July 29, 2020: News From Main Street

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July 29, 2020 / canurb.org Design Solutions for Canadian Main Streets A Main Street Design Challenge entry from Morgan Dundas, John Homsy, and Lisa Mishko, on publicly accessible outdoor spaces. The Main Street Design Challenge is a coordinated engagement effort for all Canadians interested in design to envision the future of Main Streets. We invited Canadians to develop innovative, responsible, sustainable, and resilient design solutions for Canadian Main Streets. Submissions from Cycle 1 of the Main Street Design Challenge are now available on our website! You can still submit your design ideas to help Canada's main streets: Cycle 2 deadline: August 14, 2020 Cycle 3 deadline: September 18, 2020 Playbook full release: Fall 2020 View Cycle 1 Submissions Read our latest Memos Memo #10 Rediscovering Rural Main Streets By David Paterson and Kieron Hunt, FBM Planning Studio Memo #11 How COVID-19 Has Impacted our Attitudes, and What it Means for our Main Streets By: Salman Faruqi and Kate Graham, Canadian Urban Institute Main Street Ontario Through a blend of playful animation and archival footage, this original, short video series that started in 2019 visits big cities and small towns across Ontario to reveal the unique qualities of each place. Step inside iconic community landmarks and meet the people who breathe life into local culture.  Watch TVO's Main Street Ontario CityTalk: Bring Back Main Street Conversations CUI recently hosted two CityTalk events dedicated to Bring Back Main Street. Rewatch and read key takeaways from these candid conversations about main streets in Canada. How are restaurants and nightlife adapting to the pandemic? How can we leverage the power of design and engagement to make better main streets? Five Bright Ideas Signs of innovation, creativity, and resilience on our main streets: As part of the Nova Scotia Main Streets Initiative, a vision and community workbook was released. The workbook summarizes research and community engagement focused on main streets in Nova Scotia's smaller towns. In the wake of COVID-19 Sidewalk Labs & Wallplay developed a toolkit of how to plan for and implement pop-ups, which can serve as a solution to challenges facing tenants and landlords. Designers in New York City are collaborating with communities hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic to develop safe and effective reopening strategies through the Neighborhoods Now initiative.  As restaurants and bars expand patio space, it is important to keep accessibility in mind when designing these spaces. Designable has put together a resource on creating Accessible Outdoor Patio space. LavaMaeˣ is a non-profit accelerator in the San Francisco Bay Area that's providing innovative tool kits, mentorship, training, and programs to help provide mobile hygiene to unhoused community members. Thank you to our partners We are grateful to all of our partners for supporting us in building a stronger urban Canada. Donors and Program Funders Bring Back Main Street is supported by Business Improvement areas and Economic Development organizations across Canada, Vancity and Vancity Community Investment Bank Partners Black Business and Professionals Association, Bloor-Yorkville BIA, Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council, Canadian Business Resilience Network, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Federation of Independent Business, Canadian Institute of Planners, CGLCC: Canada's LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce, City of Calgary, City of Edmonton, City of Toronto, City of Vancouver, Develop Nova Scotia, Downtown Halifax, Downtown Halifax Business Commission, Downtown Yonge BIA, Environics, Financial District BIA, National Preservation Council, National Trust for Canada, Ontario Business Improvement Area Association, Ontario Chamber of Commerce, Regina Downtown BID, Retail Council of Canada, Royal Architecture Institute of Canada, Rues principales, Save Canadian Small Business, St. Lawrence BIA, Tamarack Institute, The Waterfront BIA, Toronto Entertainment District BIA, Trinity Centres Foundation, Vancouver Economic Commission Main Street Design Challenge Partners Canadian Institute of Planners, Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, Council for Canadian Urbanism, ICOMOS Canada, National Trust for Canada, OCAD University, Rue principales, STEPS Initiative, Trinity Centres Foundation Research Team 360 Collective, Happy City, Simon Fraser University, Fathom Studio, JC Williams Group About CUI CUI is Canada's Urban Institute. We are the national platform that houses the best in Canadian city building – where policymakers, urban professionals, civic and business leaders, community activists and academics can learn, share and collaborate with one another from coast to coast to coast. Copyright © 2020 Canadian Urban Institute Canadian Urban Institute 30 St. Patrick Street, 5th Floor Toronto, ON  M5T 3A3  Canada Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.