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The Future of Community Engagement

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed almost every aspect of our lives, from the way we work to the way we play. It has projected a spotlight on the foundational cracks within our systems and has exposed the unjust, unsustainable, and inequitable structures of our societies. In this blog post, our Summer Project Intern, Brandon Miles, discusses the pandemic's effects on the context of urban planning, and how city-building practices are evolving, beginning with community engagement.

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Closing Streets and Outdoor Classrooms Can Help Reopen Schools

New York City plans to open schools in the fall but reduce the number of children who come into the classrooms. What if these schools expanded into city streets instead? What would be the result of this potential solution amid the pandemic? Jonathan Marvel from Fast Company makes the case.

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A Mobile Visit Unit for Nursing Homes

A family in Arkansas came up with a creative, age and COVID-19 friendly idea to allow residents from a nursing home to see their families: a mobile visiting unit that allows residents to sit on one side of a plexiglass barrier with their family members on the other.

Photo Credit: Angela Green via KATV.

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NYC’s Best Open Street is in Queens
The Jackson Heights, Corona and Elmhurst areas of Queens, New York City, were among the hardest hit in the United States by the COVID-19 pandemic. This film by Streetfilms looks at the months-long struggle in Jackson Heights to get an open street on its beautiful tree-lined 34th Avenue. 


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Public Washrooms and the Pandemic in Canada
Lezlie Lowe, a Halifax journalist and author of No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs, assesses when and how our public bathrooms will reopen and how the pandemic has underlined the importance of public facilities. (As it Happens, CBC Radio). 

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Essential Places: Warren Logan on Open Streets Beyond Brunch and Bike Lanes

Nate Storring (Project for Public Spaces) interviews Warren Logan, Policy Director of Mobility and Interagency Relations for Oakland, California, to learn how his team is continuing to adapt the City's ambitious Slow Streets program to better serve the city's diverse communities.

Photo Credit: City of Oakland via PPS.

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Are Libraries Going to Remain as Community Living Rooms? 

It is impossible to imagine our cities and neighbourhoods without libraries. Lending books is just the beginning. Libraries are figuring out how to remain welcoming spaces during a global pandemic while still responding to changing reader behaviour and needs. Elizabeth A. Harris, for the New York Times, takes us through the immediate actions and considerations libraries are taking to safely reopen.

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Nature Must Be Accessible to All

It was devastating for participants of the City Kids Wilderness Project in Washington D.C., to hear that their summer programming had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  In this article, Priya Crook, for NRPA's Parks & Recreation Magazine, analyzes the racial impacts of the pandemic, in a time when we all need the healing effects of the outdoors. 

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