This course helps students understand and work with one of the most basic tools of housing development: market analyses. This course explores content, methods, techniques, information sources, and presentation styles.
Co-sponsored by the American Planning Association – NJ Chapter and Drew University, this course explores the particular challenge of preserving historic resources in New Jersey’s urban areas in the face of development pressure, the high cost of adaptive reuse, the unintended effects of public policies, and the low number of traditional historic-preservation stakeholders.
Learners in this course will gain mastery over the fundamentals of urban design. In this interactive course, learners will use a variety of tools to learn urban design vocabulary, understand key concepts, and the ability to analyze and evaluate design strategies.
The Future City Competition is a part of the National Engineers Week activities; the program was developed for seventh and eighth grade students to help them discover and foster interests in math, science and engineering. The team that wins the regional competition each year receives an all-expense paid trip to the national finals in Washington, DC in February.
Join us to learn about the past 25 years at HANDS from Patrick Morrissy, Executive Director and Founder, and for the launch of The Legacy Project. In an on-stage interview, Patrick Morrissy will answer questions about his tireless dedication to the work of preserving and revitalizing our neighborhoods—from tenant organizing to rehabbing vacant properties to comprehensive neighborhood planning. There will be time for Q&A from the audience so get your questions ready.
This edition of the 12 year old New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Downtown Revitalization and Management Institute will focus on Organization challenges facing every Main Street community-- making do with declining revenue from local government and other sources, while at the same time looking for new revenue opportunities.
The Internet has allowed a new ease in citizen communication and engagement. This citizen input has materialized through the Internet and more specifically through e-mail, blogs, interactive websites, U Tube, My Space, Facebook, and now Twitter. Most people’s cell phones are now powerful tools for communicating with each other. However, the amount of information which goes out via these tools on a daily basis is somewhat overwhelming and seems hard to get a handle on.
Description Come join members of the YPG in discussing future programs and activities! All ideas are welcome!
In the last two decades, communities across the nation have come to value bicycle and pedestrian facilities – sidewalks, bike lanes, shared use paths – as significant community assets. Bicycle and pedestrian facilities provide direct benefits to residents and employees, connecting people to local destinations and increasing access to recreational opportunities.
While individual planners strive to attain the high ethical standards of the AICP Code of Ethics, the office environment is certainly a contributing factor to ethical practice. Learn from Carol Barrett, FAICP as she shares helpful advise on how to work to create and sustain an ethical office environment. She will explore common ethical challenges in the office and approaches to resolve these ethical conflicts.
Explore ways to build, grow, and sustain creative communities. Experts from the public sector and arts fields share their success stories, and facilitators from Arts Build Communities help you think about creative placemaking strategies for your own communities.
The “Impacts and Opportunities of an Aging Population” webinar will explore the new world that is being created by the seismic demographic shift that begins on January 1, 2011 when the first of the Baby Boomer generation celebrates their 65th birthday. Over the next 20 years (2030) the older adult population will double to 71 million and, by 2050, the population of our seniors will be equal to that of our youth (109,090,000 vs 109,147,000).
Veterans of public meetings share their techniques and insights in how to run productive, effective meetings. Meeting management can make all the difference in the public's perception and reception of planning, and planning commissioners and their staff have a critical role to play. Learn how to make legally defensible decisions, evaluate evidence, and keep public anger from disrupting your meetings. Panelists also explore how to encourage more diverse participation. No cost.
With the Baby Boomer Generation retiring and a large segment of the population entering old age, planners have a new set of demands for planning communities and developments that address these changing demographics.    This session features two prominent urban planners who have extensive practical and research experience in planning for and housing the elderly population.
This presentation will give planners a comprehensive overview of the regulatory framework governing coastal development, and an understanding of the natural resource and property rights concepts and concerns unique to waterfront property.
New Urbanism is one of today's hottest topics in urban development and planning. This course is for professionals who want to learn the fundamentals of New Urbanism so they can make better decisions about whether it is a good choice for their communities.
This course explores the elements that make a place a desirable destination for cultural visitors. Cultural visitors are the gold mine of the tourism industry. They are wealthier, travel more and spend more. And through their spending, cultural visitors support the arts, heritage and cultural sites, and distinctive neighborhoods. This course explores how almost any community can attract cultural visitors, whether it be from next door or across a region.
Using land use planning measures to respond to advance sustainability and resilience of both the natural and built environment requires at least a basic understanding of the environment and of ecological principles. The American Planning Association has recently established a Certified Environmental Planner credential in recognition of the expertise required in these areas.
2011 marks the start of the baby boomers entering retirement and increasing the 65+ population to a projected 70.3 million by 2030. The aging of America is an extraordinary opportunity to critically examine the built environment from the perspective of older people with the goal of creating communities that one can spend their lifetime or age-in-place.
A panel discussion featuring regional experts in sustainable streets will be followed by a workshop session, where you will work with facilitators to analyze the potential for innovative roadway treatments in Hoboken and Long Island City.
Come network with young professionals involved across the community development spectrum!
Planners and policy makers must advance infrastructure supporting aging in place within a comprehensive and inclusive planning strategy. This session briefly reviews aging research and presents a matrix of individual, cultural, health, economic, legal, infrastructure, and environmental systems within which to consider aging in place technologies.
Planning Reality 101 is a series of rotating 20 minute discussions between two 'Young Professionals' and small groups of students. This year, we will feature five (5) groups: Transportation, Environmental, Housing, Land Use, and Local Planning.
Learn from experienced local leaders and professionals about how to achieve innovative, high-quality, community-minded redevelopment in light of current economic and environmental constraints. Workshops are structured in a hands-on, case-study format, featuring instructors who have faced the challenges of redevelopment in communities throughout New Jersey.
Co-sponsored by the American Planning Association – NJ Chapter, the NJ Historic Preservation Office and Drew University, this one-day workshop is open to all preservationists, but specifically geared toward those serving on a local commission. This program is designed to benefit both new and experienced commission members as well as being relevant for planning and zoning board members and elected officials.
The Delaware River Basin Forum is a free, one-day event addressing the sustainability of water resources of the Delaware River Basin. The purpose of the Forum is to heighten awarenesss of the challenges for water resouerce protection; to connect regional and local officials, planners, water suppliers, regulators, environmental organizations, and other stakeholders and basin-wide and local issues; and to create the framework for ongoing collaboration.
The APA-NJ Chapter is offering exam preparation courses for candidates planning to take the AICP and/or New Jersey PP exam(s) in May 2011. The courses will feature topics likely to be addressed in the exams and will be led by a variety of well-respected planning professionals and lecturers practicing or teaching in New Jersey.
The presentation will focus on balancing the special assessment fee with the “special benefits” that must be received by the assessees to avoid a “takings.” The presentation will also discuss community organizing, preparation to become a witness, and the AICP Code of Ethics.
An overwhelming majority of older Americans wants to age in place despite speculations for a strong future demand for denser, more walkable residential environments and grey flight, residential movement of older households from suburbs to urban areas, which is postulated based on life course theory.
The APA-NJ Chapter is offering exam preparation courses for candidates planning to take the AICP and/or New Jersey PP exam(s) in May 2011. The courses will feature topics likely to be addressed in the exams and will be led by a variety of well-respected planning professionals and lecturers practicing or teaching in New Jersey.
Join Various Affordable Housing Professionals for a Unique Networking Opportunity at Ponzios Diner in Cherry Hill.
A Complete Streets Workshop, focused on providing municipal and county officials with information on planning for Complete Streets in both suburban and rural areas.