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  • Collaboration is the Key to the City

    Featured Guests This CityTalk podcast includes 20+ speakers from CUI’s Summit on the State of Canada’s Cities Summary When wanting to find solutions to urban issues, it’s always best to talk to those professionals directly involved. Better yet, invite them to talk to each other.In the second of four City Talk episodes recorded at CUI’s…

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  • Calgary, Canada - July 26, 2019: Stephen Avenue in Calgary Alberta. Stephen Avenue is Calgary's popular downtown pedestrian mall.

    Urban Planet: Innovative City Making Beyond Canada

    Featured Guests This CityTalk podcast includes 20+ speakers from CUI’s Summit on the State of Canada’s Cities Summary Sometimes great things happen when you bring the right people together to talk.In this first of four CityTalk episodes recorded at CUI’s State of Canada’s Cities Summit in Ottawa on November 30th, host Mary Rowe presents highlights from…

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  • Calgary, Canada - July 26, 2019: Stephen Avenue in Calgary Alberta. Stephen Avenue is Calgary's popular downtown pedestrian mall.

    Art For Our Cities’ Sake: A Conversation with Patti Pon

    Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary For a final preview of the leading voices and topics on the agenda at the upcoming State of Canada’s Cities Summit on November 30th,  host Mary Rowe chats with Patti Pon, president and CEO of Calgary Arts Development about how arts & culture are increasingly vital tools for city building.Read…

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  • Fragile Neighbourhoods: A Conversation with Seth Kaplan

    Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Seth KaplanProfessorial Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University Summary Summary An urban neighbourhood can be many things to its residents beyond a shared place to live. It can be where to find and/or offer support to community members; join others in working for better…

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  • The Economy of Place: A Conversation with Zita Cobb

    Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Zita CobbFounder and CEO, Shorefast Summary Summary In the first in a special series leading up to the Canadian Urban Institute’s upcoming ‘At the Crossroads‘ conference, CityTalk host Mary Rowe resumes her ongoing conversation with Zita Cobb, co-founder of Shorefast (Fogo Island, Newfoundland & Labrador) on the…

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  • Affordable housing for everyone: a conversation with Romy Bowers (CMHC)

    Featured Guest You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Romy BowersPresident and CEO, Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Summary Summary Ours is a rapidly urbanizing world, with the latest UN projections at 70 percent of 9 billion people living in cities by 2050. Underlying that challenging future, neck-and-neck with the climate…

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