Vancouver Area Relocalisation Network

January 14, 2008 Clive Doucet Urban Meltdown
Alice MacKay Room of the Central Branch of the Vancouver Public Library (350 West Georgia) from 7:30 to 9:30 PM. Admission is Free.

"Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual" is a reflection on 40 years of urban activism for more sustainable cities. One of the questions the author poses is - why does urban sprawl continue more fiercely than ever half a century after Jane Jacobs and many others have filled libraries documenting the destructive effects of mall/sprawl? What happened to the Sixties and what can we learn from those failed dreams is another subject the author explores to connect the past with the present. Another question deals with the phenomenon of Just in Time delivery and how this has changed the landscape. The author, Clive Doucet, has been a city councilor in Ottawa for ten years and in the author of plays, poems, novels and memoirs. In 2004, he was voted Canada's Greenest City Councilor.

In 2004, Clive was chosen as Canada’s Greenest City Councilor. It recognized his lifelong work to halt expressway sprawl and promote pedestrian oriented, people, not car focused communities. He has championed Ottawa’s pilot light rail project, new sidewalk and intersection standards for the city. He’s the author of plays, novels, memoirs and poems. His most recent book is “Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual”.