Reclaiming Vacant Properties
Date: June 20-22, 2012
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Description: This conference will explore the strategies and tools that neighborhoods, cities and states are using to turn the challenge of vacant land and buildings into a foundation on which to build the future.
To register: www.communityprogress.net/2012-reclaiming-vacant-properties-conference-pages-167.php
2012 Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference
Date: June 20-22, 2012
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Description: Conference sessions and activities will explore a wide variety of topics related to the challenges and opportunities presented by foreclosed, abandoned, blighted and other problem properties. The conference will place these ideas in the broader context of the nation’s economic recovery and the future reinvention of America’s cities and towns.
Learn more: http://www.communityprogress.net/national-2012-conferences-pages-119.php
Reclaiming Vacant Properties: Remaking America for the 21st Century
Date: June 20-22, 2012
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Description: Sponsored by Center for Community Progress, this conference will focus on challenges and opportunities to create vibrant and sustainable communities through the reuse of vacant, abandoned, and problem properties in America’s cities and towns.
Deadline for session proposals: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Registration Information: http://www.communityprogress.net/reclaiming-vacant-properties-conference-pages-119.php
2011 Louisiana Smart Growth Summit—Creating Communities that Work
| Dates: | August 17-19, 2011 |
| Location: | Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Description: | This annual conference addresses Louisiana livability issues, including transportation and connectivity, coastal living, healthy communities, green building and sustainable design. |
| Learn more: | http://summit.cpex.org/ |
Fit Nation New Orleans: Healthy Communities through Design
When: 9:30 AM - 2:00 PM, Saturday, May 14
Where: Hampton Inn & Suites New Orleans - Convention Center
1201 Convention Center Boulevard New Orleans, LA 70130
Fit Nation New Orleans is the second in a series of national meetings on how to design communities in ways that encourage greater physical activity and access to healthier food choices.
Fit Nation New Orleans will highlight innovative approaches from across the world and the U.S. in active design, in which community planning, street design, and building architecture create healthier environments for people. From featuring stairs more prominently in buildings, to the creation of walkable neighborhoods, to making recreation spaces more accessible and appealing, speakers at Fit Nation New Orleans will share best practices in active design strategies and policies.
Register for Fit Nation New Orleans:
http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=3001
Reclaiming the City: Building a Just and Sustainable Future
Event Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Event Location: Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, LA
Event Description:
The 41st Annual Urban Affairs Association Conference Reclaiming the City: Building a Just and Sustainable Future
More Information:
http://www.professionaldreamers.net/?p=1775
2010 National Planning Conference
| Event Dates: | April 10-13, 2010 |
| Event Location: | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Description: | This annual event of the American Planning Association (APA) will focus on the delta region’s recovery from the 2005 hurricanes and its continuing vulnerability. APA’s conferences are attended by hundreds of planning directors from across the country and around the globe. Don’t miss this invaluable educational opportunity. |
| Contact: | http://www.planning.org/conference/index.htm |
PBCD 2010 Planning Conference
| Event Dates: | April 7-9, 2010 |
| Event Location: | Bourbon Orleans Hotel New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Description: | How do we engage planners, students, public officials, residents and others in planning for and with Black communities to create sustainable outcomes that rise above conflicted struggles and which generate resourceful opportunities and superior results? Since 1980, the Planning and the Black Community Division (PBCD) of the American Planning Association (APA) has undertaken the responsibility of answering this question and to cultivate leadership, support scholarship, embrace history, offer professional development, preserve self determination, and build common interests and networks to strengthen planning in underserved Black communities. For three decades, PBCD has provided a forum where communities in partnership with planners, administrators, public officials, students and other interested individuals can come together to address issues of significance to the Black community. PBCD has and continues to fill a unique role – that of building strategic alliances that encourage collaboration and resource sharing with political, economic and educational institutions to help transform communities by promoting grassroots planning, increasing community participation and consolidating short and long range planning objectives into measurable goals and results. PBCD and its members from across the nation have provided experience and leadership to Black communities tackling these pressing social and economic challenges. PBCD recognizes that now is the time for planners, students, allied professionals, leaders and citizens to harness the potential of our communities and as planning professionals to lead this transformation. The PBCD 2010 Planning Conference in New Orleans is themed “Rising Above the Currents.” The conference will showcase successful projects and programs from communities and organizations where Black planners and community leaders have led these efforts. In celebrating our 30th Year Anniversary, PBCD will provide conference attendees many unique opportunities to gain practical experience and knowledge through professional development, networking, historical legacy and leadership that embrace the values, experience and expertise of Black planners and these communities. PBCD planning conference will prove to be an enriching and engaging educational forum that will inspire and prepare all attendees in “Rising Above the Currents.” |
| Contact: | http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=789562 |
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