NEWS BULLETIN 3 June 2011 Please forward and distribute widely - thank you

NEWS

Space is still available in the Public Transit Planning and ITS short course offered by Cities Centre June 13-14. A free program, Workshop on Recent Advances in Transit Research and Practice has now been added on the morning of June 15, RSVP required …more

All are welcome to attend Cities Centre’s first ever Book Launch Party on Thursday, June 16, 4:30-6pm to celebrate recent publications of our many associates …more and RSVP

Taking place on the evening of Thursday, June 16, at Council Chambers, Inner Suburbs at Stake: Investing in Scarborough’s Communities is presented by Scarborough Civic Action Network, Social Planning , and Cities Centre …more

Just released Insight: Educated Service Workers are Concentrated in Canadian Cities Martin Prosperity Institute …link metropolitics.eu (in English) and metropolitiques.eu (in French) is a new (6 months old) online journal on the city aimed at helping the debate between academia, the professional worlds of planning, architecture and design and the policy world of governments, elected officials and activists. The journal is bilingual French/English (with possibilities of other languages as well). It publishes short papers several times a week on social issues approached with a spatial or territorial perspective. Access is free and all papers can be downloaded. All the papers are carefully edited by a team of about a dozen academics in various fields pertaining to the urban. Contributions welcome, either as shorts essays, debate papers and book or event reviews… www.metropolitiques.eu

The Global Greenbelts Network has created new listserv, and all are invited to subscribe by emailing [email protected].

CALLS FOR PAPERS, PROPOSALS AND APPLICATIONS Call for Applications Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Gender and Work , 2011-12 academic year. Due June 6. Professor Leah Vosko [email protected].

Call for Applications 2011/2012 Toronto Urban Fellows program, City of Toronto. Due June 6 …more

Call for Applications CERIS Knowledge Mobilization Officer due June 14. Contact Yuko Sorano for details [email protected].

Call for Applications The IMFG Graduate Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance & The Blanche and Sandy Van Ginkel Graduate Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance For the period September 2011 to May 2012. Due June 30 …more

Call for City Success Stories Good Ideas in Municipal Immigrant Integration Practice Cities of Migration is looking for outstanding examples of Municipal Leadership on Immigrant Integration, due September 15. For details: Piali Roy, Writer/Editor, Cities of Migration, [email protected].

Call for Submissions Design Exchange Awards Earlybird submission deadline July 4; submission deadline September 30 …more

Call for Nominations 2011 Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards Entries due August 31 …more

Call for Applications RCUCH Flaherty Visiting Fellowship in Urban Cultural History University of Massachusetts Boston offers a 3-4 week short-term visiting fellowship for Spring 2012. Due September 1 …more

Call for Student Moderators WATER: The Future of the Source A.D. Latornell Conservation Symposium, Nov. 16-18, Alliston, ON. Apply before September 9 …more

Call for Abstracts CAGONT 2011 Lakehead University - Orillia Campus October 21-22. Due September 28 …more

Call for Book Proposals Lorimer is a Toronto-based book publisher focusing on the following subject areas: economics, education, gender studies, history, native studies, political science, public policy, sociology, and urban studies. They are actively looking for book proposals and will carefully consider all submissions that fall within their publishing mandate. Please send a covering letter, outline, writing sample, and cv to: Editorial Director, Lorimer, 317 Adelaide St. W., Suite 1002, Toronto, ON M5V 1P9.

Call for Papers Revue Internationale de Géomatique - Special issue on Geodesign for publication March 2012. Due 30 September. For more information or to submit a paper: Stéphane Roche ([email protected]); Michael F. Goodchild ([email protected]) …more

EVENTS Monday, June 6, 1:30-5pm: Public Heritage Roundtable A follow-up to the release of Heritage Voices by Heritage Toronto and the Toronto Historical Association. Presented by Councillor Peter Milczyn, in partnership with Heritage Toronto. Committee Room 2, City Hall, 100 Queen St. West …more

Tuesday, June 7, 9:30-11am: DiverseCity Counts 2011 Report Release Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Eric Hoskins and about 100 of the region's top corporate, public and voluntary sector leaders. , George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street, Toronto, Atrium, Third Floor. All welcome, free, registration required …register and more

Thursday, June 9, 2-3pm: Land-Use Analysis in an Urban Growth Context - Incorporating Spatial and Temporal Dynamics Chandra Bhat, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Adnan Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professor in Transportation Engineering, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. ITS Centre and Testbed, , Sanford Fleming Building, 10 King’s College Circle, Room 3103. For more information [email protected].

Thursday, June 9, 3-4pm: Book Launch for The Freedom of Security: Governing Canada in the Age of Counter-Terrorism by Dr. Colleen Bell. Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, 15 Queens Park Crescent West, Rm. 150. RSVP to [email protected] by June 7.

Thursday, June 9, 4-6pm (reception to follow): New Tools for New Times: Innovative Infrastructure Financing, Funding and Delivery Keynote Speaker: Casey G. Vander Ploeg, Senior Policy Analyst, Canada West Foundation. Presented by Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place …more and register

Thursday, June 9, 5-9pm: Urban Leadership Awards 2011 Presented by Canadian Urban Institute. Liberty Grand, 25 British Columbia Road, Exhibition Place, Renaissance Room …more and register

Thursday, June 9, 7-9pm: Transition Toronto Members & Public Meeting Metro Hall, 3rd Floor, Room 310, 55 …more

Thursday, June 9, 7:30pm: Nato Thompson with Amish Morrell Urban Field Speakers Series, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, 401 Richmond St. West, Suite 124. $7-$10. Tickets will be sold at the door from 7pm on. 416.591.0357.

Friday, June 10, 6pm: Ecology.Design.Synergy: "Inclusive Imagining: The Community as Eco-Project" Aga Khan winner Kéré in conversation with Geoff Cape. MaRS Centre, Auditorium, 101 College Street, all welcome …more

Friday, June 10 through Sunday, June 19: Luminato Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity …more

Saturday, June 11, between 9:30am and 12:00pm: Launch of The Shared Path/Le Sentier Partagé, Toronto's new Discovery Walk and first Historical Park. By the Humber River Pedestrian and Cycling Bridge, on the eastern bank …more

Saturday, June 11, 10:30am-3:30pm: Geotrip to Koffler Scientific Reserve at Jokers Hill Organized by UTAGA and Senior College …more …register

Thursday, June 16, 7:30-9:30: The Creative Rural Economy: Pathways to Prosperity for Jamaica and Ontario Session moderator: Hamlin Grange, President, DiversiPro. Panel: His Worship Jeremy Palmer, Mayor of Black River, St. Elizabeth Parish Council; Robert Hill, Director, Local Government Administration, Office of the Prime Minister, Department of Local Government; Jason Henzell, Chair, St. Elizabeth Parish Development Committee; President, Island Outpost; & Owner, Jakes Treasure Beach Hotel, Villas and Spa; Dan Taylor, President and CEO, Greater Peterborough Area Economic Development Corporation, and former Economic Development Officer of Prince Edward County Presented by Canadian Urban Institute. 55 John Street, Metro Hall, Room 308/309. Free admission …more and RSVP

Thursday, June 16, 4:30-6pm: Cities Centre Book Launch Party A show & tell of major publications by Cities Centre associates in the past year, including: Canadian Urban Regions: Trajectories of Growth and Change; Reshaping Toronto’s Waterfront; The Three Cities Within Toronto: Income Polarization Among Toronto's Neighbourhoods, 1970-2005; Time Use: A Report of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing; The Evolution of Great World Cities: Urban Wealth and Economic Growth; Cities and Global Governance – New Sites for International Relations; Peri-urban Services: Policy, Planning and Method; Cities and Climate Change: Governance Challenges Climate Change & Cities 1st Assessment Report UCCRN; Megacities: Urban Form, Governance, and Sustainability; Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism; Bracket 1: On Farming. All welcome …more and RSVP

Thursday, June 16, 6-9pm: Inner Suburbs at Stake: Investing in Scarborough’s Communities. Presented by Scarborough Civic Action Network, Social Planning Toronto, and Cities Centre. Snacks, refreshments and TTC tokens provided. Scarborough Civic Centre Council Chambers, 150 Borough Drive …more

Saturday June 18, 9:30am-4:30pm: School4Civics 2011 Boot Camp Presented by Maytree. St. Michael's College, Charbonnel Lounge, 81 St. Mary Street …more

Saturday, June 18, 1pm: Art as Safe Ground? Anna Porter, founder of Key Porter Books and author of The Ghosts of Europe and Kasztner's Train, filmmaker Deepa Mehta (Bollywood/Hollywood and the “Elements Trilogy"), and playwright Judith Thompson (Palace of the End, Capture Me) share excerpts from their work and consider these questions in relation to their own storytelling arts. Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West, $20 …more

Monday, June 20, 6pm: Tall Buildings Moderator: Lisa Rochon, Architecture Critic, The Globe and Mail. Guests: Alan Greenberg, President, MintoUrban Development Services; Siamak Hariri, Founding Partner, Hariri Pontarini Architects; Gary Wright, City of Toronto, Chief Planner; Margaret Zeidler, Founder and President of Urbanspace Property Group. Presented by PUG Talks, Design Exchange, Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor Street West …more and RSVP

Friday, June 24, 7:30-11:30am: The High Cost of Free Parking Keynote presentation: Donald Shoup, Professor, UCLA, and Author. With an expert panel: Lorne Persiko - President of Real Estate and Development, Toronto Parking Authority; Ralph Bond – Senior Vice President, BA Consulting Group Ltd.; Diana Birchall - Director, Policy Planning/Urban Design, Town of Vaughan; Shawn Conrad – Executive Director, International Parking Institute. Presented by Canadian Urban Institute, Ted Rogers School of Management, Cara Commons Room, 55 Dundas Street West …more and RSVP

Friday, June 24, 2-4pm: Poverty, Both as a Cause and Effect of Torture Panel Discussion with: Augusta Dwyer, award- winning independent journalist; John Duncan, PhD., Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto; Marina Nemat, Author, Prisoner of Tehran; Natalia Durango, Colombian journalist specializing in human rights; Moderator Susan McGrath, PhD., Director, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, CCVT Board Chair. Presented by Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. CCVT at the Hub, 1527 Victoria Park Avenue, 2nd Floor. For more information Huda Bukhari at 416-363-1066 x 241.

Wednesday, June 29, 6:30-7:30pm: Thilo Folkerts Lecture Presented by Design Exchange, 234 Bay Street. RSVP with [email protected] or 416.216.2120 …more

Friday, July 15, 7:30-11:30am: Getting to Green - Understanding the Value of Sustainable Communities A Canadian Urban Institute Urban Leadership Seminar. Moderator: Mark A. Salerno, National Sales Team Leader, Municipal Infrastructure Lending Program, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Keynote presentation: Dan Leeming, Partner, The Planning Partnership. With an expert panel: Jamie Shipley, Senior Advisor, Research and Technology Transfer, CMHC; Robert Smith, Director, Innovation, Minto Communities; Jason Unger, Assistant Director of Planning, Town of Newmarket; and David Potter, Chief Building Official, Town of Newmarket. Co-sponsored by CMHC/SCHL. Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Cara Commons Room, 55 Dundas Street West …more and register

CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA June 3-5: 2011 Ontario Heritage Conference Town of Cobourg …more

June 13-14: Public Transit Planning and ITS Short Course Cities Centre, University of Toronto …more

June 14: Canadian Water Summit: Opportunities for Designing our Water Future International Centre, Toronto …more

June 14-15: Transforming and Revitalizing Downtown Summit Metro Toronto Convention Centre …more

June 21-23: Canadian Housing and Renewal Association Annual Congress Regina …more

August 19-25: Sustainable Summer School Presented by REcentre and Institute without Boundaries. Belgium …more

August 22-26: Montreal 2011 EcoCity World Summit …more

August 26-29: Urban Morphology and the Post-Carbon City 18th International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF), Montreal. Reduced registration fee before April 2 …more

September 20-21: Water Finance Program Centre for Environment, University of Toronto, Hart House …more

September 22-24: IIDEX/NEOCON Canada National Design Expo and Conference Direct Energy Centre, Toronto …more

October 3-4: Canadian Brownfields 2011 Presented by Canadian Urban Institute and Canadian Brownfields Network. Allstream Centre at Exhibition Place, Toronto …more

October 12-14: Ontario Professional Planners Institute 2011 Conference Ottawa Convention Centre, Ottawa …more

October 21-22: Canadian Association of Geographers - Ontario Division (CAGONT) 2011 Annual Meeting Lakehead University-Orillia Campus …more

EXHIBITIONS May 1-July 2: Walkability Exhibition based on the work of Paul Hess, Associate Professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Geography and Program in Planning, with Jane's Walk executive director Jane Farrow, photographer Katherine Childs, and graphic designer Mia Hunt. Curated by Max Allen. Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond St. W. …more

Continuing to July 15: MOCKED UP: IN FOOTNOTES ― Beyond Office dA Nader Tehrani, a founder of Office dA and the newly formed NADAAA. He is the 2010-2011 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Toronto. John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, 230 College Street …more

June 3-August 21: Out of Sorts: Print Culture & Book Design Curated by Noa Bronstein. Design Exchange, Chalmers Design Centre/Teknion Lounge, 234 Bay Street …more

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