Healthy Environments Across Generations
Date: June 7-8, 2012
Location: New York, New York
Description: This two-day conference will address the environmental health aspects of how we live, eat, work, play, and socialize throughout life, and how we can transform our environments to
promote health and prevent disease.
To register: www.healthandenvironment.org/news/conference/intergen2012
Northeast Sustainable Communities Workshop
Date: June 7, 2012
Location: New York, New York
Description: This workshop will look at the interconnections and confluences that combine to create sustainable communities through brownfields redevelopment. Panel topics include community engagement and brownfields planning in New York City, brownfields for energy, and resilient community models.
To register: www.nscw.net/
Placemaking: Making It Happen
Date: April 25-27, 2012
Location: New York, New York
Description: Placemaking: Making It Happen is a three day training course focused on how to move ideas into reality by using a place-based management and implementation strategy. This training course will describe the roles that different types of public space management organizations play, complemented by lessons learned from experts with hands on experience implementing improvements and managing public spaces. Also included are site visits to some of the best managed spaces in New York City guided by the people who helped make them happen.
Registration information:
http://www.pps.org/training/making-it-happen/
How to Turn a Place Around
Date: April 19-20, 2012
Location: New York, New York
Description: A two-day PPS training course, How to Turn a Place Around introduces new ways of thinking about public spaces and how Placemaking can be used to bring communities together and revitalize underperforming spaces.
Registration information:
http://www.pps.org/training/httapa/
Vision Long Island Smart Growth Summit
Date: November 18, 2011
Location: Melville, New York
Description: This summit will focus on what actions can be taken to promote smart growth and create a clear vision of what it will take to ensure Long Island remains a vibrant, growing community where residents can continue to live, work, and play.
Registration Information: http://www.visionlongisland.org
Streets As Places
Date: November 10-11, 2011
Location: New York, New York
Description: Sponsored by the Project for Public Spaces, this workshop focuses on how to redirect future investment in transportation and streets to build communities, not simply to move cars. Presentations will include policy, street and sidewalk design, and community implementation strategies.
Registration Information: http://www.pps.org/training/streets-as-places/
How to Turn a Place Around
Date: October 27-28, 2011
Location: New York, New York
Description: This two-day workshop, sponsored by the Project for Public Spaces, introduces new ways of thinking about public spaces and how placemaking techniques can be used to bring communities together and revitalize underperforming spaces.
Registration Information: http://www.pps.org/store/training-sessions/
2011 National Preservation Conference
| Dates: | October 19-22, 2011 |
| Location: | Buffalo, New York |
| Description: | This annual meeting features sessions on urban agriculture in emerging neighborhoods, reversing disinvestment in historic areas, using state tax credits to revitalize rural neighborhoods, protecting small-town identities, and accessing federal resources from the Partnership for Sustainable Communities. |
| Host: | National Trust for Historic Preservation |
| Learn more: | http://www.preservationnation.org/resources/training/npc/ |
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