Pamela Robinson

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Director, Civic Sandbox Professor Faculty of Community Services School of Urban and Regional Planning Toronto, Ontario pamela.robinson@torontomu.ca Office: (416) 979-5000 ext. 556762

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Dr. Pamela Robinson MCIP RPP is a professor at the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University and is interim academic director at city building TMU. Throughout her career as a planner her research and practice have focused on complex, emergent challenges that Canadia...

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Bio/Research

Dr. Pamela Robinson MCIP RPP is a professor at the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University and is interim academic director at city building TMU. Throughout her career as a planner her research and practice have focused on complex, emergent challenges that Canadian communities face. Her research and practice have focused on complex, emergent challenges that Canadian communities face. Pamela began with a focus on cities and climate change and now focuses more recently on how new technologies are impacting how we plan and design communities. Her current research asks: who is planning the Canadian smart city? In 2020 Pamela received the inaugural Canadian Institute of Planners President’s Award: Academic. She is an advisor on the Toronto Public Library’s Innovation Council and serves on the Board of Directors for the Metcalf Foundation. Pamela writes for Spacing Magazine and recently published a co-edited book The Future of Open Data (2022).

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