{"id":7479,"date":"2011-12-23T09:18:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T14:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=7479"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:20:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:20:40","slug":"cities-as-crucibles-reflections-on-canadas-urban-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/12\/23\/cities-as-crucibles-reflections-on-canadas-urban-future\/","title":{"rendered":"CITIES AS CRUCIBLES: Reflections on Canada\u2019s Urban Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/optimumonline.ca\/images\/frontpage\/art\/volume41_issue1_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/><\/h1>\n<p>By Francois Lapointe<\/p>\n<p>Invenire Books, 2011, softcover, 266 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u201c\u2026\u2019place\u2019 is the dominant feature of civilization.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>-John Ralston Saul<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAcross Canada, people are awakening to urbanism\u2026..Let us commit to rebuild the \u2018city by design\u2019.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>-Larry Beasley<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This new book by urban planner Francois Lapointe is many things: it is a kind of journal of his professional experiences in urbanism; it is a kind of text book on getting cities and their governing structures right; it is a type of call-to-arms; it is most importantly a cogent, comprehensive volume outlining the fundamentals of a Canadian \u2018urban agenda\u2019 and why it must be a collaborative national imperative. Lapointe, currently Vice-President, Capital Planning, for the National Capital Commission, has a broad urbanism background in public and private sectors. His style is not \u201cpreach for on high\u201d; it is personal yet professional.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The book itself is a kind of crucible \u2013 a melting pot of ideas and reflections, of wisdom and challenges. While it is never polemical or provocative, it does form into a kind of manifesto for urban change and for a process to deploy that change. This work reads as an accessible treatise on our complex urban world: it emphasizes dialogue and specific, deliberate, participative action to improve upon our cities and therefore ourselves and our country. Lapointe understands that broader issues like climate change, public debt, citizenship and immigration are part of the necessary global viewpoint from which we must act. He comprehends that sustainable, healthy, resilient communities are the only way forward. Most importantly to the success of this book, Lapointe demonstrates that the discipline of urbanism \u2018wears many hats\u2019 and to be effective must be vision-driven, integrative in collaborative processes, and in synthesizing social, economic, environmental, technological and political components, and in merging local, national, and global concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the main elements of the book blend a wide range of direct drivers for this discourse. For example, in a discussion on the notion of \u201cchange\u201d (a fundamental urban quality), Lapointe examines social, economic, environmental and institutional change and their implications, and then funnels it to urban change and transformative actions at hand including:<\/p>\n<p>-priority of urban design quality improvement;<\/p>\n<p>-preservation of heritage assets;<\/p>\n<p>-intensification, mixed-use and optimizing existing infrastructure;<\/p>\n<p>-key investment areas such as waterfronts;<\/p>\n<p>-sustainability strategies;<\/p>\n<p>-downtown\/inner suburb development\/re-development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, in the chapter on emerging issues, the menu is interlinked to greater effect with interpretations of:<\/p>\n<p>-cities &amp; globalization;<\/p>\n<p>-reconciling short and long term decisions;<\/p>\n<p>-community resources, dialogue and learning;<\/p>\n<p>-fiscal\/financial resources of cities;<\/p>\n<p>-municipal governance;<\/p>\n<p>and each is discussed with specifics that interconnect with the others, which in itself portrays the value of integration and collaboration to find effective solutions. For example the section on municipal governance is detailed with inter-related issues such as inter-governmental collaboration, context-sensitive policy-making, public involvement in change management, consensus-building and conflict resolution, and opening processes to new perspectives, frameworks and roles\/responsibilties to reflect change and increasing interdependence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However the book is not at all a dry tome on ponderous problems. On the contrary, it is generously interspersed with photos &amp; graphic illustrations, key quotes from recent relevant literature, theme viewpoints &amp; vignettes and strategically placed \u2018articles\u2019 on leading practices and case studies that illustrate or extrapolate many concepts in the book. These latter \u201cdescriptive highlights\/bonuses\u201d are excellent. Among my many favourites of these is the piece on Montreal\u2019s Lachine Canal Heritage Rehabilitation. This article succinctly describes this 10+ year waterfront revitalization project and how its success is largely based upon many of the principles and actions championed in the book, through a brief analysis of achievements, limitations and lessons learned. <em>Spacing <\/em>would benefit from more articles like this!\u00a0 Excerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAn increasing number of Canadian cities are espousing heritage conservation and rehabilitation as priorit(ies)\u2026in charting\u2026their (near future) development. However, the legislative and organizational underpinnings to heritage interventions and strategies are often absent, e.g., knowledge base, technical expertise, fiscal and financial incentives, investment capital, creation of partnerships\u2026designation(s) \u2026and protection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeveraging and capitalizing on past investments in\u2026infrastructure\u2026and other built forms\u2026is a critical ingredient to smart\u2026.development of cities\u2026.part\u2026of the balancing and integrating acts involved in\u2026urbanism, between\u2026contradictory forces and factors, e.g, valuing old vs. new; short-term vs. long-term; simple vs. complex; core vs. periphery;\u2026.incremental vs. (quickly) transformative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026a collaborative effort between different levels of government\u2026allowed the project to move forward and\u2026to put in place the necessary conditions to unlock private sector investment and re-investment\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Identifying the problem of a lack of an overall shared urban perspective, Lapointe\u00a0 proposes a challenge to Canadians to rally around a new momentum, a \u201cgrand-projet\u201d for cities that suits the urban nation we are (after all, why is it too much to ask for a citizen-centered collaborative common vision for making Canadian cities great? \u2026we did it with hockey; can we do it with urban design?).\u00a0 Lapointe\u00a0 sets out his proposed steps toward the implementation of the vision, based on described values and synergies. He suggests any action plan must be grounded in the full range of driver types: issues, principles, realities and priorities. He then well-defines his proposed \u201cfive themes for an urban agenda\u201d:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Connections<\/li>\n<li>Resources<\/li>\n<li>Generations<\/li>\n<li>Collaboration<\/li>\n<li>Institutions<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Each of these themes is then well-articulated in distinct chapters \u2013 the well-considered core of the book, really. A proposal for growing a broad-based appreciation and commitment to a common urbanism mission is put forward and it is all \u201cpulled together\u201d with a call for transformation in how cities are perceived and approached in Canada, including in all processes, policies and actions. Even this proposed transformation is carefully plotted out in a dense agenda for change.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it may be a bit too dense. Although the book\u2019s carefully controlled structure and introductory \u201chow to use\u201d section mitigate this issue, there are moments, especially in the final chapters, when the reader can get slightly overwhelmed by the plethora of facts, figures and the colourful quilt-weave of ideas and postulations, especially for a book that nobly sets out to have very broad appeal, beyond professionals and academics.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, most Canadian urban enthusiasts will deliciously enjoy <em>Cities as Crucibles.<\/em> This is an important book that intelligently weaves together the many urbanism complexities in terms of both understanding the challenges and in terms of a workable, positive and well-founded \u2018action plan\u2019 to re-position, revitalize and re-create Canadian cities over the next decades, despite the many obstacles and disparate voices in the mix.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<em><strong>Mark Thompson Brandt is Senior Conservation Architect &amp; Urbanist with MTBA Associates, Ottawa.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Francois Lapointe Invenire Books, 2011, softcover, 266 pages \u00a0\u201c\u2026\u2019place\u2019 is the dominant feature of civilization.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -John Ralston Saul \u201cAcross Canada, people are awakening to urbanism\u2026..Let us commit to rebuild the \u2018city by design\u2019.\u201d\u00a0 -Larry Beasley This new book by urban planner Francois Lapointe is many things: it is a kind of journal of his<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/12\/23\/cities-as-crucibles-reflections-on-canadas-urban-future\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;CITIES AS CRUCIBLES: Reflections on Canada\u2019s Urban Future&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5302],"tags":[687,4344,1650,4339,4340,3059,4338,4345,729,4337,727,394,538,4342,674,4343,4341],"class_list":["post-7479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-canada","tag-capital-planning","tag-driver","tag-francois-lapointe","tag-john-ralston-saul","tag-larry-beasley","tag-mark-thompson-brandt","tag-mixed-use-and-optimizing-existing-infrastructure","tag-montreal","tag-mtba-associates","tag-national-capital-commission","tag-ottawa","tag-reviews","tag-senior-conservation-architect","tag-urban-planner","tag-vice-president","tag-vs-complex"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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