What We're Reading: January 2017

Here's a roundup of some of our favourite articles from the last few weeks, covering a variety of topics like First Nations housing, participatory planning, and planning apps. Enjoy!

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APTN's Year Ahead InFocus: 2017 video features guests Dr. Marcia Anderson-DeCoteau, Niigaan Sinclair and UBCIC VP Chief Robert Chamberlin and talks about pipelines, Standing Rock, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, reconciliation, Joseph Boyden and more.

Katie Hyslop over at the Tyee is doing some great articles about Indigenous housing lately! Go take a look:

• What Would a National Indigenous Housing Strategy Look Like?
• BC Company Claims ‘Net Zero’ Answer to Reserve Housing Energy Woes
• New Tool Aims to Keep Low-cost Indigenous Housing Available
• BC First Nation Gets Active about Passive Housing​

UIC Barcelona's Master of Internation Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture blog (that's a mouthful!) has a post with 5 online resources for participatory planning including the "Placemaker's Guide to Building Community"

Planetizen released a roundup of The Best Planning Apps for 2017 

What's on your reading list? Let us know in the comments below!

​-JH