The Author

Pamela Blais is a city planner and principal of Toronto-based Metropole Consultants.

Her professional focus is in creating better cities by integrating planning, economic and environmental thinking in the analysis of urban issues, urban design and the development of innovative policy.  She is particularly interested in understanding key forces that drive urban development patterns, and how to shape urban form so as to maximize its ability to effectively meet current and future trends.  Her approach to urban development issues aims to be strategic and integrated.

In her twenty year career as an urban planning consultant, her work has included reurbanisation strategies and research; long term regional growth planning; municipal economic development strategies; innovative land use policies for industrial areas; urban regeneration strategies; sustainable urban form, community design and infrastructure; and research on the impact of technology on urban form.

Pamela has a Master of Science degree in Planning from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in urban economic geography from the London School of Economics.  She is a Registered Professional Planner, and a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners.

 

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  1. Making Green by Going Green: the Clean Air Partnership’s Green Economy Summit | Clean Air Partnership says:
    November 13, 2012 at 12:59

    [...] the same principles apply to municipalities, as the second keynote speaker, Pamela Blais, emphasized.  Blais emphasized the importance of rethinking how our cities are taxed, designed and [...]

  2. Seminal subway lessons from the Toronto transit time tunnel | WorldWide Wickens says:
    March 28, 2012 at 10:23

    [...] brings us to planner Pamela Blais, who has spent at least 15 years studying how hidden “perverse” subsidies encourage sprawl much [...]