April 24, 2013 - 7:13am
Guest Column in Nanaimo News Bulletin
Thursday, April 25, 2013
By David Witty, VIU Provost and VP Academic
There continue to be a number of national and international initiatives focusing upon the well-being of urban citizens and urban environments.
Recently, Canadian Gov. Gen. David Johnston has promoted Smart and Caring Communities. Healthy communities has been a topic on local, national and international agendas for a number of years, and Compassionate Communities has recently emerged as a topic in international conversations.
While each of these movements offers significant insight into the varied aspects that affect the well-being of society in general and cities in particular, there is a parallel concept that captures the collective notions of those initiatives and brings a broader range of factors into the discussion of cities: that emerging global conversation is called Successful Cities.
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