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Brochure Looking to launch Low Speed Automated Vehicles in your community? We can help.
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Blog Post What we’re learning about US vehicle travel data: Interactive Dashboard for June 30, 2020
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Video Digitize Your Utility: Client Enterprise Solutions
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Blog Post Why COVID-19 should make transit rethink the fixed-route system
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Video Environment, health and sustainability in real estate asset management
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Blog Post Looking at our streets differently now and after COVID-19
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Published Article Published in Civil Engineering: Stantec-Jacobs to Design Gulf Coast Storm System
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Blog Post Regulatory considerations for online public engagement: ensuring the viability of projects
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Blog Post How can geography drive the 4th Industrial Revolution?
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 09 | People, buildings & technology
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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 Stopping algae in its tracks before it disrupts your water treatment plant
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Blog Post Embracing the creative spirit: How the Tampa Idea Hackathon helped me to think differently
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Blog Post COVID-19 is changing design paradigms
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Webinar Electric Futures
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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 4 questions transit agencies need to ask themselves in the wake of COVID-19
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Blog Post Planning for life in cities after the pandemic
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Blog Post A global view of design and urban planning post-COVID-19 (Part 2): Changing perspectives
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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 How will stimulus funding and post-COVID-19 recovery create a more resilient country?
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Blog Post Disaster preparedness in the midst of COVID-19
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Blog Post The new “shovel ready”: Preparing for COVID-19 infrastructure stimulus funding
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Published Article Published in The Boston Globe: New high-rise in Chinatown will include affordable housing
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: How systems thinking is good for our changing world
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Video Dubai takes another step towards Self-Driving Vehicles
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Blog Post We need to start talking NOW about shared autonomous mobility—5 urban dividends
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Published Article Published in Environment Magazine: Building a resilient New Orleans
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Blog Post The US Integrated Planning Bill: 10 steps municipalities can take to reap the benefits
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Blog Post Does your city need a corridor study? Set the foundation for success with these 3 tips
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Whitepaper The housing white paper: a wish list
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Published Article Stantec named to Newsweek’s Top 100 Smart City Partners
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Blog Post Presenting Stantec Design Quarterly 08: Wellness & active lifestyles
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Blog Post Stantec’s Top 10 Ideas for 2019 (Plus 2 bonus items!)
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Blog Post Ontario has updated its brownfield regulations—what do the 7 key changes mean?
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Article 4 ways smart mobility will make our world a better place
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: 6 approaches to waterfront revitalization
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Video Thoughts from the American Water Summit - Sustainability
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Blog Post On the leading edge: Decentralized computing can transform smart-mobility infrastructure
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Blog Post Alternative project delivery is all about R&R—resourcefulness and repetition
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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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Blog Post New certification from Passive House Institute US: What it means and why it matters
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Presentation Smart cities research: Building a Hyperconnected City
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Blog Post Redefining lost urban spaces: 5 ways to turn a laneway into a “lanescape”
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Blog Post Standard method – help or hindrance?
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Blog Post Discovering how “The Emily Test” can offer new—and better—perspectives to design
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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 in the 2019 FRA Awards Best Book
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Article Published in METRO: 4 Factors to Consider For Zero-Emission Bus Fleet Transition
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Blog Post 3 benefits to embracing an integrated approach to building design
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Blog Post World Cities Day: Here’s how we can build a better urban life for future generations
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Publication Community Futures: Think globally, act locally has never mattered more
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Article Published: Rebuilding Main Street in Rural America
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Blog Post What’s that car’s IQ?
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Article Published in Landscape Architecture Magazine: Wheels of All Types
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Blog Post Creating communities through citizen science
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 07 | Adapting to Change
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Blog Post [With video] 3 ways to make your public consultation process a success
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Blog Post Presenting Stantec Design Quarterly 07: Adapting to change
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Stantec's CEO explores how sustainability is at the core of our business
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: What are sustainability rankings and why do they matter?
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Blog Post The connected, autonomous road ahead: Key challenges and opportunities for road operators
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Blog Post Thinking outside the “austere” box: Reimagining government facility design
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Published Article How cities can find funding for aging infrastructure
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Article Published in Railway Age: Transit Oriented Development – Chicago
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Article Published in Canadian Consulting Engineer: Future City Planning
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Digitally modeling cost-effective sustainable solutions
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Video Evolving Cities: Infrastructure Update
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Article Published in Institution of Civil Engineers: Communities should be at the heart of decision making
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Blog Post A decade of ecosystem restoration: Protecting planet Earth for future generations
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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 Weaving mental healthcare spaces into the neighborhood
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Published Article Published in NRU Toronto: Designing the smart city
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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 How Indigenous and northern communities shape my professional philosophy as a planner
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Published Article Published in Planning magazine: May you live in interesting times
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Blog Post [With Video] 3 surprising things I discovered from hacking 21st-century city challenges
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Publication Stantec Idea Hackathon: Toward a Smart Toronto (Idea Book)
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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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Article Published in Metro Magazine: Retrofitting garages for zero-emissions buses
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Retrofitting today’s buildings for a sustainable future
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Are net zero energy and net zero carbon buildings a must-have?
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Article Published in Railway Age: TOD: How New York got it right
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Blog Post 3 techniques to boost community engagement for challenging mining projects
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Article Published in Railway Age: P3s key for Transit Oriented Development
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Blog Post [With Video] Envisioning the revitalized design of the Old Sacramento urban riverfront
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Embracing the unknown when thinking big data and smart cities
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Blog Post How can we build smart cities of the future?
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Blog Post Presenting Stantec Design Quarterly 06: Destination Zero
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Blog Post How we can flip the script on pollinator decline
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: How are we designing for livable cities today?
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Blog Post How to navigate aging infrastructure and utility conflicts in urban areas
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Blog Post How do we manage the smart-mobility revolution? It starts with well-crafted policy.
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Published Article Published in Railway Age: Innovation From a ‘P2’ System
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Published Article Published in Planning Magazine: Curb control
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Technologies and trends changing how we power our world
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Blog Post City planners and healthcare providers need to talk about their common goals
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Blog Post Infrastructure Week 2019: The state of American transit today and tomorrow
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Blog Post Infrastructure Week 2019: Brownfield development is the future of the US urban landscape
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Blog Post Infrastructure Week 2019: Parks as infrastructure—providing resilience and quality of life
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Blog Post Infrastructure Week 2019: The future of green infrastructure
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Blog Post America is running out of engineers – here’s how we start recruiting more
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Housing design that keeps the city within reach
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Published Article Published in ENR: Drilling down to defend against drought in Atlanta
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Video All Things Urban: Joe Geller talks Stantec’s Urban Places
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Blog Post How to plan for the future of electric vehicles
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Video One person’s cell phone is another person’s planning tool
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Article [With Video] TEDx University of Nevada: The pearls of urban design
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Blog Post What can smart city planners learn from 3,000-year-old Varanasi, India?
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Blog Post Energy efficiency is really about energy productivity—and that’s about the bottom line
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: 9 facets of smart cities
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Blog Post How municipalities can develop comprehensive plans that actually get used
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Blog Post Presenting Stantec Design Quarterly 05: Smart & Livable Cities
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Blog Post Art and architecture meet in the desert
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Blog Post What happens downtown doesn’t stay downtown: The ripple effects of a strong center city
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Blog Post Downtown Columbus, Ohio: A case study in the mobility revolution
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Blog Post Micro-lofts: Are these tiny units coming to the suburbs?
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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 Microtransit series (Part 4): Academic research can help advance accessible transit
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Landscapes that do more
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Blog Post What is a smart city? And how can we avoid getting the "Betamax version"?
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Digitally illuminating a city’s utilization
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Video The Future of Freeways: The Impact of Connected and Automated Vehicles
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Video David Dixon discusses the next generation of urban places at NZPI 2018
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Blog Post In the battle of suburbs vs. cities, could both be winning?
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Video Livable Cities: Designing the World’s First WELL Community
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Blog Post Four questions we must answer to design truly smart cities
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Video Preserving affordable housing in Denver
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Blog Post It’s important to make space for wildlife in our growing cities
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Blog Post Urban Places Idea Lab: Tweaking plans, designs, and sustainability strategies
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Blog Post What are cultural heritage landscapes? Why are they important?
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Video Brooklyn Village: equity and innovation in urban revitalization
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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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Published Article Read a free chapter of Suburban Remix, edited by Jason Beske & David Dixon
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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 What does The Value of Downtowns report tell us about today’s cities? (Part 1)
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 01 | The Sustainable City
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Blog Post Digging Deep into Data — How cell phone activity data enhances transportation planning
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Blog Post Spokane’s new ice ribbon helps park slide into its next era—a year-round destination
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Blog Post The renovation of iconic Wrigley Field is an example of large-scale building recycling
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Blog Post The disruptive 4th Industrial Revolution and its impact on Garden Cities
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Blog Post Economics of Water Series: Extreme weather—after the hurricanes
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Blog Post In resiliency, if we’re not focused on data and technology, we’re in trouble
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Blog Post Why the switch to electric vehicles may be more important than the rush to autonomous cars
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Blog Post Garden cities: lighter, faster, cheaper
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Blog Post Resilient design for waterfront buildings: A real estate win-win in a vulnerable area
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Blog Post Play on: How to get the most out of your sports field with artificial turf
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Blog Post Resurrecting a community centre
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Blog Post Garden cities & movement: achieving 'good growth'
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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 Keeping an eagle eye on sustainable bridge design
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Blog Post Housing need: what can we learn from the new CLG proposals?
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Blog Post How to mine cell phone data to plan transit
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Blog Post The role of shared autonomous vehicles in the mobility revolution
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Video The first/last mile problem
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Blog Post Why your community needs its own Complete Streets design guidelines
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Blog Post Vehicle for change
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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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Blog Post Garden cities: redefining the principles for modern times
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Blog Post The digital utility is within our reach
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Blog Post Communicating cars: Understanding the road to autonomous vehicles
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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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Blog Post What happens when extreme sports and engineering collide (not literally)?
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Blog Post Embracing the chill: Turning winter into a design asset
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Whitepaper The housing white paper: a review
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Blog Post Autonomous Vehicles will change land use planning. What you should be thinking about now
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Article Inside a micro-unit: Living small, sharing more, and creating affordable urban housing
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Blog Post Public realm for 21st-century cities
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Blog Post 5 things Ontario developers need to know about Low Impact Development and Green Infrastructure requirements
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Blog Post Making a case for living small and sharing more in urban areas
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Blog Post Can you use math to create great urbanism?
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Blog Post What role do parks play in our communities?
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Blog Post Top 7 ways to design with resilient communities in mind
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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 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 Quiz: Is your community automated vehicle ready?