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IMFG Paper | 2024
Levelling Up Innovation in Local Government: An Evaluation of International Smart City Competitions
Austin Zwick, Zachary Spicer, Aaron Eben
Report evaluates whether the nationally-led smart city competition model advances technological adoption in participating cities.
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Video | 2024
Levelling Up Innovation in Local Government: An Evaluation of International Smart City Competitions
Austin Zwick, Zachary Spicer, Shauna Brail
Austin Zwick and Zachary Spicer discuss what they learned from studying smart city competitions from around the world and what governments can do to improve these competitions in the future.
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Forum Paper | 2024
Changing Patterns of Governance in Metropolitan Regions: Australian and Canadian Perspectives
Graham Sansom, Zack Taylor, Janice Baker
IMFG Forum paper reflects on recent changes to metropolitan governance in Greater Western Sydney in Australia and Peel Region in Canada, and concludes that current approaches are falling short in both countries.
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Presentation | 2024
Real Estate Development Timing in Toronto: Insights from Multi-Residential Development Applications
Keir Matthews-Hunter
The 2023-24 Blanche and Sandy Van Ginkel Graduate Fellow in Municipal Finance and Governance Keir Matthews-Hunter presented preliminary findings from analysis of approved multi-residential development applications from 2012-2015.
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Who Does What Report | 2024
The Municipal Role in Immigration
Valerie Preston, John Shields, Valerie Pruegger, Mireille Paquet, Sivakamy Thayaalan
Who Does What report examines the role municipalities can play in delivering immigration services.
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Presentation | 2024
Rethinking Surplus Land: Three Decades of Municipal Land Sales in the City of Toronto
Sean Grisdale
On June 18, 2024, 2023-24 IMFG Fellow in Municipal Finance and Governance Sean Grisdale provided the first comprehensive summary of housing development outcomes on former city land in Toronto, drawing on almost 30 years of data documenting land sales,
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Presentation | 2024
The Politics of Local Budgeting in Canada: Three Case Studies
On June 12, 2024, Richard M. Bird Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stephanie Ortynsky, compared the process of local government budgeting to federal and provincial budgeting processes before diving into three case studies of municipalities that have embarked on budgetary reform: Halifax, Toronto, and Vancouver.
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IMFG Paper | 2024
Land Use Planning to Mitigate Climate Change in the Greater Golden Horseshoe
Clara Turner, Jeff Allen, Karen Chapple, Sarah A. Smith
Report evaluates the extent to which different forms of new housing production will achieve greenhouse gas reduction targets and suggests best practices and policy approaches for housing and land use.
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Inside Halton: Enid Slack on the Vacant Home Tax
September 6, 2024
Journal of Commerce: Aaron Moore on Winnipeg development
August 14, 2024
Globe and Mail: Sean Grisdale on the “Squandering” of Public Land Sales
June 7, 2024