Latest Past Events
The City Takes to the Air: Finance & Governance of Municipal Wireless Projects
Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, Room 208N 1 Devonshire Place, TorontoA 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.
