As part of the 2014 Spring Planning Forums – Making It Great Now, Andrew Howard, AICP of Team Better Block, a leading expert in placemaking and transportation, will be keynoting a day of sessions focused on revitalization and engaging communities in their future. Andrew and additional sessions throughout the day will address strategies and methods that can be rapidly deployed, quickly implemented and readily realized to advance local community engagement and revitalization objectives. The forum will focus on the how-to and hands-on of creative asset mobilization, organizational structure, community capacity building, institutional support and civic engagement. The local option is May 13, 2014 in Allentown. 5.25 CMs are pending approval for the event, including 1.5 ethics credits.
May 13: Andrew Howard of Team Better Block in Allentown
Job Listings Get a Makeover at APAPASE.org
We heard you.
Since we first launched apapase.org in 2010, the single most popular feature on the site has been our regular job postings. (Shocking, right?) You’ve made apapase.org the go-to place to find jobs in and around the Southeast Section. It’s a service that the American Planning Association, PA Chapter, Southeast Section provides for free as a benefit to our members.
Now, finding and applying for those jobs will be even easier.
March 24: APA-PA 2013 Conference Planning Meeting
The 2014 APA Pennsylvania chapter conference “Innovation from Historic Foundations” will be held at the Society Hill Sheraton October 12-14, 2014. This committee is working through topic specific subcommittees to help provide local support to APA Pennsylvania staff.
April 2: People, Planning, and Public Health: A Joint Conference of Planning and Health Professionals
Join the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) and the Health Promotion Council (HPC) at this symposium that will connect professionals from the fields of public health and planning to foster a better understanding among practitioners. Participants will learn about data sources, useful tools to better serve our communities, and successful collaborations. Participants will leave with new ideas and opportunities for partnerships.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
9:00am to 3:30pm
DVRPC’s Main Conference Room
8th Floor, ACP Building
190 N. Independence Mall West, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Create Planning Events in Philadelphia!
Do you want to help plan events in the LGBTQ planning events in the Philadelphia region? Sign up at http://bit.ly/GALIPPHL to get in on the ground floor of a group doing just that. The Gays and Lesbians in Planning (GALIP) Division is looking to partner more locally on events in our region. Through this group you will be able to shape the way this group forms and what sorts of events are planned.
DVRPC Unveils New Classic Towns Website
DVRPC’s Classic Towns of Greater Philadelphia program celebrated the first day of spring by unveiling a new website!
The new layout features photography of the Classic Towns and the intuitive navigation allows for an optimal visitor experience– making it easy to explore the towns, read the news, and find local events.
Come visit our new website! Maybe you’ll discover a new neighborhood to call home, a place to expand your business, or a new weekend destination in the Classic Towns of Greater Philadelphia.
April 9: GeoPhilly Film Night (Free!)
Roger Tomlinson
Wednesday April 9th 6:30-9:00. Film starts at 7:00 PM.
PhilaMoca 531 N 12th street, (just North of Spring Garden Street)
The GeoPhilly meetup would like to invite planners to GeoPhilly film night. This screening of short archival films related to mapping, cartography, and planning from as early as the 1940s. “Data for Decision” (1967), our feature for the evening, focuses on Roger Tomlinson (the “Father of GIS”) and the first ever use of digital analytical map making. Other films will feature WW2 era cartography, challenges of non-digital map projections and how to deter everything from boredom in suburbia to mob fights through proper planning. This event is part of Philly Tech Week. Drinks and snacks will be for sale.
April 10: Emerging Professionals Tour of Woodlands Cemetery
Join APAPASE’s Emerging Professionals for a guided tour of The Woodlands, Philadelphia’s historic cemetery, on Thursday, April 10th from 5:30-7pm. The event will start with a pre-tour drink in the historic neoclassical mansion and will be followed by a tour of the grounds. Woodland Cemetery is the final resting place for many prominent Philadelphians, including Paul Cret and Thomas Eakins.
The cost of the tour will be $10.
Register for the event at: apathewoodlandstour.eventbrite.com
March 26: Jenny Odell
- Manufacturing Landscape, Jenny Odell
The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program / muraLAB is hosting San Francisco-based artist Jenny Odell on March 26th at 6pm at Moore College of Art and Design, Stewart Auditorium, 1916 Race Street. Jenny will give a lecture about her work collaging digital images — harvested from Google Earth, streetview and other Internet sources — of urban infrastructure systems. She calls it “Looking at Cities” because she is both documenting the extent of the infrastructure that undergirds urban life, and also opening up questions about relationships city dwellers have to the resources that sustain them. Her broader work as an Internet collagist can be seen at www.jennyodell.com. Please register by emailing muralab@muralarts.org. Additional details are found on the attachment below.
March 20: Ken Smith, Larger Landscapes
Thursday, March 20, 6:00-7:30 PM
PHS, 100 N. 20th Street, Philadelphia, PA
Meet & greet reception at 6:00 pm
Lecture 6:30-7:30 pm
THE EUGENE AND MARIE-LOUISE JACKSON LECTURE SERIES
Lecturer Ken Smith is an internationally recognized, award-winning landscape architect, engaged in developing designs for large-scale projects. Recent projects include such innovative designs as the two-mile East River Waterfront Esplanade in New York City, the Croton Reservoir Water Treatment Plant in the Bronx, the 1,360-acre Orange County Great Park in Southern California, and the Museum of Modern Art Roof Garden in NYC. His lecture will focus on issues of concept and craft in the creation of public landscapes.
Fee: $10 PHS members, $15 non-members
Registration is required.
www.pennhort.net/phsprograms or 215.988.1698
Download the flier: 2014PHS_LectureSeries_KenSmith_eblast
