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On April 26, IMFG Graduate Fellow Shervin Ghaem-Maghami examined how selected municipalities in the GTA are engaging immigrants in planning decisions, and how such public participation activities can be improved to most meaningfully draw upon the strengths and adapt to the needs of newcomer communities.
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In this 2022 talk, IMFG Graduate Fellow Shervin Ghaem-Maghami examined how selected municipalities in the GTA are engaging immigrants in planning decisions, and how such public participation activities can be improved to most meaningfully draw upon the strengths and adapt to the needs of newcomer communities.
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The four papers in this report identify the ideal role of municipalities in housing policy, where municipalities currently face constraints, how other orders of government can support municipalities, and where intergovernmental cooperation is needed.
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In this talk, Professor Mark Kleinman of King’s College London discusses how cities have been changed by the pandemic, and how they will need to adapt, with a particular focus on London, UK.
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In this video, IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Hsi-Chuan Wang provides a number of examples of self-help cases from an informal settlement in Accra, Ghana, to highlight how they have built up the settlers’ daily public spaces. Wang argues that this kind of urban design represents a social movement that strengthens community norms and helps lead to political and social change.
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In this presentation, IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Hsi-Chuan Wang provided a number of examples of self-help cases from an informal settlement in Accra, Ghana, to highlight how they have built up the settlers’ daily public spaces. Wang argued that this kind of urban design represents a social movement that strengthens community norms and helps lead to political and social change.
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In this webinar, Jean-Paul Addie examined what we can learn from city-regions from around the world and their relationship with the airports that act as economic hubs for their regions. His presentation was followed by a panel discussion including Lloyd A. McCoomb (former President and CEO of GTAA), Pamela Blais (Metropole Consultants) and Josh Neubauer (Urban Strategies). Moderated by Matti Siemiatycki, Interim Director of School of Cities.
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In this presentation, Jean-Paul Addie examined what we can learn from city-regions from around the world and their relationship with the airports that act as economic hubs for their regions. He is an Assistant Professor in the Urban Studies Institute at Georgia State University.
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