Citizens for a Livable Cranbrook Society provides grassroots leadership and an inclusive process, with a voice for all community members, to ensure that our community grows and develops in a way that incorporates an environmental ethic, offers a range of housing and transportation choices, encourages a vibrant and cultural life and supports sustainable, meaningful employment and business opportunities.

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

How the shape of the land shapes our lives....

Geography: Calgary's hidden puppet master
How the shape of the land shapes our lives
By Francisco Alaniz Uribe, for CBC News Posted: Dec 05, 2015 6:00 AM MT

This final paragraph of the article listed above also applies to most cities including our own.  When reading the article it is easy to substitute our own Cranbrook geography and to consider the parallel issues our city struggles with.
'Key to our future as a city and how we interact with each other will be a better understanding of how we use our geography to connect rather than divide us.
We can't move the Bow, and Pioneer Hill is here to stay, but we do have a choice of where and how we build our communities, where we create parks and put houses, what roads look like and how "walkable" our streets are.
We can't blame the glaciers for our bad city-building decisions.'



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