Session 10

Adrian Blackwell (AAHA/ Waterloo Eng SoA)

- Architects against housing alienation
- Interested in deep problem of housing in canada
- Proposal for 2020 venice biennale (Not For Sale)
- People feel alienated in home
- We are not empowered or we’re paying too much in our housing (Adrian Blackwell)
- If something is ‘alienable”, it is exchangeable. It can be brought or sold
- How can housing in canada be de-commodified?
- The space of the nation has been subdivide
- Lan delineation and homesteading two interlocked processes of land appropriation
- The way the property system is something that was invented. In settler colonial
context
- Fiction that the property was available for all
- Alineation from natural, ecological, community, creativity, psychological, social

Johnathan Tinny (SvN)

- Balance between what the public and private sector does well
- Undertake research and advocacy work
- Ways to diversify and improve toronto neighbourhoods
- Ways in which to increase density around stations
- Ecosystem improvements
- Four priority subways to create additional opportunity for development
- Subways Project (Metrolinx)
- Subways and tunnelling
- Station design and related public realm
- Construction timing and impacts
Erica Allen-Kim (Daniels)
- Vine street expresswai
- Save chinatown movement 1960s-80s
- Philadelphia chinatown development
- Chinatown heritage value based principles
- The need for culturally competent business
- Community control of business
- Deeply affordable food
- Deeply affordable housing
Richard Sommer (Daniels)
- They ways in which cities were built between the iron curtain