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Book Launch: The Divided City

7pm to 9pm Central Time
Free Admission
The Good Will - Social Club
625 Portage Ave.

The Institute of Urban Studies at the University of Winnipeg is proud to announce the release of a new edited collection on how income inequality manifests at the neighbourhood level in Winnipeg. This book brings twelve experts on Winnipeg to talk about the people, places, and spaces, impacted by a growing gap between rich and poor neighbourhoods. We add a geographic perspective to the recent conversations about Winnipeg's economic and racial divides.

Background

The IUS is part of a Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership (NCRP) funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Led by the Cities Centre at the University of Toronto, this study examines income inequality in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Vancouver.

Neighbourhoods matter: where we live influences our quality of life and the services we receive. Some neighbourhoods provide us with advantages and social connections that allow us to thrive. Other neighbourhoods can make existing gaps worse because they lack resources and opportunities. Studying the geography of inequality shows how ideas, processes, and policies work together to create our city while also informing program and policy.

Check out the Facebook event for The Divided Prairie City book launch

Public Space: The New Barn-Raising Webinar

17:00 to 18:00 [GMT (London) Time]

PROMOTING PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE SPACES (POPS), CITY OF TORONTO, CANADA

James Parakh, Manager of Urban Design for Toronto and East York District at the City of Toronto Planning Division outlines his work mapping and publicizing the city’s hundreds of privately owned but publicly accessible plazas, parkettes and courtyards - owned by developers but often provided as part of agreements with city planners.

CHARM BRACELET PLACEMAKING, CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH, USA

Chris Siefert, Museum Deputy Director outlines how over 20 cultural, recreational and educational organizations in Northside Pittsburgh have collectively: created a new theater in an old building; used art to transform an unwelcoming underpass; put on events at the local Farmers Market; worked with schools; renovated a city park; awarded micro-grants.

About The New Barn-Raising

The New Barn-Raising is an initiative to encourage the exchange of international best practice around sustaining community and civic assets such as parks, recreation centers, libraries, neighborhood stores, senior centers, museums and theaters. These are places and spaces characterized by a high degree of accessibility, popularity and sense of belonging to 'the people'.

The term New Barn-Raising refers to how different groups (business, citizens, foundations, non-profits groups, politicians, social entrepreneurs, social investors, taxpayers and unions) can all pull together to support assets.

Read more and register for the Public Space webinar

Mobilizing Your People

10:00-11:00am PST

The economy wants to change.

Learn about proven models for mobilizing people, drawing from over a decade of work by the Storytellers’ Foundation in the Gitxsan Territory. Gain insight into how community organizing is fundamentally about relationship building and working with people.

Do you want to learn how to accelerate the transition to local living economies?

If you are considering enrolling in the SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development, this webinar series is a unique opportunity to meet four of our instructors. If you participate in all 4 webinars of this series, we'll mail you a copy of Michael Shuman's most recent book The Local Economy Solution (will be published in June 2015).

Register for the Mobilizing Your People

Place and Placelessness in Rural Canada

10:00-11:00am PST

The economy wants to change.

Economic Development today is space-based: designed without places in mind. The people who live in these places and feel the impacts of economic development are ignored. In this webinar Sean Markey will draw upon research that examines the history and impacts of space-based economic development in Western Canada.

Do you want to learn how to accelerate the transition to local living economies?

If you are considering enrolling in the SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development, this webinar series is a unique opportunity to meet four of our instructors. If you participate in all 4 webinars of this series, we'll mail you a copy of Michael Shuman's most recent book The Local Economy Solution (will be published in June 2015).

Register for the Place and Placelessness in Rural Canada webinar

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