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  TORONTO -- When lockdowns close off public sports spaces such as basketball courts and soccer fields, they disproportionately affect lower-income and racialized families in dense cities, land-use experts say. Earlier this month, public health experts decried Ontario’s lockdown moves targeting outdoor spaces, saying they’re some of the least likely places to contract COVID-19. And public spaces and land-use experts say it’s hard not to see disproportionate effects of these measures playing out along socioeconomic and racial lines. “I think that we need to be very dem...

“People ask, what word would you use to describe yourself — is it urbanist, is it planner, is it transportation person?” says Butler. “I think the thing for so many of us Black folks is that I don’t know how to describe the lane or space we’re in, but whatever it is, it’s dope as hell and everybody is trying to get in.” “You know why there isn’t a word for it?” replies Pitter. “Because we’re creating it in real time. It is so innovative. It’s so rich and textured and soulful. It defies a certain kind of language. It’s kinetic and rhythmic.”

City planning experts at the recent Bloomberg CityLab conference questioned the notion of the “15-minute city” concept, warning it should not take the place of community engagement when designing streets and public spaces.

The Pitfalls of the 15-Minute City The concept, touted as "hyper-local," can fail to take into account local conditions and historical inequities in American cities. March 8, 2021, 11am PST | Diana Ionescu | The concept of the "15-minute city" has been adopted as an aspirational buzzword by city leaders across the United States, but "there are dangers of applying a model conceived in Europe to many North American cities," writes Feargus O'Sullivan for Bloomberg CityLab. Urban designer Jay Pitter calls transplanting the idea potentially "presumptive and colonial," arguing that "it doesn't...

iPolitics By Kady O'Malley. Published on Feb 9, 2021 6:01am Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will hold a media availability later this morning. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics) As questions continue to swirl about the overseas shipping delays hobbling Canada’s cross-country vaccine rollout — which, as the Star revealed yesterday, may be due in part to a slowdown in the European supply chain — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has once again scheduled a mid-morning media availability outside Rideau Cottage. As has become a biweekly routine, he’ll deliver an on-camera update of his governm...