#28: Gary Pooni is CEO of Pooni Group and one of Vancouver’s most reputable planning experts. In today’s episode, he schools Cam on the powerful, and often biased history of planning and zoning. He explores how the pandemic conditions of 1918 can help predict contemporary cultural, financial and economic trends. And he shares how a heart attack and subsequent cardiac arrest in 2019 transformed his way of thinking on both a personal and professional level.

• 00:00:12 Start time

• 00:03:35 Rezoning

• 00:06:42 Political blips

• 00:07:01 Administrators vs. policy creators vs. regulators

• 00:09:54 Political arena

• 00:10:59 Pandemic history and what we learned and the tech we got out of it

• 00:15:55 Culture tensions

• 00:19:34 Leaving cities

• 00:23:10 Planning cities for yesterday (rearview mirr ...