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At the seventh annual Jim Green Memorial Lecture, community planner Nathan Edelson explored the future of urban planning and how to encourage community engagement in policy-making processes.

This year鈥檚 lecture took place on March 13th, in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. Over the past seven years, SFU鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement has partnered with the Jim Green Foundation to host and organize the annual Jim Green Memorial Lecture.

Our 2019 speaker, Nathan Edelson, is an experienced community planner who has worked in Vancouver and other cities in North America. His nearly 50 years of experience saw him contribute to innovative initiatives and serve as the former Senior Planner for the Downtown Eastside, where he worked closely with none other than Jim Green. Edelson also served as the Founding Executive Director of Little Mountain Neighbourhood House.

Edelson鈥檚 talk focused on the importance of community development and what that might look like as our cities and neighbourhoods change. He reflected on his experiences working as a planner and the people that he has met throughout his career. One of the biggest lessons he learned about was the importance of words and place names, especially when it came to identifying the Downtown Eastside and reducing stigma: 鈥淲ords matter. It鈥檚 not 鈥榮kid row.鈥� It鈥檚 not 鈥楨ast Downtown鈥�. It鈥檚 the Downtown Eastside.鈥� He also stressed the power of community activism and organization and the importance of family connections and community institutions, saying that for communities like the Downtown Eastside, they are 鈥減laces to support those experiencing change in their lives.鈥�

Watch the video of Nathan Edelson鈥檚 full talk on our  or below.