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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.

Care and maintenance of cities

By Patrick Tanguay|2022-05-17T07:59:59-04:0020 January 2022|Territoire|

A few months back we posted about the idea of a Department of Care which would be a cross departmental effort to take better care of the people and places in a city. The idea was originally proposed by urban designer Justin Garrett Moore.

A car-free Berlin

By Patrick Tanguay|2022-08-05T08:17:28-04:0018 January 2022|Mobility|

Many people are bound to consider this group’s proposed plan no more than a pipe-dream–especially some friends in Berlin who regularly complain about the existing bike situation—but regardless, it’s a bold and beautiful one.

Rethinking concrete to build more sustainable cities

By Patrick Tanguay|2022-05-17T08:02:05-04:0013 January 2022|Innovation|

One “boring” aspect of how we built cities going forward is also a very old one, concrete. A material that’s been around since the Romans, humanity has produced an astonishing volume of it and is still doing so at a no less astonishing rate.

Equitable commutes by e-bike

By Patrick Tanguay|2022-08-05T08:18:44-04:006 January 2022|Mobility|

It’s still early in the year, but here’s my first coup de coeur (crush) of 2022. Discovered through this article at The Verge, the Equitable Commute Project in NYC was created to help disadvantaged communities who face especially long commutes, which creates barriers to employment and harm overall well-being. They provide fleet discounts and innovative finance, outreach and education, and perhaps the most forward-looking part of the whole program: workforce development to “prepare New Yorkers who face barriers to employment for jobs in the micro-mobility industry, which is expected to grow to a $300-500 billion market by 2030.” And it’s not only happening in New York!