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Invited Speakers

Mayor Rui Moreira, Porto, PORTUGAL. 2019 IMCL Joseph P. Riley Awardee. Making Porto a Healthy City for All
Mayor Ada Colau,* Barcelona, SPAIN. 2019 City of Vision Award. Making Barcelona’s Neighborhoods Healthy and Equitable
Mayor James Brainard, City of Carmel, IN. Former Member of President Obama's Climate Task Force. Protecting Health through Better Urban Design
Rukaiyah Adams,* Chief Investment Officer, Meyer Memorial Trust, Portland, OR, USA. *Albina Vision*
Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Dr., former Freiburg Mayor and Governor, State of Süd-Baden, GERMANY, responsible for guiding Europe’s most livable and sustainable new urban neighborhoods, Rieselfeld and Vauban. Freiburg: Healthy Mobility for All
Lynn Peterson,* President Elect, METRO, Portland, OR, USA. *Improving Health and Equity through Sustainable Planning in Portland’s METRO Region*
Patrick Condon, Professor, UBC Chair in Landscape and Livable Environments, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA. Author: Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities* and Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities.
*Leilani Farha, Executive Director of the NGO Canada Without Poverty. Special UN Rapporteur on the implementation of the right to adequate housing for the most marginalized groups. Roots of Housing Unaffordability and Homelessness: Tools for Housing Equity.**
George Ferguson, CBE, PPRIBA, former Mayor, City of Bristol, UK. Architect,
Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH. Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. *When Necessities Become Luxuries, How Can the Poor Live?*
Ferdinand Stoddert Johns, FAIA, Distinguished Professor Emeritus. IMCL Board. Design Matters
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen Ph.D., Research Professor in Environmental Epidemiology, Director Urban planning, Environment and Health Initiative, Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, SPAIN Pathways to healthy urban living
Leah Treat, Managing Director, Nelson Nygard, Portland. OR, USA. *Improving Health and Equity through Sustainable Transportation Planning*


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56th IMCL Conference

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Suzanne Lennard is available to speak, or as a Consultant on Making Cities Healthy and Livable, Child-friendly Communities, Public Places, etc.

"The conference was one of the most interesting and genuinely useful for information gathering that I’ve been to. The different backgrounds of the participants addressing the same issues was the key."

Joe Anglin Glatting Lopez Kercher Anglin

"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

"Congratulations for your extraordinary and successful effort. 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

"Thank you for the utterly fascinating conference in Santa Fe... It has been a long time since I have been intellectually stimulated and been involved with such international creativity and innovations. The conference energized me and I was able to bring back ideas and information to my city."

Councilmember Stephanie Karlin, Avondale, AZ

"What an amazing conference! One of the best professional events I have ever attended!! 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

The Forgotten Child

“There is no topic more crucial to the well-being of our cities and of our democracy, and no one more qualified to give it the thoughtful attention it deserves.”