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The Climate Justice Organizing HUB is a support structure designed around the needs of grassroots social movement organizers in so-called Canada that respects organizers’ knowledge regarding their own challenges and…
A Guide for Developing Neighbourhood Plans is a joint publication of Manitoba Intergovernmental Affairs and the City of Winnipeg’s Planning, Property and Development Department – Planning and Land Use Division….
While municipal planning efforts have focused on the strategic growth of urban centres, avenues, and transit corridors, there has been a concurrent concentration of poverty in Toronto’s inner suburbs marked by race and gender….
Housing is a human right protected by international covenants. Yet in recent years housing has increasingly become commodified. Huge real estate investment firms are buying up properties where they believe…
In the United States, more and more cities are using community benefit agreements to foster equitable development. Below are some case studies about cities that have implemented agreements or are…
Anchor institutions, such as hospitals, universities, arts and cultural institutions and sports venues, occupy a unique and influential place in America’s inner cities. In 66 of the 100 largest inner…
Creative Placemaking explores the livability and economic development outcomes of creative placemaking, whereby cross-sector partners strategically shape the physical and social character of locales around arts and cultural activities. The…
Funding the Cooperative City explores experiments in community-led urban development in European cities. Situated in the post-welfare transition of European societies within the context defined by austerity measures, unemployment, the…
CED is a strategy that has been developed primarily but not exclusively in response to the deterioration of local economies and lack of hope for revitalization from the outsideeither the…
This guide provides a catalog of efforts made by local government institutions to support cooperative development in their regions. It is an ongoing compilation of information by the Philadelphia Area…
While Malaysia has achieved much in reducing hard core poverty by lifting the quality of life for a majority of Malaysians, we are now faced with the reality of increasing…
The Open Works research project aimed to test if a platform approach could scale up the new type of ‘participation culture’ that has emerged over the last 6 – 10…
