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Podcasts

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Climate Change & Resilience

  • Heat, Floods, and Fires: Can Canadian cities cope with the extremes?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr-fCkyvVTM Summary Panel Transcript Chat Room Transcript 5 KeyTakeaways1. Community Engagement and Sharing ExperiencesCommunities need to be actively involved in strategies and plans to develop action plans to build capacity within communities. When people get involved, everyone is stronger for it. 2. Learning from Past DisastersThe example of Toronto’s Evergreen Brickworks site, shows us that…

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  • Communities We All Deserve

    Featured Guests This CityTalk podcast includes 20+ speakers from CUI’s Summit on the State of Canada’s Cities Summary The power of community, with its ability to open minds and hearts, reminds us why most of us choose (despite the deepening issues) to live together in cities. In this final of four CityTalk episodes recorded at CUI’s…

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  • Policies & Pavement: Street-level Solutions

    Featured Guests This CityTalk podcast includes 20+ speakers from CUI’s Summit on the State of Canada’s Cities Summary Whatever the scale and scope of the tough issues being discussed in a single day, solutions often seem to be within reach after lunch. In the third of four CityTalk episodes recorded at CUI’s State of Canada’s Cities…

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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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  • What’s Working, What’s Not and What’s Next?

    Join four city builders to discuss key themes and insights that were raised November 30 at At The Crossroads: The State of Canada’s Cities, and also covered in the State of the Cities report issued the same day. Bring your questions and comments to CityTalk and engage in what are the key challenges – and…

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  • From Fragile States to Fragile Neighborhoods – Why local places matter

    In this session, US scholar Seth Kaplan and Canadian community-economy builder Zita Cobb grapple with reimagining neighborhoods as the most critical unit of organization in North America. This challenges classic perspectives on the nation-state, amplifying the local.

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  • Ground-truthing – Strategies for Success

    https://youtu.be/I39WW0iZ1qM Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript Building on the challenges set out in the morning sessions, what are the tangible approaches being taken in local communities to strengthen social, economic and environmental resilience, and make our cities more productive and equitable. What must each sector do to…

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  • Intervention Points in the System – Policy-making and Leadership

    https://youtu.be/zhLqm7VquXY Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript Canada has many institutions and organizations, community organizations and businesses, committed to working with each other and governments to develop and implement the best solutions. What are the most effective ways to create transformational change, at a policy…

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  • What Success Looks Like – Leveraging Our Assets

    https://youtu.be/cqhb-NhjMcE Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript CUI has framed every conversation it has convened since March 2020 as what is working, what’s not, and what’s next for Canada’s cities and urban regions. These final two sessions bring together participants to highlight their solutions but…

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  • What Success Looks Like – Agency and Opportunity

    https://youtu.be/_0R5BdgZ-BI Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript CUI has framed every conversation it has convened since March 2020 as what is working, what’s not, and what’s next for Canada’s cities and urban regions.  These final two sessions bring together participants to highlight their solutions but also identify the key obstacles to further success, and the levers governments…

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  • Unraveling the Gordian Knot – The need for place-based approaches to address national and local challenges

    Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript Despite challenging and financial governance arrangements, local solutions are being incubated constantly in Canadian communities all the time, but we lack the kinds of connective tissue we need to effectively plan and implement across municipal boundaries and sometimes competing jurisdictions.…

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  • A Shared Challenge

    Featured Guests You’ll find this guest among our growing roll of Urban Champions. Summary Panel Transcript The challenges that cities face in Canada and the United States have many similarities. But our federal governments are responding quite differently. Hear from Marion Mollegen McFadden, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Community Planning and Development at HUD, and…

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