Media Advisory: More Than 600 Community Planners Gather to Move Forward on the Public Realm-October 5-6th

HAMILTON, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Oct. 3, 2016) - The Symposium will focus on the theme Healthy Communities and Planning for the Public Realm:

• Changing Role of Parkland
• Planning for Inclusiveness and Removing Barriers
• Promoting Active Life and Street Eco-Health
• Reuse and Multi-Purpose Function of our Spaces and Places
• Role of Public Art
• Programming the Public Realm

Keynotes

Program Highlights

• What Makes a Great Civic Gathering Space?
• Space Dilemma - Finding New Solutions for the Public Realm in our Rapidly Densifying Urban Cores
• Healthy Communities and Planning for the Public Realm
• Ecohealth: How Planners can Facilitate Human Health and Wellbeing through Community Design
• Wind and Microclimate Issues - A Design Charette for Planners
• How to Conduct a Charrette Around the Public Realm
• Indigenous Consultation in Provincial and Municipal Planning
• Planning for Public Art in the Public Realm - What are the Necessary Tools? Case Study: Hamilton Public Art Master Plan

Symposium Location:

Hamilton Convention Centre

Hamilton, Ontario

October 5-6, 2016

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