City Builders: Ken Greenberg
Toronto-based urban designer Ken Greenberg is a former Director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City of Toronto, and Principal of Greenberg Consultants Inc. In a career spanning more than four decades, he has played pivotal roles on projects including Brooklyn Bridge Park on Brooklyn?s East River shoreline, the Vancouver Downtown View Corridor Study, the Rose Kennedy Greenway District study in Boston, and Master Plan for the Grand Parade in Halifax. His projects relating to the rejuvenation of Toronto?s downtown, waterfront, and neighbourhoods include Harbourfront Centre, Regent Park?s in-progress redevelopment, and The Bentway.
CA: As a society, what?s our most urgent urban design need in 2018"
Greenberg: It is a multi-headed challenge: to reimagine the city in the throes of a major multi-layered transformation, driven by a profound shift from the auto-driven paradigm of past decades; an urgent ?environmental imperative in the face of climate change; radical ?increase in density and diversity; growing social inequities and polarization by geography; a new economy; and a tech infusion, all at once and in combination. CA: What current city-building myth would you most like to debunk"
Greenberg: ?Myth? isn?t the right word, but decision makers are finding it hard to let go of some holdover beliefs from the post-World War II paradigm. One is the lingering attachment to land-use segregation ?of where we live from where we work?the idea that in many cases ?we ...
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