Towards Sustainable Urbanization: Canada/UN-HABITAT Initiatives, 1976-2006
Day / Time Tuesday, June 20th / 16:30 - 18:30
Event Description
Canada has a long and noble history of creative initiatives at the UN, urging Member Nations and the UN itself to frame and implement policies, programs and projects to improve urban living, within, beyond, and through settlements. Canada’s foreign-policy initiatives through the UN usually parallelled domestic goals. Domestic programs of improving city life were linked to comparable initiatives overseas and vice-versa. In addition, Canada’s initiatives have always reflected its commitment to connect issues of natural and built environment for human settlements. IDRC’s generous research grant together with Western Economic Diversification, and UBC's contribution enabled a research team at Centre for Human Settlements (CHS) to assemble and review the ebb and flow of Canada’s initiatives over three decades.
Session Language
English
French
Speakers
H. Peter Oberlander, Centre for Human Settlements, UBC
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic (U. of Toronto), Jeanne M. Wolfe (McGill U.), David Covo (McGill U.)
Arie Shachar (Hebrew U.), Pietro Garau (U. of Rome), John MacLeod and Ron Williams (U. of Montreal)
Host Organization
Centre for Human Settlement, The University of British Columbia
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