City Builder Book Club
Starting February 1st
 Welcome to the City Builder Book Club! Starting on Wednesday, February 1st, we will be reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. We would love to have you join us! Check out the schedule on our website.
Staff of the Centre for City Ecology and Creative Urban Projectswill blog about the book each week. We will also have guest posts from urbanists, architects, town planners, designers, academics, and city builders of all kinds. On Fridays, members of the mailing list will receive a weekly wrap-up of the posts and discussions about that week's chapters, as well as a selection of related materials highlighted for us by the Toronto Public Library.
In this book, Jane Jacobs demonstrates the value of the experiences of people who live and work in cities. We welcome you to strengthen our discussion of this book by joining the conversation on our blog, on Facebook, and on Twitter. Your experience in your own city is a valuable part of this conversation about what makes a city welcoming and vibrant.
 If you don't yet have a copy of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, you can:
We will be reading chapter by chapter rather than page by page, so you will be able to follow along no matter whether you have a crisp new copy of the recently released 50th Anniversary Edition or an older much-loved, creased and highlighted copy!
City Builder Camp
 Visiting the Kodak lands in Mount Dennis
As many of you know, on 17 September 2011, 120 people met to hear about existing challenges in St James Town, Mount Dennis, and Yonge & Bloor. Community representatives presented about their neighbourhoods and heard advice and feedback from urban planners, community organizers, architects, and developers who had volunteered their time for the day. CCE has been meeting with these communities again, to hear how City Builder Camp has affected their work and to see their neighbourhoods in person. In our recent blog post, Catching up with our City Builder Camp communities, you can read about the Church Wellesley Neighbourhood Association’s community visions for their neighbourhood, our recent walking tour with Community Matters and U for Change showcasing the great strides being made in St James Town, and the Mount Dennis Community Association tour of the vacant Kodak lands and many natural and constructed barriers in their neighbourhood!
Park People & Jane's Walk hiring!
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Dave Meslin
Five Good Ideas: Campaigning for Social Change
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 12-2PM
FREE!
Nonprofit organizations facilitate social change through education, outreach, advocacy and mobilizing. How do we engage more people in this process? How do we create effective messages that help shift public opinion and policy? What obstacles lie in our way, and what role does our aging democratic structure play? This session will address these and other questions as Dave Meslin shares his views and ideas about successful campaigning.
Overcoming The Green Premium - Building A Model Sustainable Community
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 7:30–9:30AM
$35–$45
Attend CUI’s very first breakfast roundtable of 2012 to hear from Gordon Harris, President and CEO of the SFU Community Trust about the UniverCity project at Simon Fraser University, an award-winning model sustainable community, followed by comments from an expert panel and audience discussion. With opening remarks from Steve Jacques, Manager, Market Analysis and Research, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).
Toronto Society of Architects
AGM and Official Plan Review
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 6–7PM
FREE!
The City of Toronto Official Plan, which sets out the vision for where and how Toronto will grow to the year 2031, is going through a formal review process — the first since coming into force in 2006. The TSA is hosting a forum to discuss possible changes to the Official Plan and would like to hear your suggestions about what you think is working in the OP and what you think should be improved. Issues such as growth targets and how and where growth is being directed, transportation, the approach to employment lands, heritage, the environment and urban agriculture are just some of the topics that have been raised thus far. Paul Bain, responsible for coordinating the OP Review within the Planning Department, will provide a brief presentation on the state of the City in relation to the Official Plan, after which those in attendance will have an opportunity to raise questions, make suggestions and provide comments.
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Nancy Smith Lea
Chris Selley
Chris Hardwicke
Yonge Street Speakers Series: Feet and wheels
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 6PM
FREE!
Toronto's streets can sometimes feel like contested spaces, filled to capacity with cars, buses, streetcars, bicycles and pedestrians. Our headlines are dominated by debates about bike lanes, cyclist and pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian scrambles, street maintenance and the design quality of our streetscapes—not to mention the role of public transportation in getting us to where we need to go. For Yonge Street's third public event, we're looking for solutions to some of our transportation conundrums.
Opening Reception
Flavio Trevisan: Museum of the Represented City
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 6–9PM
FREE!
For Museum of the Represented City, his first solo exhibition at a public gallery, Toronto artist Flavio Trevisan takes an entirely new approach to his creative practice, articulating a conceptual context for his main body of work. Staging an immersive environment, he creates an ephemeral “museum of the present” that reflects on the current state of the city. The resulting installation conveys a fragmented yet revealing cartography of Toronto’s built history, inviting the visitors to explore different ways of engaging with the cityscape.
David Miller
David Hulchanski
Richard M. Sommer
Toronto in Question – Whose City? Gentrification, Inequality and the Future of Toronto
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 6:30–8:30PM
FREE! REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
Whose city is this? Who will be able to afford to live here? Will we have one Toronto or several? What will happen to our quality of life? Given the uncertainty of political support what is the likelihood of proposed strategies for enhanced public transportation, affordable housing, high-rise apartment revitalization and various community-building initiatives coming to fruition?
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