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Guest: Ilana Altman, CEO, The Bentway Key Takeaways Public space can be framed as a public-health tool and investment to promote well-being. Pilots including lighting, murals, intersection experiments should be paired with long-term standards for wayfinding,...
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Guest: Kristian Villadsen, Co-Creative Director at BRIQ. Key Takeaways Cities should be assessed for their urban spaces’ potential to invite people: does a project make walking, cycling, local shopping, and using shared facilities the easiest option? Urban design that...
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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: 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...
