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Mobility Network presents ‘The Way Forward: Designing complete communities’

May 10, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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How can the 3 Ds of density, land-use diversity and pedestrian-oriented designs reduce our lengthy work commutes and build healthy, safe, equitable, sustainable complete communities?

Who do these communities include?

What makes them complete?

Speakers

Margaret Kohn is a professor and the chair of the Department of Political Science, UTSC.

Matti Siemiatycki is a professor at the Department of Geography & Planning and the director of the Infrastructure Institute at School of Cities, University of Toronto.

Robert Wright is an associate professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto.

Moderator

Eric Miller is the director of the Mobility Network at the School of Cities and a professor at the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto.

Register to attend

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Free. All are welcome.

If any specific accommodations are needed, please contact mobilitynetwork@utoronto.ca. Requests should be made as early as possible.


About The Way Forward

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Researchers from across U of T bring home the many ways mobility affects our lives in The Way Forward, a panel discussion series. Join the conversation!

All sessions take place on Tuesdays from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. online and are free. Registration is required.

An introductory overview will be followed by short presentations, a moderated panel discussion, and audience Q & A. This event will be recorded and shared.

Interested in more The Way Forward sessions?

See the complete Spring 2022 schedule for The Way Forward.


About Mobility Network at the School of Cities

Transportation and mobility touch virtually all aspects of our lives. The Mobility Network is a multidisciplinary, collaborative, and diverse network of mobility researchers that connects the University of Toronto’s exceptional strengths in data sciences, engineering and social sciences to address the technological, social, environmental and health disruptions facing society globally. Through interdisciplinary basic and applied research, Mobility Network will identify pathways to more equitable and efficient urban mobility, provide the evidence and decision-support needed for effective and lasting societal change, and have profound implications for individual well-being, resilient, sustainable and just urban growth and prosperity, and, ultimately, our planet’s future.

Mobility Network is an Institutional Strategic Initiative of the University of Toronto.

Venue

Online Event

Organizer

Mobility Network at the School of Cities
Email
mobilitynetwork@utoronto.ca