earthsofft: Traffuct: The Future of Calgary? Not if YodaZilla can help it

Plan It Calgary, a promising toddler/byproduct of the union between the City of Calgary Sustainable City Program and the imagineCALGARY process, hosted a summit at the somewhat posh and amazingly sterile Calgary Stampede Round Up Centre on Nov 14 & 15, 2008.

E=MC2 assisted with the organizing of the $250K weekend which was attended by aprox 250-300 volunteer citizens.

Breakout sessions, workshops, lecture, keynote speakers (Aussie Jeff Kenworthy and Torontonian Ken Greenberg) and a role playing game, where participants adopted city planner personas akin to Blade Runner meets Isaac Asimov meets Timothy Leary meets the guy who invented lego. Objective: Plan Multi-Modal Tansportation Routes, Land Use (Residential/Office/Retail/Industrial/Recreational/Cultural & Yeah!! Agricultural) and Open Space/Ecology (Grey 2 Green). Sounds dubious, but in reality was tremendously stimulating and quite a bit of fun. Sustainable City (Martians) were everywhere, enthusiastic, helpful and getting a contact high from the participants.

There was embedded media and even Lord Bronco showed up, and to his credit actually looked at the map tiles, including a highly conceptualized Broncoville, featuring a city farm, concentrated solar, green roofs and LODD: Life Oriented Design & Development. Even with the budget turdnado back at city hall he heard the buzz about the visionaries over at the Stampede reinventing his perfect AUTO EROTIC city, (we love our autos or at least Klein's or 'that guy with the glasses' city planners did) commenting on how "Calgary is the city of the 21st Century."

Major Collaborative & Sustainable Kudos to the Sustainable City staff and the Calgarians that committed 2 days to planning our city so that it may actually be one we can live in...

visit the amazing web 1.0 city of Calgary web portal, now with html and hyperlinks! wow! www.calgary.ca/planit

Mackenzie Delta @ Plan It

BroncoVille with Calgary City Farm & Festival Village (check out the green roofs and the complete lack of parking... now that's a revolution in parking)

YodaZilla Attacks Evil Autos on Crowchild while lecturing at the newly enhanced Viscount Bennett College Education Hub (Yoda also endorses the green roof)