Ontario Heritage Conference 2009 - Peterborough Ontario - May 29th to 30th 2009
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DR. DAVID V. J. BELL
Professor Emeritus, Senior Scholar and Former Dean,
Faculty of Environmental Studies,
York University
Contact Information: dvjbell@rogers.com
6475882873
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David Bell is interested in Governance for Sustainability
– the transformation in decisionmaking
practices,
policies, institutions and culture that will be necessary to
support sustainability in the public, private and education sectors. He has served as
consultant and advisor to several universities, private sector companies, and to
governments at all 3 levels in Canada and internationally to the G8, the Government of
China, and the Government of Jamaica.
A political scientist by training, David was an undergraduate at York University in its
earliest years, graduating with his B. A. in 1965. He received his PhD from Harvard
University in 1969, and taught at Michigan State University for 2 years before returning
to York in 1971. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies (198187)
and
Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies from 19921996
at York University.
Clive Doucet Clive Doucet is an author and political practitioner who has been an urban activist all his life. As a student in Toronto he was involved with the Stop Spadina Movement. He subsequently built a remarkably diverse record of experience in public service at all three levels of government – municipal, provincial, and federal – and in many different parts of the country.
An Ottawa city councillor since 1997, Doucet has championed a pilot light rail project and new sidewalk and intersection standards for the city. In 2004 he was chosen as Canada’s Greenest City Councillor, recognizing his lifelong work to halt sprawl and promote pedestrian rather than automobile focused communities.
Doucet’s writing encompasses poetry and playwriting, as well as fiction, non-fiction and memoirs. His columns on urban issues appear in the Globe and Mail and other Canadian newspapers and magazines. His most recent work of non-fiction, “Urban Meltdown: Climate Change, Cities, and Politics as Usual”, was shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing, and is premised on the increasing irrelevance of federal government, in both the United States and Canada, to the pressing issue of our age. It is in our cities, he asserts, that democracy can be reclaimed, and vibrancy restored to community life. When cities get it right, the country will follow.
Avi Friedman, Ph.D. Professor of Architecture Director, Affordable Homes Program
Biographical Sketch Avi Friedman began his architectural studies at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, received his Bachelor of Architecture from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1980 (first in class/cum laude) and his Master of Architecture from McGill University in Montréal. Between 1982 and 1984, Dr. Friedman worked as head of design for a homebuilding firm in Montréal. He received his Doctorate in 1987 from the Université de Montréal. In 1988 he co-founded the Affordable Homes Program, which he currently directs, at the McGill School of Architecture, where he is a Professor. [read more]
Peter Frood
Peter Frood is the Field Unit Superintendent for the Central Ontario Field Unit of Parks Canada and is directly responsible for the Trent Severn Waterway National Historic Site, Georgian Bay Islands National Park and Bethune Memorial House National Historic Site. Peter led the federal government's Historic Places Initiative for six years and, working with all provinces and territories, established the Canadian Register of Historic Places and the Standards and Guidelines for Conservation in Canada.
James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler wrote his first best selling work of non-fiction, “The Geography of nowhere”, because he believed “that many people shared his feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities and ravaged countryside that is the everyday environment of most North Americans”. The sequels, “Home From Nowhere” and “The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition” emphasized remedies and analyzed major cities to understand what makes each place particularly liveable (or not).
Kunstler’s latest book, “The Long Emergency”, predicted converging catastrophes with, in view of current financial realities, astounding prescience. It is no coincidence, he writes, that the first victims of the financial crisis – housing and the auto industry – are the two major ingredients of urban sprawl. Kunstler believes the present era is a transitional period between the old profligate energy economy and the new economy of relative scarcity. The goal for all communities must now be the re-constitution of places that are worth caring about. This can only be achieved by retrieving the knowledge and methodology for urban design thrown away during the years of automobile ascendancy.
Kunstler’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times Magazine. He lectures widely at universities, professional organizations, and for such institutions as the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Alfred Holden
Alfred Holden is Sunday Insight editor of the Toronto Star. He writes passionately about cities as a reporter, columnist and essayist, receiving a commendation from Heritage Toronto for his work, and a nomination for a National Magazine Award. As a citizen member of Toronto's street lighting committee he authored the report advocating a white-light policy for city streets that was implemented by city council in 1993 and remains in effect. Alfred is a lifelong urbanist. Beyond Lego, an installation of a cardboard city created by Alfred and his cousins as teenagers, was installed and displayed at Render Gallery at the University of Waterloo alongside Dominion City by Canadian cartoonist Seth.
Gord Hume- Moderator
Gord Hume is a four term City Councillor in London, Ontario. He chaired that city's Creative City Task Force in 2004 and now chairs London’s Creative City Committee. Gord is the Chair of the Ontario Municipal Cultural Planning Partnership and is the author of Cultural Planning for Creative Communities.
RICHARD MORTIMER
Director Programs and Services Branch
Culture Policy, Programs and Services Division
Ontario Ministry of Culture
Richard Mortimer returned to the Ministry of Culture in July 2007 as Director of the Programs and Services Branch responsible for the following three areas: Culture Liaison Unit that manages the ministry’s relationship with its agencies and other key culture stakeholders, and works with partners to promote initiatives such as infrastructure renewal and cultural tourism; Culture Programs Unit that manages archaeological licensing and report review, and all ministry grant programs, including support to community museums, public and First Nations’ libraries, and provincial heritage organizations; and the Culture Services Unit that develops guidelines and tools and delivers education, training, outreach and technical advisory services to a wide range of culture stakeholders.
For the previous thirteen years, Richard worked with the Ontario Heritage Trust, an agency of the Ministry of Culture, as General Manager of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre in downtown Toronto, a National Historic Site and the only remaining two-theatre complex of its kind in the world.
From 1982, when he joined the Ontario Public Service to 1993 he worked in various capacities in the Ministry of Culture, including management in regional services and international cultural exchange/promotion. Richard worked in the not-for-profit culture sector prior to joining government and graduated from Fine Arts at York University.
Glen Murray Glen Murray is the chief executive officer and president of the Canadian Urban Institute a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in urban areas. While the Mayor of Winnipeg, Glen became known for his vision and passion for building culturally dynamic urban centres. His goal is to inspire Canadians to look at cities as economic engines of the country and he argues that they must be built on culture, creativity and quality of place. When Murray became the first Chair of the Big City Mayors Caucus 2002, he began a campaign for his vision of a New Deal for Cities – a new fiscal arrangement for municipalities based on the idea that the economy and the nature of cities is changing and in turn challenging the traditional ideas of municipal governance. Glen has also served as Chair of the Prime Minister’s Canadian National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.
Adam Vaughan
Adam Vaughan is a journalist and Toronto City Councillor whose life, since earliest recollection, has been dedicated to community activism. Born and raised in Toronto, his mother was a political activist with the Canadian Environmental Law Association and a key figure in the establishment of Ontario Legal Aid. His father was an architect, journalist and city councilor, and a driving force behind virtually all important issues in Toronto between 1970 and 2000.
Adam’s own career as a broadcast journalist began in 1982 and has included work with both public and private broadcasting, covering political issues at the federal, provincial and local levels. He has also written for Toronto Life, The Toronto Star, and Eye Weekly. Adam lives in the Queen and Bathurst neighbourhood, one of the most vibrant sectors of one of the most diverse cities in the world. It is here that he demonstrates on a daily basis his passion for community values and his belief that it is in the public interest to defend heritage streetscapes.
Mike Sawchuck
Community Programs Officer
Ontario Heritage Trust
Mike Sawchuck holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in urban planning from the University of Waterloo. Since joining the Ontario Heritage Trust in 2005, Mike has fulfilled the roles of Easement Advisor, Technical Advisor – Planning, and Community Programs Officer. In his current position, Mike works with communities across the province to coordinate the Trust’s Doors Open Ontario, Trails Open Ontario and Ontario Heritage Week programs.
Presentation Topic: Conservation by design: Developing a customized framework for conservation in your community.
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Photo Credit (above):
John Climenhage "After the Flood"
