Invitation to Sponsor - IMCL 2025
A unique opportunity to celebrate your organization, company or project with an international audience of distinguished researchers, city leaders and practitioners
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The 2025 IMCL conference will offer sponsors the option of purchasing tickets for themselves, or making tickets available as scholarships for qualified attendees in need of financial assistance. In addition, sponsors will be recognized with a number of benefits as described below.
There are also potential opportunities for presentations, tours, or other features of your work, depending on its relevance to the conference. (For example, builders, developers, architects, business owners and others are warmly invited to become sponsors, and showcase their work during the conference. I will be happy to personally discuss this and other opportunities with you in more detail.)
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The IMCL is a premier international leadership conference on urban quality of life since 1985, bringing together a number of the world’s most innovative and successful mayors, planners, economic development specialists, designers, developers, NGO officials, and researchers and scholars. Importantly, the IMCL conferences cover not just big cities but also small towns and suburbs, since such a large percentage of the world’s inhabitants live in these areas, and they are also the location for many of the world’s most pressing social, economic and environmental challenges.
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Our 62nd IMCL conference (October15-18, 2025) is titled, “What Is the Architecture of the (Livable) Future?” We can learn much from historic patterns and places that offer models of resilience, durability, well-being, ecological patterns, and much more. The transformation of sprawling, fragmented, dysfunctional places into livable, walkable, sustainable neighborhoods remains an urgent challenge, especially so in an age of unprecedented rapid urbanization. Our next conference will be an important in-person gathering as we assess the many important lessons for a time of dynamic transformation for cities, towns, suburbs and countrysides.
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We would be honored if you would consider becoming a sponsor for this important gathering. The information below covers the sponsorship levels and benefits. For more information, please feel free to email me personally at michael.mehaffy@livablecities.org, or call +1 503-250-4449.
Sincerely,
Michael W. Mehaffy, Ph.D., Executive Director
Suzanne C. and Henry L. Lennard Institute for Livable Cities
THE DETAILS
WHERE: Potsdam, Germany
WHEN: October 15-18, 2025
WHAT: The International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) Conference is a unique and venerable annual gathering of some of the leading urban thinkers in the world today. It was founded in 1985 by Henry Lennard, a Viennese medical sociologist, and Suzanne Lennard, a British architectural scholar. Our last conference in Cortona, Italy brought together over 100 city leaders from every continent except Antarctica. Attendee comments included “Truly a great conference,” “Fabulous sessions… Wow!,” “It was terrific,” “Thank you for hosting this magnificent event!” and “Thank you for the great conference sessions… [and] the knowledge sharing and inspired messages from people from around the world.”
WHO: This conference will bring together 100 outstanding delegates - elected officials, practitioners and scholars, in planning, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, land use development, transportation planning, public health, human development, and social sciences from around the world - to share experiences, ideas and expertise.
WHY: At this conference, we will examine creative strategies, tools and design solutions for achieving livable cities (and suburbs, and towns) for ALL. The conference will examine timely topics like zoning reform, neighborhood health, social capital, green cities, affordable housing, active mobility, gentrification, displacement and homelessness, age-friendly cities, resilience and adaptation, and other related issues.
SPONSOR: Your sponsorship will emphasize your organization’s dedication to the goals of making cities and suburbs more healthy, green and livable. It will help ensure the highest quality speakers on these topics, and carry this message to a broad international audience. Sponsorships start at $500 USD and carry an increasing range of sponsor benefits, including registration, acknowledgement and promotional materials. (Download the full document below.)
By bringing together a diverse group of delegates from the planning, urban design, public health and other fields, we will increase the understanding of why it is so important to achieve livable cities and suburbs, and highlight exemplary organizations, firms, and projects worldwide that are achieving these goals.
HOW: Please feel free to reach out to discuss the details with our director, Michael Mehaffy, at michael.mehaffy@livablecities.org.
The Lennard Institute for Livable Cities, Inc., is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit public benefit corporation registered in Indiana, USA. Donations are tax-deductible according to US charitable donation laws (please verify your own eligibility).
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As Executive Director, I would like to personally thank you for considering a sponsorship!
Our goal in the IMCL conferences is to celebrate good work that is aligned with our mission, and share the knowledge of how it has been achieved. We do this through peer-to-peer exchanges at instructive case-study locales of transformation into more livable, ecological, equitable, beautiful cities, towns, and suburbs. We welcome the opportunity to celebrate your achievements as they relate to the conference topics, and disseminate knowledge of your organization or project, as well as your lessons learned.
