{"id":27749,"date":"2015-11-02T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=27749"},"modified":"2015-11-01T21:41:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T05:41:56","slug":"sfu-launches-city-community-summit-oct-30th-nov-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2015\/11\/02\/sfu-launches-city-community-summit-oct-30th-nov-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"SFU Launches We the City Community Summit Oct. 30th to Nov. 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/SpacingExpressText_600px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14497\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/SpacingExpressText_600px.jpg\" alt=\"SpacingExpressText_600px\" width=\"600\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simon Frasier University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/publicsquare\/community-summit\/2015-summit.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>We The City<\/em> Summit<\/a> kicked off its\u00a0 <span lang=\"EN-US\">fourth major community summit\u00a0<\/span><em>Researching The City<\/em> on October 30th 2015, where 19 presenters showcased their research projects in an interactive and engaging manner at SFU&#8217;s Harbour Center.<\/p>\n<div>The night continued with a series of highly innovative and thought-provoking presentations,\u00a0introduced by Executive Director of SFU Vancouver, Laurie Anderson and SFU Vice President of Research, Joy Johnson. Presented in five-minute segments,\u00a0each researchers shared their work on how to improve Vancouver and engage citizens in the decision making process, as well as implement their Right To The City. The diverse and equally engaging research topics covered fields from the lives of black immigrants in Vancouver to HIV in the DTES and how to create a Regional Growth Strategies.<\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The SFU Public Square event will continue until November 7th. 2015. Each of the events explore city building and examine the roles that arts and culture, universities, housing, youth, Aboriginal people, research and innovation, community engagement, gender and literature can all play in creating thriving and distinct urban communities.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Summit aims to profile the increasing pressure facing municipalities such as expanding urbanization as well as explore what holds people to urban cores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information on the We The City Summit and other events, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/publicsquare\/community-summit\/2015-summit.html\" target=\"_blank\">SFU website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ulduz Maschaykh<\/strong> is an art\/urban historian with an interest in architecture, design and the impact of cities on people\u2019s lives. Through her international studies in Bonn (Germany), Vancouver (Canada) and Auckland (New Zealand) she has gained a diverse and intercultural understanding of cultures and cities. She is the author of the book\u2014<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Changing-Image-Affordable-Housing-Gentrification-ebook\/dp\/B00WX9C6NA\" target=\"_blank\">The Changing Image of Affordable Housing: Design, Gentrification and Community in Canada and Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Frasier University&#8217;s We The City Summit kicked off its\u00a0 fourth major community summit\u00a0Researching The City on October 30th 2015, where 19 presenters showcased their research projects in an interactive and engaging manner at SFU&#8217;s Harbour Center. The night continued with a series of highly innovative and thought-provoking presentations,\u00a0introduced by Executive Director of SFU Vancouver,<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2015\/11\/02\/sfu-launches-city-community-summit-oct-30th-nov-7th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;SFU Launches We the City Community Summit Oct. 30th to Nov. 7th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8275,"featured_media":27763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11230,20,24,25,26,28,36,11235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-civic-engagement","category-community","category-events","category-housing","category-infrastructure","category-neighbourhoods","category-parks","category-streetscape","category-urban-design"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SFU Launches We the City Community Summit Oct. 30th to Nov. 7th - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2015\/11\/02\/sfu-launches-city-community-summit-oct-30th-nov-7th\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SFU Launches We the City Community Summit Oct. 30th to Nov. 7th - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Simon Frasier University&#8217;s We The City Summit kicked off its\u00a0 fourth major community summit\u00a0Researching The City on October 30th 2015, where 19 presenters showcased their research projects in an interactive and engaging manner at SFU&#8217;s Harbour Center. 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