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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's Latest Articles

Building a better block — overnight
Strength in numbers

How a fun group bike ride is helping a city get back to the bicycle

Creating public places for health and cohesion by opening streets for everyone
Making change: How small actions have big impact
How Saint Paul turns an everyday maintenance regime into public art
Schoolyards to playgrounds

Unlocking park space by unlocking schoolyard gates

The Underline

Converting unused land under Miami's Metrorail into a linear park

How Vancouverites are finding room for more rental housing, right in their backyards
Hidden assets: Creating public spaces in unlikely places
Pavement to plazas

Finding spaces for new public places in one of the world's densest cities