Community has a vital role to play when emergencies arise: to enable transition from what was to what could be.
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When busy rescuing others or looking for others to rescue us, we miss the opportunity to renew ourselves.
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Rescue embodies resilience only when the rescuer takes action the rescued can’t do for themselves (and wants).
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Six ideas and eight suggestions to improve a community’s ability to be proactive, responsive and response-ABLE as the scales of emergencies grow.
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I had an “allergic reaction” this summer to some language people around me are using to invite climate action: “be a first responder.” And so, I sit and write as a means to scratch the itch. What I found: As the scale of emergency grows, the ability of community to be proactive, responsive and response-ABLE becomes imperative.
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6 questions to ask at any time in your career, in Beth’s address delivered to the Master of City Planning graduates at the University of Manitoba, June 2021.
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Nest City serves as a fascinating study of how cities and their citizens work together to serve each other, how they are responsible for each other, how they grow together and how, with shared understanding, they together can create something extraordinary.
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The new diagrams we use to describe our economic, social and ecological worlds reveal connections and understanding.
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Let’s release the binary ways we define city planning practice and grow our relationship skills (for the official and unofficial planners out there)
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Nine practices to see, acknowledge and respond to our uneasy world.
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As Mother’s Day approaches, I want to be more aware of how my behaviour erodes the growth of younger people in my life, especially when I am feeling challenged, hurt, or left behind.
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I put this question to Alberta's big city mayors Don Iveson and Naheed Nenshi, last week: What do you now know about your city that you didn’t know before you were mayor?
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Protection feeds my fear of other humans. Being neighbourly feeds my desire to connect with other humans
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In my quest to figure out how planners and everyone else in the city can work better together, I’ve learned the magic of finding the minimal critical structure that enables new possibilities.
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Improving our cities requires us to be in a better relationship with ourselves: our intentions, actions, and the consequences of our actions.
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The implementation of Edmonton's city plan requres a culture change--inside and outside city hall. And it all hinges on how we handle accountabilty and shame.
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I am part of the culture that propagates this old story: we settler people are better than Indigenous people.
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How a speaking engagement shifted from “city building for women” to “city making and women.”
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Should you cast your vote based on who your city government needs to be, or who you want them to be?
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The quality of how we listen may leave others deflated—supported.
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