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Webinar Recording Placemaking for innovation: Creating innovation ecosystems
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Blog Post Breaking down data silos in infrastructure asset management
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Case Study A data-driven approach to transit planning and equity
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Podcast Stantec.io Podcast: Advanced Tech and Reality Insight
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Blog Post Could ‘smart’ building facades heat and cool buildings?
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Podcast Stantec.io Podcast: The Growth and Innovation Episode
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Blog Post Stantec’s Top 10 Ideas from 2023
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Blog Post How do you create thriving, connected places? 5 ways to expand transit-oriented planning
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Video A better way to move people and goods at airports? Autonomous vehicles
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Video Implementing AV Applications at Airports
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Blog Post 3 steps to fully accessible and barrier-free transit
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Blog Post VR and community outreach programs: Building social acceptance with immersive technology
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Blog Post 3 key steps to successful utility design for the telecommunications industry
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Podcast Stantec.io Podcast: The Smart Cities Episode
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Published Article Creating Better Spaces
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Blog Post 5 trends from CES that will majorly impact the built environment
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Blog Post Today’s parking lots are tomorrow’s mobility hubs. Why is it a better use of space?
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Video Smart(ER) Mobility Respects the Past with Future Thinking
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Video Mapping the Route for a Zero-Emission Future
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Video Buildings that Evolve: Design for Future-readiness
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Video Digital Cities - Fire Flow
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Video Planning a Smart City or Infrastructure? Don’t Start with Technology
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Podcast Design Hive: Daryl Fonslow on adaptive reuse to net zero
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 16 | Climate Risk
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Published Article Building an electric vehicle program: Where should cities start?
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Our approach: The Climate Solutions Wheel
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Podcast Design Hive: Dr. Rick Huijbregts on smart cities
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Blog Post 7 approaches to building reuse to help existing properties reach net zero
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Blog Post 4 ways to make sure your connected-infrastructure technology program is … well, connected
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 15 | Reuse and Revitalization
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Webinar Recording Climate Solutions Webinar Series: Climate solutions that work
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Blog Post 4 ways smart utilities improve water infrastructure
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Blog Post EV is the bridge to transit’s AV revolution—and now is the time to start building it
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Blog Post A Smart(ER) approach to mobility: Prioritizing equity and resilience
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Blog Post How is transit responding to reopening?
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Blog Post Tackling climate change: Identifying global opportunities in response to the IPCC AR6
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Blog Post 5 things to know before starting an ITS deployment
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Article Micromobility Q&A: Are we on the road to a future of connected, Complete Streets?
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Blog Post Can we learn to share? How the sharing economy can help launch the mobility revolution
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Blog Post Designing Complete Streets for towns and suburbs, not just for big cities
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 12 | Equity and Inclusion
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Video Rolling out new mobility pilots
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Video Making mobility work for people
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Video Planning for the future of mobility
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Podcast We need an EV charging renaissance
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Microgrids: A critical key to the energy transition
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Blog Post Creating adaptable AV policy to match AV technology
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Webinar Recording Smart Utilities – Where is the World Heading?
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Blog Post Sea change: 5 smart technologies to help us design better shipping gateways
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White Paper The Future of Mobility: Remaking Buffalo for the 21st Century
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Blog Post Carbon: A common language for change—now is the time to act
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Brochure Looking to launch Automated Vehicles in your community? We can help.
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Blog Post How will energy demand change in the post-COVID-19 world?
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 09 | People, buildings & technology
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Blog Post Embracing the creative spirit: How the Tampa Idea Hackathon helped me to think differently
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Webinar Recording Electric Futures
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Blog Post A global view of design and urban planning post-COVID-19 (Part 4): How will cities change?
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Blog Post A global view of design and urban planning post-COVID-19 (Part 3): New infrastructure
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Blog Post How will stimulus funding and post-COVID-19 recovery create a more resilient country?
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Video Dubai takes another step towards Self-Driving Vehicles
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Blog Post Stantec’s Top 10 Ideas for 2019 (Plus 2 bonus items!)
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Blog Post Want to elevate your smart city planning game? This 7-step roadmap gets you hyperconnected
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Video What is a smart city?
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Presentation Smart cities research: Building a Hyperconnected City
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Article Published in METRO: 4 Factors to Consider For Zero-Emission Bus Fleet Transition
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Blog Post World Cities Day: Here’s how we can build a better urban life for future generations
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Publication Community Futures: Think globally, act locally has never mattered more
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Article Published in Water & Wastes Digest: Analyzing Combined Sewer Overflows
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Blog Post What’s that car’s IQ?
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Blog Post The hidden climate impact of the Internet of Things
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Blog Post Sidewalk Labs plan is setting a precedent in its approach to mobility
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Blog Post The connected, autonomous road ahead: Key challenges and opportunities for road operators
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Article Published in Canadian Consulting Engineer: Future City Planning
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Blog Post [With Video] 3 surprising things I discovered from hacking 21st-century city challenges
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Publication Stantec Idea Hackathon: Toward a Smart Toronto (Idea Book)
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Webinar Recording Saving our Suburbs (Part 3) – Smart Suburbs
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Published Article Published in Informed Infrastructure: Moving Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Forward
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Blog Post 3 steps to deploying an autonomous vehicle shuttle pilot project
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Article Published in Alaska Business Monthly: Arctic infrastructure ingenuity
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Embracing the unknown when thinking big data and smart cities
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Blog Post How can we build smart cities of the future?
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: How are we designing for livable cities today?
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Published Article Published in Planning Magazine: Curb control
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Technologies and trends changing how we power our world
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Blog Post Infrastructure Week 2019: Parks as infrastructure—providing resilience and quality of life
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Blog Post Infrastructure Week 2019: Brownfield development is the future of the US urban landscape
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Blog Post Infrastructure Week 2019: The future of green infrastructure
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Blog Post How to plan for the future of electric vehicles
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Teaching sustainability and energy conservation through play
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Design Quarterly Issue 05 | Smart & Livable Cities
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Blog Post Downtown Columbus, Ohio: A case study in the mobility revolution
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Blog Post Driving economically robust downtowns from buildings that are already there
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Blog Post From the Design Quarterly: Digitally illuminating a city’s utilization
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Blog Post Counting every space: What parking inventories tell us about cities
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Blog Post EcoDriving can save you time, money, and effort—all while reducing your carbon footprint
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Article Need to keep your community's bridges safe? Stantec is creating an app for that.
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Article International Downtown Association Report: The Value of U.S. Downtowns and Center Cities
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Blog Post In the battle of suburbs vs. cities, could both be winning?
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Blog Post Microgrids: An energy solution for small towns with big aspirations
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Blog Post Four questions we must answer to design truly smart cities
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Blog Post Looking back at Infrastructure Week: We have our marching orders—educate and advocate
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Blog Post Urban Places Idea Lab: Tweaking plans, designs, and sustainability strategies
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Blog Post What does Value of Downtowns report tell us about tomorrow’s cities and regions? (Part 2)
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Blog Post Boxed in by changing markets, 20th-century suburbs learn how to reinvent themselves
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Blog Post What does The Value of Downtowns report tell us about today’s cities? (Part 1)
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Publication Issue 01 | The Sustainable City
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Blog Post A bridge to the future: Direct-fixation rail helps Denver commuter project span challenges
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Publication Design Quarterly Issue 01 | The Sustainable City
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Blog Post Autonomous vehicles could ruin our downtowns. But not if we act now
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Blog Post Digging Deep into Data — How cell phone activity data enhances transportation planning
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Blog Post Vehicle for change
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Blog Post The digital utility is within our reach
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Blog Post Communicating cars: Understanding the road to autonomous vehicles
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Blog Post Public realm for 21st-century cities
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Blog Post The Jane Jacobs conundrum (Part 1): 3 urban trends driving economic inequality
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Interactive You have an energy transition or climate action plan, but is it integrated?
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Interactive Quiz: Is your community automated vehicle ready?
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Interactive What is microtransit? How to integrate more riders into a transit system
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Interactive The Stantec Idea Hackathon: Big ideas for our biggest challenges
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Interactive Smart Cities Quiz
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Interactive The 7 best practices of highly effective smart cities
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Interactive The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can help you
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Interactive How can we successfully integrate renewables into the energy grid?
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Interactive Mobility hubs are on the way
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Interactive Making urban places work for people