Events and Archive

Follow the links below to see information from past events, including pictures, presentation slides, and recordings.

Tuesday October 23, 2012. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series

Presenter: Ken Greenberg

Human Transit
Monday April 16, 2012. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Presenter: Jarrett Walker

Walk and Cycle the City
Tuesday March 20, 2012. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Presenter: Michael Ronkin

Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
Thursday, January 26, 2012. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Presenter: Ellen Dunham Jones.

Strip-Appeal Launch Party
December 13, 2011.

Planning and Designing Quartier International: A Lesson in Implementation and Holistic Urban Planning
Thursday, November 3, 2011. 7:00PM. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Panelists:
Clement Demers, School of Architecture, University of Montreal
Rob Marchak, City Manager’s Office, City of Edmonton
Councillor Ben Henderson, City of Edmonton
Toby Schneider, Alberta Treasury Board and Enterprise

Connecting City-Regions: Airports, High Speed Rail, and the City
Wednesday, October 12, 7:00PM. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Panelists:
Dr. Douglas Baker, Queensland University of Technology
Paul Benedetto, City Manager, City of Leduc
Ron Craik, Alberta Bullet Train

Small Scale Place-making Presentation by Janet Rosenberg, Landscape Architect
Tuesday October 11, 2011. 7:00 pm. An Edmonton on the Edge event
Presenter: Janet Rosenberg

Directions in Regional Research
September 15, 2011
Joshua Evans, Athabasca University
Judy Garber, Political Science, University of Alberta
Lars Hallstrom, Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities
Kevin Jones, City-Region Studies Centre
Dan Mason, Department of Physical Education, University of Alberta
Merle Patchett, City-Region Studies Centre
Robert Summers, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta
Ian Wight, University of Manitoba
Bruce Ziff, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta

Thinking and Acting Like a Region: Privileging Culture for a Change
September 15, 2011. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Ian Wight, Associate Professor, University of Manitoba
Doug Parrish, General Manager of Public Services, City of Cold Lake
Beth Sanders, President, APPI

Corn Fest and Alley of Light Event
September 17, 2011. An Edmonton on the Edge and DECL event.

Arts 4 the Alley
August 13, 2011. An Edmonton on the Edge event.

Canadian Real Property Rights Viewed from an Overseas Perspective
May 24, 2011. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Rachelle Alterman, Head of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, Technion
Eran Kaplinsky, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta
Rob Shields, Director, City-Region Studies Centre
Moderated by: Kyle Whitfield, Assistant Professor, University of Alberta

Mapping Creativity in the City
April 19th, 2011. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Chris Brennan-Horley, Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research
Facilitated by: Susan Lynch, Project Director, ECMap

Cities for People
April 11, 2011. Sponsored in part by Edmonton on the Edge
Jan Gehl, Urban Planner/Professor, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Designing Downtown Panel Discussion
April 6, 2011. An Edmonton on the Edge event
Trevor Boddy, Architecture Critic/Curator and Urbanist
Matthew Soules, Architect/Professor, Matthew Soules Architecture
Shafraaz Kaba, Architect, Manask Isaac
Gene Dub, Architect, Dub Architects Ltd.

Community Economic Development
April 5, 2011. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
John Loxley, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba

Public-Private Development
January 20, 2011. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Randy Crane, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA

Infill Development in an Urban Setting
October 20, 2010. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Peter Clewes, Partner, Architects Alliance

Ecologically Sustainable Industrial Parks: An Oxymoron?
September 16, 2010. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Raymond Côté, Professor Emeritus, Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University

Reclaiming Lost Spaces: Lecture and Design Charette
April 23-24, 2010
Greg Smallenberg, Principal, Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg

Local Political Geography and Institutionalized Racial Inequality
March 25, 2010
Allan Parnell, Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities

From Green Buildings to Sustainable Communities
February 8, 2010. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Thomas Mueller, President & CEO, Canada Green Building Council

Creating Intelligent Liveable Cities
November 30, 2009. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Marilyn Hamilton, Founder, Integral Cities

Sustainability Symposium
October 17, 2009. An Edmonton on the Edge event
Colin Soskolne, University of Alberta
Joe Van Belleghem, Dockside Green, Victoria, B.C.
Martin W. Janowitz, Stantec, Montreal
Shannon Nichol, Seattle's Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
Moderated by: Rob Shields, City-Region Studies Centre

Landscape Architecture
October 15, 2009. An Edmonton on the Edge event
Shannon Nicoll, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

The Transportation-Land Use Connection
September 30, 2009. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Eric Miller, Professor, Civil Engineering, University of Toronto

Alberta Arts Days
September 19, 2009

Implementing Innovation
June 24th, 2009. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
Carol Bergum, City of St. Albert
Bard Golightly, Christenson Development
Peter Vana, Strathcona County

Climate Change and the Property Sector
June 18, 2009. An Edmonton on the Edge event
Yvonne Rydin, Bartlett School of Planning and UCL Environment Institute

Resilient Cities
June 18, 2009. An Edmonton on the Edge event
Peter Newman, Curtin Univeristy Sustainability Policy Institute

Regional Transportation: Lessons from Portland
May 5, 2009. Part of the Regional Planning Speakers Series
George Crandall, Principal, Crandall Arambula
Don Arambula, Principal, Crandall Arambula

Re-Shaping the City
March 2, 2009
Anthony King, Professor Emeritus, Art and Architectural History, Binghamton University

Regional Growth Strategies: Lessons from Ontario's Greater Golden Horseshoe?
February 10, 2009
Jason Thorne, formerly of the Ontario Growth Secretariat and Metrolinx
Kevin Curtis, Region of Waterloo
Neil Rodgers, former President UDI Ontario
Moderated by Greg Christenson, President, Christenson Development

Edmonton on the Edge: Innovative Urban Planning and Design
November 17, 2008. An Edmonton on the Edge event
Meric Gertler, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
Jaime Lerner, former Mayor, Curitiba Brazil
Len Rodrigues, Architect, Stantec
Moderated by: Pat Butler, former Chair, Edmonton Design Committee

Regional Cooperation to End Violence Against Women
September 10, 2008
Andrea Chelles, Coordinator, Regional Consortium for the Promotion of Equity

Public Deliberation Panel Discussion
May 23, 2008

Participation in the Arts: Where are the adults?
April 23, 2008
Tony Luppino, Art Gallery of Alberta
Jennifer Faulkner, Alberta Ballet
Linda Huffman, Edmonton 2007 Cultural Capital of Canada
Rob Shields, University of Alberta
Julian Mayne, Fringe Theatre Adventures

Regional Cooperation: A Fresh Start for the Capital Region
January 31, 2008
Mark Partridge, Ohio State University
Gary Klassen, City of Edmonton
Rick Stuckenberg, County of Leduc

Learning to Think and Act Like a Region
November 30, 2007

Key Issues Facing a World City in the 21st Century
November 15, 2007
Dr. Michael Batty, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London

Building Affordable Homes and Communities
November 5-6, 2007

Building Healthy Communities
November 4, 2007
Avi Friedman

"Looking Forward" 2007
June 21, 2007

Gender and Human Rights
June 12, 2007

Affordable Housing
April 19, 2007

Building Support for Immigrant Volunteers
March 20, 2007

The Limits of Boundaries
March 15, 2007

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