![]() ![]() They are yearning for healing – the kind that can come only from integrating a trauma-informed placemaking and urban policy approach that embeds deep individual and community healing into Canada’s recovery plan. The very foundations that our cities are built upon are traumatized, poisoned by blood and colonial conquest. border, anti-Asian attacks and the revelatory discovery of the remains of hundreds of Indigenous children lost to Canada’s residential school system. ![]() This public health crisis was worsened by civil unrest spurred by spatialized anti-Blackness on both sides of the Canada-U.S. ![]() Scarred by decades of car-centric infrastructure and festering social divides, our already wounded urban landscape, along with its services and amenities, has been further threatened by the global pandemic. This theory feels especially palpable as we approach the precipice of the post-COVID city. It has been said that traumatic incidents dislocate “ the lived and imagined landscapes” of a city’s emotional ecosystem. ![]()
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