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Internationally renowned cultural planners Gail Lord and Ngaire Blankenberg discuss how and why museums and cities can work together to activate their soft power - influence through attraction, persuasion and agenda-setting.
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Are infrastructure financing tools underutilized when it comes to planning for smart growth? Do we run the risk of undercutting “smart growth” efforts if we assume infrastructure financing tools to be growth-neutral?
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This talk surveys the fiscal impacts of rising police salaries for Ontario's municipalities, then goes on to present research about best practices for controlling costs.
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Conventional wisdom and the literature in urban planning suggest that high density built form is preferable to low density because it is more environmentally sustainable and results in lower hard infrastructure costs. This presentation entertains the other side of the argument: that high density built form can increase soft infrastructure costs.
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Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack at the International Property Tax Conference on Sustainable Strategies for Local Revenue Mobilization.
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On IMFG’s tenth anniversary, 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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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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Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the OGRA/ROMA Combined Conference, Toronto, February 23, 2015.
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