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Presentation | 2012
Funding Municipal Infrastructure in Canada: Challenges and Opportunities
Enid Slack
Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack on April 4, 2012 to the Saskatchewan Heavy Construction Association.
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Presentation | 2012
Shared Spaces: Funding and Managing Libraries and Parks in Tough Times Session 2
Martin Gomez
This session examined the changing role of libraries in the digital age along with their role in the broader public learning continuum. In an era of fiscal austerity, are there new operating models for libraries which could prove more effective at responding to changing civic needs and rapid changes in information technology?
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Presentation | 2012
Shared Spaces: Funding and Managing Libraries and Parks in Tough Times Session 2
Gillian Mason
This presentation examines the changing role of libraries in the digital age along with their role in the broader public learning continuum. In an era of fiscal austerity, are there new operating models for libraries which could prove more effective at responding to changing civic needs and rapid changes in information technology?
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Presentation | 2012
Municipal Finance and Governance Issues in Canada and Abroad
Enid Slack
Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack on February 9, 2012.
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Presentation | 2012
Funding Public Parks in Tough Times: An Innovation Agenda
Jamie Torres Springer
This presentation focuses on the role that parks and libraries play as contributors to broader urban policy objectives. How do libraries and parks affect and leverage the quality of life, sustainability, and economic growth in the city? In a period of fiscal austerity, what are the appropriate roles for the public sector, the private sector and the scope for partnerships in both the funding and management of these spaces?
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Presentation | 2012
Shared Spaces: Funding and Managing Libraries and Parks in Tough Times
Siobhan Reardon
This presentation focuses on the role that parks and libraries play as contributors to broader urban policy objectives. How do libraries and parks affect and leverage the quality of life, sustainability, and economic growth in the city? In a period of fiscal austerity, what are the appropriate roles for the public sector, the private sector and the scope for partnerships in both the funding and management of these spaces?
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Presentation | 2011
Villain or Scapegoat?: The Ontario Municipal Board and Land Use Planning in Ontario
Aaron A. Moore
This presentation contrasts the institutions, law, and practices of planning in Ontario with other jurisdictions in Canada and the US. It concludes that the public's frustration with the OMB masks larger issues present in Ontario's planning regime, issues that the removal of the OMB will not address.
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IMFG Paper | 2011
Revenue Diversification in Large U.S. Cities
Howard Chernick, Adam Langley, and Andrew Reschovsky
Using a panel of data on the financing of the United States’ largest central cities from 1997 to 2008, the empirical results of this paper provide strong support for the hypothesis that a more diversified revenue structure generates more revenues than one that relies primarily on the property tax.
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