Urban Networking with Vancouver's ICSC

Published December 8, 2004

One of the things that is a frustration to me, having spent the last six years focusing on cities, is that we say that abject poverty is worse in the rural areas," says Dr. Nola-Kate Seymoar, President and CEO of the Vancouver-based International Centre for Sustainable Cities, a non-profit organization organized in 1993. "CIDA, for example, focuses largely on rural development...but they have not made the connection...