One handy place: Metro Vancouver Events of Interest

Various upcoming events of interest: Metro Vancouver Calendar of Events

PIBC PlanTalk – Availability, Utilization, and Intensification of Industrial Lands – Nov 19

Metro Vancouver Dialogues – Great City Making Demands Innovation – Nov 19 + 22 + 28

Great City-Making Demands Innovation

SURREY – Nov 19, 2013 VANCOUVER – Nov 22, 2013 NEW WESTMINSTER – NOV 28, 2013

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The world is urbanizing. Metropolitan regions are changing. Rapidly growing city regions are increasingly economically robust, culturally rich and socially equitable places to live, work and play. Creating sustainable and livable regions demands innovation, foresight, collaboration, and importantly, learning from other people and places. From Australia to Metro Vancouver, what lessons can we learn about how to creatively accommodate growth and density? What do we need to understand about how, why and when land use and transportation planning best serve or shape each other? What can our communities look like, feel like, when we’ve made the right investments? How do the roles played by transportation and land use planning change when shifting from a city to regional scale? Join us and visiting guest planners, Greg Vann and Warren Rowe from Brisbane, Australia in our next Future of the Region Sustainability Dialogues.

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The Dialogues are a key component of our Sustainable Region Initiative (SRI), and are intended to help the citizens of Metro Vancouver shape the future of the region by presenting a range of views to challenge and stimulate discussion on significant regional issues. Metro Vancouver’s view is that the exploration of new and innovative approaches to regional issues by a broad spectrum of interested stakeholders is fundamental to the ongoing livability and sustainability of our region, and your participation in these dialogues is encouraged and greatly valued.