Michael Mortensen / Alain Bertaud Public Salon September 20th, 2021.

Michael Mortensen is the founder Liveable City Planning helping develop 1500 homes. He work as an urban planner for the City of Vancouver on the Major Projects file then moved to London to work for the Duke of Westminster. He was the last graduate student of Vancouver planning icon Walter Hardwick and helped Jane Jacobs write her last book.

On September 20, 2021 in Vancouver BC Canada, Alain Bertaud participated on the Big Screen at the Vancouver Playhouse with 6 respected local urbanists. This was organized in anticipation of his upcoming visit in 2022 and to help develop ideas to recommend to the city, regional and provincial governments.

Alain Bertaud is the former Chief Urban Planner of the World Bank and author of the internationally acclaimed “Order Without Design”. He began his career working on the le Corbusier designing of Chandigarh, capital of Punjab. He has worked for 50 cities around the world and has been a resident urban planner for 7. He has deep experience and knowledge of how cities work and is currently a Fellow at the Marron Institute of New York City.

The 6 Vancouver Urbanists are data visualizationist Jens von Bergmann, UBC SCARP Planning Professor Julia Harten, Squamish First Nation Leader Chris Lewis, SFU Beedie School Professor Andrey Pavlov, researcher and historian Wendy Waters and Urban Planner Michael Mortensen. MC is Sam Sullivan former Vancouver Mayor and Minister for Municipalities of the British Columbia Government.