Mon, Feb 09, 2026
Speaker Series: "Planning the Great Acceleration"
Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning for Climate Resilience will host the next Speaker Series event: "Planning the Great Acceleration" online via Zoom on February 23, 2026. The session will feature Dr. Mark Groulx from the University of Northern British Columbia.
Moving beyond the prototypical model of the North American city, Mark will present a story that links the industrial structure of a burgeoning hinterland region to the reproduction of a northern suburbanism tailor built for Canada’s resource dependent communities during the Great Acceleration.
- Host: UArctic TN on Local-scale Planning for Climate Resilience
- Talk title: Planning the Great Acceleration
- Speaker: Dr. Mark Groulx, Associate Professor, University of Northern British Columbia, CANADA
- Date: Feb 23, 2026, 12-1pm (MST)
- Zoom link
- Click here for Speaker Series Poster