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🌟 Excited to tune into this insightful conference addressing critical challenges Canadian cities face! These discussions are crucial, from fostering strong economies to enabling cities to provide more opportunities for citizens, deliver affordable housing, build inclusive and welcoming spaces, and plan for climate change and energy efficiencies.  💪 Equipping our youth for the knowledge economy and future leadership is essential. Our education system needs to adapt for success. 🎓 We need a system that acknowledges and supports different learning pathways. It's disheartening that immigrants and refugees arrive in Canada only to have homelessness, inequalities, unemployment, a lack of Canadian experience, language and other barriers staring them in the face. More often than not, these voices and those of the most vulnerable groups are often unheard in decision-making processes.😔 The responsibility for meaning change lies with everyone. Former Mayor Naheed Nenshi's words resonate – "feds have the funds, the provinces responsibilities, and cities are carrying the bag". Yet, collective efforts are vital for meaningful change. 🌱 There is a need for more funding and support to be channelled at grassroots levels. Governments, private sectors, and non-profits working together can pave the way for impactful change. 🏡 I'm engaged and eagerly anticipating fruitful discussions and learnings i from this conference! #AffordableHousing #ClimateResilience #YouthEmpowerment #InclusiveCities #KnowledgeEconomy #GrassrootsChange.

It is often hard to imagine beyond what we are dealing with now, the systems we have, the barriers we face. A crisis of civic imagination is blocking many of us from envisioning the future we want to strive for. At Town Anywhere we will be exploring how we can imagine the future we want and then start working towards it together. This inspiring hands-on process (coming to Hull for the first time) has enabled previous participants to: ● Gain greater capacity and confidence to imagine and explore low-carbon futures and initiate more transformative projects locally ● Learn how to work more collectively, gaining new practical, analytical and collaborative skills ● Feel better resourced to voice fears, hopes and visions for the future, understanding individual and collaborative creative expression is inherent to a flourishing life ● Feel a greater sense of belonging to their neighbourhoods; more connected to their past and present and able to play a role in their futures ● Be more able to co-design creative projects in their neighbourhoods to better prepare for social and environmental challenges. We, the new residents of Town Anywhere 2040 will create a physical representation of the sort of thriving town that we long to live in. Collectively shaping and inhabiting this potential future, strengthens our enthusiasm and resolve to go on and make it happen. Book here: https://lnkd.in/eD6hkWRw

The Postgrowth cities coalition Newsletter #2 is OUT! Here you can find the most recent news on degrowth, postgrowth, urban issues, and more. Download the file and check the links. www.postgrowthcities.com If you like to receave these newsletters directly to your mail, please register here https://lnkd.in/ewZFwGcf #postgrowthcities #degrowth

Another wait is over for this relatively prologned book project - "Innovative Public Participation Practices for Sustainable Urban Regeneration" in four sections. Our key message: Urban regeneration without people's involvement and public participation practices is not a genuine regeneration!  #regeneration #participation #sustainable

There are plenty of challenges growing communities face to be ready for significant urban change. But our research has found communities also share strengths to build readiness. These include openness to growth and change, support of foundation planning strategies like the 20-minute city, trust in local government leadership and a desire to participate actively in shaping future urban landscapes. In fact, 75% of the people we surveyed viewed the 20-minute city concept as important in shaping how cities grow but only 18% were aware of the concept before completing the survey. Residents also identified individual and whole-of-community benefits of urban change more frequently than perceived negative impacts. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/gDQ7vdu6

"Together: Space for Collective Living" is a collection of essays, data and case studies in the Netherlands and other European countries that addresses the following questions: what is the relevance of collective living, how can we realise these forms of housing, and who can use what actions to ensure that collective living can contribute to more sustainable cities and regions? The book illustrates the dilemmas and opportunities for a new paradigm about living together in the 21st century. You can download a copy here: https://lnkd.in/gP5DFmz8 #Cohousing #CollaborativeHousing #CooperativeHousing

we need more housing choice re types and tenures of housing.

OUT NOW: "The 15-Minute City" 🌆 Reshaping urban living through proximity and walkability 🚶♀️ After years of research, my book ignites conversations toward sustainable, community-focused cities 💚 Join the journey to happier, healthier neighborhoods 😊 Get your copy today! 📖 👉 https://bit.ly/4c2O1Lg #The15MCWileyBook #HappyProximity

Today is World Town Planning Day 2023. This year's theme, Learn Globally, Apply Locally, focuses on the value of learning from planning and planning cultures globally, fostering innovative, sustainable, and equitable solutions to address global challenges. At Civic Blueprint, we believe that zoning can be a tool to tackle communities' greatest challenges like housing supply. Updated ordinances can increase housing choices, boost local economies, address inequality, and provide opportunities for residents.

New ePress publication: This special issue of Asylum, guest edited by The Urban Advisory, is an opportunity to broaden the remit of the publication to be a curated collection of peer-reviewed and practitioner-led articles designed to challenge our collective thinking about a key urban topic. Specifically, the editors were challenged to bring together ideas commonly restricted to academic journals and share them more widely into the professional sphere. The theme of this issue is Rethinking Our Future Neighbourhoods, a concept at the essence of what the team at The Urban Advisory strives to do. As a result, this issue is focused on evolving the discourse in Aotearoa about the design and delivery of our future neighbourhoods. We have drawn together articles that explore ways to address our social, cultural and environmental challenges, opportunities for decolonisation, what embracing citizen-centric approaches to designing our neighbourhoods might look like, and how the built-environment professions might work together in new ways to deliver these wellbeing outcomes. The issue includes new, young voices, and some less-than-conventional ideas. The combination of peer-reviewed and practitioner articles asks the reader to imagine what a neighbourhood might be, and challenge their own preconceptions. https://lnkd.in/g9DBTDYK #ePress #Urbanadvisory #onlinepublishing #urbandevelopment #neighborhoods