My brother, David Dunstan, who has died aged 77, was an architect, community fundraiser, yachtsman and prolific watercolourist.
Jay Michael is a Lifestyle Architect, Community Developer, Bravolebrity, World Wanderer and a newly appointed Warrior against stage 4 cancer.
Although Burlington is a reasonably-sized city, the architect community is fairly close knit.
Planners and architects, community workers and engineers, councillors and citizens acknowledge the links between physical, economic and social regeneration.
As a system in and of itself, an architecting tool can be subject to betterments, adjustments, and improvements, which add to its usefulness for the architecting community.
I also participated in a New America event "Architecting Community" with a range of scholars, artists, and sociologists.
But with the emergence of concerns about regional sprawl, a movement involving planners, architects, community activists, and many businesses has emerged to challenge negative perceptions of density.
But many urban planners, architects, community leaders and developers say the downturn may have a silver lining, providing an opportunity for the city to rethink and reconfigure sweeping proposals many of them had doubts about all along.
The seasonal flurry of nacimientos in first-generation Mexican-American neighborhoods represents "a redefinition of urban space" to James T. Rojas, an urban planner and co-chairman of the Latino Urban Forum, a volunteer group of architects, community members and planners.
At Barnard College, he organized symposia including "Rights of Way" in 2009, and "Moving Toward Utopia" in 2010, at which invited planners, architects, community advocates and public officials examined bikeways and other changes to the public realm in the NYC.
The workshops have been orchestrated by a handful of dedicated city planning department employees and volunteers from the local Urban Design Advisory Coalition, guided by Charles Zucker of the national American Institute of Architects' community assistance program.
