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About Robert Barnard

Robert Barnard is co-founder of Youthful Cities. It creates data-driven solutions to make cities more youthful — connected, open, dynamic, inventive, curious and playful — places. Robert has three decades of experience in youth engagement and innovation as the founder of the Canadian youth charity Generation 2000 and co-founder of the global youth insight and innovation firm Decode Inc. He is currently a fellow at the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and co-author of the bestselling book on Generation X — Chips and Pop: Decoding the Nexus Generation. Barnard is a champion of youth and youthfulness.

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Is Canada cool?

Cities need a youthful infrastructure that includes affordability, good jobs, safety, mobility, a net-zero focus, physical and mental health, and fun with entertainment, music and green space based on metrics young people devise. 
Bolder, faster, together: Perspectives on societal transition
Opinion | October 17th 2022

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