Ali Sabourin

Civil servant ❤️ for #innovation #sustainability #wellbeing #positivepsychology #culture #art #food #nature #SDGs #transit #walkability #cities4all. My Views.

[City of Hamilton @cityofhamilton]

The Province plans to move forward with Greenbelt land development in #HamOnt, despite the City's objections. The Province has requested the City’s input on our priorities for these lands. The City wants your feedback to help support discussions with the Province. (1/2)

[Ali Sabourin @AliSabou]

@mcosynheath Lol - true that - mañana!

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved transit, not only did it transform the city’s public life & economic success, but the traffic got better.

The traffic got BETTER.

[Edgar McGregor @edgarrmcgregor]

1. New York, 2023
2. San Francisco, 2020
3. Los Angeles, 2020
4. Sydney, 2019

In the past 4 years alone, each city has experienced it's worst day of wildfire smoke in recorded history.

The Earth is on fire. Our negligence is killing our planet. We must change our ways.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Due to hundreds of uncontrolled wildfires across Canada, New York City looks like a post-apocalyptic hellscape.

If you want a prelude of what the world is going to look like if we do not address man-made climate change — this is it.

#ActOnClimate

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Bosses who insult and intimidate don't get results. They leave people scarred.

Data: when NBA players have abusive coaches, they play more poorly for the rest of their careers—and commit more technical fouls.

Weak leaders make people weaker. Strong leaders make people stronger.

[CBC News @CBCNews]

According to research from the University of Calgary, there are 3.2 to 4.4 parking spots for every vehicle in Canada. Is it time for that to change? https://t.co/SmMnM8NusZ

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

People intrinsically seek joy. And joy connects people more powerfully than almost any other human experience. https://t.co/okxfmyktv2

[Daniel Moser @_dmoser]

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it's where the rich use public transport.”

[Building Culture @Build_Culture]

The meme going around w/ these pics was: “30 people getting coffee", which is catchy.

But one of my primary concerns w/ endless sprawl is it makes drive throughs the only economically viable biz option for low margin goods, and thereby reduces everything to a purely economic/consumerist transaction (rather than loose neighborly interactions AND a coffee), plus makes the barrier to entry so high for small businesses, and the risk of failure so great, that National franchises thrive and locals never get a shot—the very people who make up our cities are reduced to consumers rather than citizens, creators, and members of coherent communities without a choice.

It’s one thing off a highway to serve people in transit and moving between places. It’s another when we load our local communities with them. We keep doing things that make even casual interactions within a community/neighborhood incredibly difficult and rare. Those casual interactions act like glue; they are what make a community feel like a community. What happens when you get rid of all the glue?

[Ali Sabourin @AliSabou]

Join #HSR on Thursday, May 11 at the David Braley Health Sciences Centre – 100 Main St. West #HamOnt to learn about HSR’s proposed bus Network (re)Design. Register for free or drop in at <https://t.co/BQBpaFnxhj> More info at
https://t.co/OsS0IWsy84<https://t.co/OsS0IWsy84>

[B&S @_B___S]

A pelican befriended a stray dog who was often spotted hanging out all alone along the boat docks. The man who photographed this has adopted him but brings him back every day to see his friend, Petey the Pelican.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10%, then the amount of driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Via @WIRED https://t.co/mZbJ0vNhsH

[Daniel Moser @_dmoser]

Be glad for the realities we have avoided.

[Strong Towns @StrongTowns]

Streets designed for people walking and biking build more wealth than those designed for cars driving through — and it’s not even close. Let's focus on building places worth spending time in.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” https://t.co/EH3reri9lz

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

What would you choose? One has zero wildlife benefits and a high carbon footprint. The other boosts biodiversity – from butterflies, frogs and bees to mammals, bats and birds.
More: https://t.co/gIBa3vSTJD
#nature

[Ken Greenberg @KGreenbergTO]

Two 52 year old buildings of major heritage significance, one by Eberhard Zeidler the other by Raymond Moriyama. The Minister says one has to be demolished because it can't be renewed while the other (same age) can be to become the relocated Science Centre. Where is the evidence?

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

It’s still a BIG problem that because of car manufacturing influence, most media & political energy goes to EVs, with not NEARLY enough going to fewer cars/less driving. But the priority HAS to be the latter, the part of the solution that will actually do much more public good.

[Daniel Moser @_dmoser]

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