Blog - Fab City Montréal

The library of the future bridges societal divides

By Patrick Tanguay|2022-05-17T07:50:28-04:0010 February 2022|Education|

If your start thinking about a Fab City (or any city, really), what are some places you might walk into freely, meet a variety of people, and learn something? There aren’t all that many places like that, are there? Public libraries fit that description and a lot of the things people want to experience and learn about in terms of strengthened social fabric and projects leading to a locally active and globally connected are already happening in libraries.

Regenerative Placemaking in Auckland

By Patrick Tanguay|2022-05-17T07:53:21-04:003 February 2022|Cities|

We’ve written about regenerative cities before; in this article at Future of Cities, we can take a closer look at how regenerative placemaking was used in practice in various projects around the city of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, which has gone from a depressed economy with declining public health, to becoming the world’s most liveable city according to The Economist. Here’s how the authors define the process.

Taking back public space

By Patrick Tanguay|2022-05-17T07:54:42-04:001 February 2022|Mobility|

A really good short video on the realization that’s decades-old but now spreading: cars occupy an incredible (some might say insane) amount of public space; it wasn’t always like that and doesn’t have to stay like that either.

Socioeconomic mixing

By Patrick Tanguay|2022-05-17T07:56:37-04:0027 January 2022|Territoire|

We’ve linked before to articles by Reimagining the Civic Commons, a group that does important en interesting work. In this case, they share some of the work being done around socioeconomic mixing and introduce a longer report on the topic.

3 Questions for Cities in 2022

By Patrick Tanguay|2022-05-17T07:58:23-04:0025 January 2022|Cities|

Those three questions are asked in a short article, by way of pondering if cities can thrive in turbulent times. The authors start with the sobering fact that so many of us have already taken stock of; even with all the good intentions of the beginning of the pandemic, we can’t take the hoped-for positive feedback loops for granted. Australia’s recovery for example was largely gas-powered. Calls for growth and the prioritizing of rebuilding the economy as it once was are already supplanting calls for rebuilding different and better.