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Hazen Ellwood

Hazen Ellwood

Calgary-based urban advocate and communications professional; founder and chair of Unsprawling, an urban activist media collective focused on anti-sprawl urban planning.

Jun 29, 2026

Humane Cities Podcast

Humane Cities Podcast

How to Unsprawl a City | Hazen “Biz” Ellwood | 1

Jun 29 · 35m

Alex WilliamsHOST
20:05
Can you talk about how simple it can actually be?
Hazen Ellwood
Hazen EllwoodGUEST
20:11
You got it right there.
Hazen Ellwood
Hazen EllwoodGUEST
20:12
I mean, it's just as simple as putting a camera up and like everybody's got 60 seconds of knowledge in their head on any given topic.
Hazen Ellwood
Hazen EllwoodGUEST
20:19
Each individual person is going to have a different 60 seconds of passion that they can give you.
Hazen Ellwood
Hazen EllwoodGUEST
20:23
But that's the thing about unspralling is that we're not.
Hazen Ellwood
Hazen EllwoodGUEST
20:26
trying to be a housing advocacy organization.
Hazen Ellwood
Hazen EllwoodGUEST
20:29
We're not trying to be a transit advocacy organization.
Alex WilliamsHOST
25:08
Have you ever been nervous to reach out to somebody? Cause you strike me as just, just a, just do it type of person.

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