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Universities, Cities and Prosperity: An Agenda for the Future
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George Ignatieff Theatre
15 Devonshire Pl Toronto, ON M5S 2C8 CanadaDescription
Big City, Big Ideas featuring President Meric Gertler
"Universities, Cities, and Prosperity: An Agenda for the Future"
**Because of overwhelming interest in this event we will have an overflow room in the Buttery (next to the George Ignatieff Theatre) for participants to watch a live stream of the event. Please confirm your attendance for the overflow room here.
A strong university helps build a strong city, and vice versa. Universities impart innovative dynamism and resilience to the economies of urban regions. They are stabilizing forces on urban economies, and on the local neighbourhoods they inhabit. And they connect their host regions to the world. We see this in leading city-regions around the globe: from Boston to Beijing, from San Francisco to São Paulo. But how do you build and nurture these relationships? And what role should the University of Toronto play in our region’s future?
Join us for a discussion with University of Toronto President Meric Gertler about the university and the city, and the critical role the University of Toronto will play in the economic, social and cultural future of the Greater Toronto Area. Meric, the 16th President of the University of Toronto, is one of the world’s foremost urban theorists and policy practitioners, and a widely regarded expert on innovation, creativity and culture as drivers of the economic dynamism of city-regions.
Moderator: Alan Broadbent, Chair of IMFG, the Maytree Foundation and Avana Capital Corporation
President Meric Gertler
Meric S. Gertler is the 16th President of the University of Toronto, and past Dean of U of T’s Faculty of Arts and Science. A Professor of Geography and Planning, Gertler is one of the world’s foremost urban theorists and policy practitioners, and a widely regarded expert on innovation, creativity and culture as drivers of the economic dynamism of city-regions. Among other accolades, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK). He holds the 2014 Distinguished Scholarship Honor from the Association of American Geographers, and a doctor of philosophy honoris causa from Lund University in Sweden.
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