Transforming infrastructures lecture - Matti Siemiatycki

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City Building Through Partnership: In Search of a Collaborative Advantage

Lecture by from School of Cities, 木瓜福利影视 of Toronto

Matti Siemiatycki is Interim Director of the School of Cities and Professor of Geography and Planning at the 木瓜福利影视 of Toronto. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Infrastructure Planning and Finance. His work focuses on delivering large-scale infrastructure projects, evidence based infrastructure investment decisions, and the effective integration of infrastructure into the fabric of cities. His recent studies explore transit policy decisions, the value for money of public-private partnerships, the development of innovative mixed-use buildings as a form of place based infrastructure policy, and the diversity gap in the infrastructure industry workforce. Matti consults widely on infrastructure policy and is a frequent media commentator on infrastructure and city planning.

In this (online) lecture series the research hub Transforming cities invites international lecturers to share their view on urban sustainability transformations and the role of infrastructures.

One of the key mediators of urban transitions are technical infrastructures, like energy, water, mobility, waste, and communication services. However, those systems are interlaced with the built environments of cities. Since infrastructure choices shape urban futures for many decades, they impose exceptionally high requirements in terms of transformative knowledge on how to introduce change and address vested interests, how to anticipate future risks and opportunities, and how to envision pragmatic pathways to more desirable urban futures.

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