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Rethinking Sprawl: the new reality of growth in Canada's fastest growing urban regions and policy's role in shaping them

A talk by Marcy Burchfield, Executive Director of the Neptis Foundation


Date & time
Thursday, October 8, 2015
12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Speaker(s)

Marcy Burchfield

Cost

This event is free

Contact

Rosemary Collard
514-848-2424 ext 2054

Where

Henry F. Hall Building
1455 De Maisonneuve W.
Room H-1269

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

Canada despite its vast land mass is an urban nation, and city-regions are the locus of growth in Canada. A recent study by the Neptis Foundation examined how and where residential growth occurred in the Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, and Vancouver city-regions over 20 years (1991-2011). The findings suggest a new pattern of development has emerged in the millennium that can no longer be characterized as sprawl.

In this lecture, Marcy Burchfield, Executive Director of the Neptis Foundation, will juxtapose the growth patterns of four city-regions and will examine more closely the increasingly important role of regional planning and policy in Toronto and Vancouver city-regions.


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