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Christine McLaren

Christine McLaren is one of Discourse Media’s co-founders. She is a journalist and researcher focusing on the intersection between urban development and environmental and social issues. She has worked with media outlets including Monocle, GOOD, Metropolis, Next City, The Globe and Mail, Xinhua News Agency and MSN. She spent three years travelling around the world as the resident writer of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a mobile urban think tank project of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Christine was lead researcher for the book Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design. She now gives keynotes, conducts workshops and consults with cities and organizations around the world on urban wellbeing.

Christine McLaren

The more we get together, the more (solutions-oriented?) we become

Why a Wichita developer invests in public space before he even invests in a building

Rebooting the ‘burbs of San Jose, one urban village at a time

How Portland’s beloved food carts transform public space and ask, “What’s next?”

Business case: How the public realm and the urban economy go hand in hand

Discourse Media project Moving Forward finalist in international data journalism awards

Schoolyards to playgrounds

Making change: How small actions have big impact

The Underline

Hidden assets: Creating public spaces in unlikely places

Christine McLaren

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