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Inspiring cities, one good act at a time.

The Importance of Place

Exploring informal learning for community leadership through auto-ethnography.

Contemplations on City Living

Pondering life at the intersection of community, place, and praxis.

The Localist

A weekly newsletter celebrating the people & experiences that make London, Ontario home 💌!

Vacant

Empty urban spaces.

Little Landor Library

Building community, one book at a time.

Forest City Pizza Lovers

Welcome to London, Ontario’s hottest & freshest pizza fan-club!

Poster! Poster!

We post posters | 📍#LdnOnt

Where the Sidewalks Ends

A Beginner’s Guide to London’s Suburbs, 2021

100 Ways to Summer

Inspiring the city to summer in London. 💯

Circumnavigating Lake Fanshawe

Finding a temple in the woods.

On Appreciating the Land which Surrounds Us

Thoughts on how a global pandemic can build community and connect us to the places we live.

Keep London Boring

A tongue-in-cheek plea sparking conversations around gentrification, entrepreneurship, and local politics.

Three Things I’ve Learned in My Local Coffee Shop

Coffee shops have a lot to teach us about our neighborhoods and the people we share them with. Here are three of them.

Three Neighborly Goals for 2020

These simple resolutions can have a major impact on your town or city this year.

My Hometown Sucks, Place, and Shared Sameness

Seems where we’re from matters more than we care to admit.

My Hometown Sucks

Seems where we’re from matters more than we care to admit.

In Defense of Public Spaces

Public spaces are often shortchanged in government budgets. Yet they provide outsized benefits compared to how little our communities usually invest in them. Public spaces should be celebrated and protected. Here are four reasons why.

For Community

A treatise on communities of identity, faith, and place.

How to Become More Attached to Your City

Want to feel a deeper attachment to the neighborhood you call home? Here are six action items guaranteed to connect you with neighbors and inspire creative ways to leverage your resources for the common good.

Three Shifts Toward Neighborliness

Reclaiming the art of neighboring may be the closest thing we have to a solution for the social isolation, the political polarization, and the superficial relationships that plague our neighborhoods. To make our communities stronger and more connected, here are three shifts we all need to make.

Sunfest Bingo

Helping Londoners get the most out of one of the city’s most famous annual festivals.

Micro-Neighborliness: A Celebration of the Small

Micro-neighborliness (n.): the small, patient, and practical ways that we pivot toward our localities and the people that we share them with. While we do not always hear these stories, the tangible effect that these small acts can have on our places is reason enough to celebrate them.

Black Coffee

Opening garages and serving up coffee to their neighbours.

Bend Bus

Your round-trip ticket to Grand Bend and Port Stanley Beach. No sweat.

Place as a Verb

Perhaps we talk about place, and placemaking, in a backwards sort of way.

Wednesday Night Bike Rides

Bring-Your-Own-Bike.

Don’t Worry. [this city] is awesome

Contemplations on appreciating the places where we are.

[this city]

A manifesto for taking pride in, and ownership of, the places we call home.

Authentic Experiences

What if we made more of an attempt to seek out the uniqueness of a given place?

Block Party in a Box

Everything you need to put on a successful block party, without breaking a sweat.

Official Passport

...to the trees of the Carolinian Forest.

What is a chair?

A consideration of democracy & seating within public spaces.

Walk London

A guerrilla wayfinding project.

PARK(ing) Day

An annual, one-day, global event.

100 Ways

Instigating a city-wide conversation.