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Shabnam Rahbar is studying 10 major projects to explore ecological landscaping practices in Quebec. There's eco-construction, eco-ethics, eco-neighbourhoods: ecology seems to be top of mind for planning professionals and researchers.

Living in subsidized housing is associated with significant reductions in housing affordability issues Like many countries, Canada is currently facing a housing affordability crisis.

Urban planner and researcher Juan Torres shares his passion for visionary school design and more inclusive, sustainable communities.

The number of B.C. homes owned by people who live outside of Canada is less than half the number of homes that B.C. residents own abroad.

UdeM geography professor Gabriel Fauveaud travelled to Sihanoukville, Cambodia, to see the social, economic, and physical impact of the Chinese spending spree in the port city.

For Lou Corpuz-Bosshart UBC students built a hempcrete building that is one of the first 'carbon-minimal' institutional buildings in Canada.

Some people have a negative emotional response to the proliferation of condos in the Montreal region - and an UdeM doctoral candidate says we should listen to them.

Fatma Özdogan, an architect and UdeM doctoral candidate, hopes that her research into post-disaster reconstruction will help prevent tragedies like the one that occurred in Turkey, her home country.

A new partnership will bring several First Nations in Saskatchewan together with a team of researchers from the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University to develop new pathways toward housing self-sufficiency.

The Ontario government has introduced sweeping new legislation aimed at building 1.5 million new homes by 2031.

A raft of initiatives over the past 20 years testifies to growing interest in preserving Quebec's bungalows.

As Montreal develops a new urban planning and mobility plan, a participatory action-research project gives teenagers a chance to express their vision of their city and of their role as citizens throu What do young Montrealers think of their neighbourhoods and their city?

A new, low-cost "optofluidic" system designed by University of Toronto researchers - and inspired by marine life like fish, crab and krill - could help buildings save energy by dynamically changing the appearance of their exteriors.

Despite a growing body of research that shows the addition of cycling lanes in a neighbourhood positively correlates with increases in residential property values, the public perception of this value varies dramatically by neighbourhood type.

SSHRC provides funding for Waterloo team to investigate the "missing middle" of residential housing By Three researchers from the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Environment have been awarded fun

It doesn't have a brain and survives on rotting vegetable matter - but it could offer valuable insights into city planning, according to a team of University of Toronto researchers. Physarum polycephalum is a slime mould, a single-celled amoeboid organism that grows as a greenish-yellow system of veins.