Our work at Sustainable Calgary grows out of needs identified in our State of our City reports, and the bulk of current work occurs under two programmes: Active Neighbourhoods Canada and the Housing Transportation Food Nexus Fund. Click to jump to these programme pages, or scroll down to see our full project library.

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The State of our City reports track Calgary’s long-term sustainability in Economy, Education, Natural Environment, Resource Use, Wellness, Governance and Community.

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The Active Neighbourhoods Canada (ANC) program supports walking, cycling and vibrant streets through community-led and professionally designed pilot projects in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec

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The Housing Transportation Food Nexus Fund identifies urban planning policies that support more affordable living when it comes to housing, transportation and food

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Our Projects

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The Connaught Open Street

The Connaught Open Street is a collaborative, community-led project that provides a safer way for kids to get to school.

The Chickadee Challenge

Learn from species around you to design healthier, more sustainable ways of living!

Neighbourhood Streets

A collaboration of the City of Calgary, University of Calgary and Sustainable Calgary: rules of thumb for folks planning neighbourhood streets!

Stepping Towards a Greener Tomorrow

Stepping Towards a Greener Tomorrow takes kids out of the back seat (figuratively and literally) and gets them involved in planning healthy communities.

Destination Marlborough

Anchored by the art installation titled “While We Wait" by Blank Page Studio, Destination Marlborough is rooted in design schemes chosen by the community.

Project: Healthy Places

A publication and conversation series on how policy can promote healthy design.

Co-Design: A 6-step process

Local citizens and professional designers team up to co-create healthier neighbourhoods.

#ReimagineCatwalks

How can existing pathways improve pedestrian networks? Enter Catwalks. Found in 134 communities in YYC, these often neglected spaces connect people to parks, schools and transit.

Anderson-Heritage

Co-designing for the “regional” and “commuter” scales with Acadia, Haysboro, Fairview, Kingsland, Willow Ridge and Southwood.

Manchester

Co-design with the future in mind. How can Manchester meet the needs of local residents and businesses while aiming for a zero-waste, net-zero-energy circular economy?

Pedestrian Collisions Research

Are we designing our communities for health equity? Original research investigates.

Caboodle

Can a parking lot be a park? A market? A concert venue? A shared space? A flood management tool? An oasis from the heat island effect? We think so!

Urban Design Invitational

An annual professional workshop that turns community feedback into design schemes. Step 3 of our co-design process.

Events

A sample of the conversations we love to host!

Acadia Pop Rocks

Prototypes Acadia’s top-voted Design Scheme! Features designed-for-Acadia furniture, espresso, pop-up bookstore, bocce ball, ping pong, board games, arts & crafts, snacks, and simple traffic calming.

Tart Carts

The pre-cursors to pie: planters and seating created with strawberries and rhubarb in mind. Project of O2 Planning + Design and YRK YPK for SustainableYYC and community of Acadia.

The Banquet Table

Everyone’s invited! 26-foot slabs of Douglas Fir are held together by locally welded steel brackets. ‘Made for you with love’ by the bench project and Keith Simmons for the community of Acadia.