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City Dwellers Gained More Access to Public Spaces During the Pandemic – Can They Keep It?
Through a year of pandemic shutdowns and protests, Americans have rediscovered their public spaces. Homebound city dwellers sought havens in parks, plazas and reclaimed streets.
How Cities Can Unlock the Potential of Laneway Housing
Untapped potential, this article and it's research focuses on locating eligible lots and how to unlock and maximize their potential.
3 Ways Cities Can Prepare for Climate Emergencies
Here are three evidence-based steps that will allow Canadian municipalities to walk the climate change walk.
Future Cities: New Challenges Mean we Need to Reimagine the Look of Urban Landscapes
Imagining future cities has long been a favourite activity for architects, artists and designers. Technology is often central in these schemes – it appears as a dynamic and seemingly unstoppable force, providing a neat solution to society’s problems.
How Working from Home Could Revitalise Rust Belt Cities
For years, we have been promised a work-from-home revolution, and it seems that the pandemic has finally brought it to pass.
Seeing the Smart City: Mapping Technologies in Canada
Advocacy and activism in the smart city is an important endeavour and comes at a critical time that sees smart city development outpace any deep awareness of their defining logic or process of implementation.
Parks Matter More Than Ever During a Time of Sickness – Something Frederick Law Olmsted Understood in the 19th Century
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered humans’ relationship with natural landscapes in ways that may be long-lasting. One of its most direct effects on people’s daily lives is reduced access to public parks.
No Need To Give Up on Crowded Cities - We Can Make Density So Much Better
The more immediate need is to focus on improving conditions in our major cities. Our smaller towns matter, but we can’t neglect the urgent need to get better at doing the bigger ones right.
The Suburbs Can Help Cities in the Fight Against Climate Change
Today’s suburban lifestyles are grossly unsustainable as a rule. At its most extreme, suburban settlement in ecologically sensitive areas is clearly reckless. But can we afford to caricature the suburbs and their inhabitants as dreamers living in a nightmare?
Is Your City Making you Fat? How Urban Planning Can Address the Obesity Epidemic
Researchers call cities that promote sedentary lifestyles and poor diet obesogenic. As a researcher focusing on urban issues, I am encouraged to see city planners paying increasing attention to helping residents lead healthy lifestyles.
'Blue' Space: Access to Water Features Can Boost City Dwellers' Mental Health
What if you’re in one of the 49 countries in the world, or 27 American states, that are landlocked with no ocean shore? For natural capital to deliver health benefits to people, it needs to be right next to them, integrated into the everyday fabric of their world.
Temporary Urban Solutions Help Us Deal With Crisis - And Can Lead To Radical Shifts in City Space
Our research into the temporary use of land and buildings shows the ways in which short-term development is deployed during times of crisis.
If More of Us Work From Home After Coronavirus, We'll Need to Rethink City Planning
If, as some expect, people are likely to work from home more often after the pandemic, what will this mean for infrastructure planning? Will cities still need all the multibillion-dollar road, public transport, telecommunications and energy projects, including some already in the pipeline?
Cities That Never Sleep: How the Modern World Blurs the Boundaries Between Night and Day
Since the industrial revolution we’ve found ways to adapt our homes and cities to operate during the night. But as our conquest of the dark continues, the border between night and day is becoming increasingly blurry.
The Science of Street Lights: What Makes People Feel Safe at Night
A large review of research found a link between new lighting and reduced crime rates, but improvements were seen in daylight as well as darkness, suggesting that street lighting is not the only factor.
Our changing views of the city: A new urban celebration
The orthodoxy of urbanity, as something to celebrate, represents a 180 degree about-face from the way those charged with the city’s care and maintenance viewed cities a mere generation ago.
Vancouver’s urban conundrum: Let’s design better cities
Design is a problem-solving discipline and one that, like engineering, seeks answers to difficult challenges.
Can a tech company build a city? Ask Google
Sidewalk Labs, the urban innovation startup owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, has announced a partnership with the City of Toronto to develop a new waterfront precinct.
Digital Media is Changing the Face of Buildings
Buildings have become animated, almost flickering like diamonds. And we see this across the globe: buildings now seem to compete to be the most mind-boggling in appearance.