{"id":53471,"date":"2020-02-03T16:12:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T23:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=53471"},"modified":"2021-02-05T09:30:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T16:30:25","slug":"just-city-ponders-problems-facing-calgary-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2020\/02\/03\/just-city-ponders-problems-facing-calgary-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Just City ponders problems facing Calgary in the future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What makes a Just City: <\/strong>Matt Knapik, centre right, speaks to Dustin Couzens, at right, during question period at the University of Calgary\u2019s Just City panel at the old Central Library on Jan. 15. The panel featured discussions on design, local city planning, income inequality and automation. (Photo by Lou De Asis\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

C<\/span>algary’s architectural and design community is on the hunt for solutions to solve local income inequality, flood mitigation and automation problems.<\/p>\n

M<\/span>ore than 100 people were in the audience for the Just City panel that took place at the former Central Library downtown on Jan. 15.<\/p>\n

The event was part of the Design Matters lecture series<\/a><\/strong>, which was organized by the University of Calgary\u2019s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape.<\/p>\n

It was one of 15 events across Canada held to mark the release of Canadian Modern Architecture – 1967 to the Present<\/em>, which was co-edited by panel moderator Graham Livesey, a professor at the university\u2019s master of architecture program.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe use the launch of the book as a vehicle to drive a local conversation, so today\u2019s event is not really about the book,\u201d Livesey said.<\/p>\n

Three people from the local architectural community participated in the panel.<\/p>\n

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Questions, anyone?<\/strong> Jessie Andjelic answers a question from the audience during the University of Calgary’s Just City panel at the old Central Library on Jan. 15. The panel featured discussions on design, local city planning, income inequality and automation. (Photo by Lou De Asis\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jessie Andjelic is an architect from the SPECTACLE Bureau of Architecture and Urbanism.<\/p>\n

In 2019, she received the Young Architect\u2019s Prize<\/a> <\/strong>from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.<\/p>\n

One issue Andjelic spoke about was Calgary\u2019s income inequality.<\/p>\n

\u201cBryon Miller published a report<\/a> <\/strong>on the change in character and geographical distribution of neighbourhood incomes in Calgary over the last 40 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the report, Calgary\u2019s communities were divided into three different ‘cities’ where income was increasing, stable, or decreasing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey found that Calgary has become the second-most unequal city in Canada after Toronto based on neighbourhood income inequality characteristics,\u201d Andjelic said.<\/p>\n

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City problems on the agenda: <\/strong>More than 100 people were in the audience during the University of Calgary’s Just City panel at the old Central Library on Jan. 15. The panel featured discussions on design, local city planning, income inequality and automation. (Photo by Lou De Asis\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Matt Knapik of O2 Planning and Design brought up another issue that affects planning within Calgary\u2019s borders – the Bow River.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bow River is a wonderful example of a dilemma that we face in the city because it\u2019s one of our greatest assets, and at the same time, it\u2019s one of our most potent threats,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany people have heard about a 100-year flood in Calgary, and I used to think it meant that flooding would come every century or so.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Knapik said the reference is more like odds of having a big flood, and the dice are rolled on those odds every year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe flood we saw in 2013 was somewhere between a 70-year and a 100-year flood depending on where you were along the river.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said there is a five-per-cent chance of a one in a 1,000-year flood event happening in Calgary over the next century.<\/p>\n

The Bow River is a wonderful example of a dilemma that we face in the city because it\u2019s one of our greatest assets, and at the same time, it\u2019s one of our most potent threats. – Matt Knapik<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As for flood mitigation solutions, Knapik said questions surrounding the issue have been asked many times.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been asked how do we build as close to, and as far from the river as possible in private spaces and we\u2019ve looked at flood barriers in Bowness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dustin Couzens from the Modern Office of Design and Architecture expressed his thoughts on how automation and digital fabrication technology are changing the way structures are built.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompanies like Katerra<\/a><\/strong> are the contractor\u2019s response to harnessing digital fabrication, and they\u2019re basically a one-shop stop where they are absorbing architecture firms and engineers,\u201d Couzens said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my mind, they\u2019re just exacerbating the ability to produce more quickly and there doesn\u2019t seem to be any sensibilities in looking at innovation or creativity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Design Matters lecture series will continue until April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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