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Donovan D. Rypkema |
Donovan Rypkema is president of Heritage Strategies International. HSI was established in 2004 as a companion firm to PlaceEconomics, a consulting firm of which Rypkema is the principal. PlaceEconomics – widely recognized as the industry leader in the economics of historic preservation – specializes in services to public and NGO clients who are dealing with center city and neighborhood commercial district revitalization and the reuse of heritage structures. Rypkema has worked with communities in 49 States and more than 25 countries. Recent assignments for HSI have included economic training for heritage activists in Sumatra, a feasibility analysis for a heritage building in the United Arab Emirates, developing economic incentives for heritage conservation in the Kingdom of Bahrain for the UNDP and being the financial specialist for a World Bank funded cultural heritage project in Azerbaijan. Rypkema is the author of numerous articles and publications as well as a book, The Economics of Historic Preservation: A Community Leader’s Guide. He holds a Master of Science degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. Rypkema served on the Board of Advisors of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is currently on the Board of Directors of Global Urban Development, and teaches a graduate course on the economics of historic preservation at the University of Pennsylvania. Transcript of the Donovan Rypkema keynote address now online.
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John Sewell |
John Sewell, former Mayor of Toronto, has written widely for many publications and has delivered speeches on planning, local governance, city and social issues across Canada and in the United States. He has engaged in politics in Toronto as a community activist, city councillor, journalist, writer, housing administrator, and entrepreneur. John has played a leadership role in various local causes including the (unsuccessful) attempt to keep Maple Leaf Gardens as an active ice rink, and protecting Union Station as a key transportation facility in Toronto. He has recently completed a manuscript on the history of the suburban areas around Toronto (the so-called 905 area) to be published by University of Toronto Press in 2008. John is currently teaching `Policing in Canada, a third level course at Ryerson University in Toronto. John Sewell is the author of a number of books including: A New City Agenda , July 2004 (Zephyr Press) Doors Open Toronto, Illuminating the City's Great Spaces , 2002 (Random House) Houses and Homes: Housing for Canadians , 1994 (James Lorimer and Company) The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles With Modern Planning , 1993, ( University of Toronto Press) |
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Dan Needles |
Dan Needles spent half of his childhood in the city and half on the family farm at Rosemont, Ontario. After university, he went to work as editor of the local newspaper in Shelburne where he created the character of Walt Wingfield, the retired stockbroker turned farmer, who told about his adventures on the farm in a series of weekly letters to the editor. In 1985, Dan drew from these columns to write his first play, Letter From Wingfield Farm. Wingfield's Progress followed in 1987, Wingfield's Folly in 1990, Wingfield Unbound in 1997, Wingfield On Ice in 2001 and Wingfield's Inferno in 2005. Dan writes columns for two publications these days, Petunia Valley Sideroad for Country Guide Magazine and True Confessions from the Ninth Concession for Harrowsmith Country Life. He's also the winner of the 2003 Leacock Medal for Humour for his book, With Axe and Flask, The History of Persephone Township from Pre-Cambrian Times to the Present. Dan's latest book, a novelization of Wingfield plays four, five and six, entitled Wingfield's Hope, is currently available in bookstores everywhere. It and its companion volume, a book version of the first three Wingfield plays, called Letters From Wingfield Farm, were both short-listed for the Leacock Medal in 1989 and 2005 respectively. Dan's seven-character play, The Perils of Persephone, premiered at The Blyth Festival in 1989. Dan Needles lives with his wife, Heath, and their four children on a small farm near Nottawa, Ontario. |
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Susan L Maltby |
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Susan Maltby is a conservation consultant specializing in artifact treatment, training seminars, collection surveys, advice on collections care and management, and conservation guidelines for exhibits, museums and heritage structures. She earned a Master of Art Conservation specializing in artifact conservation from Queens University in 1984, has extensive field experience in Cypress and Jordan as an archaeological conservator, and has written numerous articles and papers, and contributed to the academic literature on conservation technique. Previously, Susan worked as a Conservator with the Canadian Conservation Institute, a Fellow at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and as an intern at the Klondike National Historic Site. She currently runs her own conservation consulting firm as well as teaches at the University of Toronto and the Cambell Center in the United States. |
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Henry Wong |
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Henry Wong is President of WGD Architects based in Toronto, Canada. Hehas three decades' professional experience in architectural practice |
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Carlos Garcia |
President of NCG International Consultants, a private consulting firm specializing in Business Planning and Development, with particular emphasis on the development of comprehensive business plans for new ventures and for existing operations that lack a planning process and discipline. This firm has developed business plans for organizations such as Major League Baseball Properties, Warner Brothers Studio Stores, Cuddy Foods and the Basketball Hall of Fame. It has also developed business-oriented feasibility studies for major sports, entertainment and commercial centres in Toronto, Osaka, Frankfurt, Taipei and Dublin. Carlos holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics, an M.Sc. in Physics and an an M.B.A. Carlos and his wife Fay moved to St. Catharines in 1986 and have resided in Port Dalhousie since. In 1999, he and Fay co-founded PROUD (Port Realizing Our Unique Distinction), a volunteer community organization whose initial focus was to canvass the community regarding potential heritage designation for Port. After designation became a reality, PROUD has broadened its focus to supporting the community on other important issues. Now a not-for-profit corporation (named PROUD Port Dalhousie), the volunteer organization has been the leading the advocate for appropriate development in Port’s Commercial Core. Carlos is Executive Vice-President of PROUD Port Dalhousie.
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Monica Contreras |
Monica Contreras, OAA, is a Project Manager, Planner and Registered Architect with 21 years of experience directing complex commercial and institutional building projects of all sizes. She has a track record of successfully delivering building and infrastructure projects on time and on budget for various stakeholders, within complex organizations. During her career, she has achieved success in all facets of the development process, from developing policies and strategic plans, drafting space programs, though design to construction, implementation and occupancy. She has also been in all sides of the business and has a depth of perspective both as a consultant and the client’s representative. These roles have included obtaining complex approvals, authoring design briefs, managing the design process, selecting, and coordinating large multi-disciplinary teams of consultants, working as project architect, managing on-site construction and coordinating contracts. She has set-up new facilities, managed commissioning, post occupancy evaluations, and drafted capital projects master plans. She has specialized in complex multi-use building types, including multi-level residential and retail-commercial structures, and institutional buildings for the financial and educational sectors, in complex heritage urban and suburban contexts. Monica is a Lecturer in the Real Property Development MBA specialization program of the Schulich School of Business at York University and she is an Academic Associate and Lecturer in the World House Project, Institute Without Boundaries at George Brown College. Monica is currently Vice-president of Construction and Capital Projects for Urbanspace Property Group, managing all aspects of construction and property improvements for heritage buildings in downtown Toronto.
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Joe Lobko |
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Joe Lobko is a Toronto architect whose work has been focused on the community and non-profit sector as well as urban design. As a principal of du Toit Allsopp Hillier/du Toit Architects, a multi-disciplinary firm of architects, landscape architects and urban designers, he is responsible for leading a broad range of projects within the office, while maintaining an active volunteer role in a range of community initiatives. Many of his projects have explored new territory, including the award-winning L’Arche Dayspring Chapel; the first legal live/work project in the City of Toronto for Toronto Artscape; serving as professional advisor for the first affordable housing design competition as part of the Regent Park renewal initiative; and his participation in the development of an urban design plan for the West Don Lands brownfield site adjacent to Toronto’s Distillery District. Volunteer efforts include his work as a past Chair of the Toronto Society of Architects, and serving as a member of Mayor Miller’s Beautiful City Roundtable during the last term of Toronto City Council. Current projects include the design of the Wychwood Green Arts Barns Project and the Evergreen Brick Works.
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Sean Fraser |
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Sean Fraser was born and raised in British Columbia. He has worked across Canada and internationally in the field of cultural heritage conservation for 17 years. He has undergraduate degrees in Architectural History / Classical Archaeology from the University of British Columbia and Architectural Design from the Technical University of Nova Scotia (now Dalhousie) as well as a Masters Degree in Conservation of the Built Environment from the Technical University of Nova Scotia. Mr. Fraser has worked with US ICOMOS and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). He has practiced as an independent heritage consultant, has been an associate for Commonwealth Resource Management Limited, a Preservation Officer for the Toronto Historical Board, and a Heritage Planner for the City of Toronto's Heritage Preservation Services Unit. He is a former Board member of the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP) and the Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI). In addition to his ongoing heritage work in Ontario, Sean has been the project architect for a number of archaeological excavations in the Middle East for more than a decade. He is currently the Manager of the Ontario Heritage Trust's Conservation Services Unit.
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Romas Bubelis |
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Romas Bubelis is an architect with the Ontario Heritage Trust. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto School of Architecture and has a certificate in conservation from The Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies at the University of York in England. He has been a member of the Ontario Association of Architects since 1987. Prior to joining the Ontario Heritage Trust in 1989, Romas spent 9 years in private practice in Toronto. In his 19 years with the Trust, Romas has led many of the organization’s high profile architectural conservation and restoration projects.
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Leo Longo |
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Aird & Berlis LLP Senior partner and practice group leader of the firm's Municipal and
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Eileen P. K. Costello |
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Partner, Aird & Berlis LLP. Eileen practises in the area of municipal and land use planning law, including acquiring development approvals for a broad range of clients and advising municipalities in a variety of matters. Eileen also undertakes prosecutions for a number of municipalities in respect of zoning, property standards and building standards enforcements. Eileen appears regularly before municipal authorities and administrative tribunals, most notably the Ontario Municipal Board. She also appears before the Superior Court of Justice and the Divisional Court in respect of appeals from the Ontario Municipal Board, decisions of chief building officials, and by-law interpretation matters.
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Martin Liefhebber |
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Martin Liefhebber Architect is the principal of Breathe Architects a firm that specializes on eco design, green work and living. He is an Assistant Professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design, teaching energy systems. He has participated in several Toronto-based initiatives with a focus on the quality of life and the environment. "Scarcity is not because we don’t have enough. It has come about because of the way we consume. We make design decisions which perpetuate the unsustainable practices, which deplete and abuse the planet's resources".
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Eric K. Gillespie |
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Eric K. Gillespie practices civil litigation and administrative law with an emphasis on environmental issues. He graduated with Distinction from the University of Western Ontario Law School in 1994, and articled in part with the Canadian Environmental Law Association. Since then he has appeared before all levels of Ontario Courts, and a wide variety of administrative tribunals including the Ontario Municipal Board, Environmental Review Tribunal and at the Walkerton Water Inquiry. In 2004 he co-founded Cunningham & Gillespie LLP located in downtown Toronto. His clients include corporations, municipalities, developers as well as NGOs, ratepayer and community groups across Ontario and in Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Since 2001 he has been acting as lead counsel for citizens of Port Colborne in a $750 million dollar environmental class action against INCO Limited, the largest in Canadian history, that was recently certified at the Supreme Court of Canada level.
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Penina Coopersmith |
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Penina Coopersmith is a writer, editor, journalist, broadcaster and consultant who has specialized in municipal and environmental issues including housing, architecture, urban design, planning and infrastructure. Penina has long been a community activist stirring up trouble around saving buildings, streetscapes, trees and valleys, encouraging better planning and more intense urbanization and fighting for more affordable housing. She was the City of Calgary's first Heritage Planner back in the Neolithic.
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Ron Martin |
Graduate of George Brown College Architectural Technology program
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Jim Kilgour |
Chair of Nottawasaga Lighthouse Restoration Committee and the Since the age of 5, Jim has enjoyed summers on the water as a Jim's presentation will center on the development of aids to
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Fran Moscall B.A., M.Ed. |
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An educator and environmentalist ~ a Canadian whose concerns for our environment stem from her early life in boreal forest country north of the Albany River. She brings her experiences from working with the Ministry of Education and the Ontario Native Affairs Secretariat to promote the preservation and enhancement of our urban forests. Fran has been a Director of the Ontario Urban Forest Council since 1999 and a Director of the South of Sheppard Preservation Group (a ratepayers group) for 16 years. During her involvement in these organizations she has made deputations in support of Toronto’s urban forestry program and tree preservation initiatives specifically during Official Plan and budget preparations and to a Committee of Adjustment to protect trees from local urban development. She has also made a submission, on behalf of the OUFC, to the Ministry of Culture when it was amending the Ontario Heritage Act, advocating for the inclusion of heritage trees as having heritage value in need of protection. Fran and her team continue to work with communities on the implementation of the toolkit helping them to apply its tools in ways that address local priorities e.g., Elgin County, Oakville, Mississauga etc. Individual citizens are assisted as well. The result is the ongoing successful collaboration of heritage and urban forestry interests in Ontario municipalities. |
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