Come to Atlanta April 26-30, 2014 for the biggest, brightest, boldest event in planning! Take this opportunity to advance your skills, your career, and the future of your community. New this year are sessions, events, and resources designed for emerging professionals, including the Emerging Professionals Institute which provide you with very hands-on, interactive, small group access to top professionals. Register by February 27 to save! For more information, visit www.planning.org/conference.
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Call for Presentations – 2014 Delaware/Maryland Regional Planning Conference – Deadline February 10
Organizers of the 2014 Delaware/Maryland Regional Planning Conference, “Planning for Healthy & Sustainable Places,” have extended their search for conference sessions and presentations through February 10. The two-day event, co-sponsored by Nemours, will be held at the Embassy Suites in Newark, Delaware on October 28 and 29, 2014.
Click here to learn more and submit an idea: http://delawareapa.
Sign up to Volunteer With Future City Philadelphia
Happy New Year from Future City Philadelphia! We are pleased to announce a new location for this year’s regional competition – SAP America, 3999 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA. Our 41 participating schools are hard at work on their models and presentations and are getting ready for the big event. We need volunteers for the following positions:
PRELIMINARY JUDGE: be a member of a judging team that listens to, asks questions of, and judges the preliminary teams.
Time commitment – Saturday, January 26, 8:00AM – 12:00PM. Preliminary Judges are required to attend a training session if you have not judged before. The training session will be a teleconference at 12pm on1/22.
SPECIAL AWARDS EVALUATOR: talk with teach team’s members to determine which team best meets the criteria of your organization’s special award.
Time commitment – Saturday, January 26, 8:00AM – 12:00PM.
GENERAL VOLUNTEER: help run the competition by volunteering to help with registration, act as a team escort, take photos, update our website, etc.
Time commitment – Saturday, January 26, 8:00AM – 1:00PM. A few volunteers are needed starting at7:00AM and a few more to help during the afternoon.
Now Hiring: This Week’s Job Postings
2014 and new hirings are in full swing!
1) Manager of Corporate and Community Relations – Transportation Management Association of Chester County – Malvern, PA
2) Assistant/Associate Professor – Urban Design and Infrastructure Planning – College of Architecture and Design at New Jersey Institute of Technology – Newark, NJ
3) Block Programs Coordinator – New Kensington CDC – Philadelphia
4) Resident Services Coordinator – New Kensington CDC – Philadelphia
5) Real Estate Development Associate – New Kensington CDC – Philadelphia
6) Director of Communications – AIA Philadelphia – Philadelphia
7) Roots to Re-Entry Project Coordinator – Pennsylvania Horticultural Society – Philadelphia
8) Urban Designer – Lehigh Valley Planning Commission – Allentown, PA
9) Director of Community Planning – Lehigh Valley Planning Commission – Allentown, PA
10) Director of Planning & Zoning – Ferguson Township – State College, PA
11) Urban Design Intern – Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission – Philadelphia
Full descriptions after the jump!
Now Hiring: This Week’s Job Postings
A mess of job postings right before the new year. Go get ’em!
1) Program Manager – Philadelphia Housing Authority – Philadelphia
2) Superstorm Sandy Planning and Policy Analyst – Fair Share Housing Center, Inc. – Cherry Hill, NJ
3) Environmental Transmission Line Permitting Project Manager – CH2M HILL – Philadelphia
4) Senior Director, Development – PREIT – Philadelphia
5) Investigative Team – Office of the Inspector General – Philadelphia
6) Deputy Director of National Service Programs – Mayor’s Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteer Service (MOCEVS) – Philadelphia
7) Transportation Planning Intern – Office of Transit, Bicycle, and Pedestrian Planning – Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission – Philadelphia
8) Senior Planner for Natural Resources – Brandywine Conservancy – Chadds Ford, PA NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
9) Senior Transportation Planner / Utility Planner – SEDA-Council of Governments – Lewisburg, PA
10) County Planning Specialist – Cumberland County Planning – Carlisle, PA
11) Resiliency Managers – The College of New Jersey – Ewing, NJ
12) Planning Director – Borough of State College – State College, PA
13) Natural Lands Intern – Winterthur Museum & Gardens – Winterthur, Del.
14) Park Manager – Central Philadelphia Development Corporation – Philadelphia
Full descriptions after the jump!
Friday Funny: They’ve Gotta Point
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Dec. 11: Geospatial Technology and Open Source event
Geospatial Technology and Open Source event
Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 10:30 AM – 5:00 PM
DVPRC, 190 N Independence Mall West, 8th FL, Philadelphia, PA 19106
The 89th meeting of the DVRPC Information Resources Exchange Group (IREG) will be a special full-day event focused on Open Source and Geospatial Technologies.
We are having presentations by those who are actively developing and providing amazing applications, tools, and data. From Web Maps to data APIs, from data visualization to GitHub, and even the cloud! We are hoping that people will walk away with a better understanding, skill, or interest in these areas. There will also be a CartoDB workshop from 4-5 following the presentation. So please come join us and be ready to learn!
This FREE event will run from 10:30 am to 5 pm and include lunch. Seating is limited to 75. Please register at: http://dvrpc.ticketleap.com/
DVRPC’s Public Participation Task Force Meeting: Vacant Land, Land Banks, and Urban Gardens
Wednesday, December 4 at 6:00 P.M.
6:15 P.M. A Philadelphia Land Bank: An Approach to Addressing Vacant Property … Jill Feldstein, Organizing and Advocacy Coordinator, Women’s Community Revitalization Project
A land bank is a public authority created to efficiently handle acquisition, maintenance, and sale of vacant properties. Land banks are a best practice that more than 75 governments have adopted, including Cleveland, Louisville, and Atlanta. The creation of a land bank authority is currently being discussed in Philadelphia; on October 28, the Public Property and Public Works Committee of Philadelphia City Council held a hearing on the Philadelphia Land Bank legislation. The Committee voted to give the bill a favorable recommendation meaning that it can now move to the full Council. Ms. Feldstein, one of the authors of the Philadelphia land bank legislation, will discuss issues surrounding land banks and next steps for Philadelphia.
6:45 P.M. The Urban Garden Initiative… Aissia Richardson, Vice President of Operations, Uptown Entertainment & Development Corp
The Urban Garden Initiative transformed a vacant lot with rampant dumping, prostitution, and drug dealing to a meeting space for Philadelphia’s Broad Street community. Ms. Richardson will present the history, challenges, and issues surrounding the revitalization of this formerly vacant lot on North Broad Street.
Future City Philadelphia Still Looking for Mentors
The school year is off to a great start. To date 42 schools have signed up and have started designing their cities of the future. Hopefully there will be a few more schools that sign up before the October 31 deadline. After the jump is the current list of schools that need mentors:
Delco Celebrates Bike to Work Day
It was a picture-perfect, cool and sunny spring morning when dozens of cyclists left their cars at home and rode their bikes to work in Media instead in celebration of Bike to Work Day.
On Friday, May 17, the Delaware County Transportation Management Association (DCTMA) and the Delaware County Planning Department partnered up for Bike to Work Day, drawing County employees and other bicyclists from as far away as Upper Darby. Cyclists enjoyed refreshments during the morning celebration held outside the County Courthouse. Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union was the main sponsor with Wawa, Trader Joe’s, and Main Line Water providing water, orange juice, and fresh fruit. Participants also entered into a special raffle for prizes donated by local businesses.
