“Cities are places of opportunity and cohesion, and people want to live there. Yet our planning and politics make this far too difficult. The COVID-19 pandemic is the moment to change that.” My piece @globeandmail: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… 1/
Cities aren’t dead. More of us should live there. 2/ 
Our society has experienced dramatic demographic changes, and planning policy isn’t catching up. 3/
In most places, apartment buildings are banned. 4/
Planning has shaped segregation by income, segregation by race, and the very health of our fellow citizens. 5/
Some progressive thinking from @PlanEdmonton: 6/
Our current system does not, as some think, “protect” people’s neighbourhoods. It “protects” rich people’s neighbourhoods and pushes development elsewhere. This should be reversed. 7/
One final note (cc #housingtwitter): the argument that the development industry is running wild, building “a lot” of housing, etc, is often not supported by data. 8/
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