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Applying a Decolonized Approach as the Foundation to Creating Accessible Smart City Design

A starting point to challenge and empower individuals to consider their own decolonial journey.

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New Shared Mobility Solutions: A Practitioner’s Toolkit

The first in a suite of toolkits under the theme of Reimagining Public Spaces

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Future Fix: Experiments in Mobility

We're back with Season 3 of the podcast the Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada

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Unlocking Our Urban Futures: A Practical Toolkit for Infrastructure Planning

As Canadian cities and communities respond to calls to “build back better” in a post-COVID-19 era, this is an opportune time to think differen…

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Video: Welcome to the Community Solutions Portal

In this short video we introduce our solutions-based podcast the Future Fix and how we develop toolkits for communities

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The idea incubator: everything you need to know about the Northern Ideas Developme…

Got a great idea for solving a supply chain issue that impacts housing in Canada's northern and remote regions?

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The Future Fix is your new favourite podcast. Here’s why.

Community-centric content that is innovative, topical and even… optimistic? Meet the people behind the episodes.

Podcast

The Future Fix: Smart Farms for Northern Communities

The Future Fix is a collaboration between Evergreen and Spacing for the Community Solutions Network.

Story

Smart Cities Glossary

Across Canada, communities are embracing smart city technology to improve the lives of their residents.

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Partnering for Success with Community Broadband

Partnering for Success with Community Broadband is the third instalment of this suite of toolkits designed to support small communities across…

Toolkit

Ontario Affordable Housing Calculator

Introducing the Ontario Affordable Housing Calculator - a tool built to inspire and support emerging affordable housing developments and polic…

Report

Building Our Urban Futures: Inside Canada’s Infrastructure and Real Estate Needs

The time has come to massively invest in Canada's infrastructure. Canada’s historical underinvestment in infrastructure has reached a critical…

Research Brief

Creating Civic Value in Open Smart Communities

This white paper was produced for the Community Solutions Network, a program of Future Cities Canada led by Evergreen and lead technical partn…

Resources and tools

Recently added

Applying a Decolonized Approach as the Foundation to Creating Accessible Smart City Design

New Shared Mobility Solutions: A Practitioner’s Toolkit

Future Fix: Experiments in Mobility

Unlocking Our Urban Futures: A Practical Toolkit for Infrastructure Planning

Video: Welcome to the Community Solutions Portal

The idea incubator: everything you need to know about the Northern Ideas Developme…

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Civic-Indigenous Placekeeping and Partnership Building Toolkit

Getting Started with Community Broadband

Parks and Open Spaces: Challenges and Opportunities of Smart Technologies

The Key Role Supportive Housing Plays in Canada’s Housing Supply

Advancing Community Resilience through Smart Approaches: A Resource for Canadian C…

Placekeeping, righting relationships and an Indigenous reimagining of cities

Financing Community Broadband

Members favourites

The Future Fix is your new favourite podcast. Here’s why.

The Future Fix: Smart Farms for Northern Communities

Smart Cities Glossary

Partnering for Success with Community Broadband

Ontario Affordable Housing Calculator

Building Our Urban Futures: Inside Canada’s Infrastructure and Real Estate Needs

Creating Civic Value in Open Smart Communities