An inner-city building should never be allowed to buttress itself from the street like this. A new building has a responsibility to its neighbourhood and its neighbourhood have a responsibility to it. Its a partnership that this building doesn’t seem to value.

— NanaimoCommons (@NanaimoCommons) February 6, 2021

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Jane Jacobs is Still Here: Jane Jacobs 100, her legacy and relevance in the 21st century. Spatial Planning and Strategy TU Delft.

Jane Jacobs is Still Here: Jane Jacobs 100, her legacy and relevance in the 21st century

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Twitter thread : On neighbourhoods

Defining Neighbourhoods. @planetizen University of Chicago Professor of Urbanism Emily Talen. https://t.co/OQxELFlyaF

— NanaimoCommons (@NanaimoCommons) January 7, 2021

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Here’s the design challenge...

Designer Bruce Mau (@brucemaudesign) dares us to abandon our toxic lifestyle habits and urges us toward bolder urban design in Lilian Chan's #TheCurveNFB short THE BIG RESET: CITIES

The Big Reset - Cities, Lillian Chan, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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Twitter thread : The blog in 2020 the year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nanaimo Commons : Urban Public Space : Our Commons...

Posted by Nanaimo Commons on Sunday, 27 December 2020

Most viewed Tweet February https://t.co/fVH6c4HItz

— NanaimoCommons (@NanaimoCommons) December 28, 2020

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We urge governments to follow the national protocol for homeless encampments in Canada released by @Make_TheShift & @leilanifarha, which outlines a human rights approach to realizing the right to adequate housing: https://t.co/viOnLOn8nT

— Human Rights Canada (@CdnHumanRights) December 17, 2020

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