The SFU Urban Studies program is presenting a public forum on November 3 that will explore how regionalism is being practiced in the lower mainland and will assess whether current governance arrangements suit the needs and complexities of a growing region.
The forum will kick off with an academic panel exploring the many ways that we conceive the region (i.e. planning, economy, transportation, cultural). This will be followed by a practitioners’ panel exploring how organizations are acting regionally and what regional configurations could make these sectors stronger.
Details
When: Saturday, November 3 | 10AM – 1PM
Where: Room 5280, SFU Surrey (map), adjacent to the Surrey Central Skytrain station
Reserve (free)
The Panel:
Ken Cameron, Adjunct Professor, Urban Studies, SFU
Peter V. Hall, Associate Professor, Urban Studies, SFU
Patrick Condon, James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments, UBC
Noel Dyck, Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, SFU
Patrick Smith, Professor, Urban Studies & Political Science, SFU
Andria Teather, Vice President, Grants and Community Initiatives, Vancouver Foundation
Nancy Olewiler, Professor, School of Public Policy, SFU
Frances Bula, Civic Affairs reporter
This event is funded by an endowment by the Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia and the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board.
One comment
We need to pass on this, scant diversity, too many armchair academics, perhaps appropriate that ‘explore’ is used so often in the description. Would be far more useful to have people from the private sector and intelligent elected officials, who have long since done that exploration, and are on the leading edge of viable solutions, viable meaning they can actually be implemented; politically and financially. Although policy-wonk Ken will have some historic observations his mindset is becoming dated since removed from the loop.
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.” Yogi Berra