Author
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's Latest Articles
Strength in numbers
How a fun group bike ride is helping a city get back to the bicycle
Schoolyards to playgrounds
Unlocking park space by unlocking schoolyard gates
The Underline
Converting unused land under Miami's Metrorail into a linear park
Pavement to plazas
Finding spaces for new public places in one of the world's densest cities









