Open public spaces are where community happens. They’re the parks where kids play, the squares and gardens where communities gather, the green spaces that cool our streets in a warming climate. When designed well, they don’t just serve us, they connect us to each other and to the world we live in.
But for many organizations and municipalities, measuring the actual impact of your public spaces can feel overwhelming. You know what your community needs, but lack the data or resources that bigger cities have. Our new Embedding Resilience and Reconciliation Tool changes that, helping you assess your spaces through both climate and community lenses while advancing Truth and Reconciliation.
The Public Space Evaluation Toolkit was built in partnership with Dark Matter Labs and 7GenCities and generously supported by TD Bank Group and Manulife.
The Embedding Resilience & Reconciliation Tool is a welcome compass for those seeking to make actionable change in their communities’ open public spaces. For those ready to move beyond abstract policy and toward hands-in-the-soil reconciliation, while caretaking your environment – this is the practical, principled guide we’ve been waiting for. It treats place-based knowledge, Indigenous perspective and inclusion not as sidebars but as core infrastructure in climate resiliency.
