NEWS BULLETIN 26 October 2012 Please forward and distribute widely - thank you

NEWS What Makes a City Great? was the topic of CBC Radio show “Ontario Today” on October 25th when Cities Centre Interim Director Richard Stren was a featured participant. Hosted by Kathleen Petty and aired on Radio One on a weekly basis, the program is an Ontario-wide news and current affairs phone-in program. Past episodes are posted ….more

Just released: The Impact of Precarious Legal Status on Immigrants’ Economic Outcomes by Professor Luin Goldring of York University and Cities Centre Research Associate Professor Patricia Landolt, Chair of the Department of Sociology, UTSC. The new study is published by the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) …more and download

Cities Centre congratulates former Director, Professor Eric Miller on being chosen as the inaugural recipient of the new UBC Margolese National Design for Living Prize. “Dr. Miller has been an extraordinary force for the development and improvement of urban living environments in Canada,“ says UBC Applied Science’s Dean pro tem Eric Hall. The prize of $50,000 will be awarded annually to a Canadian who has made outstanding contributions to the development or improvement of living environments for Canadians of all economic classes. Professor Miller will travel to Vancouver to give a public lecture in early 2013 …more

The Toronto Community Foundation has announced a Call for Applications for Vital Ideas Grants. The Vital Ideas program is open to any charitable organization registered with Canada Revenue Agency that is located in the City of Toronto whose work directly benefits the quality of life of Toronto residents ...more

CALLS FOR PAPERS, PROPOSALS AND APPLICATIONS Call for Papers The Cultures of the Suburbs International Research Network 2nd Symposium due November 1, details: [email protected]

Call for Applications Executive Director, ULI Toronto due November 9 …more

Call for Papers Spaces of Refuge: Exploring Practices, Perceptions and Policies in Forced Migration and (Re)Settlement due November 15 …more

Call for Entries Crossing Borders: Design Responses to Global Issues in the Developing World due November 15 …more

Call for Applications Lecturer, Urban Studies Program, Innis College, U of T due November 16 …more

Call for Graduate Student Papers 6th Annual Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Graduate Research Conference due November 19 …more

Call for Applications Vital Ideas Grants - Toronto Community Foundation due November 28 ….more

Call for Papers Immigration & Settlement: Precarious Futures? due December 1 …more

Call for Papers Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers due December 16 ….more

Call for Papers REAL CORP 2013 due December 23 …more

Call for Applications Master of Public Policy (MPP) 2013 University of Toronto, due February 8 …more

EVENTS Friday, October 19, 1-3:30pm: CERIS-RCIS Joint Symposium on Health: Nutritional and health status of immigrants in the GTA Peter Bronfman Room, Chang School of Continuing Education, Ryerson University …more

Friday, October 19, 5-7pm followed by reception 7-9pm: The Tyranny of Gendered Planning Petra L. Doan, Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University. John Bousfield Distinguished Visitor in Planning Lecture. Lecture: UC 179; Reception: Croft Chapter House, King’s College Circle. RSVP to: [email protected]

Saturday, October 20, 3-5pm: Canadian Refugee Policy in Global Context Panel: Audrey Macklin, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; Jeff Crisp, Head, Policy Development and Evaluation Service, United Nations High Commission on Refugees, Geneva; Zachary Lomo, LLB, Harvard, former director of the Refugee Law Project, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge). Moderator: Michael Ignatieff, Munk School of Global Affairs. Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place, Campbell Conference Facility …more

Saturday, October 20: 4th Annual Riverside WALKfest …more

Monday, October 22, 7-9pm: Transit Town Hall Speakers: Paul Bedford, Richard Joy, Steve Munro, Metrolinx, and TTC. Short presentations followed by public question-and-answer. Presented by Councillor Josh Matlow. North Toronto Memorial CRC, 200 Eglinton Ave W., [email protected], 416-392-7906.

Tuesday, October 23, 4pm: Reconstructing Past Changes of the Large-scale Overturning Circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean Jerry McManus, Columbia University. Presented by The Center for Global Change Science, Bahen Centre, Room 1190, 40 St. George Street …more

Wednesday, October 24, 5-7pm: Making a Difference in Urban Schools: Ideas, Politics and Pedagogy “Are we any further ahead in education today than we were in 1972?” A book launch and conversation with authors Jane Gaskell and Ben Levin, along with Gen-Ling Change, Chief Academic Officer, Teaching and Learning, TDSB; Jeff Kugler, Executive Director, Centre for Urban Schooling; and Penny Milton, former CEO of the Canadian Education Association. Presented by the Centre for Urban Schooling and the Dept. of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education. OISE, 252 Bloor. St. West, 12th Floor, NEXUS Lounge. RSVP to [email protected] or (416)978-0146.

Wednesday, October 24, 6:45-8:30pm: Hudson Yards, NYC: The History, Challenges and Opportunities of North America's Largest City-Building Development Speakers: L. Jay Cross, President, Related Hudson Yards, and Blake Hutcheson, President and CEO, Oxford. Moderated by Renee Gomes, Director of Development, Waterfront Toronto. Presented by School of Public Policy & Governance, ‘Big City, Big Ideas’ series, Innis Town Hall, Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave. …more and register

Thursday, October 25, noon-1pm: Public Health Nutrition Discussion Lead: Dr. Daniel Sellen, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Department of Nutritional Sciences, and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Canada Research Chair, Human Ecology and Public Nutrition. 2012-2013 MPH Global Health Student Roundtable Series, Global Health Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Suite 400, 155 College Street …register and more

Thursday, October 25, noon-2pm: Both Spectacular and Mundane: The Greening of Urban China, 1990-2010 Alana Boland, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Program of Planning, University of Toronto. This talk is the first in a series of talks on Urban Asia at York University, organized by the York Centre for Asian Research and the City Institute at York University. 626 York Research Tower …more

Thursday, October 25, 4:10-6pm: Tracking Adaptation: Climate Change, Global Health, and the Methodological Messiness of the Adaptation Challenge Lea Berrang Ford, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography McGill University. Presented by School of the Environment. Sandford Fleming building, 10 King's College Rd., Rm. SF1101 …more

Thursday, October 25, 4:30-6pm: Brickworks Winter Preparation Urban Land Institute, Community Stewards. Evergreen Brickworks, 550 Bayview Avenue ...register and more

Thursday, October 25, 7-8:30pm: Uneasy Alliances: First Nations, Canadians and the War of 1812 Speakers: Dr. Susan Hill, Associate Professor of History, Director, First Nations Studies, Western University. Talk: The disruption to Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Society as Warriors for the British and Americans. Dr. Jane Errington, Royal Military Institute and Queen's University. Talk: The Canadian Loyalties and the Plight of Women. Presented by the City of Toronto Untold Stories Series.$10 plus tax at the door - preregistration not required. To pre-purchase tickets, please call 416-392-6907 x221. Fort York National Historic Site, 250 Fort York Boulevard, 416-392-6907, [email protected]. http://www.toronto.ca/1812/

Friday, October 26, 7:30-11:30am: Transit-Supportive Guidelines - the Sequel Keynote: Patricia Boeckner, Director, Transportation Planning Branch, and Andrew Posluns, Director, Transit Policy Branch. Panel: Craig Lametti, Associate, Urban Strategies Inc.; Rob Horne, Commissioner, The Reg. Municipality of Waterloo. Presented by Canadian Urban Transit Association (TBC) The Canadian Urban Institute and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. Ted Rogers School of Management, 55 Dundas Street West, 7th Fl. …register and more

Friday, October 26, 2-4pm: Integrated Mobility - Steps Toward a New Mobility Culture Michael Glotz-Richter, Senior Project Manager for Sustainable Mobility, City of Bremen, Germany. Presented by Transport Futures and Ryerson University School of Urban & Regional Planning. 105 Bond Street, Room 312 …register and more

Monday, October 29, 6:30-8:30pm: Being A Councillor in Toronto Mike Layton, Councillor Ward 19, and Andrew Sancton, Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. Presented by Cities Centre, Governance in Toronto Lecture and Discussion Series. FitzGerald Building, University of Toronto, 150 College Street, Room 103 …RSVP and more

Tuesday, October 30, 7-9pm: Subway Life and Transit Expansion during Toronto's Automobile Age Speaker Dr. Jay Young PhD and founding co-editor of ActiveHistory.ca Presented by Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Salon, Spadina Museum Historic House & Gardens, 285 Spadina Road, Paid parking at Casa Loma, 416-392-6910, [email protected] facebook.com/spadinamuseum Tickets are $12 + tax …more

Wednesday, October 31, 10am(Toronto): Practice to Policy: Lessons from Local Leadership on Immigrant Integration Free Webinar Event. Speakers: Jan Niessen, Director, Migration Policy Group, Brussels and Myer Siemiatycki, Professor, Ryerson University. Presented by Cities of Migration …more and register

Wednesday, October 31, 12:15-1:30pm: Ed Clark in Conversation with Mel Cappe Ed Clark, Group President and CEO, TD Bank Group. Presented by School of Public Policy & Governance, ‘Leadership in Public Policy’ series, Canadiana Gallery, 14 Queen's Park Crescent W. …register and more

Wednesday, October 31, 7pm: Who Lives and Who Dies: Will Social Media Decide? Julia Belluz, Associate Editor at the Medical Post and a National Magazine Award-winning journalist. Hancock Lecture 2012, Hart House Great Hall, $10/free for students, ticket required …more

Thursday, November 1, 1-8pm: Daniels Graduate Open House Midday Talk 1-2pm; Open House 2-5pm; Information Session 6-8pm. 230 College Street (corner of College and Huron Streets) …register

Thursday, November 1, 2-4pm: The Myth of the Ivory Tower: The Role of Academics in the Innovation Ecosystem Professor Michael Kitson, Director of the Management Studies Tripos, University Senior Lecturer in International Macroeconomics, Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge University. Presented by the Innovation Policy Lab, 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place …register and more

Thursday, November 1, 4:10-6pm: What Renewable Power is Affordable? How Should We Decide? Don Dewees, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Toronto. Presented by School of the Environment. SF 1101 (Sandford Fleming building, 10 King's College Road) …more

Thursday, November 1, 5-6:30pm: Education and Diversity: Innovative Practices and Research in Montreal Panel discussion presented by the Centre for Urban Schooling, 252 Bloor Street West, Room 11-164, OISE. RSVP: Nina Lewis 416-978-0146 [email protected].

Tuesday, November 6, 7:30-9:30am: ULI Annual Real Estate Trends Forecast Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Miller, Author of the Emerging Trends Publication. Local Speakers: George Carras, President, RealNet Canada Inc.; John O'Bryan, Vice Chairman, CBRE Ltd.; Moderator: Chris Potter, Partner, PwC. The Design Exchange, Trading Floor, 234 Bay Street …register and more

Wednesday, November 7, 12noon: Great Lakes Great Responsibilities Gail Krantzberg, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering; Director, Centre for Engineering and Public Policy, School of Engineering Practice, McMaster University. Presented by School of the Environment. Bahen 1180 (Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St.) …more

Thursday, November 8, 7:30-11am: Investing in Housing Infrastructure - An Urgent Topic for World Town Planning Day Lise Burcher, OALA, Councillor, City of Guelph, Chair of Standing Committee on International Relations, Federation of Canadian Municipalities(FCM); Andrea Gabor, FCIP, RPP, President, Canadian Institute of Planners, and partner, Urban Strategies Inc.; Andrew Farncombe, MCIP, RPP, Vice President, International Partnerships, Canadian Urban Institute; Lars Henriksson, Honorary Trade Consul, Swedish Consulate. Canadian Urban Institute roundtable breakfast seminar. Metro Hall, Room 308/309, 55 John Street …more and register

Thursday, November 8, 6-7:30pm: Symbiotic City Craig Applegath, DIALOG. Building, Ecology, Science, and Technology (B.E.S.T.) Lecture Series, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, 230 College Street, Room 203 …more

Friday, November 9, 12:30-1pm (light lunch at noon): Deliberative Democracy and Urban Design Prof. Hoi Kong, Faculty of Law, McGill University. Presented by Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, co-sponsored by Cities Centre, 14 Queen's Park Crescent West, 2nd floor …more

Friday, November 9, 12:30-2:30pm: High-Modernism and Mass Utopia in Twentieth-Century Urban Planning Dietmar Schirmer, University of Florida. Presented by CITY Institute at York and Canadian Centre for German & European Studies (CCGES), Room 280A, York Lanes, York University ...more

Friday, November 9, 5pm: Book Launch: Everyday Law on the Street by Mariana Valverde, Director, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. 14 Queen’s Park Cres …more

Monday, November 12, 6:30-8:30pm: Dion Neutra Talk Sons of Architecture Speaker Series, Design Exchange, 234 Bay Street …register and more

Wednesday, November 14, 4:10-6pm: The Dilemma of Controlling Cultural Eutrophication? (Overfertilisation of freshwaters with nutrients) David Schindler, Killam Memorial Professor of Ecology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta. Presented by School of the Environment. Location to be announced …more

Thursday, November 15, 6-7:30pm: Sustainable Drainage: The Intersection of Performance and Experience in the Landscape Laura Solano, MVVA. Building, Ecology, Science, and Technology (B.E.S.T.) Lecture Series, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, 230 College Street, Room 203 …more

Friday, November 16, 8pm to late: Intersection Design Exchange annual fundraiser celebrating internationally-acclaimed game-changer Douglas Coupland, 234 Bay Street ... more …tickets

Tuesday, November 20, 2-4pm and 4:30-5:30pm: Celebrating 50 Years of Criminology at the University of Toronto 2-4 pm Panel Discussion on 50 Years of Criminal Justice, including William Blair, David Daubney, Marlys Edwardh, Edward Greenspan, Graham Stewart, and Michael Tonry. 4:30-5:30pm The Hon. Justice Ian Binnie, Taking Wrongful Convictions Seriously. Presented by Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, Hart House …more

Tuesday, November 20, 6:30-8:30pm: TORONTO Made Panel Discussion. Speakers: Gus* Studio (style garage), Mark Gavin (co-founder/co-owner, Ecojot), Redpath and Weston Bakery. Moderator: Nina Rappaport. Design Exchange, 234 Bay Street …register and more

Wednesday, November 21, 4:10-6pm: Emerging Isotopic Tools in Environmental Forensics and Microbiology Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto. Presented by School of the Environment. Bahen 1180 (Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St.) …more

Thursday, December 6, 12:30-1pm (light lunch at noon): Feeding Finance: Speculation, Law, and Markets in Agricultural Commodities James Williams, Dept. of Social Science, York University. Presented by Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, 14 Queen's Park Crescent West, 2nd floor …more

Thursday, January 24, 6-7:30pm: Designing for District Energy Systems Urban Ziegler, Natural Resources Canada. Building, Ecology, Science, and Technology (B.E.S.T.) Lecture Series, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, 230 College Street, Room 203 …more

Thursday, February 28, 6-7:30pm: Myths and Realities of Thermal Bridging Mark Lawton, Morrison Hershfield. Building, Ecology, Science, and Technology (B.E.S.T.) Lecture Series, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, 230 College Street, Room 203 …more

CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA October 24-26: Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference Puerto Rico …more

October 26: Clean Air Council Green Economy Summit Toronto ...more

October 25-27: Beyond 2015: Towards a New Consensus on Ending Global Poverty Ryerson University …more

October 25-26: Local Renewables Conference Freiburg …more

October 25-26: 5th On New Shores Conference 2012 Social Support and Capital: Happiness in Immigrant Families Ryerson University …more

October 26-28: The Cosmopolitan Metropolis Urban History Association Conference, New York City …more

November 12-13: The Second Symposium: Deorientalizing Citizenship? London …more

November 12-14: Thriving Neighbourhoods Melbourne …more

November 14-16: A.D. Latornell Conservation Symposium Nottawasaga Inn …more

November 18-21: Smart Energy Communities in Cold Climates QUEST 2012 International Conference & Tradeshow, Winnipeg …more

November 19: Governance Summit: New Models for Delivering Roads, Parking & Transit Transport Futures, Toronto …more

November 28-30: Governing the Metropolis: Powers and Territories Paris …more

November 29-30: Liveable Cities Forum: Creating Adaptive and Resilient Communities Hamilton …more

November 29-30: The Intercultural City: Exploring an Elusive Idea Venice …more

December 17-18: The Production of Place London …more

January 31-February 1, 2013: 6th Annual Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Graduate Research Conference Munk School of Global Affairs …more

March 7-10, 2013: 6th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) Halifax …more

April 9-13, 2013: AAG (Association of American Geographers) Annual Meeting Los Angeles …more

May 15-17, 2013: Immigration & Settlement: Precarious Futures? Ryerson University …more

May 20-23, 2013: REAL CORP 2013 …more

July 1-3, 2013: Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies The Netherlands …more

EXHIBITIONS Continuing through November 9: Considering The Quake: Seismic Design on the Edge Exhibit explores the elegant, and often elusive, intersection of Architecture and structure through Earthquake design. Design Exchange, 234 Bay Street …more

Continuing through November 18: The Transportation Expo Evergreen Brickworks …more

October 19-November 12 (opening reception Friday, October 19, 6-8 pm): Here Be Monsters: The Territory Exhibition celebrating student studio and thesis work from the 2011-2012 academic year at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Eric Arthur Gallery, 230 College Street …more

Continuing through December 16: Vertical Urban Factory Curated by Nina Rappaport. Design Exchange, 234 Bay Street …more

Continuing through June 2013: Uncharted Waters: Toronto’s Enigmatic Harbour Photography by Dianne Davis, Johan Hallberg-Campbell, Jesse Louttit, Eamon Mac Mahon Joanne Ratajczak and Clare Samuel. Presented by Toronto Port Authority, Harbourfront …more

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