COVID-19 driving change in Canada’s urban centres

To better understand how innovation provides a pathway for cities, we can look to innovations in data, municipal actions, and sector-specific responses. These new ideas are guiding adaptation under uncertainty.

We need to remember that cities are places where innovation is about more than creating shiny new toys. It’s about generating new ideas and implementing new policies and processes, writes Shauna Brail. Pixabay photograph by Bohdan Chreptak

Opinion

BY SHAUNA BRAIL

February 17, 2021

Cities are the economic engines of the country. As such, they are also centres of innovation: places to test out new ideas, spaces to combine new ways of thinking and doing, and sites to advance new technologies. COVID-19 has temporarily turned our urban worlds upside down and has made dense urban l...

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