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From Thursday, August 8 to Sunday, August 11, 2019, a group of landscape architecture students from the University of Guelph participated in a field trip to New York City. During this time, these students had an opportunity to visit various parks and public spaces within this urban mecca. The trip included visiting significant historical and contemporary parks and green-scapes that have shaped NYC and have made an impact to the landscape architectural field in the city.

WexPOPS, a SEDRD-created community gathering place that ‘popped up’ in the Wexford Heights Plaza in Scarborough this summer, was mentioned in a recent Toronto Star article entitled, "How turning parking spaces into tiny parks could ease Toronto's public space shortage." The article discusses the value of converting parking space to park space with case studies from Toronto and San Francisco and announces a new

We are pleased to welcome Steven Clarke as a new Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture, effective July 1, 2019.

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Sara Epp and Dr. Silvia Sarapura as new assistant professors in Rural Planning and Development effective July 1^st and August 1^st respectively.

‘There is no single way of benefitting from technological change,’ said Winifredo Dagli, a Rural Studies PhD student, in his presentation at the European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (EU-SPRI) last June 5, 2019 at the Centro Congressi Frentani in Rome, Italy.

How do rural communities creative livable communities for the 21st century? This was a key topic of discussion for rural geographers. The Ninth Quadrennial Conference of British, Canadian, and American Rural Geographers was hosted by Middlebury College and the University of Vermont in Burlington, USA.

As soon as word came that the 2019 International Comparative Rural Policy Studies (ICRPS) Summer Institute was going to be taking place in Rovaniemi, Finland, I knew I had to be there. Finland, and the Lapland region, have quickly become intriguing examples of the possibilities for building rural innovation ecosystems.

Congratulations to Professor Wayne Caldwell who was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners at the CIP national conference in Ottawa on July 4, 2019. 

Landscape Architects, Maurice Nelischer, Professor Emeritus, with critical help from Kendall Flower (BLA, MPlan alumnus ), have gained approval for the conceptual design for the forecourt plaza for the new Gordon Lang School of Business and Economics.  The site is in front of Macdonald Hall which was recently renovated to accommodate the new college. Construction on the plaza will be started in April 2020.  This is a highly visible campus location at the north end of Wingard Walk .  Nelischer designed the southern terminus of the walk at Branion plaza which was built a few years ago. 

Congratulations to Bachelor of Landscape Architecture students who won the top spot of the BOUNDLESS: A Post-Secondary Design Challenge focused on creative solutions for accessibility in Ontario.  The competition is in its seventh edition and is hosted by Design Exchange in partnership with the Province of Ontario. The province-wide, post-secondary design competition coincided with National AccessAbility Week and recognized proposals that showcase innovation in accessible and universal design.