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March 11: Race and Smart Growth Series Presented by the Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance

February 19, 2021 / APAPA-SE / Comments Off

Prof. Akira Drake Rodriguez of the University of Pennsylvania will launch DVSGA’s Race and Smart Growth series on Thursday, March 11

When:

Thursday, March 11, 2021
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Where:

Virtual Meeting
Zoom Link will be sent to registrants in advance of event.

“As long as we’ve had city planning, we’ve had this type of defensive architecture that creates a city within the city. Whether it’s public housing, downtown areas, or privatized public spaces of consumption, we certainly have built cities in a way where some areas are racialized in a positive light and some areas are racialized in a negative light, and that’s certainly reflected in the built environment.”

Please register here by Wed, March 10

What:

The DVSGA plans to hold a three-part speaker series on Race and Smart Growth in the first half of 2021. This conversation is long overdue as our organization’s work on sustainable land use and transportation policies has never explicitly considered the role of race in regional growth patterns. From our region’s history of redlining to today’s exclusionary suburban zoning, race has been and continues to be a significant force in regional growth patterns.

The first speaker will be Prof. Akira Drake Rodriguez whose work examines the racial politics of urban planning and public education through an interdisciplinary quantitative and qualitative approach. Pre-order her book Diverging Spaces for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing, due for release in May 2021.

Akira Drake Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor in the City/Regional Planning Dept at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University.

Register:

Click here to register.

$10 registration fee

(Free for students)

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Feb 3: APA PA Presents – Webinar Wednesdays – 1 CM Pending Approval

February 2, 2021 / APAPA-SE / Comments Off

Planning and the New Dynamics of the Demographic of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Growth

February 3 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Planning and the New Dynamics of the Demographic of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Growth

The “Grandparents Raising Grandchildren” demographic is rapidly growing across Pennsylvania. Over 90,000 families have this situation. Millions of youngsters nationally are being raised this way. This panel will examine the role of the planner in working closely with this demographic and how the need exists to include this population in the development of the community. There are social, educational, health, legal and other consequences to take into account. This unique group requires special attention in a recreational and other planning elements as a growing part of school districts and other governmental components. A grandparent and legislative component are included in the panel. CM credit is pending approval.

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Jan 6. – Webinar Wednesdays: Hello, It’s Me… (1 CM Pending Approval)

January 4, 2021 / APAPA-SE / Comments Off

January 6 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Hello, It’s Me: Introducing PA-SHARE

PA-SHARE (Pennsylvania’s Historic & Archaeological Resource Exchange), the PA State Historic Preservation Office’s new, state-of-the-art GIS and online project management system, launched October 2020.

As the primary interface for all PA SHPO programs, PA-SHARE will enable users to submit and track projects in real-time, receive confirmation of submissions and expedited communication, and access more than one million pages of information about historic properties and archaeological sites.

Join PA SHPO for a real-time demonstration of PA-SHARE’s capabilities and benefits for planners and to learn about access and training opportunities. Learn about searches, submittals, and how PA-SHARE can help us, help you! 1 CM credit (pending approval)

Speaker: Elizabeth Rairigh

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.

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Dec. 9: A Conversation with Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law

November 13, 2020 / APAPA-SE / Comments Off

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 @ 9:00 AM EST

Free to Register

As part of its annual Board Retreat, DVRPC is pleased to host a public presentation with Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.

Richard Rothstein argues with precision and insight how segregation in America—the incessant kind that continues today—is the byproduct of explicit government policies over time at the local, state, and federal level. We are hobbled by the notion that our segregation is “de facto,” arising from private discrimination, personal choices, and the unintended consequences of economic forces, rather than by explicit government actions. Mr. Rothstein argues that once we understand that our racial landscape has been created and maintained by governmental law and policy, only then can we design remedies.

Join us to learn more from The Color of Law, and hear from Mr. Rothstein about the history of racial segregation in the United States and Greater Philadelphia.

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Dec. 2: CM Webinar – Micromobility Challenges: Sometimes You Feel Like a Scooter and Sometimes You Don’t

November 13, 2020 / APAPA-SE / Comments Off

Need CM Credits? Check out the first APA Pennsylvania Chapter Wednesday Webinar Session: “Micromobility Challenges: Sometimes You Feel Like a Scooter and Sometimes You Don’t”

The Pennsylvania Chapter will be kicking off a webinar series as a way for Chapter members to earn additional CM credits and have access to programming on a variety of topic areas.

The first “Webinar Wednesday” event will take place on December 2, 2020 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. titled “Micromobility Challenges: Sometimes You Feel Like a Scooter and Sometimes You Don’t;” presented by Roy Gothie, Statewide Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator with PennDOT. Participants will evolve their understanding of current micromobility classifications, how that is applied to Pennsylvania’s existing vehicle code and the implications of these vehicles for equity, health, and safety.

CM Credits will be available, and the webinar is free for Chapter Members and $20.00 for non-members.

To register visit: https://planningpa.org/event/webinar-wednesdays-micromobility-challenges/

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Oct. 12: In Search of Our Mother’s Urbanism: A Womanist Call for Spatial Reparations

October 2, 2020 / APAPA-SE / Comments Off

Monday, October 12, 2020 6:30pm

for Spatial Reparations” on Monday, October 12th at 6:30pm. Please register with the link above.

Dr. Destiny Thomas is a change agent. She is the founder and CEO of Thrivance Group, a multi-regional, socially responsible, for-profit firm that works to make public spaces and public services more safe, more healthy and more accessible, especially for Black, Indigneous, and transgender people, and those with disabilities.

An anthropologist planner hailing from Oakland, CA, Dr. Thomas has a combined 15 years of experience in nonprofit management and project management within government agencies, including the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the City of Los Angeles. In addition, Dr. Thomas has led advancements in statewide racial equity initiatives for over a decade. Her focus has been urban planning, policy writing, and organizational development in communities most impacted by racial inequities.

For more information or to register visit UPenn’s event page.

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Starting Sept. 29 – Creative Placemaking Leadership Webinars – AICP CM Credits Available

September 12, 2020 / APAPA-SE / Comments Off

Interactive, engaging webinars to introduce creative placemaking foundational concepts.

About this Event

Creative Placemaking is the next big idea in leading communities through healing and recovery. Get the foundation now to forge resilience.

Creative placemaking is sustained collaboration among people of diverse professional and personal backgrounds who enhance the places they live, work, and play through art and creative process.

The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking is a pioneer in this field and is now offering interactive, engaging webinars to introduce foundational concepts. NCCP webinars help community leaders engage their own creativity to drive healing, recovery and resilience. Check out our 2020-2021 lineup of affordable, monthly webinars.

Every webinar is from 2 pm to 3 pm EASTERN, unless otherwise stated.

After the webinar, please join us for a half hour of small group conversations online. There, you can talk about the topic with other participants and grow your connections.

All webinars have been approved for AICP certification maintenance credits.

All webinars are recorded for registrants in case you cannot attend in real time.

Please note that the $20/webinar fee supports the work of The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking, a 501 c (3) nonprofit organization that offers expertise and peer learning to leaders who seek creative placemaking knowledge and skills to foster more just, equitable, and livable communities through art and creative process.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Erica Henderson-Smith at erica@cpcommunities.org.

Special: Webinar Bundle – All 12 Webinars for the price of 10, a 20% discount!

If you prefer a PDF of the events, please follow this LINK

September 29: Culturally Competent Placemaking: Part 1 – Human Needs Placemaking

Supports: Healing, Recovery and Resilience

Presenter: Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, Founding Director, The National Consortium for Creative PlacemakingWhat makes people happy? They want their needs met. In this webinar, we’ll explore what psychologists say are six universal human needs, and how creative placemakers can address them in their work. Understanding core human needs will help you understand not just what people say, but what they mean.

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October 21: Culturally Competent Placemaking: Part 2 – Community Engagement and Triple Loop Learning

Supports: Healing

Presenter: Patricia Wilson, Professor, University of Texas Austin and author of The Heart of Community Engagement: Practitioner Stories from Across the Globe

Artful place-making requires skillful community engagement. Far more thanfacilitating question/answer sessions with stakeholders or the public, the practitionermust build a partnership of trust and mutual learning. Triple Loop Learning opens thepractitioner’s awareness to this subjective side of community engagement. It develops the reflective skills to see what is really going on, what is needed in the moment, and how your own expertise may be creating obstacles to change. Dr. Patricia Wilson, author of The Heart of Community Engagement: Practitioner Stories from Across the Globe, shares the harvest from her stories of community engagement in the most challenging of situations. Come explore the art and craft of fostering meaningful dialogue, learning, and action.

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November 17: Building more resilient communities through creative placemaking

Supports: Resilience

Presenter: Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, Founding Director, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking

Resilient communities don’t just come back from difficult challenges; they grow better. Many communities in the United States face a combination of social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges: flooding, storms, disease, poverty, oppression and more. Resilience is more than creative physical improvements to withstand storms; it also connects to a community’s ability to revitalize quickly after disaster. Arts and culture can play a big role in helping communities recover. We will explore examples from Louisiana, New Jersey and Missouri, and discuss how to connect creative placemaking with resiliency in community dialogues.

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December 1: Artful Urban Design Part 1: Growing your cultural ecosystem

Supports: Recovery and Resilience

Presenter: Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, Founding Director, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking

You want more arts and cultural activities in your community? (Of course you do, otherwise, why would you be reading this?) This webinar will help you identify and design outdoor spaces that encourage artists and cultural professionals to become more productive, sell or exhibit their work; and provide more opportunities for other community members to enjoy art and cultural activities.

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January 12: Artful Urban Design Part 2: Public art for better mental and physical health

Supports: Healing, Recovery and Resilience

Presenter: Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, Founding Director, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking

Art in public places can help people move around, slow down, feel safer and more valued, and more. We’ll explore how to encourage and place outdoor art to achieve these purposes.

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February 16: Financing Creative Placemaking

Supports: Recovery and Resilience

Presenter: Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, Founding Director, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking

There’s a lot of money available for creative placemaking. Unfortunately, it’s in a lotof different places, and can be hard to get. This webinar, designed for people who are new to fundraising, or seasoned fundraisers who are new to creative placemaking, explores different types of funding available for your types of projects and programs. You will get tips to develop your fundraising strategy.

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March 30: Economic development basics for artists, designers and makers

Supports: Recovery

Presenter: Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, Founding Director, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking

Good information will help you convince and persuade public officials, developers, grant makers. It will also help you evaluate whether things are working as expected. There’s a lot of data for economic analysis. This session will help you focus on the right sources to get the best answers.

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April 20: Artists as social change agents

Supports: Healing, Recovery and Resilience

Presenters: Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, Founding Director, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking with additional presenters to be announced

The arts can help make communities better for everyone. But how? This conversation explores how the arts can change what people know and believe, and how they engage in their communities, which are fundamental to how communities change. You will explore typical community cultural dynamics, and why it is so difficult to address obstacles such as the tyranny of custom and the comfort of powerlessness.

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May 11: Working with artists on creative placemaking

Supports: Resilience

Presenters: Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, Founding Director, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking with additional presenters to be announced

For professionals in government, community development, or economic development, working with artists on creative placemaking can be fun, frustrating, comforting, nerve-wracking, eye-opening, or eye-rolling — all at the same time. We’ll explore how to understand and respect different ways of problem solving and how to have more productive relationships.

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June 15: Ethics and competencies in creative placemaking

Supports: Resilience

Instructor: Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, Founding Director, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking

Between 2018 and 2019, participants in Creative Placemaking Leadership Summits were asked three key questions: What should creative placemakers believe? What should creative placemakers know? and What should people involved in creative placemaking do? From the hundreds of responses, we identified a shared sense of ethics and desired competencies for creative placemaking. This webinar is designed for anyone who teaches creative placemaking or leads organizations that work in this area.

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July 13: History of Creative Placemaking in the United States Part 1

July 27: History of Creative Placemaking in the United States Part 2

Presenter: Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, Founding Director, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking

The term creative placemaking was coined only a decade ago, but it has been happening in various forms in the US since at least the late 19th century. This webinar will explore the earliest work in creative placemaking in America. Participants will learn about the pioneering work of Charles Mulford Robinson, Edgar Lee Hewett and others, and discover how placemaking through arts and culture has evolved over more than a century.

Presenter biographies:

Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, is the Founding Director of The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking and Director of Creative Placemaking for New England College. He has worked on social justice issues for more than 30 years as a journalist, urban planners, educator, and creative placemaker. He designed Creative Placemaking Leadership Summits, the Certificate in Creative Placemaking, Community Coaching and many other programs offered by NCCP. He is the author of Leading from the Middle: Strategic Thinking for Urban Planning and Community Development Professionals and is co-editor of Diálogos: Placemaking in Latino Communities. He is a co-founder of the Latinos and Planning division of the American Planning Association, chairs the Sustainable Jersey Arts and Creative Culture Task Force, and sits on the Maplewood (NJ) Arts Council. He is the 2012 recipient of the American Planning Association’s National Leadership Award for Advancing Diversity and Social Justice in honor of Paul Davidoff.

Patricia A. Wilson, Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of Texas, Austin, teaches civic engagement, participatory action research, and international community development. Her field research in community-based change processes over three decades includes Latin America, South Africa, India, and the United States. A past president of Sociedad Interamericana de Planificación, she holds a B.A. from Stanford and a Ph.D. from Cornell. About her most recent book, The Heart of Community Engagement: Practitioner Stories from Across the Globe (Routledge, 2019), the Journal of Planning Education and Research writes “Easy to read and inspiring, Wilson is a good storyteller with good stories to tell….A great book for students and scholars of community development or placemaking who want to do more than mere facilitation or ‘community outreach.’

Who are they for?

Creative placemaking by definition involves people from a variety of backgrounds. We therefore welcome community leaders from a wide range of professions andperspectives, including the following:

Architecture, Arts, Arts Administration, Business, Chambers of Commerce, Community Development, Community volunteers/activists/Design professionals, Developers, Economic developers, Education/teachers/students,Food systems/food banks, Healthcare and Wellness, Industry, Justice Systems, Library science, Main Street professionals, Makers, Museum professionals, Nonprofit professionals, Public officials, Policy wonks, Urban Planners.

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APA CM Webinar and Live Discussion: How Planners Can Collaborate With Public Health During a Pandemic

June 26, 2020 / APAPA-SE / Comments Off

Attend the live discussion on Thursday, June 25, 2020 from 1-2:30 p.m. Eastern –Register Here

APA is presenting, for the first time, a panel discussion among AICP planners working within public health departments to highlight how planners can be agile and help with pandemic/emergency response and recovery work. This interactive virtual course includes breakout rooms with moderated peer-to-peer interactions to develop solutions for rebuilding and designing more equitable communities.

Learn how the local public health department operates, including the structure, responsibilities, and the type of projects/programs they undertake.
Identify areas for collaboration between planners and public health departments during emergency situations.
Demonstrate the value of planning and the importance of including planners in pandemic response and recovery phases.

In these challenging times, public health agencies are experiencing work fatigue due to the additional workload. In such times (and beyond), planners should be considered as an extension of the public health workforce to help relieve some of the pressures of the local public health departments. Planners can collaborate in many ways, such as data tracking and monitoring, map creation, identifying clusters of new outbreaks, contact tracing, addressing health inequities, and providing other creative solutions for the new normal.

Register to learn how you can become a part of the solution by collaborating with public health.

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June 18 – MUSE-ings: Planning While Black in a Pandemic

June 18, 2020 / APAPA-SE / Comments Off

“MUSE-ings: Planning While Black in a Pandemic” is a free virtual panel discussion with Black planners from four cities (Philly, Chicago, LA, Detroit) taking stock of this moment personally and professionally. Nina Idemudia, AICP, is bringing together these voices and the panel is comprised of three planners who will share their expertise, insights and experiences: Kristen Gordon, Economic Development Deputy for Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson in Los Angeles; Khalilah Burt Gaston, Founder & President at Guidepath Strategies in Detroit; and Dr. Matthew Miller, Provost Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in Philadelphia. This conversation is part of a series by MUSE called Candid Covid Convos as a space for honest conversations about how planning & related fields can respond to today’s crises.

The program is free and takes place on Thursday, Jun 18, 2020, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM CDT. In lieu of a ticket cost, the registration link allows for donations for Black architecture & planning organizations which are in high stakes circumstances right now – from CDFIs to community organizing CBOs/RCOs and more – because of the COVID-driven recession. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/museings-planning-while-black-in-a-crisis-tickets-109656728226

Matthew Jordan Miller is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design Department of City and Regional Planning. His intellectual interests are economic development, placemaking and place-keeping, and visual/spatial analysis, particularly on and for Black/African diasporic communities. He is a photographer, storyteller, and geographer who approaches these topics using mixed methods for producing insights that he weaves into his essays, presentations, teachings, and research. Dr. Miller has worked through fellowships and consultancies at governmental agencies such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the City of Stockton, the City of Los Angeles’ Economic and Workforce Development Department, and most recently the National Endowment for the Arts as a Panelist. He is working on his first book, based on his doctoral dissertation, exploring and theorizing around the geography of Black commerce, culture, and creativity in the United States. His intellectual work has been honored by the National Academy of the Sciences and the Association for Collegiate Schools in Planning. His civic work has been recognized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the California State Legislature. His artistic and cultural work has been featured in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Philadelphia Tribune.

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