Are you a planning student, emerging professional, or planner new to the profession? Do you like to organize events like walking tours, happy hours, and educational events related to planning? Then join the APAPA-SE Emerging Professionals Committee!
We will be meeting on Monday, 2/24 from 6:30pm – 8:00pm at The Coffee Bar (1701 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103). Please RSVP here if you are able to attend.
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 February 25 meeting will be at 5:30 pm at The Reinvestment Fund (TRF) offices at 1700 Market Street, 19th Floor and also via conference call. 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
Has your community undertaken an innovative planning initiative that you’re really excited about? Has your firm designed a project that was greeted with enthusiastic approval by your client? Have you recently come upon new solutions to age-old land use and transportation problems? Have years of work finally paid off and you’re just itching to share your story with the world??
Then submit a proposal for a session at the 2014 APA PA Annual Conference, October 12-14, 2014 in Philadelphia!
This year’s conference theme is “Innovation from Historic Foundations“ in recognition of the way Philadelphia has used its rich history and legacy of planning to position itself to be a green, global city in the 21st Century. We want to hear how everyone in Pennsylvania, as well as our neighbors in New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, is meeting the challenges of today while preserving resources for future generations.
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)
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.
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.
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.
The 2014 Pennsylvania Chapter of the APA conference 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 being part of the planning committee.
There will be a meeting for the American Planning Association Pennsylvania Chapter 2014 Annual Conference on December 16, with a detailed agenda below, but even if you can’t make this meeting please register here if you are interested in helping to show off our region to planners statewide. We are planning on selecting the theme at this meeting, so make your suggestions or vote on theme at http://2014apapa.idea.informer.com/
GeoPhilly is a meetup group for those interested in spatial analysis, geo-related application development and data analytics. The GeoPhilly Meetup is having a happy hour on Wednesday, December 11 from 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM after the IREG Geospatial Technology and Open Source event at DVRPC. The Happy Hour will be in the left wing of Bar Ly located at 101 N. 11th Street, Philadelphia.
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.
