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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
Yvonne Yeung is the CEO of SDG Strategies, with over 20 years of public and private sector experience delivering high-quality, award-winning, sustainable transit-oriented communities and vibrant public spaces. Her work focuses on informing how cities can better position infrastructure investment to deliver healthy, equitable, 15-min walkable complete communities through synergistic collaboration as a blueprint. As part of the Urban Land Institute Curtis Infrastructure leadership, Yvonne founded the "Getting to Transit-Oriented Communities Initiative", leading the strategic engagement across North America, promoting progressive city-building practices through the ‘Living Plan Collaborative Modal’ to integrate public interests with design excellence, and serve as the foundation for decisions and change. As an urban designer, planner and landscape architect, Yvonne is the recipient of the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management MBA Award, the American Society of Landscape Architects Honour Award, a founding board member of the OALA Ground Editorial and past member of the City of Toronto Public Art Commission, the Canadian Standards Association Design Standards Committee and the Green Building Certification Institute LEED Review Committee. Her participatory-design work was profiled at the Design Exchange and further evolved into an award-winning interdisciplinary tool to unlock the value of TOC through cross-commission development of precinct plans. Her projects have won planning and design excellence awards from the Waterfront Centre in Washington DC, the Canadian Institute of Planners, the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, the international Grands Prix Du Design, the Ontario Professional Planner Institute and the City of Toronto Urban Design. Yvonne has served as a speaker at Urban Land Institute, AMCTO Municipal Leadership Forum, University of Toronto School of Cities, Smart Cities Expo, Green Roof for Healthy Cities, UN-Habitat, Civic Action, Janes Walk, and design studios at various universities in North America.