The session will bring together the diverse field of urban research. Urban areas vary in their form, structure, morphology, land use patterns, and historical processes of evolution. But they are also driven by a series of interrelated processes of change - including economic, political, cultural, demographic, technological, environmental, social, and locally-contingent forces. The session also serves as a key event for the Urban Geography Study Group - allowing urban geographers to meet, network from across Canada as they share their research.

• 10:15 AM
  L'adaptation urbaine face aux stress combinés : cas de l'habitat lacustre de Ganvié au Bénin
  Fèmy A.D.D. FAGLA, UQAM

• 10:30 AM
  Sowing the seeds of post-war settlement and transformation in the Canadian Arctic: The gardens and greenhouses of the Hudson’s Bay Company in the 1940s and ‘50s
  Nathan McClintock, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)

• 10:45 AM
  Beyond crisis: Exploring tenants’ housing care imaginaries for more just housing futures
  Samantha Thompson, University of Victoria

• 11:00 AM
  Who Engages and How? Developing a Typology for Urban Sustainability Action
  Emily Smit, University of Toronto

• 11:15 AM
  Neighborhood Associations in a Mid-Sized US City: Topocratic vs Adhocratic
  Amanda Smith, Western Washington University

• 11:30 AM
  Improving Local Economic Development Capacity and Ability
  Evan Cleave, Toronto Metropolitan University