Search Results for: Urban and Regional Planning
Presentation | 2017
Accountability and Transparency Gaps in Inter-Local Collaboration
Zachary Spicer
By most accounts, inter-local contracting and service sharing is increasing. This presentation considers a number of questions related to accountability and transparency in these types of local servicing arrangements.
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Presentation | 2017
York Region - Northern Six (N6) Shared Services and Collaboration
David Cash
This presentation discusses the experiences with shared services and collaboration of six municipalities in York Region: Aurora, East Gwillimbury, Georgina, King, Newmarket, and Whitchurch-Stouffville.
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Presentation | 2017
A Quiet Evolution: The Emergence of Indigenous-Local Partnerships in Canada
Christopher Alcantara and Jen Nelles
This presentation explores what kinds of intergovernmental relationships exist between local and Indigenous governments in Canada, and what explains the emergence and character of those relationships.
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Forum Paper | 2016
Participatory Budgeting: The Practice and the Potential
Abigail Friendly
Participatory budgeting is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. Several Canadian cities are experimenting with participatory budgeting. This Forum paper describes participatory budgeting efforts in Toronto and elsewhere.
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Presentation | 2016
The Boundary Bargain: Growth, Development, and the Future of City-County Separation
Zachary Spicer
This talk presents findings from a new book about the peculiarities of city-county separation. What are the dangers of having municipal institutions that are too rigid to modernize, and what does it mean for the future of regional governance in Ontario?
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Presentation | 2016
Land Value Capture for Social Benefits: Comparing Toronto and São Paulo
Abigail Friendly
IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Abigail Friendly compares the use of LVC in two cities – São Paulo and Toronto – with a focus on acquiring local benefits and services such as park improvements, childcare and recreational facilities, and social housing.
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Presentation | 2016
Accessibility, Transportation Planning, and Fairness
Karel Martens, Steven Farber, Monica Campbell, and Linda Weichel
In this presentation, Professor Karel Martens discusses the consequences of “the accessibility turn” - arguing, first, that the assessment of accessibility is not merely an option, but a moral obligation for transportation authorities, and second, that the focus on accessibility inevitably requires these authorities to explicitly address questions of fairness.
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Book | 2016
The Boundary Bargain: Growth, Development, and the Future of City-County Separation
Zachary Spicer
Detailing the development of municipal institutions, the original logic behind the city-county separation, and the eventual shift in institutional and municipal organization, this book demonstrates that urban and rural areas have always had a reciprocal relationship and that both play an important role in the strength of the national economy and the broader local community. Focusing on three case studies of separated cities and their counties that still retain strict city-county separation, former IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Zachary Spicer reveals how this policy works, what problems it poses, and examines the best practices for addressing growth, development, and sprawl from a regional perspective.
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Globe and Mail: Sean Grisdale on the “Squandering” of Public Land Sales
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CBC Online: Almos Tassonyi on Brampton’s Strategic Reserve Fund
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Municipal World: Enid Slack on Municipal Finance
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