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Lisa Rochon

@lisarochon1

City builder who looks up and around the world. Urban designer, public artist, advocate for equity, author, architecture critic. Always stretching.

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Proud to be one of the designers of Red Embers; our powerhouse team of women celebrating/honouring/remembering Indigenous women. Praise is coming in! Here on NOW's front page culture. Banners in Allan Gardens honour missing and murdered Indigenous women now.uz/2IAQ1O0

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My Citylab team revisioned The Danforth as a great civic boulevard. It’s time to shift car culture in Toronto. We imagined it. thestar.com/opinion/contri… via Toronto Star

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It's time to take back the roads. Toronto can shift its culture of cars, just like Paris and many other great cities of the world. Paris’s mayor has a dream of ‘the 15-minute city’ fastcompany.com/90456312/paris…

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Make our Streets Great, Beautiful and Covid-free Again. Widen the Sidewalks and Bike Lanes. Letter from RU Epidemiologists: Physical Distancing Needs Space citybuildinginstitute.ca/2020/04/13/let…

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NY Times columnist Nikole Hannah Jones' excellent work continues: The Coronavirus Disproportionately Affects Black Americans: What You Need To Know mtv.com/news/3162940/n… via MTV NEWS

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Big respect for Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and gutsy shifting of car culture to make way for human beings. Toronto needs to embrace same. Paris To Create 650 Kilometers Of Post-Lockdown Cycleways via Forbes forbes.com/sites/carltonr…

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Proud of this vision for a Freedom Ring Road and my Citylab team. Because the car should no longer be king. A post-pandemic Toronto needs a big idea — like a 28-km, car-free ring road encircling a swath of the downtown thestar.com/opinion/contri… via Toronto Star

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NEW: NYC Health Dept has published, for first time, data on covid-19 death rate by zip code. Confirms dramatic inequality, with death rate in low-income communities of color more than ten times greater than wealthier ares.

NEW: NYC Health Dept has published, for first time, data on covid-19 death rate by zip code.

Confirms dramatic inequality, with death rate in low-income communities of color more than ten times greater than wealthier ares.
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Join me Nov 23 & fellow moderator Steve Paikin Nov 24 as short-listed teams from around the world present their designs for a healed, sustainable and active Sudbury wehttps://www.canadianarchitect.com/the-sudbury-2050-urban-design-competition-finalists-announced/ Via Canadian Architect

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Here's Why I Believe Lockdown Has Pushed the Art World Out of Its Comfort Zone—and on a Path to a More Equitable Future news.artnet.com/opinion/chila-…

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Many thanks Toronto Star and ⁦🇨🇦 Janet Somerville⁩ for the insightful review of my bestseller novel Tuscan Daughter. It’s set during the Renaissance but the big themes are modern. #LGBTQ characters star in four of the best new historical fiction novels thestar.com/entertainment/…

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ArtworxTO Event: Unveiling of Red Embers, 1561 Lake Shore Boulevard East, Nov. 21 2021, 2:00 PM - Nov. 21 2021, 3:00 PM #ArtworxTO artworxto.ca/event/red-embe…

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Countdown to #winterstations unveiling tomorrow Feb 20 @ noon! Winning designers have flown in,… instagram.com/p/BQswI39gzqp/

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What would a city be without free, public art? My thoughts on winter.stations and finding… instagram.com/p/BREIscHgrd_/

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For those interested in gender equality..The Hillary effect: Shush the woman, then watch her roar /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-hi…

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How FLW inserted himself into greatness. Frank Lloyd Wright Was A Great Architect–But He Was Even Better At Branding fastcodesign.com/90129345/frank…