Events

Julian Agyeman, a Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, is a powerful advocate for the integration of social justice and urban sustainability. In his talk, he will be outlining the concept of just sustainabilities as a response to the ‘equity deficit’ of much sustainability thinking and practice.

The AGP is pleased to host the first installment of the Winter 2021 Speaker Series on January 28th, 2021 at11:00 am via WebEx.

The pandemic has disrupted many of our daily social interactions and activity patterns; however, in some ways, it has also brought us closer to our local communities. Finding contentment in ordinary places is more relevant now than ever, whether that is taking a walk in a familiar neighbourhood or spending time at a park.

The AKU Institute for Global Health and Development (IGHD) will be hosting a webinar about the complexities and challenges of water and global health.

The webinar will take place virtually on February 17, 2021, at 9:00 am. All students are welcome to join!

Click here to register. 

The annual Waterloo Ryerson Planning Conference for 2021 is scheduled for March 1 - 3 this year! The theme is "Recognizing Urban Opportunities". We Globally we have been experiencing very unusual, scary, and difficult times over the past year, so we're hoping to look to the future and find opportunities within our urban spaces.

Regular prices for undergrads will be $7 and $10 for non-undergrads. The full conference line-up will be revealed shortly...stay tuned!

Link to buy tickets: https://lnkd.in/eG-Busz

Trevor Wideman is a CMHC-SSHRC Housing Research Program Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. He will be speaking about private property and land use planning in early 20th century Vancouver.

Sarah Moser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at McGill University and is broadly interested in the ways in which power and ideology are manifested in architecture, urban policy and planning, in embodied performances, nation-building strategies, and more. Dr.

Join us for the inaugural Planner-in-Residence Talks on April 8, 2021, from 6:00pm - 7:30pm.

OPPI21 Now What

The annual conference will be held virtually this year with all sessions broadcasted online. Sessions are scheduled for October 6, 13 and 20.

School of Planning students are encouraged to register!