/channels/taxonomy/term/2499/all en /channels/channels/news/495-million-make-cities-smarter-331701 <p>A smart city—supported by digital solutions to enhance food access and mobility—is a healthy city. That’s the thinking behind the Implementing Smart Cities Interventions to Build Healthy Cities (SMART) Training Platform co-led by ƻ����Ժ, the University of Guelph and the University of Manitoba. Today, the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health, and the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced an investment of $4.95 million over six years for SMART.</p> Mon, 05 Jul 2021 14:32:27 +0000 webfull 171419 at /channels /channels/channels/news/globe-and-mail-covid-19-pandemic-prompts-urbanites-rethink-grand-bargain-dense-city-living-322099 <p>The current pandemic will change cities, experts predict, the way infectious disease outbreaks influenced the development of urban centres in decades past. ƻ����Ժ urban planning professor <strong>David Wachsmuth</strong> said cities have historically gone through cycles of densification and what he called “spaceification” — for example, after the Second World War when the federal government encouraged people to move from city centres to the “healthier” suburbs.</p> Mon, 11 May 2020 13:49:03 +0000 webfull 160617 at /channels /channels/channels/news/cities-and-their-rising-impacts-biodiversity-global-overview-303253 <p><b>Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity </b>versity. To gain a clearer picture of the situation, an international group of scientists, including <a href="/ssti/andrew-gonzalez">Professor Andrew Gonzalez</a> from ƻ����Ժ’s Biology Department, surveyed over 600 studies on the impacts of urban growth on biodiversity. They published their findings today in <i>Nature Sustainability</i>.</p> Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:04:47 +0000 webfull 156231 at /channels /channels/channels/event/cities-and-psychosis-1-credit-course-open-graduate-students-293469 <p>How do the millions of people you never meet in the city put you at greater risk of psychosis? And does the built environment shape the social structure of the city in ways that impinge on illness?</p> Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:14:59 +0000 webfull 145184 at /channels /channels/channels/news/global-project-reduce-health-inequalities-cities-around-world-284536 <div><span>A major new research partnership has been launched to explore ways of reducing health inequalities in cities around the world.</span></div> <div> </div> Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:02:58 +0000 webfull 134836 at /channels /channels/news/one-four-world%E2%80%99s-big-cities-water-stressed-236912 <p>As more people move to urban areas, cities around the world are experiencing increased water stress and looking for additional water supplies to support their continued grow. Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:59:54 +0000 webfull 103068 at /channels /channels/event/work-progress-%E2%80%93-michael-jemtrud-mediated-cities-project-239122 <p>The Fall Work in Progress series concludes with Michael Jemtrud (Architecture) “Mediated Cities Project”</p> Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:20:14 +0000 webfull 105492 at /channels /channels/news/cities-we-need-les-villes-qu%E2%80%99il-nous-faut-241636 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 18:50:45 +0000 webfull 108072 at /channels /channels/event/another-city-possible-practices-minimal-viable-utopia-243222 <p><span>The <a href="/urbanplanning/school-urban-planning" target="_blank">School of Urban Planning</a> will host Adam Greenfield for a public lecture "</span><span>Another city is possible: Practices of the minimum viable utopi</span></p> Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:09:21 +0000 webfull 108498 at /channels /channels/news/has-us-turned-corner-toward-less-urban-sprawl-253538 <p>The urban street network is one of the most permanent features of cities. Once laid down, the pattern of streets determines urban form and the level of sprawl for decades to come. In the U.S., urban sprawl has become an enduring hallmark of the past century. Yet, there are some glimmers of hope. Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:34:29 +0000 webfull 110748 at /channels