Planning Cities in a Globalizing Economy

October 08, 2015

10:15am-11:15am

This session will focus on the impacts globalization is having on Canadian cities and potential planning responses. Discussion will include such topics as—

• Key elements of globalization and how they are reshaping cities
• Urban issues that are closely linked with global economic dynamics
• What planners can do to respond effectively
• When planning not the right response.

Supported by new technologies, the global movement of goods and services, labour, investment and ideas, as well as multi-national forms of business organization, are having profound impacts on our cities. Resource industry-based cities of the east and west are booming, while older industrial cities in Central Canada are losing thousands of jobs. Income segregation between neighbourhoods is increasing, downtowns are growing, inner suburbs are languishing and older, fine-grain urban neighbourhoods are threatened by large format retail. 

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