The Library
The imagineCALGARY Partnership has a number of documents, backgrounders and reference materials available to help you learn more about the imagineCALGARY initiative. There is also information on trending, sustainability issues and the Partnership’s progress with the imagineCALGARY vision.

You can download any of the documents below and view them with Adobe’s Reader software. If you don’t have Adobe Reader, you can download it for free here.

imagineCALGARY Plan

imagineCALGARY Plan (1.4 MB PDF)
     

imagineCALGARY Strategy

     

Reports from Our Partners

imagineCALGARY Partner Environmental Strategies

University of Calgary (39.3 MB PDF)
     

imagineCALGARY Media Room

Municipal World:Where Sustainability
Meets Strategic Planning, July, 2008


     

2007 imagineCALGARY Highlights

Awards, a Community Symposium and new structures.  A lot has happened with imagineCALGARY in 2007.  The imagineCALGARY Transition Team has created a 2007 Highlights Report to cover all the progress that has happened in turning imagination into action.

     
imagineCALGARY Structures
Review Report, July 2007


     
imagineCALGARY Transition Team
Oregon Report, April 2007


Oregon Trip Report (156 KB PDF)
     

MegaTrends

During the development of the imagineCALGARY Plan, the imagineCALGARY team commissioned "megatrend" papers. The purpose of this research was to understand the potential long-term effects of “megatrends,” described as broad, often global-level trends that Calgary itself may have little influence over, but will affect Calgary a great deal. These reports illustrate the implications for Calgary in the areas of:

     

Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration