Toronto is one of the busiest metropolitan regions in the world yet it has one of the most under-built transit systems for a city its size – and growing. Today’s post features a journalist who’s a known local crusader for new urbanism ideals. He provides practical (and visual) insight into the issues and strategies for
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We’re in the midst of a movement designed to encourage businesses and the government to make strategic investments in urban centers to help make our cities the regional economic drivers they were designed to be. But when it comes to the residents who will actually be living and personally “investing” in cities, I think we
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Guest Blog Post By Amy McGinnis I’m a mom of two, passionate cyclist and locavore, and can’t remember a time when the philosophy and principles of New Urbanism didn’t feel like self-evident truths to me – certainly I was a believer long before I knew it existed as an actual Concept. I also love to
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I read a post on a blog recently that raised concerns about the real practicality of urban agriculture. The writer’s main criticism focused on the following: Urban farms look pretty in the summer/fall but in the winter the plots will simply look like vacant lots. The last thing struggling urban economies need is vacant lots
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I can’t recall when in recent memory there has been such a concerted effort to build up the local economy. The teetering global economy no doubt has a lot to do with this trend. While being interconnected on a global scale has done amazing things to raise awareness about the needs of our human community,
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Job creation is one of those buzz terms that we all hear and understand only too well during this period of economic restraint. The reasons no longer need much explanation. North America has become too expensive a place to manufacture those products that traditionally provided our communities with jobs that helped our nation’s economy to
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Urban Farming is a hot topic today but the really good news is that it’s more than a temporary fad for transient professionals living in the city. It’s part of a movement that is including core urban residents and families. Cleveland, one of the most challenged rust belt cities, has an estimated 325 urban market
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When I think about the “eat local” movement I often connect this to the notion of eating food grown locally, which is the intended meaning of the term. But this weekend I thought about another meaning of the term that is equally valid given the goal of supporting our local economies and that is buying
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