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How can we ensure that Canada remains a livable, prosperous, and equitable nation? We believe that Canadian cities steer the course for future developments across all of Canada. The POLI 308 Livable Cities Group is concerned with discussing the various aspects of urban planning that make cities bustling, comfortable, and fulfilling places to live. Our Livable Cities Website seeks to educate the broader public about the multifaceted nature of cities and the political dimensions of flourishing place and community. Our goal is to contextualize and explain the housing, mobility, and community policies that shape Canadian cities into livable places for present and future residents. Throughout the site we primarily use Greater Vancouver cities for case studies, but we include urban planning examples from other parts of Canada and the world to provide nation-wide policy insight on the basis of making all cities across Canada more livable. We are zooming in our focus on policy sectors pertaining to housing, environment, urban community, mobility, and social services across the municipal, provincial, and federal levels of Canadian Government.
Within livable city policies, there are repeated themes of improving dense land use, promoting environmental sustainability, minimizing car-centric infrastructure, prioritizing community, preserving culture, and uplifting the well-being of all those who live in a city. Understanding the underlying interconnection between the social and infrastructural policy impacts of housing, mobility, and community is essential in planning for the future livability of all Canadian cities.
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Focusing on how these three sectors work independently to address and contribute to issues in city policy will allow us to determine how, collectively, they can be used to create more livable Canadian cities.
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All Canadians deserve a place to call home. Housing refers to a variety of living arrangements; Within urban centres housing includes, but is not limited to, detached homes, apartments, townhouses, senior care centres, and social housing. No matter what form your housing takes, neighborhoods provide space for shared cultural experiences and for local communities to flourish. Access to equitable, safe, and affordable housing provides the foundation for city-wide improved living conditions and quality of life. As such, addressing and understanding housing-specific policy issues plays a critical role in creating livable Canadian cities.
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Gentrification in Canadian Cities
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All Canadians deserve safe and reliable transportation. Canadians primarily get around their cities by car, public transit, and on foot. Understanding how to connect people to work, school, and play is critical to building safer, more equitable, and more livable communities.
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All Canadians deserve a welcoming and sustainable community to call their own. The sustainability of our cities directly impacts the water we drink and the air we breathe. Additionally, we consider how to create a community where all are included, by offering the social and community services that everybody needs. In doing so, we can create cities that prioritize everyone’s health and well-being.
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