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Guest: Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director of the MS in Urban Design, Georgia Tech. Atlanta, USA Key Takeaways Three principal retrofit strategies: redevelopment, re-inhabitation / adaptive reuse, and regreening. Vast underused parking lots, dead malls and low-rise office...
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Guest: Phil Ginsburg, General Manager Recreation and Park Dep. San Francisco Key Takeaways Parks are necessary for physical, mental, social and civic well-being. Placemaking can be paired with climate adaptation. Sunset Dunes combines pedestrianization with dune...
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Guest: Coach Sam Balto, Co-founder & ED Bike Bus World Portland, USA Key Takeaways Bike Bus (supervised group bike rides to school) rapidly creates visible demand for active travel and delivers immediate health and social benefits. Bike buses reduce parental...
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Guest: Olivia Nielsen, Principal, Lead, Global Housing, Miyamoto International 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...
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Guest: Shannon Baker, Waterfront Toronto 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...
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Guest: Janette Sadik-Khan, Principal, Bloomberg Associates, (F) NYC DOT Commissioner, chair NACTO, chair of GDCI. NYC, US Key Takeaways Streets must be reclaimed as vibrant public places, where urban life happens, rather than car conduits or parking lots. Tactical,...
