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Virtual Conference: Northeast Sustainable Communities Workshop

NSCW is the premier metropolitan workshop on identifying sustainable goals and strategies for revitalizing communities and brownfields. It has always evolved in response to new challenges and opportunities facing brownfields professionals and continually sets a new standard for the research and solutions that will shape the future of redevelopment and sustainability.

Webinar: Ethics for Planners

Online Webcast

This session will be an interactive dialogue about ethical principles and guidelines that professional planners face. It will cover the AICP Code of Ethics and will apply the Code to ethics scenarios developed by the AICP Commission and drawing from the speaker’s experiences. The session will satisfy the AICP-CM ethics requirement.

Webinar: Urban Planning in a COVID-19 World

This webinar will look at some of the ways that Covid-19 has and will change the world and profession of urban planning. This webinar is not intended as the end all, be all of the discussion, but a beginning. The speakers will share their experiences and thoughts on the subjects of transportation, public education and public engagement.

The Leading Edge in Trees, Stormwater and Urban Design

Online Webcast

This presentation will discuss the academic data behind soil volumes and soil quality standards, as well as implementation strategies and the repercussions of long-term maintenance.

Webinar: Corridor Urbanism: Principles and Practice

Online Webcast

The session will provide participants with an introduction to the concept and principles of Corridor Urbanism, an application to the specific contexts of Fayetteville, and a methodology that they can use to apply Corridor Urbanism principles to their own community corridors.

Location Analytics for Coronavirus Preparation Planning

Online Webcast

This webinar will go over planning for emergencies and disasters, such as the COVID-19 outbreak, of this year, requires quick access to current data related to community resources and business, as well as identification of at-risk populations.

The Peace Cross Case: US Supreme Court and Local Guidance

Online Webcast

This webinar will explain how county staff was able to document the history of the Peace Cross and prepare for legal proceedings at the Federal District, Appellate and US Supreme Court.​ ​Viewers will also learn important lessons if their municipalities experience similar challenges.

Public Art Life Cycle Part 1: Concept to Commission

Online Webcast

In this, the first of a two-part series, we will examine the practical and legal policies, procedures, and practices that guide communities in establishing and administering public art programs.

Downtown Management Forum: The Retail New Deal

Online Webcast

Join a discussion led by national retail consultant and Downtown specialist Mike Berne, President of New York City and San Francisco Bay Area-based MJB Consulting, about harnessing creative thinking, collaboration, and adaptability to encourage the timely emergence of new innovations and business models in response to changing realities and unforeseeable shocks.

Public Art Life Cycle Part 2: Maintenance to Mayhem

This second presentation in a two-part series will begin post-installation. We will look at best practices and federal and state laws pertaining to the maintenance and conservation of public art works.

Shared Spaces and Flush Streets; the Potential for Barrier-Free Public Realms

Online Webcast

The session will cover how shared spaces and flush streets can help with big objectives such as making better places, increasing economic exchange, and simplifying maintenance. It will also cover achieving other objectives such as making it easier for pedestrians to avoid tripping hazards, parents to maneuver baby carriages, travelers pulling wheeled luggage, or to host special events within the public realm.

Understanding Advanced Stormwater Management Techniques

This online course focuses on the proper design, construction and maintenance of various green infrastructure stormwater BMPs, offering a number of actual constructed systems to support their feasibility and applicability in different development settings.

Capturing the Best Elements of Engagement in a Digital First World

Online Webcast

Participants will leave with renewed understanding about the 10 items that matter in an in-person engagement and the tools and techniques to replicate or enhance those in an online environment. Participants will have concrete examples using case studies to refer back to in order to replicate successes from online engagement efforts conducted for long range planning purposes.

The Planner’s Tool Kit

Online Webcast

The Planner’s Tool Kit includes zoning ordinances, subdivision and land development ordinances, and a variety of other regulatory and non-regulatory approaches. With new and unique issues to address, even experienced planners struggle to identify which tool or combination of tools most effectively addresses the issues. Complicating the issue, enabling authority and preemption may rather arbitrarily limit the use of some tools. This session engages participants in a discussion of how to address unique issues most effectively while shielding the local government from liability.

Two Homes One Roof: Making New Jersey More Welcoming with ADUs

Online Webcast

Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are an often overlooked and underutilized solution to the affordable housing shortage we face in New Jersey and across the Northeast. Join us for a planning discussion around ADUs and how this untapped housing can also serve as a “missing middle” senior housing and as a Fair Share housing initiative.