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When:
June 9, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
2016-06-09T19:30:00-04:00
2016-06-09T21:00:00-04:00
Where:
Marilyn Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts - Room 156
Artists' Common
St. Catharines, ON L2R 3M2
Canada
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Brock University Environmental Sustainability Research Centre
Learning and Education
Innovation Training and Learning

This Science Café, hosted by Brock University’s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC), will focus on urban planning.

Speakers:

  • Dr. Pierre Filion, Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo
  • Jo Flatt, Senior Project Manager, Evergreen Cityworks
  • Brian Dick, Senior Policy Planner, Region of Niagara

Presentation: Promoting Recentralization in Metropolitan North America: Metropolitan Planning Proposals and their Transformative Potential.

The presentation considers the possibility of shifting U.S. and Canada metropolitan development patterns away from prevailing dispersed and automobile-oriented patterns. It explores the role planning can play in this regard.