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Annual Conference
Each year the Dalhousie School of Planning, together with government and community partners, hosts an annual conference during the winter semester. The purpose of the conference is to bring together planning students, faculty, professionals, community groups, and interested citizens to discuss and debate current topics in planning and community design. The conference is primarily organized by students. Conference themes are chosen for their immediate relevance to the wider community. An effort is made to link these themes with related activities occurring elsewhere in Halifax Regional Municipality and the Province.
Please visit the planning conference website for more information on current conference activities.
Topics for recent conferences and links to available proceedings:
PLAY, 2010
This conference's playful sessions focused on four sub-themes of design, accessibility, informal and formal environments, and health and wellness in relation to play.
Conference minutes are available here:
PLAY: A City to Plan In is a City to Stay In
Sustainable Action: Turning Challenges into Opportunities, 2009
The conference explored the increasingly important topic of sustainability and the economy, including questions about the future development and growth of our municipality, province, and nation. The conference was organized around the themes of how we eat, how we move, how we spend, and how we act.
The conference proceedings are available here:
Sustainable Action: Turning Challenges into Opportunities
Putting the ‘U’ in Neighbourhood, 2008
Neighbourhoods are the places where we play, live and grow. They not only affect the form of our cities but our individual experiences and lives. The conference explored the role of neighbourhoods from a social, cultural, and physical perspective and challenged Haligonians to consider what they value in their neighbourhoods. The keynote address, Peter Park, Manager of Community Planning and Development was held in partnership with the Downtown Halifax Business Commission’s Carmichael Lecture Series. Landscape architect/professor Randolph Hester and environmental planner/associate professor Marcia McNally were brought in from the University of California Berkeley, in part through a partnership with the Dorothy J. Killam Memorial Lecture Series.
The conference proceedings are available here:
Putting the ‘U’ in Neighbourhood
Bringing Transit Home, 2006
Transit impacts the community physical and social environment, affecting the quality of life experienced by its residents. This conference brought leaders in transit, the public, and students together to develop a guiding vision for the future of transit in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM). Conference discussions and workshop emphasized the transforming power of transit. Todd Litman, from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, was the keynote speaker.
The vision document is available here:
A Vision for Transit in HRM
Welcoming Winter, 2004
Together with planners and other professionals,
students, and interested citizens, participants explored how to make our communities
more comfortable and functional places in the winter season.
The conference
proceedings are available here:
Welcoming Winter: Changing
the Climate of Planning
Breaking Ground - Greening the Urban
and Regional Landscape, 2002
In partnership with the Evergreen Foundation
and the Ecology Action Centre, this conference was one of five to take
place across Canada on the theme of “Breaking Ground - Greening the Urban
and Regional Landscape.” Together, these conferences played a part in the Evergreen Canada Initiative
intended to help “connect communities with nature.”
The conference proceedings
are available here:
Breaking Ground: Greening the Urban
and Regional Landscape
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