A City Should Be Like Itself: Toward a London City Charter
Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, Room 208N 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, CanadaCo-sponsored by Ideas That Matter, on June 8, 2009, a presentation by Dr. Mark Kleinman, Director of the London City Charter.
Planning for Intensification
Co-sponsored by Neptis Foundation, on January 8, 2009, with presentations by Marcy Burchfield, Geomatics Research Program Manager, Neptis Foundation, and Pierre Filion, Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo; with panelists Tija Dirks, Director of Growth Policy Planning & Analysis, Ontario Growth Secretariat; Kevin Eby, Director of Community Planning, Region of Waterloo; and John Livey, Chief Administrative Officer, Town of Markham.
Has the Time Come? Extending the Municipal Franchise to Toronto’s Permanent Residents
Co-sponsored by The Maytree Foundation, on August 26, 2008, with a presentation by Howard Duncan, Executive Head of Metropolis, and panelists Myer Siemiatycki, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, Ratna Omidvar, Executive Director, The Maytree Foundation, and Phil Triadafilopoulos, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Social Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough.
Invest in Success: Leveraging the Return from Global Cities
Co-sponsored by the Toronto Community Foundation, on May 21, 2008, with a presentation by Greg Clark, City and Regional Development Consultant. Mr. Clark is joined by panelists John Farrow, Chair and CEO of LEA Group Holdings Ltd. and Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO of the MaRS Discovery Project.
Exploring an Alternative Planning Process for Toronto
Co-sponsored by Ideas That Matter, on April 30, 2008, with panel chair Susan Schiller, Ontario Municipal Board, and panelists Councillor Adam Vaughan, City of Toronto, Howard Cohen, Context Development, and Dina Graser, People Plan Toronto.
The City Takes to the Air: Finance & Governance of Municipal Wireless Projects
Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, Room 208N 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, CanadaA presentation by Robert Ramsay, PhD student in Geography and holder of the Alan Broadbent Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance, on March 25, 2008, at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.
You Get What You Pay For: How Nordic Cities Are Financed
Co-sponsored by the Toronto Community Foundation, on March 5, 2008, with a presentation by Danish economist Jorgen Lotz, and panelists Glen Murray, President and CEO, Canadian Urban Institute, and Mario Lefebvre, Director of the Centre for Municipal Studies at the Conference Board of Canada.
The Public Metropolis: The Political Dynamics of Urban Expansion in the Toronto Region, 1924 – 2003
Co-sponsored by the Neptis Foundation and The GTA Forum, on January 29, 2008, with a presentation by Frances Frisken, Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar at York University, and panelists David Crombie, former Mayor of Toronto and federal cabinet minister; Judith Martin, Professor of Geography, Director of the Urban Studies Program, and Co-Director of the University Metropolitan Consortium at the University of Minnesota; and Andrew Sancton, Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario and Director of the department’s Local Government Program.
The History and Renaissance of Regionalism: Rethinking Growth Management
Co-sponsored by the Neptis Foundation, on December 6, 2007, with presentations by Robert Fishman, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, and Richard White, Toronto urban historian.
The Golden Rules of Regional Governance: Lessons from Germany
Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, Room 208N 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, CanadaCo-sponsored by the Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems, a presentation by Jen Nelles, PhD student in Political Science and holder of the Alan Broadbent Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance, on March 26, 2007, at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.