BROADWAY PLAN: KITSILANO STREETS AND PUBLIC REALM WORKSHOP
Vancouver’s Broadway Plan provides an opportunity for over-the-horizon thinking and active participation in future planning processes that will help to optimize community resilience and adaptation, but the hard work is just beginning.
SHAPING VANCOUVER 2019: WHAT’S THE USE OF HERITAGE?
Vancouver’s “super diversity” is key to its global reputation as a “livable city of neighbourhoods” which is why the tangible and intangible value of heritage needs to be workable in daily life.
A DATA STORY ON ETHNOCULTURAL DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN CANADA
Social and economic diversity make global cities more resilient and more adept at coping with complexity and uncertainty. Is Canada able to tell that story in a meaningful way that makes sense to policy makers, community leaders, and residents?
THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY, HOW CAN MICROMOBILITY SUPPORT A LIVABLE REGION
Micromobility solutions provide an economic alternative to automobile travel especially within dense urban cores. The question for urban transportation planners is how to integrate the multiplicity of micromobility options within a regional transportation framework.
2019 BC TECH SUMMIT – THE REALITY REVOLUTION
High-impact technology investments are critical enablers of innovation, productivity, and Canada’s competitive advantage in the global economy. Ironically, the proliferation of these technologies may raise the value of experiential knowledge and inclusive foresight.
JAPAN-CANADA INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP FORUM IN VANCOUVER
While Vancouver continues to strengthen its global reputation as an innovation centre amidst a context of technological disruption and geopolitical uncertainty, Canada has much to learn from Japan about internationalizing its urban “soft power” advantage.
ON THE WATERFRONT: VANCOUVER’S FUTURE SHORELINE
Vancouver is one of the few major cities without a comprehensive waterfront plan despite intensive competition among different stakeholders and the city’s consistent top-class ranking as one of the world’s most livable cities.
SUSTAINABILITY OF THE FUTURE AND THE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABILITY
Achieving sustainable livelihood development that respects local environmental constraints poses a multi-generational challenge for India. Using alternative development models, it may be possible to transform a vicious cycle of environmental degradation and human insecurity into a virtuous cycle of knowledge exchange and inclusive growth.
SUSTAINABLE BRANDS (SB) 2018 – REDESIGNING THE GOOD LIFE
The global sustainability challenge is formidable, but not hopeless. In fact, there are multiple pathways to global sustainability which encompass open innovation and discovery-driven learning in strategic sectors.
PACIFIC INNOVATION FAIR 2018
The digital transformation of the workplace and the structural configuration of the Canadian federal bureaucracy is no longer a futuristic fantasy. A redefined government-citizenship relationship has never looked so promising.