Aerotropolis symposium - Creating airport cities - a 21st Century trend offers a unique opportunity for local policy makers and community leaders to engage with national and international experts on regional economic development. Discover how leveraging airport infrastructure into a sustainable city can give your business, industry, residential or development venture the competitive advantage. The City and County of Leduc with the Edmonton International Airports are working together to put on a forum around a very interesting land use planning concept and we are hoping to encourage all those folks interested in land use and urban planning to attend the forum.  The concept is uch bigger than any one project but really about how to build a major urban core with the airport as an anchor much like the old days of the rail way or the sea port as the economic anchor.  The concept embraces industrial, commercial and residential construction. Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Information is available on both our specific event web site www.aerotropolissymposium.ca   as well as the Leduc Nisku EDA www.internationaregion.com

Course NCI Charrette System^{™ Certificate Training}
This course is invaluable for anyone sponsoring or conducting a charrette, including planning agencies, consultants, community advocates, and developers. By the end of the program you will have practiced the complete process for planning a charrette. Work in small groups using a case study format. Practice the ten most important NCI Charrette System tools and techniques. At Olds College, Calgary Campus, Calgary, Alberta June 28-30, 2010 9:00 am - 4:30 pm, daily Cost: $1,195 CAD +GST to register: www.oldscollege.ca/ce/nci  -or- Olds College Continuing Education at: 1-800-661-6537 ext. 4677 More information on NCI:  www.charretteinstitute.org  

August 19 - 21, 2010
Edmonton, AB

CSLA - AAPC CONGRESS
The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects invites you to Edmonton, Alberta, and the Shaw Conference Centre this August 19th though 21st for a meeting of the minds! You can participate in a national congress of planning and design professionals hosted by the Alberta Association of Landscape Architects. Debate the issues and set actions in motion through a series of inspirational speakers, interesting tours, relevant sessions, and colourful panel discussions. Keynote speakers: Don Hill, Banff Leadership Centre – Change Theory. Andrew Coyne, National Editor, MacLean's – The Politics and Economics of Change. Simon Jackson, Spirit Bear Youth Coalition – A Change Case Study. EARLY REGISTRATION rates have been extended to Saturday May 29th. All early registrants will be entered into a draw to reimburse their individual registration fee!!! Check out all the details on line at www.cslacongress2010.ca

Call for Proposals  - Unwrap the Research Conference: What Now for Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo? is a unique opportunity for social researchers who have conducted research on Fort McMurray and the oil sands region of Alberta to share their findings with each other and with residents of the region. Spearheaded by the City-Region Studies Centre at the University of Alberta, this conference will be held in Fort McMurray on the weekend of October 22-24, 2010. The conference aims to create a living archive of research findings relevant to community life in the region. We hope you will consider submitting a proposal to present at Unwrap the Research. For more information on the conference, and to submit a proposal, visit the conference website at www.crsc.ualberta.ca Please note that the deadline for proposals is April 30, 2010.