The learning city : Ville en apprentissage

Linked to a thematic knowledge resource intended to establish an interactive website, this paper reviews the main constituents of the Ideal City tradition, examines its impact on the design of urban settlement, including across Canada and in Vancouver, and indicates how such conceptual approaches to the building of a better civic environment and society can contribute to the creation of more susta [...] The GNWC offers the Vancouver region an important opportunity to further the vision and practice of the learning city in the direction of sustainable development, an opportunity that is explored at the end of this working paper. [...] The task is to connect the daily processes of the campus with the sustainable learning missions of students, researchers, and instructors. [...] This profile limits itself to a discussion of the following initiatives: the Campus Sustainability Office, the Interfaculty Program in Sustainability Studies, and the Land, Food and Community course series in the Agriculture Faculty. [...] Project success might be measured in terms of the support received at the UBC farm and UBC food services, the degree of relocalization of the UBC food system, and a reduction in the UBC ‘food’print.