Presentation Topics

Portland Rose Garden Presentation sessions include: (partial list)

Healthy Inclusive Communities
A healthy city for all. Sustainable communities need to be inclusive communities. Designing child-friendly communities. Community development for elder-friendly communities. Integrated neighborhoods: Housing for all. Protecting creative sources of urban revitalization. Planning inclusive communities in Germany.
Healthy Cities
Designing healthy communities. Transit-oriented development (TOD) and Mobility-oriented district (MOD). Growth management. Planning for health & well-being. Healthy planning for commercial districts. Case study of a master planned community designed for health & well-being. New town planning for health & diversity: Case studies. Goals for Portland.
Healthy Neighborhoods
Health-campus planning: Aiming for livability. Back from the brink: Healthy visions for blighted neighborhoods. Ensuring access to a mix of uses for sustainable communities. Traditional town planning. Urban Regeneration of suburban district of Corviale, Rome.
Integrating Public Health & Planning Methods
Public health & planning: framing the public debate. Health & Planning departments collaborate. University curricula combine Health and Planning. Health Impact Assessment. HIA Case studies. Tools for healthy planning.
Public Places for Social Life & Civic Engagement
Role of Public Space for Inclusive Communities. Social functions of public space: International perspectives. Restoring Ecuador’s Historic Plazas for Social Integration
Community Participation
Community-led urban revitalization. Healthy transportation planning with the community. Children & youth advocates for healthy communities. Civic engagement for environmental justice in a low income neighborhood.
Nature in the urban environment
Parks, trails, public art & children. Portland’s new parks. The people/nature approach to park system planning. Eco-roofs in Portland.
Healthy Transportation Planning
Complete Streets & Green Streets. Achieving the walkable city: barriers & achievements. High speed rail in Oregon.
Healthy Food Accessibility
Combating food deserts: problems & solutions. Urban agriculture.
Regional planning for healthy cities
Regional growth management in Greater Toronto
Sustainability
Sustainable communities. Climate change & sustainability: Responsibilities of authorities & individuals. How resilient is high rise housing?

49th IMCL Conference

"I know of no other conference which provides the international expertise."

Sylvia Sutherland, former Mayor, Peterborough, Ontario

"A wonderful Conference. I truly believe this is the best Conference on cities."

Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr., City of Charleston

"The most important continuous conference dialogue on making the world's cities and towns more livable for all of their inhabitants."

Dr. Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Governor, State of South Baden, Germany

"The conference holds a magnifying glass to the world's best cities, revealing why, and how they work."

Benjamin Thompson, FAIA AIA Gold Medalist

"Love for our cities unites all of us in this unique, impressive conference, with participants from different countries, with different professional backgrounds, but with one purpose: making our cities more livable."

Antonio Casellati Former Mayor, City of Venice, Italy

"Ive learned more from this conference than any other conference that I've ever gone to. I've been a city councillor now for twenty years, and I'm so glad I went to that first one twenty years ago."

Kim Richter, City Councillor, Langley, BC

"Well-structured, extremely well-organized and super-high quality of both the presenters and materials presented."

Dr. Mirela Newman, Coordinator, Urban Studies Graduate Program, S Conn St. University