In January 2010 Foreign Affairs called urbanization one of the four mega-trends that will change the world. This decade marked the first time in history where a majority of the world's people lived in cities. Cardus is at work discerning the complexity and diversity of our urban social spaces, proposing designs for tomorrow's cities hinged on integration and functional pluralism.
The project has produced a range of studies, publications and events since 2005. These include Living on the Streets, Toronto the Good, an edited volume Think Different - Urban Religious Communities: Problem Solvers or Trouble Makers? and our latest study, Calgary City Soul, launched in October, 2010.
What do we mean? Read about our first principles in Comment:
Dr. David T. Koyzis on, "The Renewal of the City", Senior Fellow Jonathan Chaplin on "Street level Justice: governing metropolitan public space", and Robert Joustra "Knee Deep in Hot Fuzz"
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Calgary's Centre City Plan is designed to provide room and services for 40,000 additional residents in the civic core in the years ahead. If the plan makes no reference to the need for continued growth of the faith institutions in the Centre City, what will flourishing in the future be like?
What would city building look like if stopped defaulting to more, and arranged what we have into new combinations?