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PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS

Selected Conferences/Presentations

- "Planners and Planning: How to Change Our Approach to Change Our Cities", Planning Institute of Australia International Division Conference (presentation)
- "Promoting Walking, Cycling & Transit through Transportation Demand Management (TDM)", Canadian Urban Transit Association Sustainable Transportation Summit (presentation)
- "Local Food Solutions for Sprawling Cities: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada's Farmers' Market Story", World Town Planning Day Online Conference (presentation)
- "Improving Our Collective Suffering Health: Connecting the Dots Between Global, City and Neighbourhood Scales", Canadian Conference on Global Health (presentation)
- "Our Urban Albertan Identity Crisis: Exploring the Dichotomy Between Who We Are and Who We Want To Be", Under Western Skies: Climate, Culture and Change in Western North America (presentation)
- "Envisioning Future Mobility", exploring how to achieve a car-free future, and why we should (presentation)
- "A City Planner's Guide to Creating Positive Change", Saskatchewan Planners' Conference (presentation)
- "Finding the Heart of the City in the Call of the Wild", The Planned World: Urban, Rural, Wild (presentation)
- "A City Planner's Guide to Creating Positive Change", 50th Anniversary Mensa AG International Conference (presentation)
- "Edmonton's Jewel: The North Saskatchewan River Valley", International Conference on Responsible Tourism (presentation)
- "Meeting of the Minds" International Sustainability Conference (volunteer)
- "Around the World in 80 Pages", Western Division, Canadian Association of Geographers Conference (presenter)
- "Municipal Planning", Calgary Clean Tech Symposium (facilitator)
- "Transportation, Paths and Parks; Vehicles, People, Greenspace", Edmonton Clean Tech Symposium (panelist)
- "The Benefit of Colour for Alberta's Winter Cities", AACIP Conference (presentation)
- "Downtown Edmonton: Looking Backward, Looking Forward", Pecha Kucha Night (presentation)
- "Murals: Signs of Edmonton's Enduring (and Endearing) Sustainability", Pecha Kucha Night (presentation)
Selected Publications

- "Helping Inner City Residents Help Themselves", Initiative for a Competitive Inner City
- "Do Planners Need Online Technology?", APPI Planning Journal
- "Cause for Concern: A Preliminary Report on the Location and Accreditation of Day Care Facilities in Edmonton, Alberta", Alberta Association of Services for Children and Families Journal
- "Critical Analysis of the Proposed Closure of the Edmonton City Centre Airport"
- "On Planning and 'Related' Degrees", AACIP Planning Journal
- "Breaking Down Our Top Troubles": a critical look at what is required to fix the problems Canadians believe to be worst, Mensa Canada's MC2 Magazine"
- "Identity Crisis", Akzonobel's Corporate A Magazine (based in Amsterdam)
- "Getting It Done - How to Move Projects Forward at the Local Level", Renew Canada
- "Green Parking Lots: Paving the Way to a Greener Future", Plan Canada
- "Bridging the Gap: Improving Traffic, Tourism and Civic Identity in Edmonton's Core", AACIP Planning Journal
- Multiple features in newspapers and other media

Feel free to contact me with a special project you'd like me to consider. (email: myron@cityplanner.ca)

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