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Blog Post Arrival City: Webinar Now Available
In March, ERA’s Graeme Stewart participated in a webinar hosted by Cities of Migration and Centre for City Ecology as part of their Citybuilders Bookclub. The current edition of the Citybuilders Bookclub focuses on Doug Saunders’ seminal book, Arrival City. This presentation focused on opportunities for successful arrival cities in the context of Toronto’s high-rise suburban landscape and TowerRenewal. For more information, see our previous post here. Gerben Helleman, a Webinar participant and editor of Urban Springtime, wrote an excellent follow-up article tracing the…
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Blog Post Arrival City: Bookclub and Webinar
ERA’s Graeme Stewart is pleased to be participating in a webinar presented by Cities of Migration and Centre for City Ecology as part of their Citybuilders Bookclub. The Bookclub is global in reach, aiming to foster a deeper understanding of how cities work, and brings together a diverse group of thinkers and writers from around the world to weigh in on and debate the issues raised through reading. The current edition is focused on Doug Saunders’ seminal book, Arrival City. Saunders’ Arrival…
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About Tower Renewal Videos
View videos, CUG+R TALKS, the GALLERY and NEWS sections for more content. Pechakucha: Tower Renewal 101 A crash course in Tower Renewal by Graeme Stewart. Tower, Slab, Superblock: Social Housing Legacies and Futures A conference hosted by the Architectural League of New York that examined the history, current status, and prospects of high-rise and superblock residential development. Experts discussed the potential for redevelopment from design and public policy perspectives. The Life- Sized…
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Blog Post Tower Renewal crash course, update on “Showcase”
Recently ERA’s Graeme Stewart and Evergreen Cityworks‘ John Brodhead presented a webinar on Tower Renewal in partnership with the Social Innovation Generation and Cities for People. The webinar presents an impressive picture of the last eight years of Tower Renewal efforts, and includes discussion of Toronto’s unique built form in relation to other cities, its history of progressive modern planning, the challenges and opportunities faced today by its aging tower neighbourhoods, and exciting new developments in City zoning and Tower…