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Planning for Post Disaster: David Godschalk and Gerald Jones Jun 17, 2011

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Symposium on Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery

On February 10–11, 2011, the American Planning Association hosted a scoping symposium in its Chicago office to explore a number of essential issues in guiding the Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery: Next Generation project as it moves forward. Invited participants focused on helping APA to define the appropriate audiences and central issues for the project, delineate the guiding principles in planning for post-disaster recovery, refine the outline for the PAS Report, and identify criteria for best practices and potential case examples to study.

Tuesdays at APA: Recycling in Chicago: Past, Present, and Future May 17, 2011

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Recycling in Chicago: Past, Present, and Future
May 17, 2011

As Chicago begins a new political era, much attention has been paid to the problems in Chicago's recycling program. Carl Zimring from Roosevelt University analyzed the public and private systems used to recycle post-consumer materials in Chicago over the past century, with discussion of how the current system evolved, problems with it, and ways in which future versions of recycling in Chicago might work based on historical precedents and programs in other cities.

Planning for Post Disaster: Barry Hokanson May 17, 2011

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Symposium on Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery

Planning for Post Disaster: David Miller and Gavin Smith May 09, 2011

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Symposium on Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery

The Future of Youth Engagement in Planning: An Interview with Barry Checkoway May 09, 2011

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In this podcast, Barry Checkoway and Ramona Mullahey discuss "The Future of Youth Engagement in Planning." Checkoway is a professor of social work and urban planning at the University of Michigan. He previously worked with the White House in launching AmeriCorps. Checkoway and Mullahey, along with Yve Susskind, are the authors of PAS Report 486, Youth Participation in Community Planning.

Planning for Post Disaster: Ken Topping and Laurie Johnson Apr 29, 2011

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Symposium on Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery

Tuesdays at APA: The Plight of Black Coastal Land Owners in the Sunbelt South Apr 27, 2011

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The Plight of Black Coastal Landowners in the Sunbelt South and Its Lessons for Post–Housing Bubble America
April 26, 2011

At the turn of the 20th century, African Americans owned vast swaths of property along America's shores. By the post–World War II era, African American beaches and resorts served as important places for working families to escape from the daily indignities of Jim Crow and for a separate, seasonal black leisure economy to take shape. The death of Jim Crow coincided with the emergence of a pro-growth, corporate-friendly Sunbelt economy, which led to massive resort and residential development in coastal areas, and the targeting of black coastal landowners as the path of least resistance.

From the 1960s to the present, African American property owners in areas targeted for leisure-based economic and real estate development have struggled to fend off various schemes deployed by developers and their allies in municipal, county, and state governments to expropriate and put to "best use" valuable property.

Andrew Kahrl from Marquette University examined the legal instruments of real estate development, black land loss, and the privatization of public space in coastal areas in modern America, its relation to broader changes in the coastal and global economies, and its social and environmental implications.

Tuesdays at APA-DC: Re-Planning Crystal City As a 21st Century Urban Village Apr 26, 2011

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Re-Planning Crystal City As a 21st Century Urban Village
April 26, 2011

The 2006 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) action hit Arlington, Virginia, hard. The loss of 17,000 Department of Defense employees and 4.2 million square feet of leased space was the equivalent of losing five military bases, and most of the impact was in the Crystal City neighborhood. Developed largely in the 1960s and 1970s, Crystal City contained approximately 30 buildings aged 30 years or more, originally built to GSA specifications that not longer reflected the needs of the market. Arlington developed a plan to remove the older office buildings, add more than 30 new buildings, increase density by more than 60 percent, and substantially improve transportation and the entire urban environment.

This discussion will address the planning process, the economic and transportation analyses that served as the basis of the plan, and the innovative financing plan developed to pay for the necessary infrastructure to make the plan a reality.

Planning for Post Disaster: FEMA Apr 23, 2011

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Symposium on Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery

Ethics_Session_2011-Boston Apr 20, 2011

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