Five Crucial Decades of City Building

Greater Vancouver is simultaneously at the leading edge of the global urban tsunami and being overturned by it. This two-day forum will reveal the processes that are upending Vancouver and the processes fueling the metastatic growth of cities far distant.

“It is a remarkable thing. We are now witnessing the fastest transformation of human habitat ever. All over the world, countrysides are emptying while cities burst. Remarkably, as cities fill the average number of births per woman shrinks. Thus, within the next five decades, the average city will double in size, then stop growing—potentially forever.” Patrick M. Condon, Program Chair, Master of Urban Design

Doug Sauders

Author of Arrival Cities and International Affairs Columnist, Globe and Mail, Toronto

Tuesday, November 4

Surrey City Hall

6:00pm

Five Crucial Decades of City Building

15 speakers from around the world in dialogue

Wednesday, November 5

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

1:00pm

David Singleton

Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia and former CEO and Chairman, ARUP Australia

Wednesday, November 5

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

7:30pm (6:30pm reception)