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2019: A Photo Retrospective

Like an Annual Report, attention span not required. Check out what we’ve been up to in projects and photos!

Projects

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Photos

ActivateYYC2.0 with Marlborough Elementary.

ActivateYYC2.0, Scarboro.

ActivateYYC2.0 with Marlborough Elementary.

Launching ActivateYYC2.0! With the Federation of Calgary Communities, City of Calgary and Calgary Foundation. The theme? “Catwalks, shortcuts, mazes and mews.”

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ActivateYYC2.0, Marlborough Elementary.

ActivateYYC2.0, Marlborough Elementary.

Marlborough brings attention to Catwalks Crossings.

ActivateYYC2.0, Mount Pleasant.

ActivateYYC2.0, Houndsfield Heights Briar Hill, with Mackenzie Johnson from the Federation of Calgary Communities.

ActivateYYC2.0, Coventry.

ActivateYYC2.0, Houndsfield Heights Briar Hill.

Bob Edwards Junior High Diversity Conference, March 2019. Srimal and Katie ask students to mark on a Marlborough map places they like to be (green and places they felt unsafe/ unwelcome.

ActivateYYC2.0 in Brentwood.

Mackenzie Johnson of the Federation of Calgary Communities works with Houndsfield Heights on ActivateYYC2.0.

Leticia and Noel at the Mayor’s Urban Design Awards. Congratulations Leticia!

Taylor at the Mayor’s Urban Design Awards. Congratulations Taylor!

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Roxanne LeBlanc, champion of public health and plain language. Master connector.

The Calgary Foundations’s Pitch Night, with the Calgary Climate Hub.

We met with our Toronto- and Montreal-based partners, plus 3 more potential partners, in Quebec City.

We made this map with summaries of policies across Canada promoting active travel and healthy places. Check it out here!

The picture goes back to 2017, but Ali Zaidi continues to be awesome today, on things like our Marlborough Surprise!! More to come.

The Complete Streets Game, made by our colleagues at TCAT, sold out at Pages Books!

Jessie of the Spectacle Bureau.

Phil of the Spectacle Bureau.

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Design Schemes for the Anderson-Heritage Coalition, by Spectacle Bureau for Architecture and Urbanism.

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2019 Urban Design Invitational: Manchester edition.

Volunteer photographer extraordinaire, John Campbell.

Marda Loop Climate Conversations. We chaired a table on urban design and climate.

Climate Conversations with the Calgary Alliance for the Common Good.

2019 Healthy Places. Building on our publication, we ask experts in their fields what targeted actions we can take to move healthy places policy forward in Alberta. Photo by John Campbell

2019 Healthy Places. Photo by John Campbell.

2019 Healthy Places. Photo by John Campbell

Photo by John Campbell

We created the Healthy Places Policy Toolkit with our ANC Partners. Check it out here!

Amy Stevens, volunteer!

We partnered with Juliana Morar of Northernland Studios on the Caboodle for the d.talks “Movement: Call for Ideas.” And we won the Tactical Award! Part of our Sustainable Calgary’s contribution to this work was to share data and what communities w

d.talks released a beautiful publication on the work produced for Movement.

This is Juliana. :D

Our Healthy Places Policy Toolkit was launched this year. Check it out here!

Manchester Master Plan, incorporating themes of circular economy, at the new Central Library. By Spectacle Bureau of Architecture and Urbanism.

Alfred re-imagined the Franklin LRT station (designs coming soon!) and is working on an upcoming space activation in Marlborough.

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Dr. Victoria Fast has researched and advised on research critical to ANC this year, including analysis of Calgary’s density (found to be “patchy”) and analysis of the relationship between collisions and neighbourhood income.

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Fabian Neuhaus of SAPL collaborated with Sustainable Calgary this year, by focusing student work on ANC communities. He explored the “Island” effect in Calgary - in which neighbourhoods tend to be isolated from one another - and adaptive ways that e

They made a huge model that can connect to the Manchester model made by Phil and Jessie of Spectacle Bureau.

Mike comes back to Calgary for a visit! He tells us about his work developing wallboard made from sewage, and showing it to the King of the Netherlands, who, would you believe it, is growing a beard.

Anderson-Heritage Design Schemes at the new Central Library!

The 2019 Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals Conference.

In 2019, we launched our Co-Designing the Active City webinar series.

2019 Winter Cycling Congress. Celia got to do a sweet mobile tour with Jen Malzer of Liveable Streets: Measuring space: giving a voice to quiet stake-holders for big impacts. Read more about it in  this Pathways for People blog!

Concepts from our 2015 Urban Design Invitational in Bridgeland were taken on by the Bridgeland-Riverside Community Association, University of Calgary and City of Calgary with awesome results!

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