Sustainable Community Development

Sustainable Community Development

New modelling tool to help build strong, sustainable communities

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.

CRC Video: Retelling our first animation

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.