Jun 24, 2021  |  6:00pm - 7:45pm

LMP Annual Celebration of Excellence 2021

annual celebration of excellence
Join us for an online, live-streamed event in which we will:

  • Celebrate our graduates across our Undergraduate, Graduate, and Postgraduate programs
  • Announce award recipients from our learner and faculty community
  • Congratulate those achieving promotion
  • Mark those retiring from the department.

Timings

18:00 – 18:50: Awards and celebration

18:50 – 19:00: Break

19:00 – 19:45: Q&A with Dr. Richard Florida

Looking to the future - what will a post-pandemic world look like?

We're delighted to have Dr. Richard Florida, Urbanist, Professor University of Toronto, and author Rise of the Creative Class, join us to answer our questions on what cities could look like after the pandemic.

How will we live and work after COVID-19? Will the pandemic permanently change our cities?

Guest speaker: Dr. Richard Florida. Do you want to know what cities will be like after COVID?

Richard FloridaRichard Florida is one of the world’s leading urbanists.

He is a researcher and professor, serving as University Professor at University of Toronto’s School of Cities and Rotman School of Management, and a Faculty Chair at New York University's Schack School of Real Estate.

He is a writer and journalist, having penned several global bestsellers, including the award-winning The Rise of the Creative Class and his most recent book, The New Urban Crisis. He is co-founder of CityLab, the leading publication devoted to cities and urbanism. 

He is an entrepreneur, as founder of the Creative Class Group which works closely with companies and governments worldwide.  

See Dr. Florida discuss the future of post-COVID cities with Boston University and at the World Cities Festival on Youtube.