spring 2009 geoplan department of geography & program in planning and the association of geography alumni (utaga)

Chair's Message by virginia maclaren his issue of GeoPlan has several stories about the wonderful work Tof the Planning Alumni Committee in supporting our planning students (pg. down the corridor on the fifth 7-8) and of UTAGA in co-sponsoring the floor of Sidney Smith Hall. This Awards Night (p.3). The whole depart- expansion will allow us to bring ment greatly appreciates the work of these about 30 of our 180 graduate dedicated volunteers, especially during students from the basement up difficult economic times. Like academic to the fifth floor, create a larger institutions everywhere, the University of urban design lab and open a new Toronto is experiencing some financial dif- graduate and undergraduate ficulties because of the economic downturn seminar room for about 35 people. We and those difficulties filter down to the are especially excited about having gradu- departmental level. We have made, and ate students on the same floor as faculty. will continue to make, significant cuts to Finally, another good news story is one our operating budget in order to reduce ex- that is just beginning. We are starting to penses, while still ensuring that we are able plan for the department’s 75th anniversa- to offer the highest-quality undergraduate ry in 2010. The anniversary committee is and graduate education experience. Among looking into a wide range of possible events other measures, we have combined the job and you will be hearing more about them UTAGA Awards Night: of receptionist and alumni affairs/events in the next issue of GeoPlan. If you have 2008 review & winners, coordinator into one position. Please join any ideas for the committee or would like 2009 Nomination Form me in welcoming Andrew Malcolm, now to join the committee, please let us know by pg. 3-6 one of the co-editors of GeoPlan, to this emailing the UTAGA office. We welcome new position. your input! PAC Spring Social: Bruce Kuwabara to speak, Two very exciting developments are The department’s undergraduate ticket purchase Form going to be taking place in the department curriculum underwent a major review and pg. 8-10 over the next few months. First, we have revision this year. Among the important been awarded funding for an innovative un- changes is the introduction of two new field Travel: dergraduate student ‘collaboratory’ with 32 courses in human and environmental geog- Joe Whitney in Bali, seats. The collaboratory will have 8 tables, raphy, to complement the two existing field Mount Roundtop with GGR390 each with a large-screen computer, access courses in physical geography. Feedback pg. 11-13 to the Internet and plug-ins for laptops. from students indicates that they appreci- Students will be able to work together on ate field work in the curriculum more than Professional Development Workshops, group projects and then, if they like, share almost any other type of activity. Funding Geotrips, Book Launches and Reviews their results and ideas with others by send- for students to participate in field work will throughout! ing them to the computer screens of other come in part from a new award established groups in the room. Our second bit of good by Professor Emeritus Bill Dean, named the Front Cover Photo Credits - pg. 2 news is that, after many years, the Depart- William G. Dean Scholarship in Geography ment of Geography offices are expanding for Field Research. geoplan, spring 2009 department news and events awards program in planning field studies in bandung indonesia and mexico city In 2008, students from the Congratulations to Professor Emeri- Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Congragulations to Dr. Lisa Zhang, a Program in Planning visited Bandung tus Larry Bourne FRSC, who has Farish for receiving the McColl Family former PhD student from our department. Indonesia and Mexico City. Thank you received the Lambda Alpha International Fellowship’s tenth annual (2009) award. Lisa is the recipient of the 2007 Best PhD to Francisco Obando, Michael Noble President's Award of Recognition for his Farish will use the award for travel to the Thesis Award of the Canadian Remote and Jen Simons for the two Mexico City contribution to land economics in Canada Canadian Arctic to document the experi- Sensing Society. Dr. Zhang was announced photos shown here, and the Bandung, through research, writing, teaching and ences of local people who were affected as the winner at the 29th Canadian Sym- Indonesia photos used for this issue of mentoring. Lambda Alpha International is in various ways by the construction and posium on Remote Sensing in Whitehorse, Geoplan's front cover! an honorary land economics society: mem- operation of the DEW (Defense Early Yukon in June 2008, and was invited to bership recognizes and honours men and Warning) Line. Congratulations to Matt present the results of her thesis at the fol- women who have made outstanding contri- and good luck in our country’s most tragi- lowing Canadian Symposium on Remote butions to the knowledge, understanding cally forgotten regions. Sensing. In Memoriam: or practice of the field of land economics, Professor Emeritus Leslie Curry and whose professional conduct contrib- by virginia maclaren and caryl curry utes to the furtherance of the highest ideals es Curry, Professor Emeritus of United Nations and then at Charles of scholarship and integrity. New Appointments Geography at the University of To- Warren Thornthwaite's Laboratory by virginia maclaren Lronto and recipient of the Canadian of Climatology in Seabrook, N.J. He Association of Geographers’ Award for received his doctorate in geography he Department of Geography and Planning is losing its Graduate Coordi- Did you miss the last issue of Scholarly Distinction in 1977, died on Jan- from the University of Auckland in New nator, Bill Gough, to a higher office. He has been appointed Vice-Dean, GeoPlan from Fall 2008? uary 12, 2009, at his home in Annapolis, Zealand in 1959 and taught at the Uni- Graduate Education and Program Development at UTSC, effective April 1. It was our first stand-alone electronic version T MD. He was 86. He was pre-deceased by versity of Washington, the University of Amrita Daniere is also moving up, having accepted an appointment as Vice Dean, of the newsletter and can be found in the his first wife, Jean Blick Curry, who died in Maryland and Arizona State University Graduate at UTM, to start June 30, 2009. Congratulations to Bill and Amrita! Alumni & Friends section of the departmental 1981. Survivors include his wife of 18 years, before moving to the University of To- I am very happy for both our colleagues, but sad for the department to be website at www.geog.utoronto.ca. From this Caryl Pines Curry of Annapolis; three chil- ronto, where he spent 21 years before losing such excellent administrators. Amrita was the first Graduate Chair at the point forwards, every Fall issue of GeoPlan dren from his first marriage, William Curry retiring in 1985. He then moved to University of Toronto who was not also a St. George Chair. She essentially wrote Bellagio; a Fellowship at Australian Na- will be available only on the website, while the of Oakville, , Claudia Curry of Port Annapolis. As a theoretician, Les Curry the book on how to be this new type of Graduate Chair and now several other tional University; and the citation for Meri- Spring issue will be available in both print and Hope, Ontario, and Ann Curry-Stevens of was a modeller, using stochastic analysis to departments in the Faculty of Arts & Science are following Geography's lead. Bill torious Contributions of the Association of website versions. Would you like to be noti- Portland, Ore.; two stepchildren, Eve Pines delve deeply into processes, especially eco- and Amrita have put an enormous amount of work into coping with graduate American Geographers. He also received fied when the Fall issue is posted? If yes, just of Springfield, Ill., and Roger Pines of Chi- nomic processes. One of his early papers expansion over the past two years, adapting to new graduate funding models and the International Geographical Union’s send your email address to UTAGA (utaga@ cago; and seven grandchildren. showed that natural climatic change could generally making every effort possible to improve the quality of the research envi- prestigious Lauréat d’Honneur 2000; only geog.utoronto.ca) and we will let you know as Les Curry was born and raised in occur as the result of random exchanges ronment for our graduate students. They will be a hard act to follow. three or four are awarded every fourth year soon as it comes out. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. After a involving heat storage in the oceans. An- standard grammar-school education, at other paper treated central places, in terms at the IGU’s conference. The IGU citation age 18 he volunteered for the Royal Navy, of inventory management and stochastic describes him as “a scholar who by way of and joined the 14th destroyer flotilla (as a processes. Author of the book The Random his contributions in climatology, economic geography and spatial analysis has chal- kick off this year's geotrips with john warkentin's radar mechanic) based initially in Alex- Spatial Economy and Its Evolution (1998), TORONTO PUBLIC SCULPTURE tour andria, Egypt. His ship joined convoys to he was featured in Geographical Voices lenged established lines of thinking and Toronto's geography and history can be read through its public sculpture and monuments. Many of the over 600 public sculptures in supply Malta and then supported invasions (2002), an anthology of autobiographical provided valuable new insights into the the city are located between Spadina Avenue and Bay Street, most on the grounds of the University of Toronto (including its associated in the Aegean, Italy and later Normandy. essays by 14 eminent geographers, edited ways whereby human behavior shapes colleges) and at Queen's Park. Great cultural changes in Toronto are evident in these sculptures installed between 1870 (the city's oldest When the war ended, he was training as by Peter Gould and Forrest Pitts. the world we live in. Professor Curry’s public sculpture) and 2008. crew on a submarine destined for deploy- In addition to the CAG Award for theoretical studies in economic geogra- On SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2009, John Warkentin will lead a field trip to look at and interpret these sculptures. Please let the Alumni ment to the Far East. Scholarly Distinction, Les Curry’s hon- phy, especially studies that draw upon the Office know whether you intend to come. (Number - about 20 persons.) Les Curry graduated from King's Col- ours included a Visiting Commonwealth mathematics of probability theory and the Alumni Office: 416-978-3375, [email protected] free! lege at the University of Durham in 1949. Professorship in the U.S.; a Guggenheim concepts of physical systems analysis, have TIME: 10 AM, MEETING PLACE: Northeast Corner, Spadina Avenue and College Street Two years later, he received a master's Fellowship at Cambridge University; an been unmatched in their originality and FINISH: Between 12:00 and 1:00 at Queen's Park degree in geography from Johns Hop- inaugural Connaught Senior Fellowship rigor and have established his internation- (Good weather is always a blessing, but rain or shine John will be there) kins University while he was a Fulbright in the Social Sciences; a residency at the al reputation as one of the leading theoreti- Scholar. He worked as an economist at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Study Center in cians in the discipline.” 1 2 geoplan, spring 2009 utaga news and events

Awards Night 2008 UTAGa AWARDS nomination by fenton chin names of awards, and how winners are chosen

his great annual tradition of the Geography/Planning Department and UTAGA took place on Thursday November 6, 2008, at Award Descriptions our favourite spot, “Old Vic” (a.k.a. Victoria College, Alumni Hall). Awards Night, held near the end of the year, feels very much Tlike a Nobel Prize ceremony—or even Thanksgiving party—for geographers and planners from all walks of life: scholars, profes- UTAGA Distinguished Alumni Award: This award is given to alumni of the Department and its programs, who have led a career of sionals, and their family and friends, gather together to show their appreciation for each other’s contributions to the department, the exceptional distinction in any field, in any industry (not necessarily in geography) and brought honour to the department. university, and to the study of geography and planning. This past year, UTAGA honoured David Phillips, in absen- UTAGA Honorary President Award: This award is given to an individual who has made exceptional contributions to the development of tia, with its Distinguished Alumnus award, for his work at Envi- the Department of Geography or its programs, and its alumni. He or she need not be a graduate of the Department or of the University, ronment Canada, particularly, in charting long-term changes to and can hold, or have held, a career in any field, such as business, education, politics, research, and self-employment. the country’s weather patterns. Loretta Ryan, a founding member of UTAGA’s Planning Alumni Committee, was named the Honor- Outstanding Service Awards: This award is presented annually to up to five individuals who have made outstanding voluntary contribu- ary President, for her many years of service to this committee. tions to the Department of Geography, its programs, its students or its alumni. Nominees could be alumni or friends, but NOT students The Matthew W. F. Hanson Scholarship in Planning was awarded currently enrolled with the department. There may be multiple recipients in one year. for the first time. Matthew Hanson (MScPl 04) passed away in 2006 and a number of family members and friends created this Geography Toronto (GT) Awards (Graduate and Undergraduate): This award is presented to students who have made outstanding con- scholarship in his memory, to recognize students in the Planning tributions to the life of the Department of Geography & Program in Planning. Note: only students who are able to graduate during the Program for their efforts and contribution to student life. same year that these prizes are awarded are eligible. So, for 2009, nominees must receive their degrees during either the Spring (June) Your help is needed in searching for this year’s geography or Fall (November) Convocation ceremonies. Award winners are individuals who have been extensively involved in the undertaking of From Left to Right: The Ken and Patricia Hanson, Edward and planning “champions.” To nominate someone for a UTAGA extra-curricular activities targeted at fellow geography/planning students, while at the same time achieving above-average academic Birnbaum, Katie Mazer, Dan Cohen, Amrita D10aniere award, just think of a deserving former classmate or graduate, success. Like the Outstanding Service Award, there can be more than one recipient per year. and then submit his/her name, along with yours, and a written citation (see attached form), Previous Winners Left to right, top to explaining why you think he/ bottom: Jan Pisek, Carlos she deserves an award, to the Distinguished Alumni: 1995 Daniel Griffith, 1996 Marie Sanderson, 1997 Keith Fraser, 1998 William Wonders, 1999 John Warkentin, Avendano, Anita Simic, 2000 William Dean, 2001 Richard Ruggles, 2002 Robert Bateman, 2003 Alex Davidson, 2004 Eric Sheppard, 2005 Dick Baine, Katherine Wihry, Evan UTAGA office, no later than Castel, Christopher Wal- April 30, 2009. It is really 2006 Joe Berridge, 2007 Christopher Sharpe, 2008 Dave Phillips. len, Emily Eaton, Jennifer that easy! Forkes, Cristian Ches Honorary President: 1995 Donald Kerr, 1996 Joe Whitney, 1997 Barry Goodison, 1998 Carl Amrhein, 1999 Richard “Dick” Baine, 2000 Larry Bourne, 2001 Ken Jones, 2002 Tony Davis, 2003 Jacob Spelt, 2004 John Britton, 2005 Marie Sanderson, 2006 Joe Guzzi, 2007 Jock Galloway, 2008 Loretta Ryan.

graduate award winners Outstanding Servcie Awards: 1999 Penny Henry, Donna Jeynes, Gerald Pisarzowski and Enid Slack; 2000 Pamela Blais, Roger Clarke, Thelma Gee, Tom Heslip and Susan Werden; 2001 Fenton Chin, Catherine Cieply, Joe Guzzi and Jacqueline Peers; Left to right, top to bottom: Macej Jamrozik, Rachel 2003 Anne McMaster, Melanie Van Hees, Peter Zimmerman; 2004 Antony Lorius, Jane Macijauskas, Loretta Ryan, Dick Baine, Korman, Clara McGregor, Joss Skyler, Daniel Pierre, Leo Mui, Charlene Felix, Taleen Derharoutiouian Andrew Brown, Gunter Gad; 2005 Corwin Cambray, Jenny Lass, Valemar Nickel; 2007 Christian Ventresca, Jeffery Cantos.

undergraduate award winners

Left to right, top to bot- tom: Dan Cohen, Anthio Yuen, Stephanie Gris, Katie Mazer, Melissa Harris, Kristin Ander- son, Edward Birnbaum, planning award winners Brian Greguol 3 4 UTAGA AWARDS 2009 - NOMINATION FOrm award winners 2008 deadline for nominations: april 30, 2009 Undergraduate Graduate

Alpar Undergraduate Scholarship Donald F. Putnam Graduate Scholarship scholarship in the Department of If you wish to nominate anyone for an award, please detach and complete the UTAGA Awards Nomination Form below, or provide the Leo Mui Carlos Avendano, Jennifer Forkes, Geography, Planning Program Ben Shindman Scholarship in Geography Christopher Wellen Emily Eaton appropropiate information for each candidate and return it to: Stephanie Silver F. Kenneth Hare Graduate Scholarship in The Neptis Foundation/Ontario Graduate Canadian Association of Geographers the Environment Scholarship in Planning UTAGA Recognition Committee Award Aurel Cristian Ches Xiaojuan Feng, John-Paul Iamonaco c/o Department of Geography & Program in Planning Taleen Derharoutiounian George Tatham/ Geography Alumni Urban Strategies/Ontario Graduate Room 5047, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3 Edward Blake Scholarship in Science Graduate Scholarship Scholarship in Planning In person, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday, at Sidney Smith Hall, 5th Floor, Sarah Simpkin Tanzina Mohsin Melissa Harris by fax to 416-978-6729 Donald Putnam Scholarship Graduate Geography Toronto Award Kristine Janzen Lisa Freeman Planning or send your nomination by email to F. Kenneth Hare Undergraduate John D. Barnes Geodetic Sciences Andrew Malcolm, UTAGA Events Co-ordinator Scholarship in the Environment Fellowship Alan Tonks Planning Scholarship [email protected] John-Paul lamonaco Murray Richardson Dan Cohen, Brian Greguol, Katrine Mazer Nominations will be accepted only from faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends Outstanding Performance Award for GGR Joseph A. May Scholarship Alpar Scholarship 201/203/205/206 Patrick Vitale, Katherine Wihry Heather Dorries Awards will be presented at the department’s annual Awards Night scheduled for Rachel Korman J.E.R. Ross Scholarship Benjamin Sonshine Urban Planning Thursday November 6, 2009 Outstanding Performance Award for Claire Oswald Scholarship GGR220 Oscar J. Marshall Graduate Scholarship Emanuel Nicolescu Samuel Schachar Patrick Hodgson, Jan Pisek, Anita Simic Canadian Institute of Planners (cip) Name of Nominee: ______Outstanding Performance Award for Thomas Luther Panton Award Award for Academic Excellence JGI221 Anthio Yuen Michelle Drylie Clara McGregor Centre for Urban and Community Studies Name(s) of Nominator(s): ______Outstanding Performance Award for Ontario Graduate Scholarship Urban Planning Research Awards GGR240 Awards Michelle Drylie, David Wachsmuth Award Category: ______Maciej Jamrozik Edie Yolles Award in Urban Planning Outstanding Performance Award for Donald F. Putnam/ George Tatham Michelle Drylie In the space below, please explain how the nominee meets the award criteria. You may use additional pages, if needed, and GGR391 Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Ian D. Macpherson Award Taleen Derharoutiounian Geography Stephanie Gris attach extra, supporting documents, if any, that you believe will help the selecting committee. Use only one form per candidate, Outstanding Undergraduate Research Claire Oswald lea Consulting Ltd. Award in Planning and per award. Award Government of Ontario/ William G. Dean Transportation Kristine Janzen Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science Francisco Obando The Sidney and Lucille Silver Scholarship and Technology Matthew Hanson Scholarship in Planning David Photiadis Jennifer Sawyer Dan Cohen, Kathrine Mazer, Edward Undergraduate Computer Applications Government of Ontario/ esri Canada Birnbaum Award Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science Mitchell Goldhar Award for Excellent Daniel Pierre and Technology Achievement in the Planning Program The Undergraduate Geography Toronto Evan Castle Martin Danyluk Award J. Michael Tomczak/Ontario Graduate Peter R. Walker First Year Planning Joss Skyler Scholarship in Geography Scholarship Undergraduate Griffith Taylor Memorial Maryam Ramin Katrine Mazer, Morgan Skowronski Award Edward Sorbara-Urban Development Planning Alumni Graduate Scholarship Charlene Felix Institute of Toronto/Ontario Graduate Kristin Anderson external award winners Undergraduate Graduate Council (sshrc) Martine August, Antony Chum, Marcie Natural Sciences and Engineering Canadian Institutes of Health Research Snyder, Benita Tam, Paul Jackson, Research Council (nserc) (cihr) Heather, Dorries, Zoe Dalton Stefanie Steele, Sarah Simpkin, Daniel Kristian Larsen Trudeau Foundation Scholar Pierre Natural Sciences and Engineering Lisa Freeman Research Council (nserc) Royal Bank Award Roger Philips, Jennifer Weaver Carla Klassen Social Sciences and Humanities Research 5 6 geoplan, spring 2009 pac news and events

Help is on its Way…hire an intern today! is toronto ourtopia? by ayesha alli by michael noble and corwin cambray

s your planning agency swamped with mature, responsible, and up for challenges. The Program in Planning at the Uni- n April 16, 2009, Bruce Kuwabara will share his thoughts with Spring Social attendees in his keynote address – Is Toronto work? Hiring a planning student for a They come into the program from a variety versity of Toronto provides students with a Ourtopia? "Ourtopia" represents an evolving thesis that Toronto has the potential to become a viable and sustainable urban Isummer internship is a great solu- of backgrounds, including policy making, fully accredited two-year Master’s degree. Omodel that is directly a reflection of that uniquely Canadian condition: openness. Kuwabara will discuss how simultaneous tion bringing a fresh perspective and new planning practice, community develop- As part of the fulfillment of this degree, urban developments are shaping the city: the cultural renaissance, the waterfront revitalization, major urban precincts such as the energy to your company. ment, social activism and a range of under- students are required to complete an 80- University of Toronto, and camh, among others. Against this Our students are bright, energetic, graduate disciplines. hour internship. Consider our internship framework he will identify the specific conditions that must be cultivated in order requirement as an opportunity for your achieve a sustainable and civil urbanism. still time to sign up for workshops from the program in planning's professional organization or firm to hire our students Mark Your Calendar! development series on for specialized and unique help on short- Bruce Kuwabara to Speak at Leading Change in Cities: Skills for Planners term projects. Urban Design and Planning for Green Development (April 28 & 29, 2009) University of Toronto's 13th To learn more about the Internship Register by April 17, 2009. $350. The workshop will provide participants with a Annual Friends of Planning broad overview of sustainability issues, a focus on the current state of planning and Program, please see the Information Flyer development industries, and a second day filled with practical information to con- and Internship Opportunity Form at Spring Social on April 16 sider in developing a sustainability plan. www.geog.utoronto.ca/programs/ Modelling Impacts of Climate change on Cities planning/internships The University of Toronto's 13th (May 2008 ) or contact Ayesha Alli, Planning Annual Friends of Planning Spring (more information available on www.geog.utoronto.ca/programs/planning). Program Administrator at 416-946-0269 Social will be held from 6-9pm on For more information on these workshops, visit: www.geog.utoronto.ca/programs/planning/pdp or [email protected] for more details. Thursday, April 16, 2009 in the Great Hall, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. Kuwabara’s keynote address will be at Internships and Inspiration: The Annual Matthew Hanson Plan- 6:15 p.m. with reception to follow. This is ning Opportunities Workshop Was a Success! a major networking event and more than by maryann alisch 300 professionals from the public, private n November, 2008, the Planning Partners, and Angela Stea from the City of and worry, that so many alumni have made and not-for-profit sectors are expected to Bruce Kuwabara, Photo by James Reid Alumni Committee (pac) held its an- Toronto. it through the program and are now suc- attend. Inual Planning Opportunities Work- The workshop began with introduc- cessfully working in their desired fields. Tickets are only $45, with event proceeds Bruce Kuwabara, Partner, kpmb Architects, will be the featured speaker at shop, named in honour of Matthew Han- tions from all panel members who took Attending a workshop with such a diverse supporting the University of Toronto's University of Toronto’s 13th Annual Friends of Planning Spring Social on April 16 at son, a graduate of the Program in Planning the time to share their own experiences group of planning experts also opened stu- Friends of Planning Fund. Tax receipts Hart House. in 2004 who passed away in 2006. in transitioning from the Program to the dents’ eyes to the numerous career options will be provided. All are welcome, but Bruce Kuwabara is a founding partner of the Toronto-based firm of Kuwabara The workshop brought out many workforce. They discussed current projects and opportunities that the planning profes- please reserve your place by April 1. See Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects and the 2006 Royal Architectural School of first and second year graduate planning that they are, or have been, involved with, sion has to offer. the Spring Social flyer and RSVP form Canada Gold Medallist. Kuwabara’s work in Toronto includes Canada’s National students eager to gain insight about the providing an inside look into what students On behalf of the first and second year on the following page and at www.geog. Ballet School, the Gardiner Museum and the Bell Lightbox for the Toronto Inter- professional planning world. Students have to look forward to upon graduation. planning classes, thank you to pac for con- utoronto.ca/alumni/pac/news-events. national Film Festival. His projects have been recognized in Canada with eight took this opportunity to voice collective Panelists also shared their internship ex- tinuing to be so dedicated to enriching the The Planning Alumni Committee wel- Governor General's Awards for Architecture, and internationally by the American anxieties regarding the upcoming summer periences and tips for finding planning op- students’ educational experience and for comes the Spring Social’s 2009 Premiere Institute of Architects, the Athenaeum, and the Royal Institute of British internships, career paths, and finding jobs portunities. The floor was then opened to taking the time to offer this much appreci- Sponsors: Aird & Berlis LLP, Cassels Architects. He helped establish the International Design Chair at the in the present economic situation. the students who took this opportunity to ated workshop. Brock Lawyers, Davies Howe Part- University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. The workshop was moderated by ask specific questions ners, Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, Currently Kuwabara chairs the design review panel for Waterfront Toronto, and sits pac's Chair, Corwin Cambray. Also on hand of the panel members. Lea Consulting Ltd., and Stikeman on the board of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. to help ease the students’ worries and Students found Elliott LLP. Interested in participating Kuwabara’s commitment to making architecture that ensures the vitality of answer questions was a panel of Plan- the workshop to be in the Spring Social’s corporate sponsor- cultural, educational and social institutions has also contributed to raising the inter- ning Program alumni including Jordan extremely useful and ship program? Contact Carly Bowman national profile of Canadian architecture. As a practitioner and a critic, Kuwabara Erasmus of Ontario Realty Corporation, refreshing, reminding at [email protected] or 416- has contributed to the national discourse on city building in the 21st century. Corinne Fox from the Town of Whitby, them during a time 849-6001 for a 2009 sponsorship Antony Lorius from Hemson Consulting of the semester when package. Ltd., Nupur Malaviya from Davies Howe there was much stress Moderator, Corwin Cambray, and panel members 7 8 date | Thursday April 16, 2009 time | 6pm to 9pm place | Hart House Great Hall

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Is Toronto Ourtopia? Presented by Bruce Kuwabara, Partner, KPMB Architects Featured Speaker at 6:15 p.m. with reception to follow. Kuwabara’s commitment to making architecture that ensures the vitality of cultural, Join over 300 profes- educational and social institutions has also contributed to raising the international profile sionals from the public, of Canadian architecture. As a practitioner and a critic, Kuwabara has contributed to the national discourse on city building in the 21st century. “Ourtopia” represents an evolving private, academic and thesis that Toronto has the potential to become a viable, and sustainable urban model that non-profit sectors in is directly a reflection of that uniquely Canadian condition: openness. Kuwabara will dis- support of the Univer- cuss how simultaneous urban developments are shaping the city: the cultural renaissance, sity of Toronto’s Friends the waterfront revitalization, major urban precincts such as the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, CAMH, among others. Against this framework he will identify the spe- of Planning Fund. cific conditions that must be cultivated in order achieve a sustainable and civil urbanism. BruceKuwabara, Featured Speaker (Photo Credit: James Reid) 2009PREMIERE SPONSORS Interestedin becoming a 2009 Spring Social sponsor?

Please contact Carly Bowman at 2009PLATINUM SPONSORS [email protected] or 416-849-6001 for a 2009 sponsorship package.

date | Thursday April 16, 2009 time | 6pm to 9pm place | Hart House Great Hall

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* This is your opportunity to provide insights ______from your professional experiences with a April 1, 2009 City Prov. Postal Code current student and introduce him/her to your colleagues. Please provide your email so a Yes. I would like to be paired* with a current student (6:45-7:15pm) PAC member can provide you details.

PLEASE RETURN COMPLETED FORM AND PAYMENT TO: PAYMENT OPTIONS: # of Tickets _____ x $45 each and $20 per Student Ticket = $ ______total Andrew Malcolm Department of Geography Please charge my credit card: OR My cheque or money order is enclosed University of Toronto Visa Mastercard (payable to the University of Toronto) 100 St. George Street Room 5047 Credit Expiry: Card Toronto, ON M5S 3G3 Card Holder’s Number: ______/ ______Signature:______t: 416-978-3375 f: 416-978-6729 e: [email protected] I will pick up my ticket(s) at the door on April 16 OR Please send my ticket(s) to the address above

Presentedby the Planning Alumni Committee (PAC) of the Univer - sityof Toronto Association of Geography Alumni in conjuction with the Department of Geography and Program in Planning. ThePlanning Alumni Committee thanks the Ontario Professional PlannersInstitute and our media sponsor NRU Publishing Inc. for their generous support. geoplan, spring 2009 travel and field studies

leaving fields fallow. However, there is these activities were assisted by the tika balinese agriculture: a perfect order? little point in individual households engag- calendar that divided time into cyclical by joe whitney At the ing in these practices since control of pests periods of one to ten days rather than the head of n late October of last year, my wife society, Lansing found that farmers and between the hierarchical level from which in one field will induce them to migrate to linear time of Western calendars. These each ter- and I, through the generosity of a priests at the local temples and shrines water is drawn and its holiness. Dur- neighbouring areas where conditions are cycles could be related to the water control race there former student in Hong Kong, visited were much more concerned about the di- ing annual festivals, such as the festival more favourable. The implication is that scheduling activities at the local level and I is a small pest control must be coordinated over a were understood by all farmers. Bali for eleven days. Our visit had two sastrous impact the Green Revolution was of the Crater Lake Goddess, lower order shrine main purposes: to enjoy and experience having on crop yields. So Lansing shifted temples will request samples of holy water wide area necessitating the cooperation Through his fieldwork and research, dedicated the exotic beauty of the island and to the focus of his research to investigate from higher-level temples. In this way the of many households in single subaks and Lansing persuaded both western and In- to the rice examine the role of water temples in the the underlying causes of the crisis in rice blessings of the holiest water is distrib- in neighbouring upstream or downstream donesian agronomists to reincorporate the goddess, management of a complex rice production production. uted among all those who depend on the farming units. traditional management system into the Shrine to dewi Sri - the Dewi Sri, The incredibly complex decision- Indonesian Green Revolution organization ecosystem. Functioning sustainably for Lansing’s books guided us dur- communal water for their material and rice goddess or one of her over a thousand years, this system was de- ing our eleven days in Bali and he kindly spiritual well-being. The linkages among making process to coordinate and control with resulting improved crop yields! associate deities related to the god- scribed by Stephen Lansing† as a “Perfect introduced us to one of his graduate all members of the rice farming ecosystem all these activities was achieved by the Without Lansing’s research, the dess of the Crater Lake on Mount Order” of human and natural collabora- students currently doing fieldwork there. are thereby manifested and reinforced traditional water temple system. At the evidence of this complex Perfect Order Batur and her male consort, the tion. But the tale of this perfect order is These two sources proved invaluable in through this nested hierarchy of spiritual annual festival of the Crater Lake God- would have been completely invisible to God who also cautionary about the “blindness” gaining an insight into the water temple and social dependency. dess, senior representatives from the us, as indeed it had been to generations of rules Mt. of Western policy analysts working in a rice production system that engages But how do these social and spiri- regional Masceti temples would agree, administrators, agronomists and even lo- Agung, the traditional society. thousands of farmers in nested hierar- tual values produce Lansing’s “Perfect after the necessary ritualistic ceremonies, cals. As William C. Clark of Harvard states other iconic The sustainability and productivity chies of productive and spiritual relation- Order”? To answer this, we have to under- on the broad allocation and scheduling in his introduction to Lansing’s book: volcano of of a rice growing system depends on the ships. At the bottom of the hierarchy are stand something of the basic dynamics of of water for the Masceti regions for the “he illustrates that well-meaning policy Bali. effective coordination of three essential thousands of terraced rice fields belonging the paddy ecosystem that were outlined coming year. In the same manner, the analysts – raised in the modern science components: 1) the equitable and timely to individual farm families. At the head earlier. For the system to work properly, Ulun Swi congregations of each Masceti tradition – were unable to see in religious These distribution of irrigation water to all rice of each terrace, where water from above an adequate water supply must be avail- region would agree on similar allocations leaders’ generally accurate diagnoses of shrines are fields; 2) the maintenance of soil fertility is diverted to the field by a weir or other able at appropriate times of the growing to their consistent subaks, taking into ac- the crisis conditions of the 1980s anything refurbished Temple of the Goddess of count the ‘pulsing’ and timing factors and more than superstition. The cumulative through additions of natural and artificial conduit, there is a small shrine dedicated season, clearly indicating upstream and Crater Lake (and Joe) on a daily fertilizers; and, 3) the control of plant to the rice goddess, Dewi Sri (see where pests and diseases were especially force of this case of selective blindness basis with offerings of food and flow- disease and crop pests. In Bali, where side panel for more info.). prevalent. The congregations of individual provides one of the most powerful teach- ers for the goddess and at harvest religion permeates every aspect of life to a At the next level of the subaks would then go through a similar ing “moments” I have experienced, letting time rice stalks closest to the water degree difficult to comprehend in our own hierarchy are subaks — a hundred process to allocate water to the terraces of me ask my students (and myself), ‘What intake will be woven into an image secularized society, religion combines or so farm households and their individual households. At each level of the potentially relevant sources of knowledge of Dewi Sri. We learned at some of with ecological management to produce a terraced fields forming a commu- hierarchy those who tended specific weir are you overlooking in your present work the farms that the daily preparation highly efficient and sustainable rice grow- nal unit. At the upper part of each or diversion shrines would be responsible on sustainable development?’” of these offerings for terraces and for ing system. This blend of the religious and subak is a major diversion channel for managing the flow of water as directed the household itself may occupy one the secular functioned so seamlessly that or weir where a larger shrine or by the consensual decision makers. All or two hours' preparation time by not only were Balinese farmers and Dutch temple contains larger and more the women in the family. colonial administrators who had governed elaborate offerings. Several subaks Bali since the early 1900s, unaware of make up the congregation of a its existence, but it remained “invisible” larger irrigation unit dependent to Indonesian and Western agricultural on a single water source called experts until the early 1980s. an Ulun Swi temple. Several Weir diverting water to rice terrace It was an American anthropolo- Ulun Swi comprise a Masceti regional downstream scheduling of water demand. gist, Stephen Lansing, who accidentally temple. At the summit of the hierarchy Pest and disease control is the third com- stumbled on the existence of a water is the Temple of the Goddess of Crater ponent leading to the establishment of the temple management system. Visiting Lake. All the irrigation units and their Perfect Order. In the absence of chemi- Bali to studying the role of art in Balinese associated temples and deities are thus cal pesticides, the most effective control linked in a hierarchy of “hydro-logic” (as method was either drowning or starv- Daily offerings for the water temple †Perfect Order: Recognizing Com- shrines plexity in Bali. Lansing calls it). In terms of spiritual ing rodent and insect pests of their food Press, c2006. xii, 225 p importance, there is a direct correlation supply by not planting a second crop and Fallowfields and Subak rice terraces in different stages of crop growth 11 12 geoplan, spring 2009

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A NEW BIOGRAPHY OF GRIFFITH TAYLOR Hills, Chuck Langman, Doug Nesbit, Earl the histories of the two departments By Carolyn Strange and Alison Bashford Porter, Kay Game, Isabelle George, Roger of geography he founded in Sydney Truemner, Herb Smith, Kate Moore, Anne and Toronto, and their considerable review by marie sanderson Hodges, Sid Kling, Alan Helmsley, John achievements. They also write of Taylor’s book entitled ‘Griffith Taylor the appeal of the book. Walker, Howard Richards, Jim Smythe, retirement years in Australia after 1951, visionary environmentalist ex- ‘The Furthest Frontier’ contains a Barbara McLeod, Stuart Westland, Flavia and the many honours and awards he plorer’ has been published by the wealth of information about Taylor’s A Elliot, Arleigh Laycock (the signatures received. National Library of Australia (2008) and experiences in the Antarctic with Scott’s have been identified by Dick Baine, who Strange and Bashford have produced the University of Toronto Press (2009). famous British Antarctic Expedition of was a graduate student that year). Geoplan an exhaustive and well-written book on Carolyn Strange, senior fellow in the 1910-12. It was the experience of a lifetime would love to hear from any of these the life and writings of Thomas Griffith Research School of Humanities, The Aus- for Grif. He was well-liked by Scott and the geographers about their memories of that Taylor. For the younger readers of Geoplan tralian National University in Canberra, other scientists, and made a considerable occasion. the book is a fascinating account of the and Alison Bashford, an historian at the contribution to the geology of Antarctica In ‘War and Peace,’ Strange and man who contributed so much to Canadian University of Sydney, have produced an as leader of the four-month Western Bashford write of Taylor’s interest in geography. For those of us who remember excellent and profusely-illustrated account Expedition. His opinion on Antarctic geopolitics during World War II, although Grif in his black gown in the lecture hall of the life of our founding father. The cover affairs was sought throughout his lifetime. Griffith Taylor (University of he changed the word to ‘geopacifics,' in the old McMaster building, it will bring shows a photo of Taylor taken by Herbert In ‘From Rocks to Race’ the authors Toronto Press, 2008) Marie Sanderson's book on stating that geographers could do much back many nostalgic memories. Ponting in the Antarctic in 1911. A similar describe Taylor’s life in Australia after the Australia at the University of Sydney in Griffith Taylor: Carelton Univer- to promote world peace. In the last photo (shown on this page) hangs in the Antarctic. He worked for the Bureau of 1920, with Taylor as the first professor. sity Press, 1988 chapter, ‘Founding Father,’ they describe Geography department at U of T. Meteorology and wrote the first articles There are details of his move in 1929 to In its 283 pages, the book contains an describing the climate of Australia, the University of Chicago, and in 1935 to chicago made: factory networks in the in- introduction, six chapters, an epilogue, showing the ‘empty heart’ of the continent. the University of Toronto to found the dustrial metropolis chapter notes and an index. first department of geography in (chicago: university of chicago press, 2008) The authors were able to Canada. The description of Grif’s By Robert Lewis consult the major sources of inauguration at Convocation Hall, review by andrew malcolm Taylor material in the National with the Lieutenant-Governor entral to Chicago Made’s story is His research is supported with numerous Library in Canberra, the Fisher in the chair, and 1000 people the industrial inspection tours led maps illustrating collected data, and filled Rare Book Library at the present will be interesting reading between 1911 and 1914. A kind with case studies that tell the life and death University of Toronto, and the for U of T alumni The authors C of mock-Geotrip, each tour was led by an stories of self-made business men; the suc- Scott Polar Research Institute analyse many of the amazing influential elite who promoted industrial cesses and collapses of planned industrial in Cambridge. They were also number of publications Taylor expansion outside Chicago’s downtown towns; and the tales of failures, lawsuits, given access to voluminous produced during his years in (the Loop) and into what was then seen and slum-making that accompanied the family material, carefully Toronto, including ‘Environment, as the prairie wastelands. Attended by massive alteration of Chicago’s landscape. preserved 45 years after his Race and Migration,’ ‘Our business leaders in transportation, utili- Referring to a 20th-century indus- death by Taylor’s grandson and Evolving Civilization,’ ‘Geography ties, real estate and an endless variety of trial promoter - Joseph Torrence - and his Original photo of Griffith Taylor - main office, Department of niece in Sydney. in the 20th Century’ and especially industrial suburbs became slums over Geography and Program in Planning manufacturing firms, the tours capitalized colleagues, Lewis explains that “using the In ‘Favourite Son,' the first several generations was a convenient way ‘Environment and Nation,’ which on their massively intricate manufacturing networks they had constructed over time, chapter, they describe Taylor’s to deal with the contradictions of capitalist they consider his best book. network to alter the industrial, social and they built transportation networks, sub- early years in England, the family move Quoted in the press, these writings did urban growth,” explains Lewis. There is also an account of a party physical landscape with more control and divided land for residential and industrial to Australia, his undergraduate studies not endear him to the politicians who Chicago Made is a thorough study given for Grif in 1948 on the occasion of purpose than ever used before, and on a functions, enticed manufacturers with free in geology at the University of Sydney, were actively encouraging settlement in into the unexplored complexities of Chi- his departure on a trip to Australia (page scale second only to New York. land and low freight rates, and boosted and his graduate years at the University the interior. Taylor also wrote about the cago between the Civil War and the Second 155).The music of ‘The Whiffenpoof Song’ “The actions and beliefs of the East Chicago as a model of suburban life. of Cambridge. There is much detail of geography of Australia and began calling World War; a picture of a geographical (with the title ‘The Geographers’ Lament’) capitalists taking the industrial inspection They constructed this picture on a mélange Grif’s family relationships with his revered himself a geographer. During this period, landscape unique in its social and eco- is reproduced, with the signatures of the tours defined what the metropolis was and of truths, half-truths, and lies.” But the geologist father, his adored ‘Mater’ and the world distribution of ‘race’ interested nomic evolution; and a more complete students attending: Janet Harbron, Marion where it ended…The prairie for Chicago’s industrial promoters weren’t the only ones beloved sister Dorothy. Throughout his him, and his writings on this topic earned understanding of a city that was “massive, Hening, Keith Fraser, Dick Hodges, Alec bourgeoisie was the urban frontier,” to bury the past in the interest of pushing long life (1880–1963) and travels on every him international interest. stretching 30 to 40 miles from the Loop, LaRoque, Bill Wonders, Doug Jackson, explains author Robert Lewis. Chicago ahead. Manufacturing firms would often continent, he sent a steady stream of ‘Prophet and Pariah’ contains with hundreds of suburbs, towns, and Ben Shindman, Jerry Waite, Murray Made is a project Lewis began more then pick up from one failed planned industrial letters and post cards to his family. Photos information about the founding of satellite cities forming an endless combi- Dobson, C.H. Lockhead, Marjorie Owen, a decade ago, “burrowed in the belly of the town only to set up anew somewhere else of many of these (often in colour) enhance the first department of geography in nation of specialized social and economic H. Patterson, Murray McCutcheon, Angus archival beast in Chicago and elsewhere.” in Chicago’s metropolis. “Forgetting that 15 spaces.” 16 The Politics of Civic Space in Asia: Building Urban Communities (routledge, 2009) Edited by Amritae Daniere and Mike Douglass his book explores how and why duction of and access to civic spaces in a civic spaces are used by different particular Asian city, as well as examples of Tcommunities in Asia and what role successes and failures that can inform ur- urban governance and public participation ban policy regarding inclusive, tolerant and play in the support or demise of communi- socially vibrant city life through focused ties. Using case studies of contemporary attention on the provision and continuity city life throughout, the contributors pro- of civic space. vide insights into the importance and value This book is designed to provide of civic space, arguing that civic spaces information to policymakers, research- provide not only the physical sites for civil ers and students of the developing world society to function autonomously; but regarding the importance and value of civic also provide a sense of place in the form space in terms of creating and supporting of identity, meaning, memory, history and urban communities. As such, The Politics planning, urban design, public policy and linkages with the wider world. of Civic Space in Asia will be an invalu- political science, as well as Asian studies Each chapter focuses on the pro- able resource for those interested in urban more generally.

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