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This is it. The Guelph Civic League, in partnership with the University of Guelph's School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, is hosting its third annual conference: "Amazing Possibilities: Proven strategies for making city visions real" on Friday, April 18, 2008.
It's a half day packed with inspiring ideas, dialogue, and answers we are all looking for.
You are invited.
Lots of mid-sized cities have visions, strategies, and missions to move towards re-urbanization. But too few know how to make them real. This conference tells us HOW.
>Register Now!
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 Larry Beasley
Rock Star / International Planning Consultant
How lucky are we? Just last month Larry was in touch with us from Frankfurt enroute to Abu Dhabi. In high demand around the world, Larry is coming to Guelph! As Vancouver's past Co-Director of Planning, Mr. Beasley led the revitalization strategies that have dramatically reshaped Vancouver's inner city. Through stakeholder dialogue, he revitalized neighbourhoods, developed a strong heritage preservation program and created the city's urban design guidelines. Larry developed a participatory and socially responsible approach to zoning, planning and design that has become known internationally as the "Vancouver Model." Place-making is a rare talent. Larry is the master. Larry's advice on reinvigorating the urban environment has been sought by municipalities and urban organizations across Canada and around the world. Larry is the "Distinguished Practice Professor of Planning" at the University of British Columbia. He has been awarded the Kevin Lynch Prize, the most prestigious award in American planning and is a member of the Order of Canada, our country's highest honour for lifetime achievement. We are more than fortunate to have him here.
Larry will talk about HOW through community dialogue, Vancouver has achieved excellence in place-making. Anyone interested in building a city of the future should attend this enlightening presentation.
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 Mark Reid
Urban Designer / Urban Strategies Inc.
Mark is an urban designer and partner of the highly progressive Toronto-based firm, Urban Strategies. Like the conductor of an orchestra, Mark uses his immense knowledge of how the public realm affects the urban environment to direct complex multi-disciplinary projects. Mark is skilled at engaging communities in the design and redevelopment process and facilitates public workshops and design charrettes both in Canada and in the United States. He was recently appointed to Toronto's Art Committee for Public Places and is involved in the development of the City's Public Art Policy. Mark is currently consulting here in Guelph and playing a key role in developing not only a vision but also a plan.
What Mark and the Urban Strategies team have created for Guelph will set the standard for re-urbanization and public realm design in every mid-sized city. Come and see the future.
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 Matthew Blackett
Publisher, Spacing Magazine
Matthew Blackett is the publisher, creative director and founder of Spacing, one of the most exciting magazines on city design to emerge in years. Since its launch in 2003, Spacing has become an integral voice in the dialogue about Toronto's urban landscape and public spaces.
Matthew was named Editor of the Year for 2007 by the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors. Spacing was named 2007 Best Canadian Small Magazine. In 2006, Spacing won a National Magazine Award for Best Editorial Content. Matthew was also recently awarded a 2007 Canadian Urban Leadership Award by the Canadian Urban Institute. Matthew has been on David Miller's committee on Civic Beauty and spoke at a 2008 forum focusing on Toronto's heritage buildings.
Matthew is here to provide insightful commentary, and get us thinking and talking in our panel discussion.
That's just a glimpse of what you'll experience at Amazing Possibilities.
> Reserve Your Seat. <
If the first two Amazing Possibility conferences are any indication, this will be a sold out event.
You'll thank yourself for looking ahead. And for helping your city learn HOW to turn its visions into realities.
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