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Title Partnering with the poor: Leveraging Land for Change Day / Time Wednesday, June 21st / 13:30 - 15:30 Room MR03 Event Description This session explores urban housing strategies, incorporating growing with community-based design. Innovative approaches to urban upgrading is illustrated by four city examples of “edible landscapes”: Kampala, Uganda: a new neighbourhood supporting incremental building methods and growing; Colombo, Sri Lanka: traditional medicinal plant as part of space-confined settlement upgrading; Montreal, Canada: one of North America’s most effective community gardening programs; Rosario, Argentina: use of open spaces in productive garden neighbourhoods. The audience will consider the potential for similar projects elsewhere, and how participatory governance can be married with innovative land uses. Session Language English Spanish Speakers (information as provided by host organization) Mr. James Sseggane, Town Clerk (Acting Mayor, City of Kampala) Mrs. Maxensia Nakibuuka Takirambule, Community representative Dr Jayantha Liyanage, Municipal Commissioner, Colombo Municipal Council (Acting Mayor, Colombo) K.A. Jayaratne, Presdient. Sevanatha Urban Resource Centre Mr. Gerard Tremblay, Mayor. City of Montreal. Mr. Daniel Reid, Animateur Horticole. City of Montreal. Mr Gerardo Barro, Director of Secretariat for Public Housing. Municipality of Rosario. Mr. Antonio Lattuca, Mr. Antonio Lattuca, Project Leader, Coordinator of the Municipal Urban Agriculture Programme CHAIR: Hon. H. Peter Oberlander REPORTER: Prof. Vikram Bhatt, EL Project Team Leader, Director, Minimum Cost Housing Group, McGill University School of Architecture Contact Need more information about this event? Please fill the contact form Related Documents (in English and / or French) Host Organization ETC/RUAF-Holland; Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCGH), McGill University School of Architecture Host Organization Description   Website (Organizer and partners)

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