100 Game-Changers in Canadian Planning: Moments
Week 4 in our round up of 100 game-changers in Canadian planning.
What are the game-changing *moments* in planning? What events have shifted Canadian planning?
- SARS – airport vectors, antibacterial resistance
- Bikeshare
- Expo 67 – huge infrastructure investments that shaped Montreal forever
- Japanese internment
- Hogan’s Alley
- Africville
- Vancouver 2010 Olympics: change moment that got a lot of people out of their cars and allowed new Canada line to surpass ridership estimates.
- Hurricane Hazel and resulting conservation / resiliency planning
- Jane Jacobs moving to Toronto n stopping the Allen Expressway
- Killing the Spadina Expressway (and then failing to build enough transit)
- The invention of the mass-produced automobile. (Hey you didn’t say it had to be a change for the better)
- GO Transit (rail and bus) has done a lot to change planning in the GTHA, especially in the communities along the Lakeshore corridors.
- The Greenbelt Protection Act in GTA has helped to reduce sprawl and influence growth planning in the region.
- In Toronto “The Kings” rezoning resulting in mixed use revitalization.
- Demolition of Pruitt-Igoe.
Killing the Spadina Expressway (and then failing to build enough transit).
— Richard Joy (@RichardJoyTO) June 28, 2019
The invention of the mass-produced automobile. (Hey you didn’t say it had to be a change for the better)
— Jim Gough (@JimGoughTrans) June 28, 2019
GO Transit (rail and bus) has done a lot to change planning in the GTHA, especially in the communities along the Lakeshore corridors.
— Moaz Ahmad (@yyzMYA) June 28, 2019
Jane Jacobs moving to Toronto n stopping the Allen Expressway
— Dane Grgas (@renodane) June 28, 2019
The Greenbelt Protection Act in GTA has helped to reduce sprawl and influence growth planning in the region. https://t.co/NIUhaxDpqJ
— Cherise Burda (@CheriseBurda) June 27, 2019
In Toronto “The Kings” rezoning resulting in mixed use revitalization. @KGreenbergTO covers this and other key moments in his new book Toronto Reborn. https://t.co/EPmFfakRKH https://t.co/NIUhaxDpqJ
— Cherise Burda (@CheriseBurda) June 27, 2019
Demolition of Pruitt-Igoe.
— John Michael McGrath (@jm_mcgrath) June 27, 2019
Here’s what we heard in the People category.