by Gil Peñalosa | Sep 2, 2025 | Webinar
Key Takeaways The global housing paradox: millions of empty homes coexist with an acute affordability and housing-quality crisis. Practical innovations such as market intermediaries and startups; vacant-space registries; adaptive use models such as room-sharing...
by Gil Peñalosa | Aug 19, 2025 | Webinar
Key Takeaways Flood protection and ecological restoration can be integrated at a large scale. The Port Lands project is a seven-year, $1.4B effort that renaturalizes the mouth of the Don River while lifting land out of a regional floodplain. Indigenous engagement and...
by Gil Peñalosa | Aug 5, 2025 | Webinar
Key Takeaways Streets must be reclaimed as vibrant public places, where urban life happens, rather than car conduits or parking lots. Tactical, temporary pilots (such as paint, barrels, and beach chairs) demonstrate possibilities quickly, build political will, and...
by Gil Peñalosa | Jul 22, 2025 | Webinar
Key Takeaways Climate action and urban imperatives require a fundamental shift from acquiring new objects to the reintegration and healing of existing cities and infrastructure. Architects, planners and citizens have the agency to steer decarbonization toward...
by Gil Peñalosa | Jul 8, 2025 | Webinar
Key Takeaways Co-governance, legal frameworks, and regulations must evolve alongside technology to leave no one behind. Any smart initiative must improve quality of life, equity and inclusion, not merely gather data or cut costs. All city sizes and budgets can get...
by Gil Peñalosa | Jun 24, 2025 | Webinar
Key Takeaways ⇢ Public parks offer scalable sites for stormwater capture, flood mitigation, heat buffering and biodiversity gains. ⇢ Aligning parks, stormwater, and planning departments can enable the creation of larger capital and operational funds, unlocking...
