Global Cities Speaker Series [05-06]
The Global Cities Speaker Series hosts world-class speakers invited to address key issues confronting global cities.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Time: 3pm to 5pm; Reception to follow
Location: Munk Centre for International Studies, Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, South Building, 1 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto
Joel Kotkin is a leading expert on the evolution of cities. His most recent book, entitled The City: A Global History, published in 2005, was described as "A compelling and original synthesis that belongs on the urbanist's bookshelf with Lewis Mumford, Peter Hall and Fernand Braudel." He is also author of the widely acclaimed book, The New Geography, How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape (Random House, 2000).
Kotkin is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times, and has written for The Wall Street Journal and many other publications. He lectures widely in Asia, Europe, and North America, and is currently a senior fellow with the New America Foundation in Washington.
Open public lecture; limited seating. RSVP to events@globalcities.ca
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For more information about Joel Kotkin go to www.joelkotkin.com
Hernando de Soto
Thursday, May 4, 2006 (Tentative)
Details to follow
Presented by Fred Kent, President, PPS and Cynthia Nitkin, Vice President, PPS and in conjunction with the XXth Anniversary of grano
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Time: 6:30 pm reception followed by dinner at 7:00 pm
Location: grano, 2035 Yonge Street, Toronto
Limited seating.
For more information on PPS please visit www.pps.org
United Nations World Urban Forum 2006: The Road to Vancouver
An Information Session by:
Michael Pearson,
Deputy Commissioner General/Commissaire général adjoint
World Urban Forum 3/Forum urbain mondial 3
Canadian Secretariat/Secrétariat canadien
Friday, December 9, 2005
Time: 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: Munk Centre for International Studies, North House, Room 208N, 1 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto
Canada will host the next UN-HABITAT World Urban Forum in 2006 - a key international event that will bring the global community together to find real solutions to the challenges facing cities and communities across the world. The WUF will take place June 19 -23, 2006 in Vancouver. This Information Session by the Deputy Commissioner General will outline strategies for how the University and the Toronto community can become engaged in the Forum and participate in this important event in Vancouver next year.
The theme for the WUF in Vancouver is: Our Future: Sustainable Cities - Turning Ideas into Action
Sub-themes include: Urban Growth and the Environment; Urban Governance and Finance; Social Inclusion and Cohesion
Limited seating. VIEW PRESENTATION
Building a 21st Century City
A presentation in conjunction with Ideas That Matter by the Final Joint Task Force Report of the Province of Ontario and the City of Toronto on the review of the City of Toronto Act.
A discussion will follow.
Dana Richardson, Assistant Deputy Minister, Local Government, Province of Ontario
Phillip Abrahams, Manager, Interprovincial Relations, Strategic & Corporate Policy Division, City Manager's Office, City of Toronto
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Time: 8am to 10:30am
Location: Munk Centre for International Studies, Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, South Building, 1 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto
Open public lecture; limited seating.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Time: 8am to 10:30am
Location: Munk Centre for International Studies, Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, South Building, 1 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto
Ronald K. Vogel is Professor of Political Science and Urban Affairs, Director, Ph.D. Program, School of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville.
Open public lecture; limited seating.
Global Cities Speaker Series [04-05]
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Time: 12pm to 2pm
Location: Munk Centre for International Studies, North Building, Room 108, 1
Devonshire Place, University of Toronto
Professor Patricia McCarney: University of Toronto (Chair)
Professor Richard Stren: University of Toronto
Barjor Mehta: World Bank, Washington DC
Frannie Leautier: World Bank Washington DC
Emmanuel Fiadzo: World Bank Washington DC
Mamadou Diouf, Department of History, University of Michigan
Winnie Matullah, Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
Nick Retsinas, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
Limited seating, lunch provided. VIEW PRESENTATION
Presented by the University of Toronto and the Global Cities Program, this roundtable will be open to the University community, representatives from the City of Toronto, the Government of Ontario, and the press. The roundtable will focus on what new powers are needed to improve planning in Toronto under a reformed Act.
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Time: 3pm to 5pm
Location: Munk Centre for International Studies, Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, South Building, University of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto
Panel Chaired by: Professor Patricia McCarney, Director, The Global Cities Program
Panelists:
• Paul Bedford, Former Commissioner of Planning, City of Toronto
• Ken Greenberg, U of T Lecturer on Cities and Principal of Greenberg
Consultants Inc.
• Glen Murray, former Mayor of Winnipeg and Senior Fellow, Massey College
• John Mascarin, Aird & Berlis, LLP
Concluding Remarks: Profesor Meric Gertler
Contacts:
Frank Cunningham, Principal, Innis College, frank.cunningham@utoronto.ca
Meric Gertler, Professor of Geography and Planning, meric.gertler@utoronto.ca
Enid Slack, Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, enid.slack@utoronto.ca
Patricia McCarney, Director, Global Cities Program, patricia.mccarney@utoronto.ca
Limited seating.
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Time: 3pm to 5pm
Location: Munk Centre for International Studies, Vivian and David Campbell
Conference Facility, South Building, 1 Devonshire Place, University of
Toronto
Edward Glaeser is one of the most innovative thinkers in the development of
cities around the world. He is a Professor of Economics in the Faculty of
Arts and Science at Harvard University where he has taught since 1992. He is
Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and Director
of the Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston. He teaches urban social
economics and micro theory. He has published dozens of papers on cities,
economic growth, and law and economics including his famous paper "Are
Cities Dying?" in the Journal of Economic Perspective. In particular, his
work has focused on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities
as centres of idea transmission. He also edits the Quarterly Journal of
Economics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992.
Open public lecture; limited seating.
Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Time: 3pm to 5pm
Location: Munk Centre for International Studies, Room 108 (North Room), 1 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto
Dr. Marc A. Weiss is Chairman and CEO of the Prague Institute for Global Urban Development in Prague, Barcelona, Sydney, and Washington, DC.
Open public lecture; limited seating. VIEW WEISS TEXT
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Time: 2pm to 4 pm (with reception to follow)
Location: The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre for International Studies, South House, 1 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto
Saskia Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. She is the author of number of books on global cities including Denationalization: Economy and Polity in a Global Digital Age (Princeton University Press 2003), Guests and Aliens (New York: New Press 1999) and her edited book Global Networks/Linked Cities (New York and London: Routledge 2002). She is co-director of the Economy Section of the Global Chicago Project, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Urban Data Sets, and a Member of the Council of Foreign Relations.
Open public lecture; limited seating. VIEW PRESENTATION
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