How Cities Are Transforming Downtowns Into 24-Hour Neighborhoods
Downtown districts are undergoing a profound shift as cities explore ways to make them more resilient and active beyond the traditional 9-to-5 workday. With office occupancy still recovering, many planners see an opportunity to diversify downtown functions by integrating housing, cultural venues, green spaces, and small-scale entrepreneurship. This multi-use approach seeks to create vibrant, walkable […]
Why More People Are Choosing Mid-Size Cities for Their Next Chapter
Mid-size cities are emerging as some of the most desirable places to live, thanks to a balance of affordability, opportunity, and livability that large metros can’t always match. As remote work reshapes where people choose to settle, cities that once struggled to attract national attention are now experiencing measurable growth in both population and investment. […]
Opinion: The ocean is our brand and superpower
Miro Cernetig: The Blue Economy is worth $3 trillion globally. Every savvy nation and city with a coastline is racing to claim its piece. Why not us? Metro Vancouver and B.C. have the geography, talent, infrastructure, and values. Seaspan in North Vancouver is just one example of the talent and infrastructure that make B.C. a […]
The Pandemic, French Fries and the Future of Steak: Inside the Mind of Food Expert Evan Fraser
Inside the brain of Food Expert Evan Fraser
CityAge: What has COVID-19 told us about Canada’s food security?…
Why We’re Launching Smart City Futures
The term ‘smart city’ has been around for more than a decade, an esoteric subject embraced by the urban planning and tech intelligentsia who believe digital tools will make our cities better places. Find out more: https://smartcityfutures.io/introducing-smart-city-futures/
From airplane napkin sketch to world leading ag tech revolution
An Interview with Dave Dinesen, CEO of CubicFarms, on the future of food. Greenhouses have been around for centuries in some form or another, to help us extend growing seasons. But they can be finicky, don’t work in all climates and can be labor intensive. A pandemic can make it even tougher to airlift in […]
No trust, no data: the way forward for farmers and software providers
The potential gains associated with digitizing Canadian farm records are clear – increased productivity, efficiency, sustainability, and ease of access to the data that will help keep Canada’s farmers competitive and get the best results from their land. But there’s a problem on the farm. Most Canadian farmers are aware of the benefits from data, […]
McMaster Research Co-op leads charge to harvest community energy
Canada loses 60 per cent of its energy because of heat needlessly exhausted out of our homes, office towers, data centres or grocery stores. McMaster University professor Jim Cotton has a plan to change that. “We’re taking heat that we just dump out of our arenas, our data centres, our grocery stores, and reusing it […]
Bjarke Ingels Wants to Build a City on Mars By Jessica Peralta
New York — Bjarke Ingels is already changing the skyline of cities on Earth. But his latest dream is to be the first Martian architect. More specifically, he is now designing a city to be built Mars with the help of 3D printing. And he’s starting out in a desert in the United Arab Emirates, […]
Inside the mind of Daniel Libeskind: On Smart Cities, Tech and the Pandemic
CityAge: Everyone seems to have their own definition of a Smart City. What’s yours? Daniel Libeskind: It’s not just a city with good technology, it’s not a city with good planners, and enlightened architects. A good city has, at its center, an idea of social justice, where you have an equality in a democracy of citizens […]