Colloquium: Prof. Markus Moos
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, at 12.15 - 13.15
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Housing the Green City: Delivering Affordable and Suitable Density
Cities around the world are grappling with how to use planning tools to reduce the environmental impacts of heavy automobile reliance and sprawling (sub)urban form. This talk provides a look at the Canadian case, highlighting the ways in which planning policies aimed at curbing car use and sprawl are highly complicit with gentrification. The dismantling of affordable housing policies associated with neo-liberalization of the state is found to play a significant role in the exclusionary impacts of 'green urbanism'. The talk highlights the global relevance of these findings for an international audience, and novelly considers the importance of housing suitability, in conjunction with affordability, commonly overlooked in urban planning for higher density built form.
About Professor Markus Moos
Dr. Markus Moos is a Full Professor and a Registered Professional Planner in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo. He formerly held the roles of Associate Director (graduate studies) and as Director of the School. Prof. Moos holds a joint-honours bachelor’s degree in environmental studies and economics from Waterloo, a master’s degree in planning from Queen’s University, and a PhD in urban and economic geography from the University of British Columbia. Prof. Moos researches the changing economies and social structures of cities, housing and land markets, generational change, imagination, and the nature of different types of knowledge. Prof. Moos is fundamentally interested in these topics in an integrated way as means to gain better understanding of how and why societies change, the role of public policy and planning, and the sustainability and social equity implications. He has been credited for developing “youthification” as a new concept to help explain neighbourhood change. Prof. Moos’ research is published widely in peer-reviewed articles, books, policy reports, and the press. He is currently an Editor at Urban Studies Journal, a leading academic publication in his field.