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The talk takes place from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in roomÌý141 Ìýof the HNES Building, 91ÑÇÉ«. All are welcome.

For more information you can see the event poster here.

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On Friday November 8, World Planning Day, the and the City Institute presentÌýMake No Small Plans, a look at some of the decisions that have changed the face of Toronto.

John Fox, a partner atÌýRobins, Appleby and Taub, will be chair an expert panel that includesÌýBrian DenneyÌý(CEO of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority),ÌýRobert GloverÌý(partner, Bousfields Inc.),ÌýMark Guslits, (principal, Mark Guslits & Associates) andÌýJohn Farrow Ìý(chair of Lea Group Holdings Ltd and past chair of the CUI).

To kick of the discussion the panelists have identified four of the many bold moves that have shaped the Toronto region:

• When Hurricane Hazel hit in 1954, this stimulated an unprecedented period of innovative, collaborative planning involving the Toronto Conservation Authority, Metro Toronto and local municipalities that built on far-sighted provincial legislation enacted at the end of the Second World War.
• The 45’ height by-law, introduced by Mayor David Crombie, paved the way for a revolutionary Central Area Plan.
• The St Lawrence neighbourhood, a city-led redevelopment initiative, established hard-to-beat benchmarks for collaborative, inclusive planning.
• In 1974, a collection of small villages and hamlets west of Toronto was brought together under a single municipal banner that has since blossomed into the City of Mississauga. It is arguably one of the first Canadian suburbs to grow into a full-fledged city.

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¶Ù²¹³Ù±ð:ÌýNovember 8^thÌýÌýÌýÌý°Õ¾±³¾±ð:Ìý7:30am-11:30am

Continental breakfast and registration begin atÌý7:30 am, the program starts atÌý8 am.

You can register at and join on Twitter:ÌýÌýÌý#²ú´Ç±ô»å³¾´Ç±¹±ð²õ.

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The book, published by McGill-Queen's University Press, compares immigration from Ulster to Toronto and Munster to Buffalo and the Irish experience in the context of "aÌýloyal dominion within Britain's empire and in a republic whose self-confidence knew no bounds."

The launch takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. at the University of Toronto's Massey College ().

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As the authors write in the introduction, "...The suburbs have grown up and moved on but how we think about the suburbs have not."

Most of Toronto's urban growth is in its suburban rim and the report addresses issues of design, governance and the social and demographics changes that affect these crucial, fast-growing areas.

You can read the complete report . The cover image and author bios are .

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The manifesto will be unveiled at the taking place at 91ÑÇÉ«, Sept. 26-29.

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is now open for the upcoming international ÌýSuburban Revolution Conference 2013.ÌýHosted by CITY in partnership with the MCRI Global Suburbanisms project, thisÌýinternational conference focuses on bringing the fringe to the centre of global urban research andÌýpractice.

For more information on the conference including the program, keynote speakers, accommodations, directions, and registration please visit the Global SuburbanismsÌýÌýpage.

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ÌýJune 19, 2013

Dear friends and associates of the City Institute,

I am delighted to announce that Professor Linda Peake has agreed to be the new Director of CITY. Linda is an accomplished scholar and committed urban activist whose work and renown reach way beyond Toronto and Canada. She is a leading feminist geographer and has been a core member of the Urban Studies Programme at 91ÑÇÉ«. I am excited about Linda taking over the reins at CITY and I invite you to join me in welcoming her to her new responsibilities.

For myself, this is a time to say good-bye and reflect briefly on the time I was privileged to have spent as the Director of CITY. Having been part of the chartering process that created CITY in 2006 (together with Tricia Wood and Engin Isin), I initially agreed to be the Organized Research Unit’s inaugural director for two years. That it turned out to be a run of seven years in the end had many reasons that need not be revisited here. During this time, CITY has established itself as a major presence in the landscape of urban and regional research in Toronto and beyond. I am proud of what we have achieved. We have become a point of reference both locally and globally for thinkers and practitioners in urban affairs in a variety of subject areas. Working on the basis of our mandate of critical urban research, we have carved out an ambitious agenda that points into a productive future. Foremost among our many successful projects is certainly the Major Collaborative Research Initiative Global Suburbanisms: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21^stÌýCentury () which has put us on the map not just of suburban research world wide but of urban research in general.

A host of other projects have been run through CITY: on infrastructure, health, the legacy of socialist modernism, regional governance, suburban identities, the relationship of universities to new urban forms in general and the 91ÑÇÉ« Village in particular, urban unrest in Northern Africa, and several others. We have hosted many visiting scholars from around the world and have been the home to postdoctoral researchers. We have hosted large and successful international conferences and have run a number of much recognized public events, most notably our flagship City Seminar series. We are present in and through the media which has taken an interest in and broadcast our work on a regular basis. Through a number of partnership arrangements, especially the MCRI’s Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group and other partners (the Canadian Urban Institute, the National Film Board of Canada, etc.), we have built deep roots in Toronto’s communities of urbanists. We have hosted events with political and community organizations and have provided a stage for many conversations by activists and policy makers in the Toronto area on a variety of topics from transit to homelessness. We have worked regularly with colleagues at the University of Toronto (most notably through their Cities Centre) and Ryerson University. We are running international exchange programs for students and faculty.

We have had able and enthusiastic staff at CITY over the years. My thanks goes to all of them, past and present. It has been a particular source of pride and joy for me to have worked with dozens of undergraduate and graduate students over the years who have been residents at CITY, have been visiting us through our international exchange programs and have volunteered and worked for us in a variety of positions. My gratitude goes out to all of them and I hope they will remain connected to us as alumni when they go out to work as urbanists locally and globally.

I want to personally thank the Office of the Vice President Research and Innovation which has been supportive of CITY from its inception in 2006 and the Faculty of Environmental Studies, to which I now return, and which has been an important source of much needed institutional resources and personal encouragement over the years for the work we have done at CITY. I am also grateful to the members of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Board of CITY who have supported our work in many important ways. I encourage these communities to extend a helping hand to the new director, Linda Peake, as she leads CITY through the upcoming re-chartering process which the University has required us to enter later this year.

Although I am leaving CITY, I will remain connected through the MCRI which will reach its half way point in the fall of 2013. We will celebrate this milestone with a major international conference on the suburban revolution. More on that some other time. What remains now is to thank the one person who has remained stable in all these years of rapid change and innovation at CITY: the Institute’s and the MCRI’s coordinator, Sara Macdonald. Hired shortly after the chartering in 2006, Sara has been the backbone of the operation, the secret behind our success. I cannot thank Sara enough for the time and energy she has put into making CITY what it is today. Everyone who has worked with her, near or far, will agree that she is the soul and the heart of the operations at CITY. Thanks, Sara!

Leaving CITY means the beginning of a sabbatical for me. I am planning to write a book on suburbs and complete some other longstanding writing projects. As often as time allows, you will find me in my beautiful new canoe that so many of you contributed to. I really appreciated that very much and took it out for a first spin on the lake last weekend.

So long.

Roger Keil

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