A Partnership for Sustainable Urbanism: SFU and Prince’s Foundation for Building Communities sign MOU. More information can be found <here>.
Details on public talks by Scott Bernstein, Visiting Fellow in Urban Sustainable Development can be found on the SFU Urban Studies Website’s Public Talks page.
More details can be found here: http://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies/events/2012/01/human-transit-the-book.html
SFU Urban Studies program director, Anthony Perl, adds insight to CNN high-speed rail debate: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/18/world/how-green-is-hsr/index.html
Urban Studies prof Paddy Smith partakes in CBC Vancouver Mayoral debate, Nov. 9th. More information <here>.
Public lectures by SFU Visiting Fellow Mike Davis now available online on the Urban Studies Public Talks and Seminars Archive page.
Mike Davis, Professor, Department of Creative Writing, University of California at Riverside, will be presenting, “The Battle of Rio and the Future of the Slum” on September 26, 2011 at SFU’s Segal Graduate School of Business, and “The Socialist City as Utopian Tool Kit” on September 28, 2011 at SFU Surrey campus. More information on both lectures can be found here.
Congratulations to Frances Bula, SFU Urban Studies Advisory Council member, for receiving a National Magazine award on June 10, 2011. Frances was awarded Gold in the Column category for her Vancouver Magazine column, Urban Fix. Congratulations, Frances!
Simon Fraser University’s Urban Studies program (www.sfu.ca/urban) has partnered with the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment (www.princes-foundation.org) from the United Kingdom to host an exciting five day sustainable urban design workshop. The award-winning UniverCity community at SFU will be used as a living laboratory for experimentation and discovery. This intensive hands-on workshop will immerse participants into the inner-workings and successes of UniverCity while being a participant in helping shape its future.
More information on this 5-day workshop can be found here.
Join us for two upcoming free public lectures by SFU visiting fellow, Dr. Kee Yeon (Keith) Hwang, President of Korea Transport Institute:
The Cheonggye Stream Revitalization Project: An Urban Transport Revolution in Seoul (March 29th); and
The Sustainability Dividend of Building a Better Bus System: Evidence from Seoul’s Public Transit Reform (March 31st)
More information here.