by Mark Douglas Wessel | Mar 7, 2023 | Stories
Original source: CityTalk In Montreal, they’re building Canada’s largest urban park. Once complete, the 8,000-hectare nature sanctuary will be eight times as large as New York’s Central Park. In Bonn, green roofs are now mandatory for any surface larger than 200...
by Mark Douglas Wessel | Mar 7, 2023 | Stories
Original source: UrbanNet Quito bears the brunt of climate change, from 100-year storms to mudslides to heat waves – all part of the city’s ‘new normal.’ Urban journalist Mark Douglas Wessel explores how Ecuador’s capital is leveraging the power of Nature-based...
by Mark Douglas Wessel | Mar 7, 2023 | Stories
Original source: Toronto Sun Increased appreciation for nature in the city and creative use of space suggests that demand will be on the upswing for years to come Park People, Canada’s city park network just released its 3rd annual Canadian City Parks Report, which...
by Mark Douglas Wessel | Mar 7, 2023 | Stories
Original source: Toronto Sun Creating a more colourful and artistic environment is getting people more people excited by being downtown Much has been written about how COVID-19 has heightened our appreciation of the need for more space and the need to have more...
by Mark Douglas Wessel | Mar 6, 2023 | Stories
Original source: Toronto Sun Medellin’s Transit-Oriented Transformation. And that encapsulated the theme of the recent article I wrote about this Colombian city for a book called The Place Economy that’s published by Hoyne. Just as Bogotá is a world leader when it...
