This presentation contrasts the institutions, law, and practices of planning in Ontario with other jurisdictions in Canada and the US. It concludes that the public's frustration with the OMB masks larger issues present in Ontario's planning regime, issues that the removal of the OMB will not address.

This talk features Bob Yaro, President of the Regional Plan Association, New York City. It is entitled Planning a Region: Infrastructure and and Imagination for North America's Largest City-Region.

The third lecture in the Big City, Big Ideas series, Larry Beasley presents on "Planning the Global City: Vancouver, Abu Dhabi and the world".