The "Other" City presents | Farewell Regent

About the film

 is a 90-minute documentary that captures the Regent Park community of downtown Toronto (the place where social housing began in Canada) in the midst of the largest housing redevelopment project in North America. The documentary profiles past and current tenants, city officials, developers and housing advocates to get an inside view of the complex issues, emotions and drama that are involved in such a massive redevelopment. The Regent Park community will be used as an example in an effort to examine the larger issues of the social housing crisis that is plaguing so many urban centers throughout the globe. Housing as a human right is central to the discussion.

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Moderated by Aditi Mehta (Urban Studies Program, Innis, UTSG)

  is an assistant professor of Urban Studies at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT in 2017. Her work and research fuse the rigorous methods of social science with community organizing and on-the-ground activism in order to contribute to the democratic production of knowledge and social change. She is committed to elevating the role, position, and influence of underrepresented and marginalized communities within academic and public policy discourses.

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School of Cities leverages urban data and lived experience to improve policy and decision-making, and collaborates with communities to make cities and urban regions more sustainable, prosperous, inclusive and just.

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Agenda

Arrive by 4:50

Host introduction: 5:00pm - 5:15pm

Film start time: 5:15pm

Film end time: 6:45pm

Discussion: 6:45 - 7:15

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NOTES

*In- person event only

* The visualization centre is located on floor "0" around the corner from the elevators ( look for big wooden doors)

*You may bring your own boxed food only and please consider allergy free items ( no nuts etc)

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The School of Cities is committed to making its programs accessible to persons with disabilities. If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please write to 'schoolofcities (at) utoronto.ca' at least 48 hours prior to the program with information regarding the requested accommodation.

Host or Publisher School of Cities, University of Toronto