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April 2: APA PA – Webinar Wednesday: Blowing up Your Boards and Other Bold Ideas…

March 21, 2025 / / Comments Off on April 2: APA PA – Webinar Wednesday: Blowing up Your Boards and Other Bold Ideas…

April 2 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm

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Blowing up Your Boards and Other Bold Ideas to Bring Your Comp Plan to Life

How do you guarantee that your community’s new comprehensive plan will see fruition? Operationalize its implementation. The presenters will explore fresh ideas for delivering on vision, highlighting an innovative accomplishment by the Municipality of Mt. Lebanon to completely restructure the community’s appointed advisory boards to align with the key issues at the center of Ascend Lebo, the recently adopted comprehensive plan. Discussion will also focus on inclusive engagement strategies to discern shared values and build momentum for progress, as well as integrating the plan into the Capital Improvement Program.

This session is designed to provide education to professional planners, municipal officials, students and others on the creative application of the implementable comprehensive plan model, which helps communities co-create processes for progress. A key theme is critical thinking about how to embed long-range planning firmly rooted in equitable engagement into municipal operations: How can advisory boards strengthen implementation efforts? How can the Capital Improvement Program be anchored in plan implementation? We propose the Mt. Lebanon case study within the broader context of communities doing this work and will engage the audience in interactive discussion.

Educational objectives:

  • Understand application of the Implementable Comprehensive Plan model as a best practice
  • Broaden critical thinking about integrating planning into day-to-day municipal operations
  • Gain insight (and inspiration!) on the strategic use of appointed advisory boards to build capacity for plan implementation

CM credit is pending approval. You must attend the webinar live in order to earn CM credit.

Speakers:
Ian McMeans
Jenni Easton

**The Pennsylvania Chapter is not responsible for the materials or opinions of the speaker(s) you will hear**

Deadline to register is April 1

If you’re interested in sponsoring a Webinar Wednesday session or have a session for Webinar Wednesday please contact us. Send your request to admin@planningpa.org.

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March 26 – 2025 Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards

March 21, 2025 / / Comments Off on March 26 – 2025 Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards

APA members receive discounted registration. At checkout select the APA member option.

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Center for DesignPhiladelphia, 1218 Arch Street, Philadelphia
Wednesday 26 Mar 2025
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Join us in honoring Vishaan Chakrabarti and the student winners of DesignPhiladelphia’s 2025 Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards. Vishaan Chakrabarti is an architect, author, and public thought leader. He is the founder of PAU | Practice for Architecture and Urbanism, a Manhattan-based architecture firm dedicated to building ecological, equitable and joyous communities. As a licensed practitioner across several states, Chakrabarti leads the studio’s cultural, institutional, commercial, and infrastructure work including Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery, Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Princeton’s Hobson College, Philadelphia’s Schuylkill Yards, and New York’s Pennsylvania Station. His past positions include working as a principal in other global architecture firms, teaching at Columbia University, and serving as the William Wurster Dean at UC Berkeley’s college of architecture. As Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s director of planning for Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11, Chakrabarti helped to reimagine the High Line, rebuild the World Trade Center, extend the #7 subway line, and revitalize the waterfront.

In addition to his role at PAU and serving on numerous non-profit boards, Chakrabarti currently teaches at Cornell University as the Thomas J. Baird Visiting Critic in Architecture, and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, Vital City, and other publications. He is the author of two books: A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America (Metropolis Books, 2013), and most recently, The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy (Princeton University Press, September 2024) in which he argues that designing connected physical communities that bridge our differences—as opposed to disconnected technologies that exacerbate them—is essential to addressing our greatest societal challenges from climate change to political division to our growing public health crises.

The 2025 competition asks students to focus on the area affectionately known as “The Disney Hole,” located at the southwest corner of 8th and Market in Center City, Philadelphia. The surface parking lot at the southwest corner of 8th and Market in Center City, Philadelphia, symbolizes missed opportunities. From the 1890s to the 1980s, it was home to the grand Gimbel’s Department Store. After Gimbel’s closed, changing trends led to the building’s demolition. In the late 1980s, the space was intended for DisneyQuest, an entertainment complex that never materialized, leaving behind a large excavation hole. This area, known as “The Disney Hole,” is now a parking lot. Through the Disney Hole Student Design Competition, students are invited to reimagine and revitalize this neglected space.

The ceremony will be followed by a coffee + dessert reception for all in attendance.

With the purchase of a VIP ticket, we invite you to join the award winner and us before the ceremony at 5:30 PM for our VIP Reception which features hors d’oeuvres, wine, beer, and music. In attendance will be Vishaan Chakrabarti, local dignitaries, and our built-environment-focused sponsors, without whom this program would not be possible.

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March 20: New World Utopias: Planned Cities in Colonial America

March 5, 2025 / / Comments Off on March 20: New World Utopias: Planned Cities in Colonial America

APAPASE members attend free! Get tickets here.

Thursday, March 20 · 5:30 – 7pm EDT
Carpenters’ Hall
320 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19106

Join us on March 20th for New World Utopias: Planned Cities in Colonial America, a public program with author and architectural historian Dr. Robin Williams of the Savannah College of Art and Design. Thomas Holme’s 1683 plan for Philadelphia laid the foundation for our city’s growth for centuries, and Savannah’s claim to be the first planned city in the British colonies is a bedrock of their tourism marketing (spoiler alert: it wasn’t!). Dr. Williams’s engaging presentation on the history of planned cities, inclusive of Savannah and Philadelphia, and Q&A will expand your understanding of this fascinating topic.

Robin B. Williams chairs the Architectural History department at the Savannah College of Art and Design. A native of Toronto, Canada, he earned his B.A. in Art History at the University of Toronto before pursuing his Master’s and Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on architectural history. His doctoral dissertation examined the transformation of Rome into the capital of modern Italy during the late nineteenth century. Since joining SCAD in 1993, Williams has made Savannah the focus of his research supported by state and national research grants. He was the lead author of the architectural guidebook Buildings of Savannah (2016) and he is co-author of a forthcoming book, Learning from Savannah, being published by the University of Georgia Press, that analyzes the evolution of Savannah’s famous urban plan and its influence on the city’s architecture and what lessons the city holds for other places. Separately, Williams has an on-going study of the evolution of street and sidewalk pavement in cities across North America, which he has addressed in articles, academic and public talks, including a TEDx talk in May 2017, and through his website, “historicpavement.com”. Williams actively participates in the civic arena, having served on local, state and national boards.

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APA PA – Webinar Wedneday – March 5: Take a Ride on the Reading – Passenger Rail and TOD Planning in Reading, PA

February 19, 2025 / / Comments Off on APA PA – Webinar Wedneday – March 5: Take a Ride on the Reading – Passenger Rail and TOD Planning in Reading, PA

March 5 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Take a Ride on the Reading – Passenger Rail and TOD Planning in Reading, PA

The recently standardized planning process created by the USDOT Federal Railroad Administration in their Corridor Identification and Development Program (CIDP) and the efforts to-date and planned by the Schuylkill River Passenger Rail Authority to restore passenger rail service between Reading and Philadelphia within the CIDP process.

The current program to develop a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) zoning overlay in the City of Reading to leverage the planned restoration to passenger rail service between Reading, Pottstown, Phoenixville and Philadelphia.

CM credit is pending approval. You must attend the webinar live in order to earn CM credit.

Speakers:
David Hunter
Thomas Frawley

**The Pennsylvania Chapter is not responsible for the materials or opinions of the speaker(s) you will hear**

Deadline to register is March 4

If you’re interested in sponsoring a Webinar Wednesday session or have a session for Webinar Wednesday please contact us. Send your request to info@planningpa.org.

Please note: You will receive a reminder email a few days before the webinar with zoom information (please check your spam/junk folders). This email will be sent to the email address you used to register for the event.

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Feb. 20: Registration Open for Student-Mentor Mixer

January 29, 2025 / / Comments Off on Feb. 20: Registration Open for Student-Mentor Mixer
APAPA-SE is excited to host our annual Student-Mentor Mixer Event on Thursday, February 20th, 2025 from 6:00-8:00 PM at the Plaza Gallery of Meyerson Hall at the University of Pennsylvania!
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Please join us for an evening of networking and mentoring with pizza/sandwiches and an open bar provided. This is a great opportunity for students to engage with a diverse group of seasoned planning professionals and learn about potential career and internship opportunities.
We would like to thank our student and faculty volunteers from the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and West Chester University for their assistance in planning and sponsoring this event.
Note: You do not need to be a member of APAPA-SE to attend!
Please contact the Events Committee Co-Chairs if you have any questions: Danielle A. Baer, AICP at dabaer@urbanengineers.com or Lorianne DeFalco, AICP at ldefalco@akrf.com
Go to the West Chester University Home Page
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Feb. 5 – Webinar Wednesday: Climate Change Adaptation Planning in the Great Lakes (CM Pending)

January 16, 2025 / / Comments Off on Feb. 5 – Webinar Wednesday: Climate Change Adaptation Planning in the Great Lakes (CM Pending)

Webinar Wednesday: Climate Change Adaptation Planning

February 5 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Climate Change Adaptation Planning in the Great Lakes

The International Joint Commission (IJC) Water Quality Board (WQB) initiated the Climate Change Adaptation in the Great Lakes project to develop a robust community of practice and provide access to dynamic planning tools designed for local and regional governments to support climate resilience in Great Lakes communities. This project highlights issues primarily through the lens of small to medium-sized communities. There are many municipalities in the region that could benefit from an effort to share tools, networks, and guidance. These communities are faced with a complex situation to analyze, with limited resources for technical assistance, and could use help evaluating factors relating to key decisions about infrastructure investments to counteract and lessen climate change impacts. Accordingly, the WQB believes that this project could provide a great service in addressing and improving these circumstances.

The primary output from this project will consist of climate change adaptation guidance for small to medium-sized communities in the Great Lakes.  The guidance includes an overview of the purpose of the guide and toolkit; tips on how to get the most out of the resource; general steps to prepare for climate resilience; tools and case studies showing how other Great Lakes communities are preparing for resilience; guidance on and links to appropriate technical support and resources; educational resources that communities can use to help garner community and political support; and information on available funding for resilience and adaptation planning.

Potomac-Hudson Engineering, Inc. has been retained as the contractor to support this effort, with Michael Baker International and LimnoTech as teaming partners.

CM credit sustainability/resilience is pending approval. You must attend the webinar live in order to earn CM credit.

Speakers:
Dawn Schilling

**The Pennsylvania Chapter is not responsible for the materials or opinions of the speaker(s) you will hear**

Deadline to register is February 4

If you’re interested in sponsoring a Webinar Wednesday session or have a session for Webinar Wednesday please contact us. Send your request to info@planningpa.org.

Please note: You will receive a reminder email a few days before the webinar with zoom information (please check your spam/junk folders). This email will be sent to the email address you used to register for the event.

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Feb. 20: Student-Mentor Mixer!

January 13, 2025 / / Comments Off on Feb. 20: Student-Mentor Mixer!
Please save the date for APA PA Southeast Section’s annual Student-Mentor Mixer Event happening on Thursday, February 20th, 2025, from 6:00-8:00 PM at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design! The event will take place at Plaza Gallery, Meyerson Hall, located at 210 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, a few blocks south of the MFL 34th Street Station between Walnut and Spruce Streets. You do not need to be a member of APA PA SE to attend!
The evening will include opportunities for networking and mentoring with refreshments provided. We are seeking planning professionals to act as “Mentors” and share their planning experience and expertise with future planners. Mentors are also encouraged to share information or materials related to potential job/internship opportunities.
We would like to thank our student and faculty volunteers from the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and West Chester University for their assistance in planning this valuable event.
Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more information and how to register/purchase tickets, or contact the Events Committee Co-Chairs Danielle Baer, AICP at dabaer@urbanengineers.com or Lorianne DeFalco, AICP, at ldefalco@Akrf.com.
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Volunteer for Future City Philadelphia Competition!

December 12, 2024 / / Comments Off on Volunteer for Future City Philadelphia Competition!

Attention Planners!  The Future City Philadelphia competition is underway.  Who better to volunteer than professional city planners?  This is a great opportunity to introduce middle school students to city planning principles and careers in the industry.

The theme of this year’s competition is Above the Current. The students’ challenge is to design a floating city and provide two innovative examples of how their floating city works and keeps its citizens healthy and safe.

You can volunteer several ways – as a mentor, an essay judge, a presentation judge, a special awards evaluator, a photographer, or general support during the competition.

Student teams are working on their models and essays right now, and the competition is set for January 18 at Archbishop Carroll High School in Radnor.  It’s not too late!  Sign up to volunteer at www.futurecityphilly.org/fcvolops.html.  If you have questions, contact Matthew Edmond, APAPASE Secretary, at Matthew.Edmond@montgomerycountypa.gov.

 

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Dec. 11: DVRPC Presents – Adapting to Changes in the Retail Banking Industry (1.25 CM)

November 19, 2024 / / Comments Off on Dec. 11: DVRPC Presents – Adapting to Changes in the Retail Banking Industry (1.25 CM)
Dec 11, 2024 02:00 PM
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Brick-and-mortar bank branches are closing at high rates across the country, due to changing consumer habits, and a national shift in the retail banking industry known as the “Great Consolidation.” As detailed in DVRPC’s recent report, The Great Consolidation: Community Banking Decline in Greater Philadelphia, between 2012 and 2022, 405 branches closed in our region alone. This equated to a loss of 22.4 percent of the region’s bank branches.
This trend has implications for everything from household finances and small business growth, to the future of the workforce.
Join DVRPC and a panel of experts on December 11 as we discuss the Great Consolidation, and how to anticipate and adapt to impacts of the changing retail banking industry.
The panelists are:
  • Alaina Barca, Community Development Research Analyst, The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia will discuss her work on defining and mapping the region’s banking deserts.
  • Varsovia Fernandez, Chief Executive Officer, PA CDFI Network will share her expertise on the roles that Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) play in helping unbanked and underbanked populations access important financial services.
  • Karen Sweeney, Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer, TruMark Financial Credit Union will explain what types of skills will be needed in the banking workforce of the future, and the steps that TruMark Financial Credit Union is taking now to plan for that future.
Category: CM Credits, General, Upcoming Events /

Registration Closed for Annual Event – Movie Night December 5th!

November 5, 2024 / / Comments Off on Registration Closed for Annual Event – Movie Night December 5th!
Date: December 5th from 6-8pm
Location: Temple University Room 103 in the Architecture Building – entrance on N. 13th Street between W. Norris and Diamond Streets

Registration is now closed for our Annual Event on November 7th as we have reached our maximum number of attendees. We appreciate everyone’s support in making this a great turnout!

We hope to see you at our Ed Bacon movie night on December 5th from 6-8pm! It will be held at Temple University Room 103 in the Architecture Building (entrance on N. 13th Street between W. Norris and Diamond Streets). Soda and popcorn will be provided. Stay tuned for more details!

  • The American Urban Experience – 1970s discussion of American cities issues, challenges, and design.
  • Design of Rome – focuses on the design of Rome including its nodes and axes. Bacon walks along the axes from the major churches and plazas in the city and shows how the city is designed.

Please contact the Events Committee Co-Chairs if you have any questions: Danielle A. Baer, AICP at dabaer@urbanengineers.com or Lorianne DeFalco, AICP at ldefalco@akrf.com

 

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