New Course
Financing Urban Growth: The Use of Development Cost Charges and Community Amenity Contributions
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Oct 30, 2014, 9 am – 4:30 pm, SFU Vancouver
Instructors: Jay Wollenberg, Coriolis Consulting Corporation; Bill Buholzer, Young Anderson – Barristers and Solicitors
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New Lecture Videos from “Rethinking Transportation – New voices, New Ideas”
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The New Generation: Are Millennials Changing the Game?
Dr. Markus Moos, September 16, 2014
Future Livability: Boast or Bust? Can Metro Vancouver maintain its Livability Credibility for the next 30 years?
Gil Peñalosa, September 17, 2014
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Affordable Vancouver?
Debate hosted by The UBC School of Community & Regional Planning and The Vancouver Sun
October 23, 7-9 pm
UBC Robson Square Theatre
This is a debate between candidates for Vancouver City Council, on the topic of affordable housing in Vancouver. Candidates from each party will speak on their plan to tackle affordable housing, which has repeatedly been identified as one of the most important issues to Vancouverites. Candidates will also answer questions posed by a panel of housing experts, as well as members of the public. All are welcome to attend!
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SFU City Program is pleased to partner with UBC SALA for an upcoming Urban Design Forum:
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Five Crucial Decades of City Building
Greater Vancouver is simultaneously at the leading edge of the global urban tsunami and being overturned by it. This two-day forum will reveal the processes that are upending Vancouver and the processes fueling the metastatic growth of cities far distant.
Doug Sauders
Author of Arrival Cities and International Affairs Columnist, Globe and Mail, Toronto
November 4, 6 PM, Surrey City Hall
Five Crucial Decades of City Building
15 speakers from around the world in dialogue
November 5, 1 PM, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
David Singleton
Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia and former CEO and Chairman, ARUP Australia
November 5, 7:30 PM (6:30 PM reception), Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
More details about this series.
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Next-Generation Transportation Certificate
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This online program is designed to help mid-career professionals use next-generation transportation strategies to advance livable and sustainable cities of the future.
Courses in the certificate include:
Next-Generation Economic, Financial and Technical Tools of the Trade (starts January 14, 2015)
Next-Generation Multi-Modal Transportation for Regions and Networks
Next-Generation Multi-Modal Transportation for Neighbourhoods, Corridors and Sites
Next-Generation Cities and Transportation
Certificate details.
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Urban Design Courses in Vancouver
Economic Fundamentals
November 14-15, 2014
$650, SFU Vancouver
Designing Integrated Neighbourhoods
December 5–6, 2014
$650, SFU Vancouver
Studio I: Analytic Tools
January 29-31, 2015
$950, SFU Surrey
Ecological Planning and Sustainable Design
March 20-21, 2015
$650, SFU Vancouver
Planning for Transportation and Accessibility
April 17-18, 2015
$650, SFU Vancouver
Studio II: Synthesis of Urban Form
June 4-5, 2015
$950, SFU Burnaby
Please contact us at city@sfu.ca with any questions.
