/channels/taxonomy/term/14027/all en /channels/channels/news/15-minute-city-might-not-be-realistic-north-america-researchers-find-357769 <p>In the “15-minute city,” a concept popularized in Europe, everything a resident might need on a daily basis is a short walk or bicycle ride away. A study by Transportation Research at ƽ���岻�� (TRAM) suggests, however, that this model may not be easily achieved in large North American cities such as Montreal.</p> Fri, 21 Jun 2024 13:37:22 +0000 webfull 200585 at /channels /channels/channels/event/sedtalk-grad-kick-information-session-351391 <h2>Date: October 11 2023 | Time: 5:30 pm | Location: ƽ���岻�� Engine</h2> Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:44:15 +0000 webfull 193233 at /channels /channels/channels/news/expert-montrealers-65-and-can-ride-public-transit-free-starting-july-348851 <p>Public transit in Montreal will soon be free for people age 65 and over. Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante made the announcement on Twitter on Wednesday. The measure is expected to be included in the city's 2023 budget, set to be released next week. (<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-free-public-transit-65-and-up-1.6815681" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">CBC</a>) </p> <p>Here is an expert from ƽ���岻�� who can comment on this topic:  </p> Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:42:20 +0000 webfull 190289 at /channels /channels/channels/event/walking-tour-exploring-champ-des-possibles-and-its-milieu-339258 <p>As part of the 14<sup>th</sup> edition of the <a href="https://www.ecologieurbaine.net/fr/">Montréal Urban Ecology Centre</a>’s <i>Jane’s Walk</i>, the <a href="http://mcgill.ca/centre-montreal">Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montréal (C</a></p> Tue, 26 Apr 2022 16:52:11 +0000 webfull 179784 at /channels /channels/channels/news/expert-affordable-housing-crisis-quebec-330779 <p>Premier François Legault says he recognizes there is a shortage of affordable housing in Quebec but says his comments that a person can rent an apartment in Montreal for between $500-$600 a month have been misinterpreted. A survey published by <i>La Presse</i> last weekend revealed the average price of a Montreal apartment is about $907 a month and often these units are in terrible shape. (<a href="https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/roasted-for-comments-on-housing-legault-denies-being-out-of-touch-with-low-income-quebecers" target="_blank">Montreal Gazette</a>)</p> Mon, 03 May 2021 14:18:19 +0000 webfull 170283 at /channels /channels/channels/event/webinar-northern-city-times-pandemic-328617 <p>How do you deal with a pandemic in deep winter in urban contexts? Given that the virus calls for everyone's adaptability, how are northern cities accounting for vulnerable populations in their fight against the virus?</p> Tue, 16 Feb 2021 02:42:44 +0000 webfull 167926 at /channels /channels/channels/news/globe-and-mail-covid-19-pandemic-prompts-urbanites-rethink-grand-bargain-dense-city-living-322099 <p>The current pandemic will change cities, experts predict, the way infectious disease outbreaks influenced the development of urban centres in decades past. ƽ���岻�� urban planning professor <strong>David Wachsmuth</strong> said cities have historically gone through cycles of densification and what he called “spaceification” — for example, after the Second World War when the federal government encouraged people to move from city centres to the “healthier” suburbs.</p> Mon, 11 May 2020 13:49:03 +0000 webfull 160617 at /channels /channels/channels/event/cities-and-psychosis-1-credit-course-open-graduate-students-293469 <p>How do the millions of people you never meet in the city put you at greater risk of psychosis? And does the built environment shape the social structure of the city in ways that impinge on illness?</p> Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:14:59 +0000 webfull 145184 at /channels /channels/channels/news/survey-location-work-activities-290443 <h3>Where does work take place?</h3> <p>Economists, planners and city managers rely on the assumption that it takes place in offices and other buildings dedicated to economic activity, and in neighbourhoods likewise dedicated to economic activity. However, many people in the laborforce move around and much of their work can now occur in cafés, at home, in restaurants or in co-working spaces: but we still know very little about what types of work activity take place where, and about how workers feel about these new work arrangements.</p> Mon, 08 Oct 2018 19:55:46 +0000 webfull 141787 at /channels /channels/channels/news/high-cost-short-term-rentals-new-york-city-284310 <div>A <a href="//mcgill.ca/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/attach/airbnb-report.pdf">new report</a> from ƽ���岻�� Urban Planning professor <a href="/urbanplanning/people-0/wachsmuth">David Wachsmuth</a> and his team provides an analysis of Airbnb activity in New York City and the surrounding region in the last three years (September 2014 - August 2017). Relying on new methodologies to analyze big data, here are <span>some of the findings:</span></div> <div> </div> Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:15:15 +0000 webfull 134584 at /channels /channels/channels/news/imagining-cities-future-through-better-understanding-montreal-today-282750 <p>Montreal, with its multilingual, multiethnic population, is an ideal living laboratory for researchers and students from the city’s four universities and many specialized research centres. How can Montreal be designed to better accommodate the needs of its children? What measures need to be put in place to accommodate people of different cultures and religions living in close proximity? How is the city’s nighttime economy different from that of the daytime and what are the implications?</p> Fri, 17 Nov 2017 13:19:29 +0000 webfull 132772 at /channels /channels/event/hacktaville-fran%C3%A7ais-43 <p><em>Des applications pour des villes intelligentes, en santé et durables.</em></p> Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:00:41 +0000 webfull 85763 at /channels /channels/event/lecture-lorena-zarate-255664 <h3>The Right to the City: Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda</h3> <p>Lorena Zárate, President of Habitat International Coalition (HIC)</p> <p><img src="/urbanplanning/files/urbanplanning/zarate_oct6_poster.jpg" /></p> Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:43:04 +0000 webfull 112820 at /channels /channels/event/urban-studies-mcgill-seminar-series-254896 <h3>"Sex and the City": Why Gender in Urban Planning?</h3> <p>Presenter: <span>Jennifer Robert-Colomby</span></p> <p><a href="http://www.femmesetvilles.org/index.php/en/"><span>Women in Cities International</span></a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:31:27 +0000 webfull 112056 at /channels /channels/news/mcgill-expert-variable-speed-limits-qc-237686 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:52:04 +0000 webfull 103727 at /channels