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As a Canadian leader in progressive thinking
for cities and their regions, CUI is playing
an active role in the WUF3. With a seat
on the Government of Canada’s National
Advisory Committee for WUF, CUI provided
input to the design of the conference during
2005. We mobilized our partners from less
developed countries to participate in the
Habitat Jam. We will bring to the Vancouver
conference our know-how and that of our
membership and partners from across Canada
and around the world. And we will participate
in moving ahead the urban agenda in the
months and years following WUF3.
The following
is a list of main activities of the CUI
and our partner organizations at WUF3:
Networking Event: “Cities and the
Public Realm: Reinvesting in Community Assets”.
June 19, 16.30-18.30. Location: Pan Pacific
Hotel, Gallery Level, Oceanview 2.
The quality of urban life is rooted deeply
in the strength of the public realm. Education,
health care, transit, the arts, water and
sanitation, safety, justice, libraries,
natural and built heritage, parks, recreation
facilities, streets, markets and public
places are connecting tissues linking our
individual private worlds and fusing one
generation to another. The public realm
is the glue that holds a city together and
the bedrock upon which it builds its prosperity,
communities and social peace. Join CUI and
its southern partners in an international
dialogue on new ways to use urban economies
and civic engagement to restore our city
regions and their community assets, ecological
systems, cultural souls and rural hinterlands.
For more background information on the topic,
download a copy of the current edition of
the Urban
Century magazine. To sign up for our
networking session, please visit www.wuf3-fum3.ca/networking_events/list_network_en.asp.
CUI Booth at the WUF Exhibition Venue (presented
in cooperation with our global partners
listed below). Want to learn more
about our work and that of our Canadian
and international partners? Have comments
or ideas to share with us? Wish to join
in our growing network? Interested in forming
partnerships? Then come see us at our booth
in the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition
Centre.
The Urban Century magazine.
Want to read more about CUI and our current
work and thinking on cities and the public
realm? Then download
a copy of the magazine, or pick up a hard
copy at our WUF booth.
CUI Partners Forum (by invitation
only). CUI and its partners from
Canada and around the world will be meeting
to share ideas and learn from one another.
Date, time and location to be determined.
Media.
For members of the media who may wish to
interview representatives of CUI or our
partner institutions, we would be happy
to assist. Requests can be made to Jaclyn
Kane at jkane@canurb.com,
or telephone 416-365-0816 ext. 222.
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