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  • Let’s Talk About Placemaking

    The title of this episode is shared with a report called Let’s Talk About Placemaking recently released by the Canadian Urban Institute. It compiles the findings from thousands of community-level placemaking projects along with perspectives on placemaking from leading practitioners, including Jerome Barth of Belleville Placemaking (NYC) and Marc-André Carignan of Kollectif (Mtl.) featured in…

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  • Local Matters: Community Wealth Building

    Bolstering Canada’s local economies has become an instant priority in the wake of proposed actions by the Trump administration. Fortunately, we have no shortage of smart people with innovative solutions already in the works.

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  • Local Matters: The View from the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce

    Host Mary Rowe welcomes another ‘tariff/no tariff’ conversation with Doug Griffiths and Heather Thomson of the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, and frank talk about what could, and what shouldn’t, happen in this moment of economic uncertainty (crisis? opportunity?) for communities across Canada.

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  • Local Matters: Supporting Community Businesses

    We interrupt CUI’s post-State of Canada’s Cities Summit programming for some timely conversation about economic resilience. There’s nothing like the wake-up call of a looming Canada-US trade war to focus the attention of communities everywhere on innovative strategies to generate local strength and reduce impacts of cross-border disruptions.

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  • Culture, Equity, and Infrastructure: Conversations from the Summit

    Mention infrastructure, and it’s hard not to picture things like public buildings, transit systems and water/power distribution. However, other vital elements of urban society are, or should be, integrated into those things and need to be part of their design.

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  • Building Better, Building Beautiful: Conversations from the Summit

    The dozen panel discussions recorded in December 2024 on Day One of CUI’s State of Canada’s Cities Summit revolved around urban infrastructure in all its modern permutations, and how we need to build it better, faster and more sustainably. However, that doesn’t preclude its ability to also add beauty and contribute to our collective well-being.…

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