Urban advocacy is all about communities. Sure, we may be nerds hyper-focused on technicalities of building codes and road widths, but all of that serves the goal of enabling thriving communities in our cities. One of the most important markers of thriving communities is their dedication to the local arts and culture scenes. This postContinueContinue reading “Stories as advocacy”
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Policy Changes by the City of St. John’s for Climate Action
As part of the Paris Agreement, Canada committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Achieving that goal will require deep emission reductions across all sectors. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has identified the importance of urban systems in delivering these reductions via ‘land use planning to achieve compact urban form, co-location of jobsContinueContinue reading “Policy Changes by the City of St. John’s for Climate Action”
Our very wide streets
Our streets are wide. This shouldn’t be a revelation to most people. St. John’s lacks many of the truly horrendous ‘stroads’ of the rest of North America, but that doesn’t mean we have the narrow quaint roads of historical Paris or Rome. Take Terra Nova Road between Stamps and Crosbie, for example. This ‘one laneContinueContinue reading “Our very wide streets”
St. John’s downtown: 1948 to 2024
This is a simple post: Below is a comparison from an aerial composite plate of St. John’s in 1948 to modern aerial imagery from 2024. We can use several tools to warp and bend an image to align it to our current cm accurate modern aerial imagery. Without getting overly technical, aligning the images involvesContinueContinue reading “St. John’s downtown: 1948 to 2024”
St. John’s Housing Accelerator Fund: Impact Analysis and Recommendations
The City of St John’s will be receiving 10.4 million in federal funding through the housing accelerator fund to stimulate housing growth. This will be done by a rapid initiative to have a text amendment to the city of St. John’s development regulations. The proposed changes offer some gentle density increases on existing zones; howeverContinueContinue reading “St. John’s Housing Accelerator Fund: Impact Analysis and Recommendations”
Affordability Maps: How to solve a problem
There’s a housing crisis, if you haven’t heard. It’s hard to miss with all of the news publications on the topic and outrage from people on social media who are, rightfully, voicing their concerns that Canadian cities are simply becoming unaffordable for the average person. But how do you solve that problem? ‘Build more houses!’,ContinueContinue reading “Affordability Maps: How to solve a problem”
St. John’s Metro Mobility Infrastructure V0.8
It has been a long road with many volunteer hours but we are finally happy to announce our first regional mapping project launch. First, we need to note a few things (scroll down and just start clicking links if you want). Firstly what are we doing at Streets are for People? Our goal is toContinueContinue reading “St. John’s Metro Mobility Infrastructure V0.8”
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