Lever de soleil sur Montréal. Quand il s’agit d’urbanisme, la question n’est pas tant de savoir comment planifier physiquement nos villes différemment, mais plutôt comment convaincre le public et les politiciens de réaliser ce changement. Nicolae Rosu/Unsplash

L’existentialisme pour contrer les changements climatiques dans les villes?

La question n’est pas tant de savoir comment planifier physiquement nos villes différemment, mais plutôt comment convaincre le public et les politiciens de réaliser ce changement.
When it comes to urban planning, the question is not so much how to physically plan our cities differently. Rather, the question is how to convince both the public and our politicians to implement change. Patrick Tomasso /Unsplash

Existentialism: A guiding philosophy for tackling climate change in cities?

City planners and politicians have pitched carbon emission reduction as an individual choice but this leads to green gentrification and fails to make broad changes. We need a new guiding philosophy.
A For Sale sign is shown outside a house under construction in a new subdivision in Beckwith, Ont., in January 2018. Conventional wisdom suggests urban-dwelling millennials don’t want to live in the suburbs and don’t want to raise children in a two-bedroom downtown condo. Is it really true? THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Challenging the myths about millennials and housing

If it’s true millennials are being squeezed out of the housing market in some of Canada’s biggest cities, here’s what we can, and should, do about it.

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