtained his PhD in planning from the School of Community & Regional Planning (SCARP) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Leonard holds a master’s degree in Sustainability from Arizona State University and a honours bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Waterloo. Leonard’s research focuses on housing, Smart Growth, residential preferences and neighbourhood satisfaction. His dissertation examined whether neighbourhoods that contain diverse housing types enable households to sort into their preferred community types.