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This video features an event hosted by IMFG and today’s leading infrastructure thinkers and practitioners on how to overcome cost overruns on public infrastructure projects. The event followed the release of a new paper by Matti Siemiatycki for IMFG, called Cost Overruns on Major Infrastructure Projects: Patterns, Causes, and Cures.
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In his first public address since taking office in July, this video features Toronto City Manager Peter Wallace shares his perspectives on the City’s finances, and on the opportunities and challenges to achieving key social, economic, city-building, environmental, and governance objectives.
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IMFG Director Enid Slack recorded a presentation for Local Government New South Wales, which was shown at the Finance Summit in Sydney, Australia on August 27, 2015. The presentation is on “Financing Local Governments in the 21st Century: Going Back to First Principles.”
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This video features a lecture by IMFG Visiting Scholar Mark Kleinman. Rapid developments in digital innovation and in the availability and application of large-scale data sets create opportunities both for new economic activities and jobs, and for new and cheaper ways of delivering city services. They also hold out possibilities for new ways that governments can engage with citizens, while at the same time raising concerns about data privacy.
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This video features Martim Smolka, who speaks about the theory and practice of land value capture as it has been implemented in Latin America, and David Amborski, who discusses its use in Canada.
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This video features IMFG’s tenth anniversary event. Panelists Enid Slack, Richard M. Bird, and Zack Taylor look at the past, present, and future of municipal finance and governance and give their progress reports: what have cities learned?
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In this video, Catherine Barbé, the Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Société du Grand Paris, shares some of her experience and strategies with the implementation of the Grand Paris project, with insights and lessons on further integrating the Paris metropolitan region.
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In this video, University of Toronto President Meric Gertler delivers a public talk at IMFG, as part of the ongoing Big City, Big Ideas lecture series organized by IMFG at its partners, entitled “Universities, Cities and Prosperity: An Agenda for the Future.” The event was moderated by Alan Broadbent.
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