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Gil Kelley, Cities can lead change

Gil Kelley is the General Manager of Planning, Urban Design and Sustainability at City of Vancouver. B.C. Canada. He is an internationally-recognized urban strategist and visionary and have served as chief planner for several West Coast cities in America as well as an independent advisor to cities and governments across the globe.

FILMED IN AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND, 2018

EGA-TALKS is produced by Erik Giudice Architects: interviews with experts in the field of architecture, urbanism and related areas. EGA Talks is part of EGAs ongoing cross disciplinary research aiming to envision a sustainable future

I think that it’s it’s an important moment for cities. It’s a good moment and unique moment, in the history of the world.

In some ways we need to go back and remember that urbanization was a phenomenon that led to a lot of cultural advancement, both in terms of knowledge in the arts but also in terms of technological advancement.

We’ve been through a period where national governments have ascended to be the main unit of governance in the world. But I think now, we need to look to cities to be the leaders and the people really advancing change.

There’s no more critical change right now that needs to be addressed than climate change. Reducing our carbon footprint globally. As many of us know

Cities are leading the way in those kinds of solutions. I think going beyond just the superficial, the moment calls for us to think differently about cities. We’re breaking down all the constituent parts of what it means to be an urban environment and we put them back together again in a new way.

For me a couple of the guiding principles in doing that work are: Health, what does it mean to have a healthy population? Both physically, emotionally and spiritually.

What does it mean to have an earth that can be sustained? Bio-systems that can be sustained. We’re way past the notion that cities are where the hardscape is, we are where all the people are and nature is outside the city and that will be good enough. We know that we have to have a very different conception of what it is to be an urban dweller.

The notion of sustainability, health and long-term economic productivity. Goes to reconceiving the city as a place that has living systems in it.

There’s plenty of green. It has social gathering spaces. Mixes up the uses that we often separate. In the sort of mono-functional districts. An office district, residential district to an entertainment district. We should begin to really break the scale of those down and mix them up all together.

I think some of the technological advances are going to be helping us in that regard. Whether it has to do with the accessibility to all things via the internet.

Whether it has to do with potentially non fuel based autonomous vehicles that can do the short pieces. Investment in newer transport technologies. These kinds of things I think will enable a new kind of city-making, that we’ve been able to have in the past.

As we invent new solutions for deriving energy from clean sources, in fact just reducing the demand for energy in all of our buildings. In our transport system even in our manufacturing systems. I think all those things will be building one upon the other.

We’ll see a big acceleration from what we’ve seen before and the cost of those improvements will come down. The unit cost will come down.

It does mean being open and rethinking the way we live and work. A lot of that is just asking ourselves,

How do we want to live and work? How much do we care about the planet and the survivability of our culture for two three four more generations to come?

Because I think there’s no question that there is a threat, to the next generation from climate change.

Vancouver has done a fairly remarkable job for a city of its size. To really prioritize reducing the carbon footprint of the city.

It’s a moderately sized city, about 650,000 people. Roughly two and a half million in the metro area. It inherited a spectacular physical setting. Mountains, sea, dramatic landscape, pinned in by mountains and by an agricultural land preserve.

So spaces are scares and Vancouver has had to build in and not out. Build up. Along the way turned it’s environmentally ethos into aspects of city building. That are proven to be quite dramatic, in terms of environmental benefits.

We like to call ourselves the greenest city. I think we have tried to borrow lessons from European cities and others. Around everything from district energy to passive house design, robust electrical transport system. Banning certain materials and products etc.

We try to put as many of those best practices together as we’re can. Using the city organization as a corporate entity first to try out all these practices on ourselves and then ultimately encouraging them and require those of the community and the private sector.

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Herzog & de Meuron Reveals Renderings for New Vancouver Art Gallery

Herzog & de Meuron Reveals Renderings for New Vancouver Art Gallery

Stacked spaces for the new Vancouver Art Gallery. (Courtesy Herzog de Meuron)

After years of planning, the Vancouver Art Gallery revealed renderings for its new home by Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron this Tuesday. The conceptual design is a striking departure for a city of tall, slim towers, but an ongoing motif for the firm.  (more…)

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I live very close to the beach in Vancouver, and I go swimming in the morning. Just yesterday at 7:30, 8 in the morning, I'm walking down the street and this stranger comes up to me. [She said,] "I want you to know I'm from Washington, DC, and I think Arena Stage is just fabulous." I have no idea who she was, or how she knew who I was; I'm in Vancouver and she's in Washington. But that made my day. Those are the little moments that really make working in the arts so fulfilling, because you touch people. You've genuinely touched their heart, changed their life. That's all you can ask for. It's a great feeling to know you've made a difference in people's lives. That's what art is about

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