Howard Chernick presents on "Cities in the U.S. and Around the World: Getting the Finances Right". Chernick is Professor of Economics, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Following the banking and economic crisis, cities are being encouraged to adopt new strategies that embrace green economies, emerging markets, new technologies, and the modernization of export industries. This talk explores these new urban strategies.

Co-sponsored by Neptis Foundation, on December 4 2008, this talk features presentations by Zack Taylor, Planner and doctoral candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto,and John Van Nostrand, Architect and Planner; with panelists Andrea Gabor, Partner, Urban Strategies, Inc.; Brad Graham, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, Ontario Government; and Bruce Krushelnicki, Director of Planning, City of Burlington.

This event features IMFG's Visiting Fellow Trinh Hong Loan at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

The second seminar in our "Moving Our Region: Transportation for the Future" series is entitled, "Planning for Better Transportation Outcomes in Complex Environments: Lessons Learned from Vancouver and Chicago".

The first session of its 2010-2011 seminar series “Moving Our Region: Transportation for the Future” is entitled “Transport for our Region in 2030… But not as we know it” with George Hazel, OBE, Chairman of MRC McLean Hazel, a subsidiary of Toronto-based MMM Group, and Joe Berridge, Partner at Urban Strategies.

An event co-hosted by the Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance and the School of Public Policy's Media & Public Policy Speaker Series on October 5th at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

A panel discussion on September 14, 2010, with: Keynote Speaker: Paul Bedford, Urban Mentor and Former Toronto Chief Planner; panelists: Kyle Rae, Toronto City Councillor; Richard Joy, Toronto Board of Trade.

A panel discussion on August 25, 2010, with: Chair: Dr. Enid Slack, Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance; and panelists: David Magor, Chief Executive, Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation (IRRV), England; Paul Sanderson, Director of Professional Services, Valuation Office Agency, (VOA), England; Jerry Grad, P. Eng., CRE, FRICS, President, International Property Tax Institute, (IPTI), Canada.

A workshop co-hosted by the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance and the Cities Centre on Models of City Management for a South African delegation on June 8 at the Munk School of Global Affairs.