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“This year’s work showed that complex solutions are not always needed to solve complex problems.” Year-long Projects Gateway Cities Gateway Cities was a 10 month project and the first of a four-year Regional Ecology thematic focus at the Institute without Boundaries (IwB). This project looks at the layers of the Toronto, New York City and Chicago regional systems in terms of energy, housing, transportation and public spaces. It examines the networks between these three cities, mapping the connections from a regional perspective and proposing an ecology of innovation for these regional systems. Project partners included public, notfor-profit and private organizations and institutions in each of the three gateway cities. This multi-partnership framework allowed the IwB to thoroughly connect and explore regional systems in and between the chosen cities, provided the IwB with access to vital research and data about each region, and created synergies between the three city regions that could spark further regionwide projects. 54 JANUARY 2015 | IN PRODUCTION Atlas One Delta “The word atlas can tell a very generic story about a place. What the students decided to do, the way they began to study the systems in order to analyze the region and then to put this together in a way that can be used by anyone in the world as a tool for analysis, completely blew us away. It not only told the story of this megaregion of One Delta (regions of TCNY), but also showed the deeper underlying advantages of being in these cities. The atlas presents the strengths and weakness of these cities as well as solutions for how we can use what we have in the present and move toward creating new situations for living in the future.” Christopher Pandolfi Academic Co-ordinator, IwB Partners: Greater Toronto Airports Authority Toronto Foundation Toronto and Region Conservation Authority City of Toronto Metrolinx Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Arup Cannon Design Christopher Pandolfi, Academic Coordinator, IwB Academic partners: Illinois Institute of Technology Parsons DESIS Lab Politecnico di Milano OCAD U ECV KEA Dublin Institute of Technology Faculty: Luigi Ferrara Christopher Pandolfi Monica Contreras Paul De Freitas Susan Speigel Lauren Wickware 2013-2014 IwB Students: Francesca Anderson Andressa Beccaro Dallas Cotterell Andrea Herrera Betancourt Rob Iacocca Melanie Kapogines Theresa Kienitz Michlyne McCloskey Maziar Mohit Helaena Parkes Devin Sager Kate Watanabe Gateway Regions ISSUE 01 | IN PRODUCTION 55