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File consists of records pertaining to the organization Planning Action, including a pamphlet, draft bylaws, an annual general meeting agenda (2002), open meeting minutes, and e-mail.

Item is a pre-conference booklet promoting the Sept. 1998 INURA Toronto conference entitled "Diverse City: sustaining and governing the multicultural city".

File consists of records pertaining to a 2002 INURA workshop held in Caen, France, including a workshop report written by Rahder, a 2002 INURA membership list, a retreat program, a financial statement for the year 2001, the annual report of the INURA Zurich Institute, maps of the Caen area, notes from INURA Florence, the INURA France 2002 workshops in the countryside provisional program, and a paper entitled "An alternative urban world is possible: a declaration for urban research and action" (Jan. 2003).

File consists of records pertaining to planning for a 2004 INURA workshop, "Urbanization and privatization: a transnational research project workshop of the International Network for Urban Research and Action", held in Toronto, including a document entitled "INURA retreat 2004 - what people are telling about themselves", a workshop draft proposal, Rahder's notes for a INURA research meeting, and a proposal by Roger Keil for funding for this workshop.

File pertains to the Planners Network conference, "Working for a decent living: bridging the gap between labor and community", held on 17-20 June 1999 in Lowell, Massachusetts. Records in this file include a history of Planners for Equal Opportunity, a preliminary program, and guidelines for participation/presenters.

File pertains to the Planners Network conference, "Insurgent planning, globalization and local democracy", held on 22-25 June 2000 in Toronto. Rahder served as co-chair for this conference. Records in this file include a program, notes, a paper entitled "Planning and civil society" by Gerda Wekerle, correspondence by Rahder, a budget, a statement of expenditures, and minutes from an organizing committee meeting.

File pertains to the Planners Network conference, "Voices of change: lessons from citizen planners", held on 21-24 June 2001 in Rochester, New York. Records in this file include a program, flyer, Rahder's notes, an e-mail and maps of the University of Rochester.

Item is a basic schedule of events for this Planners Network conference held in June 2002 at Hampshire College in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

File consists of a program and other materials pertaining to the conference, "Walls or bridges - strategies for rebuilding communities" held in New York City in June 2004.

File consists of a program and other materials pertaining to this conference, "Justice by design?", held in June 2005.

Item was included with the donation of Rahder's archival records to York University's Archives and Special Collections and is annotated by Rahder to indicate activities that relate to these records.

Item pertains to this York University conference held on 4 Nov. 1989. Rahder participated in a workshop entitled "Housing alternatives: co-ops, seniors non-profits, and retirement communities".

File consists of two papers written by Rahder for Simon Associates, "St. James Town revitalization: social analysis: interim report on the tenant survey pretest" (Sept. 1987) and "St. James Town revitalization: social analysis: interim report on the tenant survey" (Jan. 1988).

File consists of a draft and a published version of this report by Rahder while working for Simon Associates, produced for the City of Toronto's Planning and Development Department.

File consists of records pertaining to a project of Sanford Associates to study "co-operative housing as a new life style option for seniors", including a questionnaire, an observation schedule, a list of spaces and behaviours to observe, a code book, a letter sent to housing co-operatives by Rahder (as Barbara Sanford) about the project, a letter from Stewart McInnes of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation about its grant for the project, background information on Parkview House, and floor, site and unit plans of the senior housing co-operatives being studied.

File consists of records pertaining to a project of Sanford Associates to study "co-operative housing as a new life style option for seniors" and grant received for the project from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Records include St. Joseph's Place and St. Matthew's Bracondale House pamphlets, a questionnaire, a list of information wanted from the study, correspondence, a code book, observation instructions, a project progress report submitted to the CMHC's External Grant Research Program, and a draft paper entitled "Comparison of seniors' co-ops and private non-profits in Metro".

File pertains to Rahder's role as Social Issues Coordinator for Women Plan Toronto and the group's role as intervenors in opposition to the City of Toronto's plan to bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics. Records in the file include a report written by Rahder with Brenda Farge entitled "How women lose at the Games: an Olympic intervenor report for Women Plan Toronto" (Jan. 1990), a summary of this report, and newspaper, magazine and journal articles about the impact of the Olympic Games.

File pertains to Rahder's participation in this University of Toronto Students' Administrative Council conference. Records include a speakers list, a letter of thanks from the organizers, speaker biographies and Rahder's comments for a panel discussion, "Toronto tomorrow".

File consists of a Canadian Institute of Planners booklet featuring its 2004 fellows, including Barbara Rahder, as well as correspondence and a memorandum pertaining to Rahder's examinations qualifying her as a full member of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute in 1994.

File consists of records pertaining to this WEED Foundation conference, "Women and the environment: charting a new environmental course", held at the University of Toronto on 24-26 May 1990. Records include a program and draft program, participant biographies, Rahder's handwritten closing remarks, a background paper, and a volunteer information package.

File consists of a letter and project evaluation by Rahder and Melissa Spore about the Volunteer Centre of Metro Toronto's Seniors Independence Program and its community seminars on leisure planning for disadvantaged seniors.

Item is a report comparing the costs of the Non-Profit Co-operative Housing Program and the Canada Rental Supply Plan.

File consists of a copy of Rahder's paper published in Urban History Review, "The political economy of land development in nineteenth century Toronto", as well as correspondence from Urban History Review editor-in-chief Alan F.J. Artibise, a reader report on the article and an article abstract.

File consists of records pertaining to the Women and Environments Education and Development (WEED) Foundation and Rahder's role as founding president and logo designer. Records include a pamphlet, WEED by-law number 1, Rahder's proposal for restructuring the WEED Foundation, an application for WEED's incorporation, a copy of WEED's letter patent, and a letter from Iler, Campbell & Associates re: WEED's incorporation.

File consists of working group reports pertaining to this interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Toronto on 20-22 Oct. 1988.

File pertains to the Women and Environments Education and Development (WEED) Foundation's magazine, Women and Environments, including a contact list for its 1991 editorial board (including Rahder), magazine editorial guidelines, standards for typesetting, and its Summer 1987 issue featuring a network directory.

Item is a publication designed by Rahder in 1988.

File consists of a proposal to undertake an environmental scan for the Healthy City office of the City of Toronto's Department of Public Health, produced by Balkwill & Associates, Rahder, Forge and Associates and Polis Research and Information Services (Sept. 1990), as well as a facilitators guide for a Healthy Cities consultation, a letter and briefing book for a Healthy City environmental scan session on 9 Nov. 1990, and a list of actions for session facilitators for the environmental scan session.

File pertains to a research project about police response to domestic violence undertaken by Rahder and Brenda Doyle Farge for the Assaulted Women's Helpline and the Metro Toronto Committee Against Wife Assault. Records in the file include a project proposal, the project final report entitled "Police response to incidents of wife assault" (Feb. 1991), written by Rahder and Farge, a newspaper clipping, a letter from Janet MacEachen, a copy of a memorandum from the Ontario Police Commission re: police involvement in the Family Law Act, a letter from Brenda Doyle Farge to Chief William McCormack about project research, notes from an interview with PC Lisa Hodgins, a handwritten letter from Michele Landsberg regarding the report, and a pamphlet entitled "Why put up with it? Women talking about sexual harassment of tenants", edited and illustrated by Rahder.

File pertains to a project undertaken by Rahder to prepare a YCASP's City of York social profile for inclusion as a chapter in a Metro Toronto report. Records in this file include correspondence, questions for interview subjects in immigrant-serving agencies, a list of suggested changes to "A social report for Metro", the preface for "A social report for Metro, 1992", and a draft copy of Rahder's report.

File pertains to a research project undertaken by Balkwill and Associates and a report written by Rahder entitled "Children's Assessment and Treatment Centre: preschool assessment and training in Halton (PATH) : evaluation of services". Records include a copy of the report, correspondence, focus group questions, and a project proposal request from CATC and a project proposal from Mike Balkwill.

File pertains to a project undertaken by Balkwill and Associates to conduct a mandate and management review of Houselink Community Homes. Records in the file include correspondence, a pamphlet, an outline for a mission day workshop, an interim report, and a copy of the mandate review final report written by Rahder.

File pertains to a report prepared for the City of Toronto Non-Profit Housing Corporation (Cityhome) by Rahder, Doyle and Associates and Jim Ward Associates about Cityhome security and safety issues and the development of a security policy. Records in this file include an open letter from the Drug Abuse and Security Committee of Cityhome, a framework for the development of a security policy, a Jan. 1992 draft "Summary of safety/security issue: final report for phase one", and a copy of "Cityhome security policy/strategy study final report" (July 1992).

File consists of an overview of phase 3 (tenant/staff/community consultation process) of the Cityhome security policy/strategy study, an open letter from Cityhome to tenants at Dufferin/Gwynne, a status report on the phase 2 pilot project at Dufferin/Gwynne (Apr. 1992), and a phase 2 report (May 1992).

File consists of reports from 14 Healthy City (City of Toronto) workshop sessions held between November 1990 and March 1991 on a variety of subjects.

File consists of records pertaining to a project undertaken by Rahder, Doyle and Associates for West Central Community Health Centres to conduct a needs assessment for community health in its catchment area. Records include a project summary, a detailed work plan, a summary of relevant notes from interviews with service providers, focus group data, a questionnaire, a summary of discussion with contact people, a question form for staff interviews, and a brief history of West Central Community Health Centres.

File consists of a call for proposals for an organizational review and strategic planning process for Access Alliance - Multicultural Community Health Centre; a proposal prepared for this project by Rahder, Farge and Associates, Balkwill Associates and Myra Schiff Consultants Ltd.; and "Organizational review and strategic plan for Access Alliance - Multicultural Community Health Centre" (Mar. 1991) by Rahder, Farge and Associates and Balkwill and Associates.

File consists of records pertaining to Rahder's work (for Rahder, Forge and Associates) to draft a mission statement for Access Alliance, including correspondence, memoranda, an Access Alliance pamphlet, a report on the proceedings of the Access Alliance - Multicultural Community Health Centre mission day workshop, an outline for the mission day workshop, and a draft mission statement.

File consists of a letter and a report by Rahder and Anna Menozzi entitled "Access Alliance: quality assurance for the Interpreting Program" (Apr. 1992), with accompanying appendices.

File pertains to Rahder's participation in York University's "Looking forward" retirement planning program with her talk on housing issues and options on 14 Mar. 1991. Records in the file include correspondence, a pamphlet, evaluation forms, Rahder's speaking notes, and a handout on seniors' continuum of independence.

File pertains to a planning and design competition to develop the Seaton community in Pickering and Rahder's participation with the CEED Group presentation. Records in this file include a newspaper article, a CEED Group Seaton study, reports, a list of competitors for the project (including Rahder and Associates), Rahder's summary report for the project and a memorandum for the proposal, site drawings, and a human development strategy for this project.

File consists of photographic slides of maps and plans used for the CEED Group presentation in the Seaton planning and design competition.

File pertains to Rahder's participation as a presenter in the Faculty of Environmental Studies seminar series, "Global cities, local places: issues in urban sustainability". Records in this file include correspondence, Rahder's notes, Rahder's paper, "Issues of social equity and access: the case of services for abused women", an abstract for this paper, and papers and abstracts by others.

File pertains to Rahder's presentation of a paper, "Participatory planning with a diversity of women at risk of abuse" for the "Participatory planning across cultures" session of the 36th annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in Phoenix, Arizona, in Nov. 1994. Records include drafts of this paper, a conference program, and presentation overheads.

File consists of Rahder's handwritten notes from this participatory research session held on 10 Mar. 1995.

File consists of Rahder's paper, "How to start a revolution: feminist participatory research methods in planning", presented at the 37th annual conference of the ACSP held in Detroit in Oct. 1995, as well as the conference final program.

Item is a letter of thanks from Allison Meistrich to Rahder pertaining to her participation at this seminar held at the University of Toronto in Apr. 1995.

File consists of Rahder's handwritten notes and a memorandum from Bob MacDermid summarizing a presentation by Rahder at a meeting of the York University Democratic Administration Group on her experiences as a consultant to women's shelters.

File consists of correspondence and memoranda pertaining to Rahder's position on the York Centre for Health Studies' advisory committee and the Centre's initiatives.

File consists of Rahder's "Report on women and planning survey", an article by Sue Hendler entitled "Feminist planners: do they want to join the OPPI? Does the OPPI want them?", "Women and planning: a research report" by Rahder, her handwritten notes, and a memorandum from Ann Joyner to Ron Shishido of the OPPI Policy Committee about her comments on Rahder's "Report on women and planning survey".

File consists of photographic slides of buildings and houses managed by Cityhome.

File consists of five issues of the journal Women and Environments featuring cover illustration/design by Rahder.

File pertains to a discussion led by Rahder in ENVS 5108 about feminist perspectives on methodology in environmental studies. Items in this file are a memorandum and journal articles.

Item is a copy of Rahder's review of Manuel Castells' monograph "The informational City: information technology, economic restructuring, and the urban-regional process" for Plan Canada.

File pertains to Rahder's involvement with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) annual conference held in July 1996 in Toronto, including her role as a moderator and contributor to a round-table discussion on community-based planning and design education. Items in the file include correspondence, a panel description and the conference final program.

File consists of records pertaining to Rahder's involvement with NNEWH, including her NNEWH work plan for 1998-2002, a review of literature by Penelope Ironstone-Catterall, documents pertaining to NNEWH's research agenda, newsletters, notes, and other NNEWH publications.

File pertains to a presentation by Rahder, "Gender in community-based planning: a Toronto pilot project" for a 1997 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ASCP) conference session on case studies in community-based planning. Records in this file include materials pertaining to the conference, including session information, an e-mail, and Rahder's notes from an interview with Karen Weeden, as well as records pertaining to the 1992 Dufferin/Gwynne pilot project, including meeting minutes and a site plan.

File consists of photocopied drawings by Rahder and a mock-up for a pamphlet entitled "Why put up with it? Women talking about sexual harassment in housing".

File pertains to a research project by Rahder and J. David Hulchanski for the Supportive Housing Coalition to survey the neighbourhood impact of a 34-unit supportive housing apartment building in Metropolitan Toronto. Records in this file include correspondence, a Supportive Housing Coalition project team list, a survey/questionnaire, a report of findings and the project's technical appendix.

File pertains to an evaluation of the Kids in Creative Stuff (Not Drugs) (KICS) program conducted by Rahder. Records in this file include Rahder's project proposal (Oct. 1992), her interim report (Apr. 1993), a KICS pamphlet, a guide for classroom observations, revised timeline and budget, instructions for interviewers, and a pre-program questionnaire for children in the KICS program.

File consists of a letter to Jocelyn Segree from Rahder and a report entitled "Kids in Creative Stuff, Not Drugs: an evaluation report for 1993-94" by Rose Catallo and Rahder (July 1994).

File consists of records pertaining to this October 1993 conference held in Philadelphia and attended by Rahder. Records include a presentation overhead transparency, a conference program, correspondence, memoranda, and Rahder's handwritten notes.

File pertains to Rahder's presentation at the Jane Jacobs: Ideas That Matter Conference (Oct. 1997) in Toronto, entitled "Safety and security in housing: a gendered approach". Included are Rahder's speaking notes, a Women Plan Toronto newsletter (May 1998), correspondence, notes, and a program.

File pertains to Rahder's presentation at the 8th International Planning History Conference held in Sydney, Australia, in July 1998, including e-mail, notes, an abstract, a draft of Rahder's paper entitled "Pedagogy under duress: teaching planning theory as history", a letter, a notice and a copy of the published paper in Planning History: bulletin of the International Planning History Society (vol. 22, no. 1, 2000).

Item is a paper presented by Rahder at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning conference held in Pasadena in Nov. 1998, entitled "Comments on Karen Umemoto's 'Code Switching: epistemological challenge in multicultural planning".

File pertains to Rahder's participation on a panel, "Women planning for the 21st century", at the APA's 1998 national conference held in Boston. Records in this file include correspondence, e-mail, and Rahder's travel grant application to the York Ad Hoc Research Fund for this conference.

File consists of a letter and a book review written by Rahder about The Women, Gender and Development Reader for the Journal of the American Planning Association.

File consists of a draft of Rahder's review of Pragmatics of Community Organization by Bill Lee for Plan Canada, as well as e-mail from Bryan Lynch of Plan Canada.

Item is a paper entitled "Creating feminist planners: education for social change", presented by Rahder at this conference on 10 Nov. 2000.

File pertains to Rahder's co-authored report, "An environmental framework for women's health : a discussion paper for the National Network on Environments and Women's Health (NNEWH)". Records in this file include the original copy of the report, assessors' reports, presentation slides and notes, and a document entitled "Women's health and environments: a summary of the discussion groups for the 'Environmental framework for women's health' project" by Rahder, Rebecca Peterson, Christy Doyle and Jackie Kennedy (Mar. 2000).

File pertains to a feminist ecological economics workshop facilitated by Patricia E. (Ellie) Perkins, held at Toronto City Hall on 17 Nov. 2000, which Rahder attended as a participant. Records in the file include an agenda, an e-mail detailing the program of events, Rahder's handwritten notes, and papers written by Perkins and others.

File pertains to Rahder's paper presented at the 43rd annual Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning conference held in Cleveland, Ohio, in Nov. 2001. Records in the file include a copy of Rahder's paper, "Community and women's health: a diversity of experience of Toronto", and a conference program.

File consists of Rahder's notes on participatory research.

File consists of a copy of Rahder's paper written for the 2001 Canadian Association of Planning Students conference, entitled "Will the real planners please stand up!", reader comments on the paper, as well as conference materials including a program, conference schedules, an York Ad Hoc Research Fund grant application by Rahder, and a paper by Christina Gallimore and Hon Lu entitled "Pushing the boundaries: planning's radical projects".

File pertains to York University's Brownbag Research Seminars 2001-2002 series and Rahder's 16 Oct. 2001 session entitled "Risk and resilience: participatory research with marginalized women in Southern Ontario". Records in the file are a seminar series schedule, an overview of Rahder's session, speaking notes, and overhead transparencies.

File consists of records pertaining to this conference held in Montreal, including e-mail, correspondence, an abstract, a program, and slides pertaining to Rahder's presentation entitled "An environmental framework for women's health".

File consists of a program for the Faculty of Environmental Studies' speaker series entitled "Planning Transformations" (Oct. 2001-Oct. 2002), which details Rahder's participation in a session entitled "Transforming planning education", as well as her notes and overhead transparencies for this presentation; and correspondence, e-mail and biographies pertaining to Rahder's role as moderator for "Meeting the challenges of urban health in the 21st century" (28 Feb. 2002).

File consists of a letter and Rahder's review of Between Eminence and Notoriety: Four Decades of Radical Urban Planning by Chester Hartman, later published in the Journal of the American Planning Association.

File consists of Rahder's notes, a conference program and paper entitled "Diversity and planning education: a Canadian perspective" by Kanishka Goonewardena, Katharine N. Rankin and Sarah Weinstock.

File pertains to a paper written by Rahder and Carol Altilia entitled "Where is the feminism in planning going: transformation or appropriation?" for the 45th annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning held in Portland, Oregon, in Oct. 2004. Included in the file are notes, a draft of the paper, and a copy of the version of the paper published in Planning Theory.

File consists of Rahder's speaking notes for this event held at the York University Faculty of Environmental Studies on 13 Mar. 2004.

File consists of Rahder's speaking notes on diversity and planning theory and page proofs for "The uncertain city: making space(s) for difference" by Rahder and Richard Milgrom, published in the Canadian Journal of Urban Research.

File consists of Rahder's handwritten notes for a 23 Nov. 2005 guest lecture at a ENVS 6114 class, as well as typescript notes on social sustainability and diversity for an IRIS seminar presented by Rahder and Patricia Wood on 5 Apr. 2005.

Item is a published article by Rahder from the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (vol. 22, no. 1).