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urbanism

Cities can prepare for climate change emergencies by adding green spaces to help manage stormwater, heat stress and air quality. (Shutterstock) Ryan Plummer, Brock University; Darby McGrath, Brock University, and Sivajanani Sivarajah,…

Sustainability

Built Green Canada launches Communities Program Pilot

Building Oct 1, 2020

Built Green Canada is expanding opportunities for developers focused on creating better, healthier homes and communities by launching its Communities Program pilot.The organization is encouraging developers to participate in trials…

Urban Planning

Innovation districts like Melbourne’s could help chart our course out of crisis

Irene Håkansson and Kathryn Davidson, University of Melbourne Sep 9, 2020

ShutterstockIn the face of the global health and climate crises, we look at our cities both anxiously and hopefully. We deviate from our normal patterns of behaviour to avoid close physical contact and suffer associated emotional and…

Design

Main Street Design Challenge showcases first submissions

Building Aug 12, 2020

The Main Street Design Challenge – developed by the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) – invites all Canadian to develop solutions that can help build the resiliency of Canada’s main…

Our changing views of the city: A new urban celebration

Meg Holden, Simon Fraser University Jul 27, 2020

Cities were once considered a source of many problems. But that vision has changed over the last generation. Graeme Roy The celebration of the city today is widespread. Globally, many cities have fulfilled Louis Wirth’s prophesy from…

Urban Planning

If we love our cities, we’ll make better decisions about their future after the COVID-19…

Meg Holden, Simon Fraser University Jul 15, 2020

Philadelphia’s LOVE Park, featuring a sculpture by American artist Robert Indiana, shows how love can shape our cities and their futures. (Shutterstock) It’s the most famous city slogan in the world: I Love New York. And yet,…

Cities

COVID-19 has created more cyclists: How cities can keep them on their bikes

Wuyou Sui and Harry Prapavessis – Western University Jul 15, 2020

Bike routes have been expanded in many major cities, including Bogata, Columbia, to encourage people to avoid crowded public transportation. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) As physical distancing measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 begin…

Urban Planning

Homeless man being moved to Toronto apartment “can’t wait to take a bubble bath”

Liam Casey – THE CANADIAN PRESS Apr 30, 2020

TORONTO – Dozens of people living in tents across Toronto have been moved into furnished apartment buildings as part of the city's response to protect the vulnerable during the COVID-19 crisis.The encampments have popped up throughout…

Real Estate

Coronavirus is significant, but is it a true black swan event?

Glenn McGillivray, ICLR, Western University Apr 30, 2020

A black swan event must meet three criteria: it must be an outlier, must have a major impact and must be declared predictable in hindsight. (Buiobuione/Wikimedia), CC BY-SA Since the “black swan” metaphor was coined in the 2007 book of…

Cities

COVID 19 showing suburbs are just as vulnerable as cities

David Porter – THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Apr 29, 2020

NEW YORK – Haunting images of an empty Times Square and the daily accounting of hundreds of fatalities in New York City have reinforced the idea of the coronavirus as an urban contagion.That may obscure an equally sobering truth: Many…

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