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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

Strength in numbers

Creating public places for health and cohesion by opening streets for everyone

How Saint Paul turns an everyday maintenance regime into public art

Schoolyards to playgrounds

Making change: How small actions have big impact

The Underline

Hidden assets: Creating public spaces in unlikely places

How Vancouverites are finding room for more rental housing, right in their backyards

Network connections: Getting where we need to go

Pavement to plazas

Christine McLaren

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