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Blog Post How do we design a car-lite future for our cities?
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 12 | Equity and Inclusion
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Podcast Design Hive, Episode 2: April Schneider on making cities more livable
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Article Taking design to new heights through market insights and innovation
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Video Rolling out new mobility pilots
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Video Making mobility work for people
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Video Planning for the future of mobility
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Blog Post Finding success for downtown office space after COVID-19
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Podcast We need an EV charging renaissance
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Podcast Design Hive, Episode 1: Jonathan Riggall on rewilding the land
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Published Article Making Richmond Hill future-ready: Interview with David Dixon
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Blog Post The Lily Pad Network: A natural analogy to advance resiliency
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Blog Post Maintaining momentum: 3 ways to keep a large development project moving forward
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Blog Post 3 public engagement practices for holistic urban planning
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Blog Post Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic: Improving urban social equity and wellness
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Blog Post Developing a new open space in your downtown community? Here are 5 key ideas to consider
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 11 | Empowering Design
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Blog Post How can COVID-19 make cities smarter?
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Blog Post How to stave off the wintry chills and embrace the outdoors this COVID-19 winter
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Published Article 5 recommendations to cultivate digital-forward innovation in the built environment
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Blog Post 3 critical steps for a sustainable large-scale redevelopment project
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Video Improving New Zealand housing
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Webinar Webinar Recording: Winter City Design
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Blog Post Dinner in a “snow globe”—one designer’s plan to help restaurants during a COVID-19 winter
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Blog Post Winter city design: 3 ways to save our small businesses this COVID-19 winter
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Blog Post [With Video] Beyond the monument: Honoring our heroes through contextual design
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Blog Post 7 talks, 7 cities, 7 big sustainability ideas
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Published Article How to make the most of COVID winter
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Webinar Webinar Recording: Mall Remix: breathing new life into old malls
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Webinar Webinar Recording: Just Suburbs: Creating Equitable Opportunities in Suburban Development
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Blog Post How has shopping changed over the past 100 years? A look at the evolution of retail
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Blog Post Looking at our streets differently now and after COVID-19
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Blog Post Regulatory considerations for online public engagement: ensuring the viability of projects
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Blog Post Are medium-density neighborhoods the answer to community planning in the future?
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Blog Post Pandemic lessons: Reliable internet is no longer a luxury—it’s a right
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Blog Post A global view of design and urban planning post-COVID-19 (Part 4): How will cities change?
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Blog Post A global view of design and urban planning post-COVID-19 (Part 3): New infrastructure
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Blog Post The transformation of engagement: Community considerations for driving online conversation
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Blog Post How will stimulus funding and post-COVID-19 recovery create a more resilient country?
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Blog Post A global view of design and urban planning post-COVID-19 (Part 1): Pandemic prevention
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Blog Post The new “shovel ready”: Preparing for COVID-19 infrastructure stimulus funding
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: How systems thinking is good for our changing world
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Blog Post Walking—our oldest mode of transportation—can inform the future of urban mobility
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Blog Post We need to start talking NOW about shared autonomous mobility—5 urban dividends
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Article Published: Cooperatives Offer Innovative Option to Solve the Affordable Housing Shortage
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Blog Post Stantec’s Top 10 Ideas for 2019 (Plus 2 bonus items!)
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Published Article Published in Community Design Collaborative: Carnell Scholars Drive Schoolyard Design
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: 6 approaches to waterfront revitalization
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Blog Post Want to elevate your smart city planning game? This 7-step roadmap gets you hyperconnected
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Published Article Repurposing Retail Centers: Profiles in Adaptation, Repositioning and Redevelopment
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Video What is a smart city?
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: 7 ways to shift our thinking about urban resilience
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Blog Post Discussing unconscious bias can be uncomfortable, but not confronting it can be worse
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Article Published: Rebuilding Main Street in Rural America
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Article Published in Landscape Architecture Magazine: Wheels of All Types
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Published Article Published in How We Respond: New Orleans Residents Respond to Flooding w/ Citizen Science
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Blog Post [With video] 3 ways to make your public consultation process a success
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Article Published in Canadian Consulting Engineer: Future City Planning
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Blog Post Diverse industry partnerships strengthen community projects
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Blog Post City planning: A guide to equitable planning for your community
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Article Published in ENR: Long-awaited Boston Marathon bombing markers reach the finish line
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: 8 ways to design for density and live where the action is
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Blog Post [With Video] 3 surprising things I discovered from hacking 21st-century city challenges
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Blog Post I survived my TEDx talk: Here are 5 tips I learned that can make you a better speaker
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Blog Post [With Video] How can technology from video games bring flood risks to life?
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Blog Post How can we build smart cities of the future?
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Blog Post Infrastructure Week 2019: Parks as infrastructure—providing resilience and quality of life
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Published Article Published in REDNews: How updates to floodplain mapping will impact Texas
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Agritecture: Bridging the design gap between city and farm
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Subsurface Utility Engineering enhanced through collaboration
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Blog Post This Earth Day, let’s embrace the full spectrum of sustainability
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Blog Post Back to our (grass)roots: New guide aims to decode grass and rush plant families
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Article [With Video] TEDx University of Nevada: The pearls of urban design
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Blog Post How municipalities can develop comprehensive plans that actually get used
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 05 | Smart & Livable Cities
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Blog Post Presenting Stantec Design Quarterly 05: Smart & Livable Cities
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Blog Post From ancient to contemporary: How to design a monastery in the 21st century
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Blog Post Joining America Walks opened my eyes—it’s a long path to genuine walkability for everyone
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Landscapes that do more
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Blog Post A conference by the people, for the people: 4 takeaways from BILT North America
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Blog Post Merging design technologies helps fast-track transit project in fast-growing Seattle area
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Blog Post How do we find funding for cities? It’s all about getting creative with partnerships
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Blog Post Curiosity and artistry: 6 takeaways on downtowns
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Blog Post 5 reasons to cheer high-rise development—when it’s done right
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Video Building a collaborative community in Austin
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Blog Post Driving economically robust downtowns from buildings that are already there
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Blog Post Stantec: Our evolution from 1 person to a global firm
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Blog Post Using an environmental review tool to yield planning and economic development benefits
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Blog Post Wildfire recovery: Creating a resilient home for outdoor education from ashes
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Blog Post National Preparedness Month: Two things you can do now to protect you and your family
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Video Stantec Summer Internship Program 2018
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Blog Post Coastal crisis: We’re running out of sand along Florida’s beaches—what’s the solution?
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Blog Post Putting Places First
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Video David Dixon discusses the next generation of urban places at NZPI 2018
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Published Article Planning to Address Our Urban Heat Island in Northern Nevada
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Blog Post Five traits a surveyor must have to help a client find success
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Article International Downtown Association Report: The Value of U.S. Downtowns and Center Cities
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Blog Post In the battle of suburbs vs. cities, could both be winning?
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Blog Post [With Video] Your community needs a BMX track—here’s why
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Video Livable Cities: Designing the World’s First WELL Community
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Blog Post Garden cities: do they have a future?
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Blog Post Road kill: the creative destruction of an urban expressway reclaims a city’s soul
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Blog Post Seeing the future: Harnessing the power of virtual reality for community engagement
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Published Article Planning on the Cellular Level - Planning Magazine, May 2018
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Blog Post Redefining mobility: What does the future look like?
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Navigating the draft revised National Planning Policy Framework
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Blog Post What does Value of Downtowns report tell us about tomorrow’s cities and regions? (Part 2)
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Blog Post Boxed in by changing markets, 20th-century suburbs learn how to reinvent themselves
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Blog Post Presenting the Stantec Design Quarterly
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Publication Issue 01 | The Sustainable City
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 01 | The Sustainable City
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Blog Post How planning for autonomous vehicles can help cities improve 3 types of infrastructure
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Blog Post Can a city’s downtown be its portal to prosperity?
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Blog Post The role of shared autonomous vehicles in the mobility revolution
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Blog Post Turning land-use restrictions into something positive
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Blog Post Boston's Guide to Placemaking for Mobility: Reclaiming streets for the people
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Blog Post Creating communities from defunct suburban malls
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Published Article The next big disruption is here
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Blog Post Decoding Canada’s Climate Innovation Program
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Blog Post City building: How to use place-making to get intensification right
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Article Turning the tide: Helping shoreline communities create ecologically balanced seawalls
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Blog Post Planting for the future: Enhancing communities with a thriving tree canopy
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Blog Post Embracing the chill: Turning winter into a design asset
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Blog Post Public realm for 21st-century cities
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Blog Post The Jane Jacobs conundrum (Part 1): 3 urban trends driving economic inequality
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Blog Post Skateboarding and engineering. Two passions. One career.
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Blog Post How good urban design can make city residents healthier
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Blog Post Why planting urban trees is important to communities
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Blog Post Can you use math to create great urbanism?
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Blog Post Transit-Oriented Development (TOD): It’s not just about the station
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Blog Post Ditching the rink to skate on a rolling ribbon of ice
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Blog Post Top 5 tips for fast-track site development
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Blog Post The battle of development: Urban core or suburbs?
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Blog Post Why users enjoying the public spaces we design is the best reward
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Interactive The Stantec Idea Hackathon: Big ideas for our biggest challenges
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Interactive What would it take to rewild Europe?
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Interactive Quiz: Is your community automated vehicle ready?
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Interactive United for Infrastructure: Exploring our changing urban landscape
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