WBEF: How ‘Creative Mixed-Use’ Buildings Create More Equitable and Sustainable Cities with Professor Matti Siemiatycki #79

Toronto has been an exciting test bed for the creative mixed-use building model, combining interests of different parties to achieve individual goals and extend their benefits city-wide.Sharing his observations within Canada, and how the model might work globally, is Matti Siemiatycki, Professor in Department of Geography & Planning and Director of the Infrastructure Institute at School of Cities, University of Toronto.In this WBEF episode of The RICS Podcast, we explore the foundational ideas behind the creative mixed-use model, the collaborative process, and goals it hopes to achieve.This episode of WBEF covers:The existing mixed use model and how creative mixed use builds upon itHow developments within this model have been received in TorontoBenefits to individual parties and citywide objectives of creative mixed useChallenges that each party within the arrangement must addressHow the model could develop in a global contextRoyal Institution of Chartered Surveyors:https://www.rics.org/uk/RICS Podcast Pagehttps://www.rics.org/podcast/Kieran Halliwellhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kdhalliwell/