Peripheries and the city. Strategies of territorial development

15 December 2014, 2>4 p.m., Ca’ Tron (aula consiglio)

Seminar by Prof. David Hulchanski, University of Toronto.

David Hulchanski:

David Hulchanski is a professor of housing and community development at the University of Toronto where he holds the Chow Yei Ching Chair in Housing. His PhDis in urban planning. His research and teaching is focused on neighbourhoods, community development, social change, housing need, and social and economic rights. In the 1980’s he was a professor of community planning at the University of British Columbia and director of the UBC Centre for Human Settlements. He was the director of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Urban and Community Studies from 2000 to 2008. He is currentlythe principle investigator of a 7-year $2.5 million research partnership focused on neighbourhood change and socio-spatial inequality in Canadian cities with international comparisons. See: www.NeighbourhoodChange.ca