POL346Y5 Lecture 7: POL346F-LEC7
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Executive director, toronto youth cabinet: purpose is to advocate and promote the policy interests and preferences of youth in the city- always trying to get youth engaged. Advocate for youth interests in the city. Habitat iii un conference on housing and sustainable urban development. Its an international, un sponsored meeting of all un member countries, ngos, practitioners, city representatives etc. Held e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:1006)(cid:1004) (cid:455)ea(cid:396)s. idea is that the(cid:396)e"s a(cid:374) oppo(cid:396)tu(cid:374)it(cid:455) to set the (cid:374)e(cid:449) u(cid:396)(cid:271)a(cid:374) age(cid:374)da. Criticism that it gets is that its short on implementation guidelines. Part i: history and background of urban politics- regionalism. How and why we set up systems to do things at the regional scale. In a lot of cases, we have clusters of municipalities so the idea is that at some point, we might identify advantages to coordination decision-making or planning or services among these municipalities. The(cid:396)e"s (cid:1007) (cid:271)ig (cid:396)easo(cid:374)s (cid:449)h(cid:455) (cid:396)egio(cid:374)alis(cid:373) t(cid:455)pi(cid:272)all(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:373)es up as so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g (cid:449)e (cid:373)ight (cid:449)a(cid:374)t.
