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News & Events

June 14

U of T Sustainability Symposium: Visioning Workshop - U of T Sustainability Symposium presented by Cities Centre and Sustainability Office

June 13

U of T Sustainability Symposium: Evening Lecture - U of T Sustainability Symposium presented by Cities Centre and Sustainability Office

May 28

2012 Public Transit Planning and ITS Short Courses - Two intensive short courses with experts Bill Dawson, Ken Greenberg, Brendon Hemily, Eric Miller, Amer Shalaby, and Mohamed Wahba

May 12

Build Your Ideal City - Build Your Ideal City, Science Rendezvous, Martin Prosperity Institute and Cities Centre

April 17

Toronto in Question: Exploring the Answers - Final event of Toronto in Question lecture series - speakers Alan Broadbent, Tanzeel Merchant, moderator Shauna Brail

March 27

Who Needs Arts and Culture in Toronto? - Toronto in Question Lecture Series, speakers John Ralston Saul and Mark Kingwell, moderator Shauna Brail

March 16

Neighbourhood “Needs Portals” A Potential Child Welfare Intervention for Reducing Disparities through Formalizing Informal Support - Bridget Freisthler, , Dept. of Social Welfare, UCLA

March 08

Urban Renaissance Policies and the High Rise Transformation of Central Tokyo - Urban Renaissance Policies and the High Rise Transformation of Central Tokyo

February 28

Who Governs? City Hall and Citizen Participation - Toronto in Question Lecture Series, speakers Adam Vaughan and Richard Stren

February 27

Alternative Social Planning: Community Development for Racialized Communities in Toronto - Karen Sun, John Bousfield Visitor in Planning, University of Toronto

February 24

Rethinking Urbanity in a Time of Crisis: A Comparative View of City-ness in Africa and America's Midwest - Rethinking Urbanity in a Time of Crisis: A Comparative View of City-ness in Africa and America's Midwest

February 22

Populating the New Transit Corridors Feb 22 - Jim Bailey, Senior Planner, City of Vancouver; Ron Kellett, Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, UBC

February 10

How to Detect Regional Structures of Innovation - How to Detect Regional Structures of Innovation

February 08

Mind The Gap - Inequality in Toronto and What to Do About It - Exhibit at UrbanSpace Gallery

January 25

Innovative Methods in Community Development - Guest speakers Michael Prosserman, Unity Charity; Margo Charlton, Toronto Arts Foundation; and Meredith Hayes, FoodShare Toronto

January 24

Whose City? Gentrification, Inequality and the Future of Toronto - Toronto In Question Lecture Series featuring David Miller and David Hulchanski, with guest moderator Richard Sommer

January 18

Overcoming the Green Premium - Building a Model Sustainable Community - with Gordon Harris, President and CEO of the Simon Fraser University Community Trust

December 08

Innovation in City Building: Is Toronto Still Leading the Way? - CUI, Cities Centre & NRU present an annual conversation with Toronto’s Chief Planner, Gary Wright.

November 29

City Building: Beyond the Concrete - Ken Greenberg, Larry Bourne - Toronto in Question Lecture Series

November 10

Toronto Talks Mobility Symposium - Artscape Wychwood Barns

November 09

Toronto Talks Mobility - Public Forum - Toronto City Hall Council Chambers

November 09

What's Academia Got To Do With It? Looking for Community-Scholarly Balance in Co-developing Community-driven Research - Vanessa Parlette

November 08

Staying the Course - What Have Planners Learned About Implementation? CUI, AOLE

November 04

Urban Design Comes to Toronto, 1966-1972 - Cities Centre features historian Dr. Richard White in a new "Lunch and Learn" series

October 25

Moving People: Responses to Congestion - Toronto in Question Lecture Series

October 04

Is Toronto Broke? Making sense of the numbers: Municipal finance in Toronto - The inaugural lecture of the Toronto in Question series of lectures presented by Cities Centre, University of Toronto.

October 03

Cities Grow Ontario Forum UTSC - What influences voters in the inner suburbs? The 2010/2011 elections and voting trends in the inner suburbs

September 29

Orientation Meeting - For enrolled students of the Graduate Collaborative Program in Community Development.

September 22

Cities Grow Ontario: Toward a GREATER Greater Golden Horseshoe -

September 15

Jane Jacobs' Toronto - Join the Centre for City Ecology and four of Toronto's past Mayors for their reflections on the impact of Jane Jacobs on our city.

September 15

Resilient Infrastructure by Design - Register early for this forum featuring four excellent speakers representing current thinking and best practice at the national, regional and local levels

September 15

PRESS CONFERENCE - Re Toronto Waterfront. With Paul Bedford (former Chief Planner for Toronto), Richard Florida (Martin Prosperity Institute), and Richard Sommer (Dean, U. of T. Faculty of Architecture), and others.

July 19

Green Infrastructure: The Effects of Urban Rail Transit on Air Quality - The transportation sector is a major source of air pollution worldwide, yet little is known about the effects of transportation infrastructure on air quality.

June 16

Inner Suburbs at Stake: Investing in Scarborough's Communities - Learn from a panel discussion about urban change. The report, “Toronto’s inner suburbs: Investing in social infrastructure in Scarborough,” by Deborah Cowen and Vanessa Parlette, will be released.

June 16

Book Launch - A celebration of recent publications by Cities Centre Associates

June 15

Workshop on Recent Advances in Transit Research and Practice - Please RSVP here

June 14

2011 Public Transit Planning and ITS Short Course - An intensive two-day course with experts Amer Shalaby, Eric Miller and Brendon Hemily

June 13

2011 Public Transit Planning and ITS Short Course - An intensive two-day course with experts Amer Shalaby, Eric Miller and Brendon Hemily

May 21

3 Cities Forum - Tale of Three Cities with guest speakers J. David Hulchanski and Grace-Edward Galabuzi

May 12

Toronto The Good - The ultimate urban gathering of Torontonians who are interested in the City and in city building. RSVP: torontothegood@era.on.ca

May 12

Tower Neighbourhood Renewal Symposium - The second Tower Neighbourhood Renewal symposium is being held in conjunction with Toronto the Good

May 10

Funding the Cost of Municipal Services - Who Pays? - The goal of developing “complete communities” is a worthy one, but urgent questions are emerging about how best to handle the cost of growth ...

April 28

Complete Streets Forum -

April 14

Who Cares About 15 Million Voters? - Presented by Cities Centre, Innis College Urban Studies Program, Martin Prosperity Institute, and School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto, and Canadian Urban Institute. Read Report / RSVP here

March 25

Cities Mixes and Fixes Interdisciplinary Workshop: Complete Streets -

March 02

Jody Macdonald, Women's Community Development at the United Nations in New York -

March 02

The OMB: Affront to Democracy or Essential to Maintaining Community Balance? -

February 16

Organizing to Win -

February 08

Prelude to Collaboration -

February 07

The Forms and Dynamics of Anti-Poverty Activism in Toronto -

January 18

Jon Udell, Microsoft -

January 13

Community University Research Partnerships: Who does what, and why? -

January 06

Neighbourhood Renewal - Can We Repair the Great Divide? -

December 09

Toronto Today, Toronto Tomorrow - An Annual Conversation with Toronto's Chief Planner -

December 03

Community-Based Research & Community Development: Who does what, and why? - With Sarah Wakefield & Carla Klassen. Sponsored by Cities Centre, Community Development Collaborative Program, and & the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work’s Chow Yei Ching Chair in Housing.

November 10

How Well Do You Know Your City? Who Decides What You Know? -

November 06

The Other Home Show -

October 27

Cooperatives in Canada -

October 06

Beyond the Ballot Box: Civic Engagement-From Buzz Word to Meaningful Process -

September 16

Producing and Negotiating Precarious Migratory Status in Canada -

September 15

Mayoral Debate at Innis Town Hall - Mayoral candidates in the Toronto municipal election continue the debate tradition at Innis Town Hall.

September 09

On The Outside Looking In? - Cities Centre co-sponsors this Breakfast Roundtable of the Canadian Urban Institute's Election Issues Series: On the Outside Looking In? The Many Mysteries of Governance in the City of Toronto. Moderator Art Eggleton, Senator and former Mayor of Toronto, with speakers Richard Stren, Cities Centre Senior Advisors and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Alan Broadbent, Chairman, The Maytree Foundation, and Frank Cunningham, Cities Centre Senior Advisor and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Political Science, University of Toronto.

August 09

Public Transit Planning & ITS Short Course - Provides participants with knowledge of demands of public transit & of tools used in forecasting demand at both the system & route levels.

July 15

The Edible City: Where is Food on the Election Agenda? - The Canadian Urban Institute, in collaboration with the Cities Centre at the University of Toronto, presents an extended Roundtable Breakfast Seminar on how and why food fits in the election agenda.