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The World Council on City Data (WCCD) and ISO 37120 were both officially launched at the Global Cities Summit on May 15th, 2014. The WCCD coordinates all efforts on city data to ensure a consistent and comprehensive platform for standardized urban metrics. The WCCD will become...
/oppi/conferences/symposium-2014/program/day-2/605-digital-information-and-the-future-of-cities 6/11/2018 2:36:04 PM
This mobile workshop will take participants to Regent Park, a social housing community in downtown Toronto that is one of six communities currently being revitalized by Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCH). The project, which involves demolishing all existing buildings ...
/oppi/conferences/conference-2015/program/day-1/mw2-behind-the-master-plan-the-influence-of-consensus 6/13/2018 4:12:44 PM
This session will explore examples of heritage conservation districts that pose differing sets of questions concerning urban design:  What approaches can be taken when working in areas that do not represent the typical built form of heritage conservation districts (e.g....
/oppi/conferences/conference-2015/program/day-1/heritage-conservation-and-urban-design-–-challenges,-success-and-balance 6/13/2018 4:33:37 PM
This mobile workshop will offer a walking tour of the Don Mills community. The tour will examine a residential neighborhood, the open space and pedestrian trail system, and the redevelopment of its original commercial community core, the Shops at Don Mills.   Don Mills is ...
/oppi/conferences/conference-2015/program/day-1/mw6-don-mills-a-planned-community-and-change 6/13/2018 4:36:27 PM
This session will offer the Herb Grey Parkway as a case study highlighting how highway infrastructure projects can work with the community to bring integrated solutions to the varying expectations of our urban environment.   Historically highway expansion has been seen as ...
/oppi/conferences/conference-2015/program/day-1/building-communities-through-building-highways-–-story-of-the-rt-honourable-herb-gray-parkway 6/13/2018 4:39:58 PM
This session will distill experience on various approvals frameworks from across British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Yukon. It will illustrate that the success and effectiveness of development permit systems is directly tied to clarity of guidelines, flex...
/oppi/conferences/conference-2015/program/day-1/development-permit-systems-lessons-learned-across-canada 6/13/2018 4:40:18 PM
The session will present the Lawrence Heights Revitalization Plan – a plan to redevelop, revitalize and intensify a nearly 200 acre, 1,208-unit, inner-suburban, public housing neighbourhood in Toronto. Presenters will offer the perspectives of the City Planning Division, the T...
/oppi/conferences/conference-2015/program/day-2/city-of-toronto-neighborhood-design-lawrence-heights 6/14/2018 10:50:56 AM
Since 2013, Ontario’s Places to Grow Implementation Fund (P2GIF) has supported innovative growth planning research and outreach projects.  This session will showcase three projects funded by the P2GIF that build awareness and understanding of growth planning. Following the...
/oppi/conferences/conference-2015/program/day-2/innovative-projects-to-advance-growth-planning 6/14/2018 10:55:43 AM
The emergence of the ideas competition has offered new insights as an intensive and inventive platform to engage communities. Many organized competitions have led to profound change in urban planning/design theory. As well, they have been at the root of our most important ...
/oppi/conferences/conference-2015/program/day-2/city-building-through-design-competitions 6/14/2018 11:03:57 AM
This presentation provides a greater understanding of the effects that Farmers’ Markets have on public space and surrounding communities.   The study is based on the Leslieville Farmers’ Market, a weekly outdoor non-profit Market in Toronto’s East end that attracts approx....
/oppi/conferences/conference-2015/program/day-3/community-markets-the-impacts-on-public-space 6/14/2018 11:21:49 AM
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