What makes a community thrive? Is there optimal scale for the neighbourhood, city, and region? What are the new models of governance do we require for managing multiple, competing uses of land, our natural resources, and for maintaining our own vitality? What makes a community not just get by, but GET AHEAD?
The CRC website has a upgraded to a more navigable design to allow users to easily access all the research, news, and projects on sustainable community development. See our new features, especially 'Community News', which highlights sustainable community development projects by partner organizations, colleagues and other groups working on similar issues. We hope you enjoy our new design and we encourage you to explore our work and welcome any comments you have.
Recently submitted to CRC Research, Dockside Green: Insight on the social aspects of the LEED- ‐ND standard community development examines the social aspects of the LEED-ND development in Victoria, BC: Dockside Green. Dockside Green employs innovative, state-of-the-art green development practices to achieve sustainability, and the community is regarded as Victoria's first environmentally sustainable community.
A Vision of Sustainable Community Development captures the ideas and outcomes of the Community Research Connections program and approaches the social sciences of sustainable community development from both an informed and compassionate place. The video explores the dynamic relationship between place, limits, scale and diversity for Canadian communities and discusses the importance of reconciling the built and non-built environment.
Summaries for the case studies of the Meeting Climate Change Challenge (MC3) project are now available. MC3 aims to identify emerging best practices and innovations in community climate change responses, and this is done in part by examining climate change plans of eleven communities within BC. Communities are selected using criteria that ensures best practices from a diverse set of communities are captured within the research.
The most recent video on the our YouTube Channel explores a more experimental method of communicating ideas on density, transportation and sustainable community development. The video uses stop motion clay animation to illustrate the differences between poorly planned urban sprawl and sustainable community planning. Visit the CRC YouTube Channel to see this recent addition to the CRC HEAD Talks video series.
CRC Research has created a new video for the CRC YouTube Channel. This video tells the story of the unsung heroes found below our footsteps and all around us: soil microorganisms.
For those who missed the first of the Robert Bateman Critical Conversations, the conversation is now available for download at the Progress and Growth in the 21st Century webpage. This discussion explored the idea that a functioning, prospering economy does not necessarily need to rely on constant economic growth.
Join us and tune in on Thursday, October 27th (1pm PST or 4pm EST), for the first of our series ofRobert Bateman Critical Conversations, a joint initiative between Robert Bateman Centre and moderated by Royal Roads University's Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development.
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