The Council for Canadian Urbanism (CanU) is holding its CanU6 annual National Summit in the Greater Toronto Area. Entitled “Cities at the Edge – Urbanizing Suburbia in the Regional City”, this event is happening Thursday, Sep 18th to Saturday Sep 20th, 2014 and will gather Canada’s top urbanists – planners, architects, landscape architects, engineers, developers, activists, journalists, most of them from government, academic or consulting practices.
Canada is a suburban nation with over 80% of its cities in car-oriented, suburban form. In spite of a concerted effort by many in our profession — to concentrate new development in existing urbanized areas — most growth is still happening around the edges in suburban and greenfield locations. At the same time, however, there are great examples of suburbs that are being urbanized – evolving from “edge cities” to cities at the edge of urbanization. Extensive growth is happening in metropolitan areas which, through the urbanization process, are rapidly becoming “regional cities”.
The 6th annual CanU National Summit will deal with both these key issues and many more. What are the specific Canadian aspects of “urbanizing suburbia”? What are the trends, the most relevant issues and projects defining this immense and important challenge? What can we as Canadian Urbanists do to promote, facilitate and speed up change?
You can view the conference program here. To register, click here.
For more information and inquiries please contact info@canu.ca or see the CanU6 homepage.