The urban planners behind the Mid-Centretown Tomorrow blog have an innovative campaign underway to get Centretowners to think about the future of their neighbourhood. The planning team is using social media to crowd-source images and videos of what Centretown means to its residents and what it could be in the future.
Here’s MCT:
Show us with your pictures what local issues are important to you, what places are important to you and should be protected or improved and what is the quality of character that Centretown should be striving for in the future.
To do this we have set up three image banks for you to share your pictures:
Centretown The Good: Send us your pictures of your favourite things in Centretown (buildings, businesses, streets, parks, people). Things that make you love living where you do.
Centretown The Not So Good: Send us your pictures of those aspects of Centretown that you think need the most help. Things that give you some cause for concern.
Centretown Tomorrow: Send us pictures of other places that you think Centretown should be like in the future – think of these as your inspiration for what Centretown could and should be. They can be photos you’ve taken on vacation from other great cities, or they can be photos you’ve seen online or in magazines that you think capture a great ‘urban vibe’ that Centretown should be striving towards. Think of these are the visionary photos.
Video: What is Your Centretown? For the video-savy, we are asking for you to show us in under 2 minutes what is important to you in Centretown. This can be filmed on your phone, on your digital camera or with a video camera. We want to hear you tell us why you think what you are filming is important (as part of your neighbourhood) and should be a priority in the study.
We will be using a selection of your photos on the blog, for display in public forums and potentially as part of the CIP report.
You can send us your photos and videos via email by clicking here.
We’ve clicked around the photos that are already up; they include some real gems like this classic image of a zoning/planning hodgepodge.
Photo by Mike Gifford
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The photo at the top of the article is from 2006 or 2007, as it shows Phase 1 of the Bank Street reconstruction. 2009 was phase 3, Somerset to Arlington.
Thanks for this Charles; we have changed the date.