Some breakthrough initiatives
Resilient Coasts Canada Platform: Stephanie Chang
"Resilient-C" facilitates knowledge and resource sharing between coastal communities to support hazard risk reduction. It helps identify similarly vulnerable peer communities, and relays their risk reduction actions. The platform currently includes 170+ coastal communities and 3500+ risk reduction actions from across Canada.
Transforming Cities from Within: Maggie Low and Lindsay Cole
Grounded in foundations of collective thriving and ecosocial justice, TCFW is a space for ongoing learning, practicing, and connecting for innovators working in, with, and alongside complex challenges in the public sector such as climate change, systemic and structural oppression, ongoing colonization, and many others.
Machine Learning to Study Immigrant Renting: Julia Harten
A growing share of immigrants to Canada are renting, but rental markets present unique research challenges. The vast majority of this research considers dominant-language rental platforms only. Harten leverages machine learning to study immigrant renting via multilingual sources to bridge this knowledge gap.
Heather Campbell
Planning Theory and Practice
SCARP Director Campbell serves as Senior Editor to this forum at the interface between academic and practitioner, promoting an international lens on policy. It is said to rank as one of the top 5 English language planning journals in the world.
Erick Villagomez
Spacing Vancouver
Erick Villagomez is the Editor-in-Chief at Spacing Vancouver, the Vancouver branch of a magazine that describes the joys, obstacles, and politics of Canada’s big cities and thinks critically about how to shape public spaces.
Erick Villagomez
The Laws of Settlements
Erick Villagomez’s book The Laws of Settlements describes the principles underlying human settlements.