Featured Guest
You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions.
Zahra Ebrahim
CEO, Monumental
Dan Hill
Director of Strategic Design, Vinnova
Cynthia Dorrington
President, Vale & Associates
5 Key
Takeaways
A roundup of the most compelling ideas, themes and quotes from this candid conversation
1. “Technology is the answer. But what was the question?”
According to Dan Hill, throughout history the act and art of city-building has been to be quick to jump to technical solutions, often before we have asked more fundamental questions about the kind of city we collectively want. But this is the opposite of how we should approach city-building. Says Hill, “We don’t make cities for technology, buildings, and infrastructure. We make cities for culture, community, commerce, and conviviality, enabled by the infrastructures of everyday life.”
2. Locking in experimentation: getting past pop-up, pop-down
Hill argues that we need to get past the pop-up, pop-down model to revitalize our main streets and communities. He poses that policymakers need to institutionalize policymaking and regulatory frameworks that help us to lock in and adapt the creative interventions and experimentations that are naturally happening in our cities all the time.
3. Unlocking delight through public participation
According to Hill, “designers have to help people feel like they’re making a mark on their city. Delight gets unlocked when we work with participatory design processes.” Discussants Cynthia Dorrington and Zahra Ebrahim agreed that community engagement is critical in the process of planning for the future of our cities, towns, and communities. We have to interrogate who’s asking the questions. Says Ebrahim, “co-design is often a plot device to advance a conversation about power in the city and who has it.”
4. Rethinking the city design and delivery team
Hill argues that participatory city design is about more than consultation. It is also about rethinking the way we put together our city design and delivery teams. For example, can we include in our design and delivery teams, from the beginning of and throughout the process, voices such as a community liaison, a youth worker, a historian, an artist, or a healthcare worker? Argues Hill, “It’s not about drawing a picture of what we want the community to look like, but creating the condition for what we want to happen there.”
5. The infrastructure of everyday dignity
COVID-19 has presented us with an Overton window—an opportunity to centre a recovery on climate resilience, human and non-human health, and social justice. It is also a moment for us to narrow down on the hyper-local. Hill suggests that we should shift our mental model to “the one-minute city of the street, directly outside our front door, when we can talk about regeneration, conviviality, culture, shared ownership, participation, adaptation, and repair.”
Additional Reading & resources
Field Guide: Equity-Centered Community Design
Citations:
Carroll, A. (n.d.). Field Guide: Equity-Centered Community Design. St. Louis, MO: Creave Reacon Lab.
Dorling, D., & McClure, K. (2020). Slowdown: The end of the great acceleraon– and why its good for the planet, the economy, and our lives. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Full Panel
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12:13:22 From Michelle Ma: Question When talking about intersectionality how can the neurodiverse communities who are not limited to individuals with mental health challenges, trauma, on the autism spectrum, Down syndrome, hard of hearing, low vision, dyslexia and many more and or with physical disabilities when talking about inclusion is it accountable and intersectional who are usually neglected in this conversations may intersect with black people and or LGBTQIA 2 spirited? What are specific ways to respect acknowledge this urban commmunties into society in multisectors specific? what are tangible tips?
12:13:44 From Purshottama Reddy: Hello, from Toronto, Canada. These city talks are very insightful and certainly gives us food for thought as researchers, ratepayers and residents. We can also participate from the comfort of ourhome.
12:14:37 From Michelle Ma: Me too I am in tokronto kanada as well
12:15:59 From Michelle Ma: what is the film called?
12:16:06 From Michelle Ma: The black and white one
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12:17:53 From Ronni Rosenberg to All panelists: Ronni rosenberg in Toronto
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12:23:21 From Happie-Clara Testa to All panelists: Hello from Toronto, Canada. I see that the session is being recorded, will it be possible to access the recording later and also have a copy of the presentation slides? Thank you
12:23:44 From Mary W Rowe to Happie-Clara Testa and all panelists: yup
12:24:39 From Dhanya Rajagopal: Love the character play for this campaign
12:24:50 From Happie-Clara Testa to All panelists: Thank you, Mary. Great presentation, thanks for organizing. – Happie
12:25:48 From Abby S: The “common” name has a mixed effect…logo is fantastic though!
12:26:16 From Charles Finley: love the social mission on top of the social mission with Oslo Bicycle
12:27:11 From Susan Chin: The OO in the graphic is such a wonderful element & feels open for the social impact design.
12:27:17 From ASTRA BURKA: From Astra Burka Toronto. Am loving this talk with Dan Hill
12:28:16 From Program Manager to All panelists: It’s hard to hear Dan speaking when the videos show.
12:28:35 From Mary W Rowe to Program Manager and all panelists: yup not sure there’s much to do about it tho
12:28:48 From Abby S: I love this idea (and the walk/drive time)
12:28:49 From Program Manager to All panelists: Muting his videos?
12:28:55 From Kathleen Llewellyn-Thomas: Good to see focus on mobility – TTC can learn a lot.
12:29:19 From Mary W Rowe to Program Manager and all panelists: maybe -although he sometimes wants us to hear them…
12:29:32 From Mary W Rowe to Program Manager and all panelists: i’ll intervene if he continues
12:29:57 From Mary W Rowe to Program Manager and all panelists: we can’t mute his videos from here
12:30:26 From Canadian Urban Institute to Mary W Rowe(Privately): He knows, he wants it like that.
12:30:35 From Sasha Tsenkova: These ideas are put in practice for some time, but have been fundamentally challenged by the new COVID realities. Sharing vs isolation?
12:31:28 From Susan Chin: We hope isolation post COVID doesn’t win the day!
12:31:32 From Sheila Perry: Great initiative with the WiFi Sensors!
12:33:03 From Cheryl-lee Madden to All panelists: how does cement decrease heat?
12:33:45 From Paul Arkilander: Similar sentiments with drivers in Sudbury!
12:34:16 From Abby S: If only Smart Cities (Sidewalk) had taken this approach…incremental…with buy-in. Sigh.
12:34:35 From Ronni Rosenberg: Has “urban design” as pre-occupation with forms and spaces been superseded by “smart planning?”
12:35:23 From Ronni Rosenberg: urban acupuncture
12:35:28 From Fredrica Walters to All panelists: City planners must get onboard.
12:36:28 From Happie-Clara Testa to All panelists: the background sound is drowign out th epresenter’s voice
12:36:38 From Happie-Clara Testa to All panelists: great! thanks
12:37:08 From Abby S: @Ronni (hi) isn’t it necessary to do piece by piece/neighborhood by neighborhood (hence accupuncture) given to how cities have emerged?
12:37:29 From Eiman Elwidaa to All panelists: Its high time to think of the city fabric as experiential lived stories other than physical attributes.
12:38:08 From CATHERINE Nasmith: we’re in such a topsy turvy time, its a great time to experiment as Toronto is doing cycling infrastructure….but I am missing in person dialogue:-(…what is the meaning of social space or even place now?
12:39:30 From Abby S: We need some of these renderings to reflect winter.
12:40:07 From Paul Arkilander: One problem with too much experimentation right now is the political tension it causes and even legal action like what is happening in Berlin in response to its COVID bike lanes.
12:40:24 From Eiman Elwidaa to All panelists: We need to think of the (silent and invisible) agents of city makers (people who use, shape and thus MAKE the city), their intersectional views, perspectives and experiences (gender, class, ethnicity and age)
12:41:03 From Vivian Cheng: Do you think city planning needs to take on a more nationalized response? For a myriad of reasons, provinces take on the majority of responsibility for city planning, but Canada has international human rights obligations that it is accountable for, many of them related to the quality of life, and many of them could be realized through better city planning.
12:41:05 From Program Manager to All panelists: Thanks. That was great that he stopped until the video finished.
12:41:58 From Lanrick Bennett to All panelists: My nine year old at home moves through Mindcraft with ease and would have been all over the redesign of his local park (and I’m much of the local children would have been on this as well.) Such an easy way to engage with the public..with the little people that “the park” was made for. Tools and Talent already here…and waiting:)
12:43:23 From Mary W Rowe to Program Manager and all panelists: phew!
12:45:25 From Abby S: Best delivery system ever!
12:45:27 From Pat Petrala: Equity Cooperatives are a viable option – shares in land/freehold unit – property manager, with owner oversight board The formal cooperatives engagement with every owner expectations not always great fit. Mixed income and generations more healthy environment.
12:45:59 From Vivian Cheng: In your list previously, where are the lawyers haha
12:46:47 From Claudia McKoy: Thank you from Brampton!!
12:47:00 From Ken Kunka to All panelists: then why have any health and safety standards?
12:48:14 From Alexandru Taranu to All panelists: love the sketch, did something like this in my West Toronto ‘hood to illustrate life in pandemic times and lockdown
12:48:23 From Abby S: Wrangling the bureaucracy in Toronto would help the restaurant industry as winter approaches…looking for nimble approaches during Covid.
12:48:28 From Sasha Tsenkova: Interestingly enough a lot of the buildings built in our historic neighbourhoods are illegal today and would not be allowed by current zoning. We can learn a lot from the past to design a better future of a shared city.
12:48:50 From Mary W Rowe to Alexandru Taranu and all panelists: how big is your sketch?
12:49:12 From Abby S: We learned with the food truck debacle how silly and unwieldy the regulations were/are.
12:49:18 From Eiman Elwidaa to All panelists: We need to reflect on the use o the word (illegal)
12:49:44 From Jean-François Obregon: Hello from Vaughan, I agree, Abby S. There should be an appetite for outdoor space, especially in winter, to allow people to eat outside and have restaurants get some income.
12:50:43 From Alexandru Taranu to All panelists: less than letter size Mary but shows how this older, streetcar suburb is a pretty complete and resilient community and not a bad model…
12:51:26 From Mary W Rowe to Alexandru Taranu and all panelists: send me a pic? mwrowe@canurb.org
12:51:40 From Alexandru Taranu to All panelists: sure
12:52:02 From Mary W Rowe to Alexandru Taranu and all panelists: thx
12:52:18 From Mick Malowany to All panelists: Every street healthy by default — from Sherbourne to Sheppard. That’s a vision for a truly sustainable, livable Toronto.
12:52:27 From Mary Kenny: So idea-inspiring!
12:52:32 From Abby S: “given the streets to traffic department to run” hear hear!
12:53:44 From Pamela Fuselli: The previous slide is so valuable to show the impact space design. Would be very interested in having links to the evidence of each of the statements, e.g decrease in domestic violence.
12:53:56 From Rhea McAdam: Our vibrant, busy little town has the TransCanada Highway running through the middle with parking on both sides…dangerous at times. Any ideas?
12:53:57 From Abby S: @Pamela yes
12:54:41 From Mark Roseland: Will this fascinating talk be archived and available?
12:54:57 From Pat Petrala: Logical collaboration – kits for activists, with some financial context useful. The end user and value added aspects potential plus some security aspects has potential.
12:55:29 From Canadian Urban Institute: this recording and transcript and chat will all be available next week on www.canurb.org/citytalk
12:55:36 From Arlene Gillman: If archived and available will we be able to share with non-participants?
12:55:39 From Stephanue Beausoleil to All panelists: thank you!
12:56:05 From Pat Petrala: Naming rights for mini-plaza, besides benches and art donors could be leveraged. Legacy projects by affluent patrons possible.
12:56:13 From Shauna Sylvester: Love the idea of kits. I’d love to see how this could be developed by people who live in an area like the downtown eastside of Vancouver – so that the people of that neighborhood could design and develop the kind of kits that fit in their community
12:56:14 From Cheryl-lee Madden to All panelists: what about Jane Jacobs “I am the eyes on the street” for casual connections?
12:56:26 From Cheryl-lee Madden to All panelists: it happens on side walks
12:56:29 From ASTRA BURKA: From Astra Burka This urban talk is so clear and extremely well presented. Wonderful
12:56:58 From Mary W Rowe to ASTRA BURKA and all panelists: nice to ‘see’ you here:)
12:57:48 From jason Chee-Hing: Dan thank you for your very informative presentation. I wish in Canada we are as involved in terms of the citizenry participation as is shown in your examples. My question is: are the European cities embracing the idea of a living building where gardens are incorporated into the building’s eco-system such that the carbon footprint is reduced significantly. I know there are examples of such hi-rise living buildings in Shanghai and Rome. In North America we have not yet built such a building nor have we embraced this type of urban thinking.
12:57:48 From Shayna Rector Bleeker to All panelists: Agree, Shauna. And interest and engagement in community and ‘my backyard’ feels so heightened in this year. And in many cases groups that had not met each other before have in this time of WFH, limit contacts, stay closer to home, take care of each other, etc
12:58:08 From Shayna Rector Bleeker to All panelists: What a time to collaborate on community design?!
12:58:39 From Gena Ali: Happy 30th Anniversary CUI. Tremendous thanks to Richard Gilbert for his vision and foresight.
12:59:03 From Kelty McKinnon to All panelists: We do have a lot of participatory planning in Canada, particularly in Vancouver where it has been part of the design process for a long time- however it needs to be much more robust- this presentation is super informative with lots of ideas in how to expand it
12:59:08 From Mary W Rowe to Gena Ali and all panelists: yes!
12:59:19 From Alexandru Taranu to All panelists: Happy anniversary indeed! Great work in all those 30 years!
13:00:08 From Fredrica Walters: We hope all municipalities and city planners will give serious consideration to this model. Some have started in their age-friendly communities model.
13:00:27 From Melissa Higgs to All panelists: Thank you for a fantastic and inspiring talk Dan.
13:01:57 From Alexandru Taranu to All panelists: great point about high growth, so far many were thinking about this growth as engine of change for better but perhaps a slower, more intensive growth in a more resilient, restoration economy would be better both for people and the planet
13:02:34 From Happie-Clara Testa to All panelists: Neighbourhood markets is certainly the model that has being solidifying in Toronto/GTA over the last decade with much success.
13:02:49 From Jim Faught: Dan – Lovely ideas for urban human design, mobility and how to get there. Missing is the energy component. Urban areas are huge energy importers and should think how to shift to become net-zero or a net-exporters of energy and therefore design a more truly sustainable approach to conserving, generating and storing energy for urban use at all levels.
13:03:17 From Sasha Tsenkova: This was part of the informal Tokyo, which was 70% of the city in 1950s.
13:04:43 From Mark Roseland: Dan, have you ever tried to advance these ideas in a typical North American sprawling city context (more like Phoenix than Toronto)?
13:04:51 From Daniel Burke: Fantastic presentation Dan
13:04:58 From Pamela Fuselli: Absolutely inspiring! Thank you.
13:04:58 From Jean-François Obregon: Love the imagination. Thank you.
13:05:00 From Brian Webb: This has been a fantastic presentation — thank you so much
13:05:04 From Imtiyaz Rahaman: There is hope!
13:05:10 From Khatereh Baharikhoob: Loved your insights Dan!
13:05:12 From Marcy Burchfield to All panelists: Thank you Dan!
13:05:12 From andy Huang to All panelists: thank you Dan for such inspiring presentation
13:05:13 From Cameron Watts: So hopeful
13:05:14 From Alyssa Valente: amazing presentation! love all the visualization! thank you very much
13:05:21 From Canadian Urban Institute: and yes you can share with others!
13:05:24 From Eiman Elwidaa to All panelists: Thank you very much for confirming the slides
13:05:25 From Charles Finley: Love the Tokyo example..I saw some of these kinds of streets when I was there last – fantastic example
13:05:29 From Stephanue Beausoleil to All panelists: that would be FANTASTIC:)!!! Thank you
13:05:30 From Jennifer Khuu: This is my first CityTalk, absolutely fascinating!! Thank you for sharing.
13:05:33 From Cibele Donato: https://www.880cities.org
13:05:36 From Olivia to All panelists: Thank you so much Dan! Very insightful
13:05:39 From Irena Nikolova to All panelists: This was an inspiring, comprehensive and insightful presentation on the possibilities for urban redesign during and after COVID.
13:05:48 From Sheila Perry: Fabulous presentation and ideas for us.
13:05:54 From Kirsten Frankish to All panelists: Thank you for this inspiring presentation, Dan! I feel like I need to watch this presentation again to absorb even more.
13:06:06 From Lori Girvan: Energizing and inspiring – thank you!
13:06:13 From Catherine Wood: very inspiring- thank you Dan!
13:06:20 From Birgit Siber to All panelists: Very inspiring timely presentation that resonates. Thank you!
13:06:25 From Canadian Urban Institute: Reminding attendees to please change your chat settings to “all panelists and attendees” so everyone can see your comments.
13:06:29 From Sharleen Bayovo to All panelists: Fantastic inspiring thoughts. Thank you
13:06:37 From Carol-Ann Chafe to All panelists: Very interesting and informative. But I do see a miss of a population sector: people with disabilities. We need Universal Design in outdoor spaces and streetscape. People with disabilities incl people born with disabilities or acquired from example sports injuries, accidents, We need to be thinking inclusive design including people in all life stages and abilities.
13:06:55 From Terry Drisdelle: I’m inspired! Gotta go and build……….. something!
13:07:10 From Irena Nikolova to All panelists: I would like to see Toronto move in the direction of redesign for all citizens, for the common good, instead of continuing to be a city of divisions, economic, social and cultural.
13:07:32 From Susan Chin: So optimistic and inspiring, how do we get people to move away from returning to normal?
13:07:45 From Sue Hallatt: dan! “sometimes when you {talk }… the honesty’s too much….”
13:08:13 From Irena Nikolova to All panelists: We do not want to move back to overcrowded streets with too much car traffic….. let us redesign the way we move around the city of Toronto.
13:08:29 From Ronni Rosenberg: scaling the notion of interventions, role of empty office space in the “slow city…?”
13:09:10 From Sarah Patterson: Suggesting to use “residents” instead of “citizens” as not everyone who lives in an area is a citizen
13:09:38 From Sarah Thorne to All panelists: thank you! so stimulating and thought-provoking!
13:09:38 From Sasha Tsenkova: Very inspiring presentation. How do we co-design a city, so that it is more resilient? Is it about social urbanism and learning from our history to identify what works? Sasha Tsenkova
13:09:49 From Stephen Tyler: There are some underlying values here about collective and social vs individual benefits that need to be unpacked because they are not always widely shared.
13:10:07 From Lanrick Bennett to All panelists: Yes, and… is POWERFUL!
13:10:59 From Carol-Ann Chafe: Very interesting and informative. But I do see a miss of a population sector: people with disabilities. We need Universal Design in outdoor spaces and streetscape. People with disabilities incl people born with disabilities or acquired from example sports injuries, accidents, We need to be thinking inclusive design including people in all life stages and abilities.
13:11:32 From Shauna Sylvester: I love that CUI has emerged through Covid to advance our thinking, visions, collaborations in Canada. Congratulations Mary and CUI team. Please keep it up!
13:11:47 From Mary W Rowe to Shauna Sylvester and all panelists: xo
13:11:55 From KIERON HUNT: Way to go Grande Prairie !!!!
13:12:00 From Taskeen Nawab: Would it be possible to share the findings of that study Zahra? It sounds incredibly interesting.
13:12:16 From bob evans: Landscape Architects have led the way in this approach for decades
13:12:18 From Alyssa Valente: i agree, would love to see the results of that study
13:13:00 From Canadian Urban Institute: https://www.antionettecarroll.design/
13:13:08 From Kirsten Frankish: I agree! We’re working to do more of the analyzing data and using it to inform our initiatives, etc.
13:13:18 From Daniel Burke: Zahra that is so interesting! What is the book you showed?
13:13:37 From Shafaq Choudry: Thanks for sharing that piece Zahra
13:13:44 From Taskeen Nawab: ^’Equity
13:14:01 From Zahra Ebrahim: Equity Centred Community Design: https://www.creativereactionlab.com/store/field-guide-equity-centered-community-design#:~:text=ABOUT%20EQUITY%2DCENTERED%20COMMUNITY%20DESIGN,co%2Dcreating%20with%20the%20community.
13:14:01 From Mary W Rowe to Daniel Burke and all panelists: https://www.antionettecarroll.design/
13:14:23 From Daniel Burke: Thank you!
13:14:30 From Canadian Urban Institute: Equity Design Field Guide Antoinette Carroll
13:14:42 From Maisha Barnett to All panelists: Thank you, Zahra.
13:15:44 From Eiman Elwidaa to All panelists: Thank you very much Zahra and Cynthia. I agree with Zahra about the challenge of analysis and I would like to highlight the importance of having gender segregated data to start thinking of people diversity and intersectionality to (personalize) the city in (user centered approach to city planning and co-design)
13:17:24 From Lanrick Bennett to All panelists: As constituent in my part of the city, watching our elected officials, they are so easily pushed toward saying “NO”. “Yes, but” is basically no. Creating the space to say “Yes, and… “allows for collaboration, engagement, heck fun in building the city you want, the city you need. Starting from the street and working your way in each direction including up and down.
13:18:48 From Gordon Ross to All panelists: Vancouver 1907: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzjRs3ARo0g&ab_channel=RhettRowe
13:19:54 From Patricia Cross: Our sidewalks are 5 ft wide locally. I walk in the street and dare cars to mow me down.
13:19:56 From Jason McDougall to All panelists: Vancouver 1907 Trolley View https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzjRs3ARo0g&ab_channel=RhettRowe
13:21:43 From Marnie Tamaki to All panelists: We are also used to working at home if the streets are snowed in. This is a change in perception of work from COVID.
13:22:22 From Taskeen Nawab: lol patricia
13:22:52 From Susan Chin: Many Scandinavians use heaters, blankets, and Northern Californians have heated chairs to deal with cooler weather but still sit outside in cafés.
13:23:24 From Arlene Gillman: Any thoughts on how rainy cities might harness the rain? Here in Vancouver we need to consider how to continue the measures we have taken during the summer and other measures that allow people to continue using the outdoors.
13:23:35 From Marnie Tamaki to All panelists: Homeless – storage problem
13:26:10 From Patricia Cross: Arlene – more colonades, like rainy Singapore
13:27:23 From Arlene Gillman: Thank you Patricia!
13:27:39 From Joyce Drohan: Vancouver’s numerous new street patios on closed street ends are opportunities for demonstrating rain-protected public spaces.
13:28:57 From Cheryl Cohen: In relation to what Zhara said about paying attention, I live in Greektown, Toronto and a few years ago, two traffic lights were put in near my house and I felt like they were put in for me! I look at it as two of the best changes made to my neighbourhood.
13:29:02 From Marnie Tamaki to All panelists: Vancouver Small move – limiting speed in many street to 30km – not just bike route streets.
13:29:28 From Dhanya Rajagopal: In India changing the mindsets of politicians and residents around critical use of public spaces seems to be really difficult how do we address behavioral change?
13:29:29 From Cheryl Cohen: Sorry for the name typo, Zahra.
13:29:44 From Cibele Donato: We need more information about our cities (CIM+BIM) available digitally! If we can measure it, it becomes easier to manage, plan and design.
13:29:48 From Charles Finley: also Zahra’s point illustrates the importance of independent small businesses, entrepreneurs etc not only to the vitality of a neighbourhood, but also to how residents feel the neighbhourhood is “theirs” and “of them”
13:30:01 From Judith Perry to All panelists: I think Cynthia is wrong. The bike lanes can be cleared and the sidewalks can be cleared. It is the question of equipment design. Halifax needs more dedicated and separated bike lanes.
13:30:04 From Arlene Gillman: Thank you Joyce!
13:30:24 From Dhanya Rajagopal to All panelists: In India changing the mindsets of politicians and residents around critical use of public spaces seems to be really difficult how do we address behavioral change?
13:30:48 From Happie-Clara Testa to All panelists: Thank you for a very interesting and insightful presentation. Excellent presenter and panelists, much inspiration and food for thought for citizen engagement. Cheers!
13:31:20 From Darryl Gaston to All panelists: Excellent presentation!
13:31:41 From Arlene Gillman: How do we save the text?
13:32:00 From Canadian Urban Institute: Text will be posted with the transcript and recording.
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13:32:25 From Darryl Gaston to All panelists: Happy to participate from the USA
13:32:26 From Canadian Urban Institute: You can find transcripts and recordings of today’s and all our webinars at https://www.canurb.org/citytalk
13:32:27 From Jennifer Khuu: Thank you so much for a great session!
13:32:28 From Charles Finley: Great talk – thank you all!
13:32:34 From Lisa Slater to All panelists: this was amazing. thank you all so much.
13:32:34 From Ralph Cipoolla to All panelists: thank you and stay safe everyone
13:32:35 From Akram Al-Attar to All panelists: Thank you.
13:32:38 From Brian Webb: Thank you so much for this
13:32:39 From Ryan Walker: Outstanding – I really enjoyed this. Thank you.
13:32:44 From Canadian Urban Institute: Keep the conversation going #citytalk @canurb
13:32:49 From Patricia Cross: Thank you so much everyone
13:32:50 From ROBIN KING: Thank you, so inspiring!
13:32:53 From Kirsten Frankish: This was so inspiring! Thank you for such an insightful discussion.
13:32:55 From Arlene Gillman: Thank you all so much!
13:32:57 From Lanrick Bennett to All panelists: THE STREETS!!!! Thanks for a great presentation “the other Dan”. Thank you Mary + Zahra + Cynthia!
13:32:59 From Canadian Urban Institute:
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13:32:59 From Vivian Cheng: Thank you all so much!
13:33:01 From Shauna Sylvester: A big thanks!
13:33:02 From Lanrick Bennett to All panelists: Happy 30!
13:33:07 From Isabelle Janton to All panelists: thank you very much!
13:33:11 From elisabeth miller to All panelists: Well done…really enjoyed the session. Thank you very much
13:33:13 From Susan Chin: Inspirational! Look forward to sharing the recording with others
13:33:15 From Olusola Olufemi to All panelists: Thanks! Great Discussion
13:33:20 From Darryl Gaston to All panelists: 30 years! Congratulations!
13:33:23 From Chantal Laliberté to All panelists: Merci/thanks for a great talk!
13:33:23 From Marnie Tamaki to All panelists: Thank you so much.
13:33:27 From Kathy Suggitt: Congrats CUI on the 30th anniversary. Great session today! Thanks all.
13:33:27 From Brad Krizan: Thanks for the insightful presentation Dan!
13:33:28 From Neal LaMontagne: Thanks so much for this… powerful and inspiring!
13:33:28 From Anna Melendez to All panelists: Thank you!
13:33:28 From Carol-Ann Chafe: Congrats on 30 years CUI, keep up the great work
13:33:33 From Oriana Nanoa: Thank you!
13:33:34 From Fernando Cirino to All panelists: Thank-you everyone!!
13:33:45 From Fredrica Walters: Thank you all, most informative!
13:33:45 From Nadine Tischhauser: Brilliant talk! Thank you so much! I really enjoyed the discussions.
13:33:52 From Anna Dredge: Thank you, So inspiring!
13:34:06 From Sue Talusan to All panelists: Be your city – participatorycity.org in UK, starting up in Canada
13:34:10 From George Tchanturia to All panelists: Dear Mary, thanks a lot for interesting talks.
13:34:15 From Eiman Elwidaa to All panelists: how are we going to have access to the presentation
13:34:23 From Rick Merrill: Thanks for this.
13:34:23 From Magdalena Zakrzewska-Duda: Thank you – gteetings from Gdansk, Poland – also on the Baltic:-)
13:34:32 From Janice Campbell: Happy “30th” CUI – thanks to the team for this session – CHEERS.
13:34:35 From Fernando Cirino: Thank-you everyone!! Happy 30 CUI
13:34:39 From Kukas Golka to All panelists: Super
13:34:41 From Faryal Diwan: thank you!
