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September 21 and 22
2 days, 2 disciplines, 2 ways to participate – defining our professional roles and uniting to build more equitable, accessible and inspired communities.
#2GETHER2022
Nicole Natalie Hanson has a combined honours degree in Political Science and Urban Studies and holds a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. As a development planner with provincial, municipal and private sector experience, Hanson reviews and processes complex development applications across Ontario. As a researcher with continued field experience in cultural planning, she has developed policy recommendations and facilitated region-wide consultations that enable municipalities to spatially plan for death in cities equitably (in policy and practice). Hanson's work on cemetery urbanism has been recognized globally. In working on a range of long-term planning issues from an equitable framework, she teaches a graduate planning workshop in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University part-time. Hanson is a co-founder of the Black Planners and Urbanist Association, a Registered Professional Planner and a Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners.