COMPANY PROFILE : RECENT PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

• Community Planners Association of Alberta Annual Conference Keynote Address, upcoming April 2012, Red Deer, Alberta: Dynamic Complete Communities.
  
  
• National Seminar on Design and Planning for Sustainable Habitat, July 2011 New Delhi, India
  
  
• Background Paper: Learning from Vancouver, EF-1.15-EF-1.31 published by the International Development Research Centre, Centre for Sustainable Habitat, Human Settlement Management Institute and Housing and Urban Development Corporation.
  
  
• Economic Association of BC 2011 Annual Conference, June 2011 Presentation with the Mayor of the City of Langley, Langley BC: Dynamic Pedestrian Magnets: Learning from New Main Streets.
  
  
• FortisBC Energy Solutions Conference Keynote address, September 2010, Whistler, BC: Commodity to Community: Energy as a Catalyst to Advance Change.
  
  
• FortisBC Energy Solutions Conference Keynote address, April 2011 Parksville, BC: Commodity to Community: Energy as a Catalyst to Advance Change.
  
  
• Ottawa Forum Keynote Speaker, May 2011, Ottawa, Ontario: Vancouverisms in Ottawa.
  
  
• BC Society of Landscape Architects Annual Conference Presentation, May 2011, North Vancouver, BC: Urban Design Revolution: Voids in the Practice of Bigger Place-Making.
  
  
• Parksville Chamber of Commerce, Guest Speaker, September 2010, Parksville, BC: Downtown Parksville – Centre First.
  
  
• Urban Development Institute of Alberta Annual Conference Facilitator and Presenter, April 2010, Calgary, Alberta: Innovations in Sustainable Development.
  
  
• B.C. Land Summit, Presentation Learning from New Main Streets: Mixing It Up and Creating Great Sustainable Community Hearts, Whistler, British Columbia, May 2009.
  
  
• Alberta Development Officers Association Annual Conference, Keynote Speaker, City of Red Deer, Alberta, September 2009.
  
  
• Nova Scotia Planning Directors Conference, Keynote Speaker, Halifax, Nova Sotia, May 2009.
  
  
• Nova Scotia Planning Directors Conference, Professional Training Workshop, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 2009.


• Town of Amherst, Downtown Workshops, Amhurst, Nova Scotia, May 2009.
  
  
• Urban Development Institute Alberta, Conference Speaker Sustainable Developments, Edmonton, Alberta, April 2009.
  
  
• MD of Rocky View, Commerical Development Potential, Public Lecture, Calgary Zoo, Calgary, Alberta, May 2008.
  
  
• National Radio Spokesperson: Guest on CBC Radio “IDEAS” aired January 2005 on “Designing Complete Communities in Western Canada”. Michael has also spoken on CBC Radio on “Green Infrastructure” and sustainability in 2004 as well as about Downtown Revitalization in 2007.
  
  
• Western Infrastructure Conference “Sustainable Development in Vancouver’s North False Creek” Calgary, Alberta, November 2006.
  
  
• Alberta Institute of Planners, “Effective Visual Communications Workshop”, Lake Louise, Alberta October 2006.


• Real Estate Institute of BC Annual Conference, presentation: “Innovative Rurban Tools for Rural and Resort Development”, Nelson, BC., September 2005.
  
  
• Canadian Institute of Planners National Conference, presentation: “100 Year Vision for Midtown Calgary”, Calgary, Alberta, July 2005.


• Value-Added Urban Design for Prairie Cities, presentation to senior management, City of Regina, June 2005.


• Green Building Seminar, Kelowna, BC: Green Building seminar presenter, March 2005.


• "Implementation Case Study - the Lower Twelfth Street Area Plan", Planning Institute of British Columbia Annual Conference, Victoria, B.C., April 2005.


• Environmental Design Research Association National Conference, Vancouver, (EDRA):
  panel coordinator on Green Cities and Eco-Benefits, April 2005.
  
  
• "Calgary Midtown - Actively Shaping a 100 - Year Vision" von Hausen, M. et al, Plan Canada, pgs. 46-49, Spring 2005.
  
  
• CBC Radio "Ideas" guest speaker on "Complete Communities" in Calgary, Alberta, October 2004 and aired on CBC radio in January 2005.


• Shanghai Land Company, “Sustainable Urban Landscapes”, Shanghai, China, May 2006.
  
  
• "Real Estate Economics in Urban Design: Civic Economics Role in Place-Making" von Hausen, M., September 2004.
  
  
• Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Calgary Seminar in October 2004 on Downtown Intensification in Vancouver, B.C.