91ÑÇÉ«

Thursday, September 10, 2026

9 am - 3 pm

519 Kaneff Tower

This event will be a focused exchange between two SSHRC-UKRI Knowledge Synthesis teams—Seeing Crisis like a City: Multi-level Governance in Canada and the UK (91ÑÇÉ«, University of Glasgow and University of Toronto) and Who Plans Your City: Understanding and Responding to Private Sector Power in Urban Planning (Toronto Metropolitan University and Loughborough University)—to examine how crisis governance, private sector power, and technology  are reconfiguring the balance between states, markets, and democratic accountability, and what are the opportunities emerging from the urban to address the current polycrisis. Hosted at the CITY Institute, 91ÑÇÉ« (September 10, 2026), the event brings these perspectives into dialogue around housing, infrastructure, and the uneven capacities of urban actors across governance scales.

Please RSVP before August 28, 2026. Limited spots available.

Program Detailed Schedule

9:00 am - Welcome with refreshments

9:30 am - Welcome note from S. Harris Ali, Director, CITY 

9:35 - 11:30 am: Presentations from both project teams

9.35 - 9.50 am: Multilevel Crisis Governance in Canada and the United Kingdom: Seeing Crisis Governance Like a CityÌýµþ²â Roger Keil, Ross Beveridge, Luisa Sotomayor, Ewan Kerr, Maryam Lashkari

Presenter: Dr. Ewan Kerr, Urban Studies and Social Policy, University of Glasgow, UK

10.00 - 10.15 am: Who Plans your City? Understanding and Responding to Rising Private -Sector Power in Urban Planning By Pamela Robinson, John Harrison, Stephanie Tywonek, Julia Menezes, Meaghan Gibbons, Kate Broadhurst 

Presenter: John Harrison, Professor of Urban and Regional Studies at Loughborough University, UK

10.30 - 11.30 am: Responding to Crisis: Planning, Politics, Markets and Everyday Life by Cheryl Teelucksingh, Zack Taylor, Franz Hartmann, Nidhi Subramanyam

Chair: Luisa Sotomayor 

11.45 - 12.30 pm - Lunch

12:30 - 2:15 pm: Practitioners’ Roundtable: Times and Spaces of Crisis Response with Adriana Beemans, Diana Chan-McNally, Hanaa Ali, Emmay Mah, Kyle Knoeck, Arvind Krishendeholl, Michael Collens

Chair: Harris Ali 

2.15 - 3 pm: Final Reflections and Discussions of the Day with Ranu Basu and Stefan Kipfer

This event is co-organized by faculty from Toronto’s three major urban planning programs (Toronto Metropolitan University, University of Toronto and 91ÑÇÉ«) and hosted by the CITY Institute at 91ÑÇÉ«.