MOVE! TRANSPORTATION CHARRette PARTICIPANT HANDBOOk – 11.10-13/20.11 MOVE! Transportation Charrette 1 WELCOME. AND THANK YOU! Evergreen and the Institute without Boundaries are thrilled to welcome you to this innovative event: a design charrette tackling some of the most important and fundamental urban transit issues of today and tomorrow. We are enormously grateful for your contribution to this important “brainstorm,” as we embark on a journey that will culminate in MOVE! The Transportation Expo, running from May to October 2012 in the unique kilns building at Evergreen Brick Works. Your creativity, innovation and hard work—your “inspiration and perspiration” —are central to the success of this ambitious undertaking! It is an exciting time for all of us. This collaboration between Evergreen and the Institute without Boundaries represents a bold direction for both organizations. The vector which we are travelling together carries us forward into the central sustainability challenges facing our planet in the 21st Century, be it Transporta- tion, Shelter, Food, Green Building, or Water management. We hope and expect that your experience over the course of this charrette will be a rewarding one and we are certainly looking forward to meeting each of you over © 2011 the course of this remarkable event. EVERGREEN & THE INSTITUTE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES No part of this work may be produced or transmitted in any form or by any Sincerely, means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission from the publisher except for a brief quotation (not exceeding 200 words) in a review or professional work. WARRANTIES The information in this document is for informational purposes only. 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Project Overview Dissemination Evergreen 7 Final Presentations 219 Institute without Boundaries 11 The Evergreen Expo Series 12 Practical Information The Transportation Expo 13 Overall Schedule 222 Stakeholder Presentations 226 Charrette Overview What is a Charrette? 17 Tools & Methods The Transportation Charrette 18 Responsibilities & Tasks 234 Greater Toronto Hamilton Area (GTHA) in 2040 19 Brainstorming 237 What is Sustainable Transportation? 40 Systems & Tools 238 10 Challenges, 10 Locations 42 Challenge 01: Beyond the Car 45 Credits & Thank Yous 247 Challenge 02: The Energy Way 59 Challenge 03: Reconnect 77 TABLE OF Challenge 04: Huburbia 91 Challenge 05: Shared Spaces 109 Challenge 06: The Mega Metro 125 CONTENTS Challenge 07: Low Carb Diet 143 Challenge 08: Booming Around 157 Challenge 09: Greenways & Waterways 173 Challenge 10: Food Not Crude 193 General Criteria 210 Visions for the Future 214 Deliverables 215 4 MOVE! Transportation Charrette 5 EVERGREEN www.evergreen.ca Evergreen is working toward a sustainable future where cities—public spaces, buildings, transit systems, energy and water infrastructure—are designed in collaboration with nature and their communities. By deepening the connection between people and nature, and empowering individuals to take a hands-on approach to their urban environments, we can effect fundamental change, altering the way citizens experience and shape life in cities. For more than 20 years, Evergreen has been engaging Canadians in creating and sustaining dynamic outdoor spaces—in schools, communities and homes. Through Evergreen Common Grounds and Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds, Evergreen is a leading national funder and facilitator of local, sustainable greening projects in schoolyards, parks and communities across Canada. Our work since 1991: • $5.5 million in grants PHOTO • 200,000 volunteers • 1,000,000 students reached at more than 3,000 schools • 4,000 public spaces naturalized across Canada • 2,500 community events and workshops Building on the support, passion, energy and commitment of tens of thousands of Canadians over the years, Evergreen has engaged in innovative partnerships with all levels of government while developing dynamic funding relationships with regional, national and multinational corpo- rate partners. 6 MOVE! Transportation Charrette 7 THE BRICK WORKS ebw.evergreen.ca Opened in 2010, Evergreen Brick Works is already a globally recognized community environ- mental centre and social enterprise in the heart of Canada’s largest city. Set amid the Don River Valley in central Toronto, this spectacular natural and industrial heritage site offers engaging urban ecology activities for people of all ages. • Year-round Farmers’ Market, local food programming and cooking classes • Retail sustainable garden centre and demonstration gardens • Environmental and gardening workshops • Children’s camps and youth leadership training • Urban Stewardship • Conference and event facilities Because of its award-winning adaptive-reuse and the creative repurposing of numerous factory buildings, Evergreen Brick Works is a genuinely unique place for people to learn about sustain- ability and to share ideas and explore best practices. Evergreen’s headquarters are located in the only new building on site, a five-storey LEED platinum office building, which is home to numerous like-minded organizations (for-profits and non-profits alike). THE CENTRE FOR GREEN CITIES cgc.evergreen.ca The Centre for Green Cities is a dynamic venue for the public, companies, researchers and environmental innovators to converge, to collaborate and to showcase emerging products and ideas. Housed in the award-winning adaptive reuse facility Evergreen Brick Works, it encour- ages and promotes clean technologies both online and on site. The Centre for Green Cities is a “living lab for sustainability innovation” that, thanks to its unique physical complex and home, is ideally positioned to advance, demonstrate and support innovative clean technologies in • Transportation • Water • Food • Energy consumption • Building construction and operation • Waste management Join leading innovators, city builders, entrepreneurs, potential investors and prospective cus- tomers as we develop the ideas that will create the resilient cities the future will demand. Learn more about the CGC network and how to be a part of it by contacting Peter McFadzean at [email protected]. 8 MOVE! Transportation Charrette 9 INSTITUTE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES www.worldhouse.ca The Institute without Boundaries (IwB) is a unique academic and research program in the School of Design at George Brown College. IwB seeks to achieve social, ecological and economic innovation through collaborative design work. Founded in 2003, the IwB offers an innovative postgraduate program in interdisciplinary design strategy that emphasizes design thinking and systems design. The Institute without Boundaries is both a school and a design studio. Professionals and students from a wide variety of backgrounds come together to col- laborate on projects. The IwB pulls from an extensive group of designers, architects, engineers, educators and experts to form skilled teams that deliver special projects such as charrettes (intensive, collaborative design projects), exhibitions, public programs, and innovation in the design of housing and cities. The IwB is also known for its commitment to co-creation, commu- nity engagement and democratic design processes. 10 MOVE! Transportation Charrette 11 THE EXPO SERIES THE TRANSPORTATION EXPO Evergreen’s Centre for Green Cities in partnership with OBJECTIVES There are few topics more top-of-mind today among citizens and government, businesses the Institute without Boundaries at George Brown Col- and planners than transportation. There is an ever-growing need for fundamental change, for lege is launching an annual series of five innovative, • Foster and encourage discussion and debate among new technologies, for renewed infrastructure, for massive investment even in this climate of thought-provoking Public Expositions exploring the the public, academe and business. economic uncertainty. More than ever there is a hunger for dynamic and innovative answers major issues affecting cities now and in the future. to some fundamental transit challenges. These issues affect the day-to-day life of millions of • Partner with leading design and digital Canadians. Each Expo will be hosted at the award-winning facility, communications creators and other creative content Evergreen Brick Works. The Expo Series will showcase providers, forging ongoing alliances and more.