Internationally renowned cultural planners Gail Lord and Ngaire Blankenberg discuss how and why museums and cities can work together to activate their soft power – influence through attraction, persuasion and agenda-setting.
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Enid Slack talks taxes on Metro Morning
Enid Slack talked with Matt Galloway about taxes and tolls on CBC’s Metro Morning.
Find out more »New paper provides historical municipal finance lessons for today’s Toronto
Toronto, November 10, 2016 – As Toronto City Council debates the future of the City’s long-term financial direction, a new IMFG Paper by noted Toronto historian Richard White, Financing the […]
Find out more »Enid Slack quoted in a Toronto Star article on driving infrastructure
IMFG Director Enid Slack was quoted in a Toronto Star article called, “Are Toronto drivers paying their fair share?”
Find out more »Murtaza Haider discusses tax increment financing (TIF) on Metro Morning
Following the release of the IMFG Paper (No. 25), Can Tax Increment Financing Support Transportation Infrastructure Investment? The co-author of the paper, Murtaza Haider was a guest on Metro Morning on […]
Find out more »The Ward: Toronto’s First Priority Neighbourhood?
Book Launch and Discussion Panel Moderated by Editor John Lorinc, and featuring U of T authors and other contributors. Presented by Innis College and the Urban Studies Program.
Find out more »Zac Spicer writes book reviews for London School of Economics & Political Science
IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Zachary Spicer has written several book reviews published in the London School of Economics and Political Science Review of Books blog. April 2, 2014: Book review of Rethinking the […]
Find out more »New IMFG Paper looks at infrastructure investment in developing countries
A new paper by the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG) examines issues of decentralization and infrastructure funding responsibilities in developing countries.
Find out more »Enid Slack participated in Urban Growth and Finance Symposium
On October 9-10, IMFG Director Enid Slack was a discussant on a paper about accommodating metropolitan growth efficiently at the Urban Growth and Finance Symposium, hosted by The School of […]
Find out more »Enid Slack participating in CivicAction Forum on Transportation
IMFG Director Enid Slack participated in a Forum organized by CivicAction on April 17th, entitled Our Region, Our Move, where three hundred recognized business, labour, government, and community leaders will […]
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