THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE

This conference was held February 5-6, 1987 in Toronto, Canada and was cosponsored by the federation of Canadian municipalities, the university of Alberta, the university of Toronto, and the Canadian society of civil engineering. Road transport-related submissions to the conference include the following: state of urban infrastructure in Canada (curtis,wh); urban infrastructure renewal : the u.s. Experience (sullivan,rh); Federal, provincial, municipal cooperation : past, present and future (amborski,d and slack,e); debt financing : past, present, and future (prenger,jh); the reality of municipal financing : why has public works lost out in recent years? (degagne,aj); infrastructure investment and urban growth (sonnen,c); the challenge of creating public awareness (aubin,h); infrastructure management : a geographic information system application (rodi,s); municipal services : repair or replace (payne,hg); the infrastructure renewal process : a contractor's perspective (wither,ns); appropriate management techniques : infrastructure, people and money (ircha,mc); structuring the infrastructure (bremner,rm); urban infrastructure : municipal liability (wood,d); municipal infrastructure renewal : a trade union's point of view (rose,j); renewing urban transportation infrastructure (soberman,rm); priorities for provincial spending on urban transportation : an Ontario perspective (johnston,g); traffic engineering and control during infrastructure renewal (cass,s); balancing new road construction with road maintenance needs (mcrae,rj); infrastructure needs for smaller transit systems (cormier,a); deterioration of parking garages and bridge structures (alexander,a); the realities of urban infrastructure renewal (decore,l); the renewal of urban infrastructure in Montreal (fainstat,mm); education, research and training needs (haas,rcg, heinke,gw and smith,dw).