This half day-long symposium will explore issues affecting Toronto’s rapidly growing downtown core, and the consequent need for more green space, public spaces and social infrastructures. The event will include leading thinkers, administrators, urban designers and architects speaking to the complex and often competing agendas that influence Toronto’s development. A wide range of presentations will be offered from visionary and speculative projects to precisely focused details of current practice and planning discussions in Toronto. Discourse will include cultural, economic, social and environmental sustainability; in the context of the next generation of Toronto’s urban spaces and infrastructures. The sessions will consist of short illustrated presentations approximately 20 minutes in length, and a group discussion.

This is a free and open event, no registration is required.

Speakers

Kristina Reinders, TOCore

Mark Sterling, Daniels Faculty, University of Toronto

Ken Greenberg, Greenberg Consultants

Christopher Glaisek, Waterfront Toronto

Lauren Abrahams, Public Work

Rolf Seifert, Seifert Architects

Moderated by Mona El Khafif, University of Virginia and Michael Piper, Daniels Faculty, University of Toronto

Schedule

8:30 am: Coffee and tea

9:00 am: Introduction

Kristina Reinders: Toronto's Intensification Challenges

Mark Sterling: Development Pressure and Rapid Growth

Ken Greenberg: Growth Management | Toronto Downtown's Neighborhoods

11:00 am: Discussion and coffee break

Christopher Glaisek: Constructing Public Space | Waterfront Toronto

Lauren Abrahams: Radical Resourcefulness

Rolf Seifert: Parking Innovations | New Models for Urban Parking Infrastructure

1:00 pm: Discussion

Download the program.

Co-hosted by the University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design and the University of Virginia, School of Architecture. Studio ARCH 3010 | ARCH 4010 HYBRID TYPES_ParkingParksPlus.