The Athabasca Oil Sands area in northern Alberta, Canada, holds the third-largest proven oil reserves in the world. It’s a big region with a big spirit—and demands big plans. This poster details the award-winning 2011 Municipal Development Plan, which lays out a strong commitment to sustainability, and the City Centre redevelopment plan, which maps out an ambitious agenda to transform Fort McMurray into a model of sustainable living.
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Margaretha G Bloem
Regional Mun of Wood Buffalo
Tom C. P. Schwerdtfeger
Regional Mun of Wood Buffalo
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Bio: Tom Schwerdtfeger has spent the past four years planning in Alberta, Canada - most recently in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. Tom supervises a group of development planners and support staff whose mandate is to process permit applications and work with developers on privately initiated policy planning projects. Tom has also prepared publicly sponsored planning projects including an award winning recreational area plan with novel environmental conservation and preservation approaches.
Francisco J. Bermejo
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Bio: Socio Economic Unit Supervisor. Planning and Development Department. Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. Alberta, Canada. Federal Advisor to the Undersecretary for Urban and Territorial Development. Ministry for Social Development (SEDESOL)Government of Mexico. Urban Planning and Sector Director, State Planning Agency of Nuevo Len at Mexico Urban Planning Associate. Technological Institute of Monterrey. Teaching and research in Master Program. Strategic Urban Planning Consultant. CIDEU, Barcelona City Concil. The Megacities Project. Researcher. New York.
Education: Master Urban Planning. Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Barcelona, Spain Urban Management Graduate Program. Ecole d’Architecture et Urbanisme de Grenoble, France Urban Planning Graduate Diploma, Institut Suprieur d'Urbanisme et Restauration Urbaine de Bruxelles, Belgium Architect. Technological Institute of Higher Studies of Monterrey.
Key Publications: Estado Actual de la Vivienda en Mexico 2010. CIDOC -SHF- SEDESOL. Collaboration Estado Actual de la Vivienda en Mexico 2011. CIDOC -SHF- SEDESOL.Collaboration La Participacin ciudadana en la Planeacin Urbana. Rizoma. APDUNL Modelos de Desarrollo para la Sustentabilidad Urbana. Instituto de la Vivienda. Nuevo Len. La Planeacion Estrategica en Latinoamerica, revision de planes
Other Publications: Sustainable Integral Urban Development (DUIS) Guidelines and Methodology for Assessment. SHF - SEDESOL. 2010.
Past Assignments: Sustainable Integral Urban Development (DUIS) in the Mexican housing sector. Mexico City. May 2011. Urban and Regional Planning experiences in the North of Mexico. APA 100th Conference. Las Vegas. Apr. 2008
Samuel Alatorre, AICP
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Bio: A true NAFTA planner, Dr. Alatorre has an outstanding professional practice that combines engagements in the public and private sectors in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Previous to joining the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Dr. Alatorre lead private consulting practice for FOA Consuling and ASCENSE Consulting in Northern Mexico. Dr. Alatorre held the position of Director of Planning and Development for the Trust for the Development of Northern Nuevo Leon (FIDENOR), a Nuevo Leon (Mexico) state promotion and development agency. He was directly responsible for the comprehensive planning of the town of Colombia, the state´s only international port, as well as for the state´s regional development plan that included fourteen municipalities. Dr. Alatorre was instrumental in the attraction of over $2.5 million dollars in public and private investment to the region. He achieved for FIDENOR the GOLD Award for an international economic development program granted by Business Facilities magazine in 2002 .Dr. Alatorre served as economic development consultant for Greater Philadelphia First, an association of chief executives of the largest corporations located in greater Philadelphia for the attraction and retention of investment to thier region. He has successfully served on public (Director of the Regional Planning and Cadastral Records Institute of the State of Coahuila, and Sub-Director of Urban Planning for the Municipality of Monterrey) and private positions (consultant for SEDESOL and FONATUR on regional planning and tourism development projects) in his natal Mexico.
Education: Dr. Alatorre obtained a B.A. in architecture from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM ‘88), holds two Master´s degrees in planning (University of Southern California ´91, University of Pennsylvania ´97), and earned his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania (U.Penn '02).
Key Publications: "Masterplanning South of the Border: the case of Colombia, Mexico", American Planning Association, July 2003. (www.planning.org/internationalplanning/alatorre.htm).
Past Assignments: Professor of urban planning, graduate-level course in the Master in Architecture program of the Monterrey Institute of Technology, Monterrey, Mexico, Fall 2002 - Spring 2010.
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