The Canadian Urban Institute, the nation’s leader in progressive civic policy development, annually recognizes people and organizations with their Urban Leadership Award. The nominations are open from now until December 8, 2005. The categories to consider are: City Renewal, City Initiatives, City Livability, City Youth, City Soul, and Local Heroes. There are many people and groups in this city that are deserving, so try to nominate them all! Former Toronto mayor, and CUI President, David Crombie sums it up best:
“The quality of urban life is rooted deeply in the quality and strength of its public realm. Education, health care, social services, public transit, arts and culture, environmental stewardship, roads, streets and public places have been the connecting tissues linking our individual private worlds and fusing one generation to another. The public realm has been the glue that holds the City together and the bedrock upon which it builds its prosperity, its communities and its social peace.”
Also, our friends over at the Toronto Public Space Committee won a Clean and Beautiful City Award for its work on the Downtown De-Fence Project.
