- 911吃瓜
- Current Research
- SAGA: Translanguaging and Sustainability
- Research Team
- 2023 CO-LAB IN SYDHAVN
- 2024 CO-LAB IN HELSINKI
- 2025 CO-LAB IN PARIS
- Dynamic Language Demands for Ecological Transition of Cities
- Key Dimensions of Language and Terminology : City as Habitat in Space and Time
- Key Dimensions of Language and Terminology : Inviting Cultural Vernaculars
- Key Dimensions of Language and Terminology: Real-Time Updates to the Evolving Language of Urban Practice in Ecological Transition
- Innovation in Urban Transition Practice: Putting Transition in Place in Arcueil and the Plateau de Saclay
- Key Dimensions of Language and Terminology: Political Ecological Translations
- Losing the Edge of the Translation: Gated or Green; Shrinking or Degrowth
- Terms of Transition
- Call for Abstracts
- Open Positions
- Zotero
- Urban Innovation Lab
- SUSI: Scaling Up Social Instrastructure
- SAGA: Translanguaging and Sustainability
- Opportunities
- Partners
- Events
URB499/URB692
Course Description
This 6-(grad) or 9-(undergrad) unit course offers students an intensive and project-based laboratory course in which to develop, refine, and apply theories of and concepts of urban strategy, innovation, and sustainable transformation to the real-world context of an urban public or quasi-public organization. This course was piloted in three iterations 2023-2025 in partnership with the City of New Westminster as a living urban laboratory of vanguard policy development and efforts to implement systemic change. Working within a lab organization partner, we work to understand the organizational means by which big policy ideas get translated into organizational and operational action 鈥� and what gets lost in translation. Students have a guided opportunity to understand the functioning of a policy area and/or staff team in the City of New West and pursue a deep understanding of one or more of the City鈥檚 current priorities, including downtown liveability, climate action, emergency response, reconciliation, and equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI).
Spring 2025 outline for grad students can be found here. For undergrads, here.