METRO ILOILO-GUIMARAS LEADERS SUMMIT 2007 (DECEMBER 14, 2007)
 The Metro Iloilo-Guimaras Leaders Summit 2007 is a gathering of leaders from Iloilo City and the Metro Iloilo-Guimaras area in the Philippines where they will share ideas and actions on how to make this city and region a premier place of the future. With the theme “The Power of One,” this summit seeks to promote sustainable development of Metro Iloilo and Guimaras by sharing the recognized practices of Iloilo City, Guimaras and Metro Iloilo local governments, and foster sustainable partnerships with the business sector, donor organizations and non-government organizations in attracting investments for priority development projects. The summit is convened by Mayor Jerry Treñas, mayor of Iloilo City and chair of the Metro Iloilo-Guimaras Economic Development Council (MIGEDC). This will be held on December 14, 2007. For more information about the summit, please visit its website at www.iloiloguimarassummit.com.
REGIONAL AND URBAN PLANNING CONVENTION (OCTOBER 2007)
This conference will be held in Havana, Cuba, from October 30 to November 2, 2007, supported by the Canadian Urban Institute, and hosted by our partners in Cuba, the Institute of Physical Planning.
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From October 18 to 19, 2007 in Montreal Quebec, the Canadian Brownfields Network and the Canadian Urban Institute will host the annual Canadian Brownfields Conference, focusing on four interlocking themes to spark participants’ interest and advance their ability to remediate, revitalize and regenerate communities:
 Brownfields – A driver of economic revitalization of whole communities
Leadership – Learning from political champions, community coalitions and private sector visionaries
Technological innovation - The art, science and application of new remediation solutions to advance sustainability
Integrated planning – New benchmarks for adding value to the quadruple bottom line.
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CHARRETTE ON THE URBAN LANDSCAPE (JUNE 2007)
From June 25 to 28, 2007, in Holguín, Cuba, CUI organized a learning exchange and design charrette in partnership with the Institute of Physical Planning. Two Canadian landscape architects and over sixty counterparts from Cuba, representing communities and sectors within the five Eastern provinces, participated. The aim of the charrette was to produce conceptual projects for public spaces in key communities and neighbourhoods of the city of Holguín, a review of the Official City Plan, and a set of recommendations for action.
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SB07 – SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS (MAY 2007)
On May 31 and June 1, 2007, CUI held the SB07 conference in Toronto – one of a series of pre-conferences leading up to the 2008 conference in Melbourne, SB08, which will also look at how to build sustainable buildings and communities. Through the International Programs Office, CUI aims to connect our international partners with innovation and developments in this area.
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WORLD URBAN FORUM – VANCOUVER, CANADA (JUNE 2006)
 CUI played an active role in the WUF3. With a seat on the Government of Canada’s National Advisory Committee for WUF, CUI provided inputs to the design of the conference during 2005. We mobilized our partners from less-developed countries to participate in the Habitat Jam. We brought to the Vancouver conference our know-how and that of our membership and partners from across Canada and around the world.
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BUILDING PUBLIC SPACES THAT WORK: A CANADA-BRAZIL DIALOGUE DEVOTED TO ENHANCING THE PUBLIC REALM (OCTOBER 2005)
On October 19-21, 2005, the CUI presented a conference jointly with the Canada Chair of Brazilian Studies. Held at Toronto’s Albany Club, the conference brought together a wide range of thinkers and doers from Canada and Brazil to discuss ideas and actions for enhancing the public realm, and in particular, ways that the two countries could learn from each other.
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WORLD BANK CORE COURSE ON URBAN AND CITY MANAGEMENT (MAY 1999)
Under contract to the World Bank, the Canadian Urban Institute helped to design, organize and deliver this comprehensive training program held in Toronto from May 2 to 14, 1999. Other Canadian partners included the City of Toronto and the University of Toronto.
Mayors, elected officials, urban managers and other urban professionals from around the world attended the event to learn from a number of leading Canadian and international urban and city management experts. Toronto served as the living laboratory during this event.
The 45 participants were drawn from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Hungary, India, Lebanon, Mexico, the Netherlands, Paraguay, the Philippines, Tanzania, Venezuela, West Bank and Gaza, and Zimbabwe.
Topics covered in the course included metropolitan management; city governance and strategy development; municipal and sub-national financial management; financing urban government; private sector involvement in the provision of public services; land and real estate markets; urban poverty; urban environmental management; transportation and metropolitan growth; and networking and knowledge.
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