Great Ideas. Great City. Speaker Series
Let's Talk Parks - Thursday, June 16th
Our open spaces are more than just parks.
They make up a network of parks and plazas, greenways, natural areas, trails, sports fields, boulevards, wildlife passages and urban amenities; they are the outdoor public spaces that provide places for recreation, for rest and relaxation, venues for social gatherings and events, places for commemoration, and locations that support urban services and infrastructure, such as stormwater management.
You are invited to Let’s Talk Parks the next event in the Great Ideas. Great City. Speaker Series in collaboration with the City-Region Studies Centre with the Faculty of Extension at the University of Alberta. It highlights the launch of the City of Edmonton's new Green Network Strategy - Breathe. Let's Talk Parks is also intended to spark a conversation about urban ecologies and public green spaces from a municipal but also regional context.
Our keynote speaker is Nina-Marie Lister a respected practitioner, academic and writer from Ryerson University whose work explores the relationship between landscape ecology and urbanism. As the director of the Ecological Design Lab, her perspective on the intersection of landscape infrastructure and ecological processes within metro regions will be a highly valuable contribution to our ongoing city-building conversation.
Let's Talk Parks - Thursday, June 16th - Noon Event
12:00 - 1:00pm
City Hall - 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Peter Ohm, Chief Planner for the City of Edmonton, will introduce Dr. Katy Campbell, Dean of the Faculty of Extensions and Mayor Don Iveson who will provide opening remarks followed by a shorten presentation from our keynote Prof. Lister.
Let's Talk Parks - Thursday, June 16th - Evening Event
Doors at 5:30; Talk at 6:00pm
City Hall - 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Following Prof. Lister's presentation we invite the audience to ask questions as part of a Q&A. Our host and moderator will be Dr. Kevin Jones from the City-Region Studies Centre. Joining Prof. Lister will be Peter Ohm, Chief Planner for the City of Edmonton, Dr. Candace Nykiforuk Associate Professor in the University of Alberta's School of Public Health and Dr. Kristof Van Assche Associate Professor in the Faculty of Extensions.
Let’s Talk Growth
On February 25, 2016 Brent Toderian, planner, urbanist and writer, presented on “density done well” and joined the Let’s Talk Growth panel that included Kalen Anderson, David Hales and Simon O'Byrne. In February, we released The Way We Grow 2016 Progress Report and Growth Modelling Framework.
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Let’s Talk Growth - Welcome - Part 1 of 3 -
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Let’s Talk Growth - Q & A - Part 3 of 3
Let's Talk Design
On November 26, 2015, Ken Greenberg, author of Walking Home: The Life Lessons of a City Builder, shared his insights and experience about the importance of urban design. In November the City of Edmonton hosted the 2015 Urban Design Awards and launched the new Urban Design Framework.
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Q & A
Let’s Talk Transit
On September 28, 2015, Taras Grescoe, a globe-trotting and award winning author of Straphanger shared inspiring stories about transit from around the world.
The public talk was part of the City of Edmonton's Transit Strategy Project What Moves You? and the first in the Great Ideas. Great City. speaker series which invites Edmontonians to explore inspiring ideas that help shape a great city.
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Let’s Talk Transit
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