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.
Feb. 7: Open Access Philly talks at SEPTA
Open Access Philly is a network of passionate, engaged and active Philadelphia citizens, who value civic participation and innovation, free information flow, digital inclusion, and info tech growth. Every month they get together for a series of short talks followed by networking and drinks. The next Convening will take place on Feb. 7th at 4PM at SEPTA, 1234 Market Street. Rumor has it there will be a tour of the SEPTA Control Room afterwards. Register here.
Speakers
Michael Zaleski, Director of Emerging & Special Technology, SEPTA (Host)
Michelle Feldman, Director of Keep Philadelphia Beautiful
Maari Porter, Chief Grants Officer, City of Philadelphia
Moira Baylson, Chief Operating Officer, Next City
Jay Chakrapani, President, CK-12 Foundation (just added)
APAPA-SE Needs Your Event Suggestions
The APAPA-SE Events Committee developed a survey to evaluate your event preferences. The survey aims to collect information on how you prefer to learn about events, topics of interest, ideal location, and your availability. The results from this survey will inform how events will be planned in the future. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey: http://bit.ly/
Feb. 12: Transportation Trivia!
Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT) is hosting a Transportation Trivia night at Field House in Center City on Wednesday, February 12 from 5-8pm. The event will feature a cash bar with drink specials. Register here.
YPT provides professional development, fellowship, and networking opportunities for young professionals in the transportation field across the country and around the world. In Philadelphia, we seek to build relationships across transportation industries, our allied professions, and the region’s transportation students.
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!
Feb. 1: PlanningCamp!
PlanningCamp is an unconference about technology and the future of urban planning.
Join us on February 1st if you’re working at the intersection of technology and the hard effort of making better cities — on the technology side, or the planning side, or a bit of both.
Spend a day in sessions led by your peers, exploring new and old challenges. Whether you’re thinking about the role technology in public involvement, increasing equity, modeling, analysis, community organizing, at local to regional scales, PlanningCamp will be an opportunity to go deep into conversations and form new connections.
January 27: Annual Conference Planning Committee Meeting
The 2014 Pennsylvania Chapter of the APA conference, Innovation from Historic Foundations, will be hosted by APA-PA-SE at the Society Hill Sheraton in Philadelphia. This is the first time the conference will be hosted in Philadelphia in over a decade, so it is an exciting chance to show off our great city. You can register here if you are interested in helping to show off our region to planners statewide.
The January 27 meeting will be at 5:30 pm at the Sheraton Philadelphia Society Hill Hotel (2nd & Walnut) and we will have a chance to view the site. Unfortunately, that means we won’t be able to offer a conference call option for this meeting. See the detailed agenda below for detailed information and to sign up for the google groups. Agenda additions are welcome and can be sent to events@apapase.org
March 27-28: Stormwater Training in Philadelphia
The National Stormwater Center is offering Certified Stormwater Inspector (municipal) training in Pennsylvania. Designed specifically for municipal personnel the course offers training and certification to demonstrate, for the record, that inspectors are qualified. The locations and dates for Pennsylvania are:
- Pittsburgh, PA: March 24-25, 2014
- Philadelphia, PA: March 27-28, 2014
Inspectors who take the course learn:
– how to inspect construction, commercial, industrial & municipal activities
– what to inspect
– the limits of their authority
– appropriate demeanor
– appropriate discretion
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