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Join BAIDA - Black Architects And Interior Designers Association's 2021 Spring Student Social for fun, prizes and a chance to meet other students in design on Tuesday April 27th from 6pm-8pm. There will be icebreakers, networking, a sketching competition and trivia.
Throughout 2020, the shape of the city – its buildings and open spaces – has taken centre stage in our experience of everyday life. Living in lockdown has confronted urban dwellers around the world with the limits of confined domestic environments yet reminded us of the benefits of a well-designed and accessible public realm. Living …
Join us for a new series featuring Black city-builders & changemakersAcross the country, Black city-builders are imagining and building more just and beautiful communities. What are they learning & dreaming? Join host Orlando P. Bailey for Urban Consulate Confidential, a new series of candid conversations rooted in radical truth, joy & love. Weekly virtual watch parties followed by …
The SFU Vancouver Lunch ‘n’ Learn series is very pleased to host a two-part virtual event on the future of the downtown waterfront. Please join us for part two of the series on Thursday, April 29th (Noon-1pm).Session one raised the profile and awareness of the array of opportunities for the area: future transit needs for the City/Region, the …
In 2008, Oklahoma City was named the least walkable city in the United States by a national magazine. Mayor Mick Cornett responded by commissioning a walkability study, a project that led to a transformation of 40 blocks of downtown streets.Join the Maryland Department of Planning and the Smart Growth Network at 2 p.m. Thursday, April …
Planning efforts are increasingly focused on the need to consider the impacts of plans on all community members, and to plan for the future by using tools and practices that consciously avoid intentional or unintentional inequities.In 2019, the American Planning Association adopted a policy guide exclusively addressing planning for equity. The Planning for Equity Policy …
Planning efforts are increasingly focused on the need to consider the impacts of plans on all community members, and to plan for the future by using tools and practices that consciously avoid intentional or unintentional inequities.In 2019, the American Planning Association adopted a policy guide exclusively addressing planning for equity. The Planning for Equity Policy …
This presentation traces the major contours of a drastic normative shift in thinking about cities from 2010 to today, urban public space and mobility, neighbourhoods and growth goals, public participation and representation; and some consistent themes related to affordability, and persistent concerns about the city’s Downtown Eastside. Master of Urban Studies theses completed within the …
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Transportation involves the myriad multimodal ways in which goods and people move. How and why are some modes chosen over others and who gets to decide?Designed for professionals or community members who want to understand the role of transportation in urban planning, this course provides an accessible overview of transportation planning. You’ll explore the planning …
Few collections capture the early development history of British Columbia as comprehensively as the photography of Leonard Frank and Otto Landauer. From mining and logging camps to major construction projects, historic events, and the natural beauty of the landscapes, Leonard Frank documented all corners of the province from 1900 until his death in 1944. Otto …
Join us for a new series featuring Black city-builders & changemakersAcross the country, Black city-builders are imagining and building more just and beautiful communities. What are they learning & dreaming? Join host Orlando P. Bailey for Urban Consulate Confidential, a new series of candid conversations rooted in radical truth, joy & love. Weekly virtual watch parties followed by …
COVID-19 has made it even more apparent that children need a wider range of enriching learning opportunities, including in the places they go every day. As cities begin to re-emerge from the pandemic, how can public sector and community leaders work together to reimagine play and learning, while grappling with limited budgets and resources?On Thursday, May …
How can sustainable buildings leverage their site and neighborhood to multiply their positive effect on communities and the environment? Austin Energy is Austin’s community-owned utility company and initiator of the nation’s first green building program in 1991. When they decided to build a new headquarters, designed by Page, they chose Mueller, a neighborhood in northeast …
Policy and practice in urban disciplines (housing, planning, real estate, transportation, demographics, etc.) are heavily informed by data. Experts in these fields use data to make claims about how cities are or how they should be. Factoids like “the Downtown Eastside is the poorest postal code in Canada” or “the world is now over 50% …
Our newly updated creative placemaking guide, the Scenic Route, provides a tour of eight common approaches used in almost 50 exemplary projects across the country at the intersection of arts, culture, and transportation.Join Smart Growth America, Transportation for America, and the National Endowment for the Arts on May 10th to hear from experts on why …
Learn about key research on the impacts of participatory budgeting on governance and well-being, and how to use these findings in your work.We invite you to join our first research seminar, where international experts will share leading research about the impacts of participatory budgeting on governance and well-being and help you use it in your …
Transportation involves the myriad multimodal ways in which goods and people move. How and why are some modes chosen over others and who gets to decide?Designed for professionals or community members who want to understand the role of transportation in urban planning, this course provides an accessible overview of transportation planning. You’ll explore the planning …
Join us for a new series featuring Black city-builders & changemakersAcross the country, Black city-builders are imagining and building more just and beautiful communities. What are they learning & dreaming? Join host Orlando P. Bailey for Urban Consulate Confidential, a new series of candid conversations rooted in radical truth, joy & love. Weekly virtual watch parties followed by …
This lecture series explores how we can re-imagine our post-pandemic cities to be more inclusive, green and liveable.The global COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and magnified issues of urban inequality and environmental justice. Quarantine measures and the shut down of city centres have highlighted the extent to which urban land is dominated by road and car …
The events of the past year – the pandemic, the killing of George Floyd, and the continued change in neighborhoods throughout Minneapolis – have brought wellness, equity, and the future of our city to the forefront of discussions across every industry. But what does that mean for local commercial development moving forward? In this session, …
Policy and practice in urban disciplines (housing, planning, real estate, transportation, demographics, etc.) are heavily informed by data. Experts in these fields use data to make claims about how cities are or how they should be. Factoids like “the Downtown Eastside is the poorest postal code in Canada” or “the world is now over 50% …
As Canada’s largest port city and a gateway to global markets, the waters and shores of Burrard Inlet are an important part of Vancouver’s industrial, commercial and transportation infrastructure. This natural harbour was one of the engines of non-native settlement with the development of the Hastings Mill and the railway terminus. On this walk, local …
SpeakersProfessor Jose Lobo, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, Arizona State UniversityProfessor Céline Rozenblat, Institut de géographie et durabilité, UNIL, Université de LausanneDavid Birge, Research Scientist, MIT Norman B (Moderator)DescriptionThe emerging, and multidisciplinary, Urban Science has undergone a tremendous increase in scope incorporating insights, perspectives and methods from sustainability science and complexity science to better understand …
White supremacy and its values have been constructed into our societal structures and norms - including those found in design."Any system produces what it was designed to produce." (National Equity Project). White supremacy and its values have been historically constructed into the social, political, and economic landscape of the world, seeping into professional norms and standards …
Transportation involves the myriad multimodal ways in which goods and people move. How and why are some modes chosen over others and who gets to decide?Designed for professionals or community members who want to understand the role of transportation in urban planning, this course provides an accessible overview of transportation planning. You’ll explore the planning …
Congress for the N ew UrbanismCNU 29.Design for Change will focus on the intersection between design and power. The power design holds to influence the way we live, to physically change and adapt the spaces we inhabit, as well as how we can use it to achieve the change we want to see in neighborhoods, …
Future Cities Canada: The Summit is a monthly online event series designed around the most pressing issues facing our communities this year.It is a pivotal moment to come together and create our shared vision for the future. Together, we can build a bold, bright future where all people in our communities will thrive.As leaders, innovators, …
Since the implementation of Title VI, transit agencies have conducted studies and implemented new policies to ensure people, regardless of their income or the language they speak, can have access to low-cost fares and be an active part of public engagement. Since then cities have actively conducted reports for Title VI analysis but still require …
The arteries of America, urban highways and rural backroads have become platforms for innovation to address overlapping challenges for cities and regions. Fiber and communications infrastructure, in and along these roadways, can advance genuine quality of life improvements such as human safety, digital healthcare, education and job opportunities, economic development, intelligent transportation data, and even …
Policy and practice in urban disciplines (housing, planning, real estate, transportation, demographics, etc.) are heavily informed by data. Experts in these fields use data to make claims about how cities are or how they should be. Factoids like “the Downtown Eastside is the poorest postal code in Canada” or “the world is now over 50% …
This advanced planning law course addresses some current substantive topics in land use law as well as exploring some themes that tend to emerge repeatedly in land use litigation. Substantive topics will include: zoning for rental tenure, affordable housing and special needs housing; people zoning; inclusionary zoning; prohibition of land uses; lawful non-conforming uses (what …
SpeakersProfessor Pradipta Banerji, IIT BombayProfessor Eugenie Birch, Penn Institute for Urban Research, University of PennsylvaniaProfessor Simon Marvin, Urban Institute, University of SheffieldModerated by Professor Shauna Brail, University of TorontoDescriptionAs the COVID-19 pandemic progressed across the globe, scholars have sought to document and study its impact on urban life, undertaking important research and analysis in real-time.Participants …
Join us for the second discussion in our Jane Jacobs Lecture series exploring the possibilities for post-covid cities. This panel discussion explores the role of Main Streets through Mindy Thompson Fullilove’s “Stroll and Scroll” technique, highlighted in her 2020 book, Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All.Panelists are Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Molly Rose …
Join us for a new series featuring Black city-builders & changemakersAcross the country, Black city-builders are imagining and building more just and beautiful communities. What are they learning & dreaming? Join host Orlando P. Bailey for Urban Consulate Confidential, a new series of candid conversations rooted in radical truth, joy & love. Weekly virtual watch parties followed by …
The series will be five webinars, one per month, from May through September, 2021.NOMA, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Centering Equity in the Sustainable Building Sector Program, and the Social Economic Environmental Design Network have developed a set of criteria to educate/train emerging professionals, professionals, and community activists about Justice, Equity, …
This course provides training in the public interest design process known as SEED will be offered in 3-hour afternoon sessions and will share best practices and a replicable process for architecture and other design professionals to learn how design can address the critical issues faced by communities. Training in public interest design is a way …
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