In the context of rising concerns around climate change, the City of Vancouver’s Climate Emergency Action Plan has made promises towards equitable sustainability. Our project is centered around the spatial distribution of “Greenest City” sustainability projects and their geographical relationship to social variables. Namely, we wish to understand the ways in which levels of income, education attainment, population density, and population of visible minorities affect the spatial distribution of “Greenest City” projects within Vancouver. Through conducting our analyses, we are able to evaluate and confirm that the independent variables are influenced by space. Based on the results generated from our spatial analysis, our project aims to act as an extension to ‘Greenest City’ projects where we hope to further develop it across Vancouver. We intend to do this by proposing potential sites most suitable to build “Greenest City” sustainability projects within neighborhoods and population clusters that, due to marginalization, may receive inadequate access to these sustainability projects and are statistically weighted away from proximity to these implementations.

Table Of Contents

1. Introduction
   1. “Green City” Action Plan and Vancouver’s Sustainable Future
   2. Project Overview
2. Methodology
   1. Data used
   2. Spatial Comparison
   3. Population Density Analysis
   4. Spatial Autocorrelation
   5. Exploratory Regression Analysis
   6. Generalized Weighted Regression
3. Analysis and Discussion
   1. Spatial Autocorrelation
   2. Exploratory Regression Analysis
   3. Generalized Weighted Regression
   4. Discussion
   5. Proposal for Future Project Implementation
4. Error & Uncertainty
5. Future Recommendations
6. Bibliography