Land Lines July 2023
Features
Downtown offices are sitting empty, while the cities they anchor desperately need more housing. Could those unused cubicles and conference rooms be converted into homes? We share lessons from Calgary, Denver, and other cities on the leading edge of office conversions.
As we confront intertwined crises related to equity, affordability, and climate, some conservation land trusts and community land trusts are investigating what they could accomplish by working together.
Clean energy is poised to play a central role in climate mitigation and transform the way we get our power. But standoffs and bottlenecks related to land use and the electric grid are bogging things down on the ground.