Urban Design for Intensification and Sustainability in Cities and Suburbs - REGULAR

Urban Design for Intensification and Sustainability in Cities and Suburbs

This webinar is part of the RAIC 2022 Virtual Conference on Architecture, now available to stream!

Topics: Urbanism

Length: 1.5 hours | What's Included: Video, Quiz, and Certificate of Completion 

This session will provide an overview of contemporary urban design issues for intensification, revitalization of cities and suburbs for sustainable and healthy development. The first part will focus on work for the intensification of the inner city – downtowns and central areas, transit corridors, large redevelopment sites to create complete, dense, liveable, sustainable neighbourhoods and places. Drawn from examples across the country but with focus on larger cities like Vancouver, Edmonton, Ottawa and the Greater Toronto Area, this part will also showcase some of the best examples, projects and contemporary approaches for mix of residential forms, amenities, urban open space, complete streets, integration of green, sustainable infrastructure – precinct plans, guidelines, design review, etc The second part will focus on the intensification and urbanization of the suburbs and suburban areas. With so much of them across the country, the efforts for emissions reductions, for resiliency, for fighting climate change will depend on it. This part will showcase the current challenges, opportunities, trends to urbanize the car-oriented developments of the past based on key projects, in particular from Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa – the main laboratories of the process.

This session builds on the 15 years experience of the Council for Canadian Urbanism to bring together the country’s foremost urban designers, to showcase exemplary projects from Coast to Coast to Coast, to advocate for design for sustainable, liveable, authentic, design based urbanism. The presenters are leaders of the Council, architects and urban designers with extensive experience and broad portfolio or work on these areas.

Learning Objectives:

By the completion of this session, participants will be able to:

• Summarize the latest trends and achievements in Canadian urbanism and urban design, specifically in the areas of infill, intensification, revitalization, and urbanization.
• Become knowledagble about major projects across the country, which showcase sustainable development and placemaking.
• Recognize contemporary urban design approaches and tools in the intensification and redevelopment process.
• Describe the design process at the city scale and the role architects can play, including contemporary design approaches.

Subject Matter Experts:

Alex is an architect, urban designer and urbanist with extensive experience on a wide variety of issues and projects including downtown revitalization, urbanization of suburban areas, sustainable, transit-oriented development, design review, heritage integration and project management. Throughout his career Alex has lead important master planning, urban design and buildings projects in Canada and abroad. Alex is currently Sr. Advisor, Design, for the City of Brampton, and provides urban and architectural design advice to urban design panels for municipalities and institutions in Ontario. He is a frequent lecturer at Canadian universities, presenter at numerous professional conferences and was member of national and international juries (including CNUs Charter Awards). He is a strong advocate for sustainable and healthy urbanism, design excellence, founder/ director of the Council for Canadian Urbanism, Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, licenced architect and registered professional planner in Ontario.

Eric is an Urban Designer, a Planner and an Architect.He is a Partner at Urban Strategies Inc. and has over 25 years of experience in Canada, the United States and Europe.Eric has extensive redevelopment experience in sensitive urban areas in Canada – notably in the GTA, Ottawa, the United States and Europe. As a partner, he has led numerous award-winning downtown revitalization plans, community design plans, transit oriented developments   and large scale master plans. He has recently completed the award-winning University of Ottawa Master Plan and is currently working on a new mixed-use development of the north portion of the Dufferin Mall property in Toronto. Eric is an Urban Design industry leader and the President of the Council for Canadian Urbanism (CanU). He is a member of the Waterfront Toronto Design Review Panel and the chair of the Brampton Design Review Panel Pilot Project.

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