Sustainable Community Development
Join us Wednesday, October 26th from 9:00 am - 10:30 am PDT / 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT, for a conversation on the challenges of integrated planning as part of our Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: Integrated Planning Series.
Places+Spaces, a newly developed modelling tool, promises to break new ground on sustainable development decision-making for municipal and regional governments. As the first of its kind in Canada, this comprehensive new computer-based platform allows users to input various development factors including buildings, transportation, energy, water and land-use, economic and employment, education and healthcare. They are then integrated to calculate their interdependent relationships to produce various sustainability scenarios.
This video features a recrafting of the first video created in CRC Research's social media research project. We began our social media experiment with an animated video designed to highlight the differences between humans living with nature and humans living against nature. Using stop-motion animation and tongue-in-cheek humour, the animation unfolded the natural succession of an ecosystem and abruptly interrupted this process with rapid industrialization.
A Vision of Sustainable Community Development captures the ideas and outcomes of the Community Research Connections program and approaches the social sciences of sustainable community development from both an informed and compassionate place. The video explores the dynamic relationship between place, limits, scale and diversity for Canadian communities and discusses the importance of reconciling the built and non-built environment.
Canadian municipalities are in the unique position of being at the forefront for realizing sustainable development in communities across Canada.