Join us for a tour of the new 4500 sq ft roof garden at the John Theurer Cancer Center. Â
Attendees will learn more about its purpose, design and construction along with regulatory issues, urban heat island and neighborhood impacts, storm water reduction methods, and tips on utilizing roof garden planning.Â
The workshop will provide general information on both environmental justice and cumulative impacts, as well as involve workshop participants in a discussion of possible solutions for the problem of cumulative impacts in New Jersey. The workshop will end with a tour of several environmental justice neighborhoods in Camden.
The $3.75 million, two-phased study evaluated the feasibility of adding dedicated truck lanes through Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. The Study evaluates if Dedicated Truck Lanes address the congestion and safety problems and needs on the corridor and improve the regions’ economic competitiveness more than general purpose lanes capacity additions or maintaining the corridor as it is today.Â
Join City of Jersey City Planning Director Robert Cotter, PP, FAICP on a walking tour of some of the State's most successful redevelopment efforts that now make up the fabric of Downtown Jersey City.
Cities and smaller communities are facing more severe hazards and sea-level rise. In this program, planners explore the issues of infrastructure and land changes, as well as environmental and economic changes. How do we know what the effects of climate change will be and how do we adapt? Explore both research and planning preparation.
Register now for the 2012 NJ Historic Preservation Conference "Sustaining the Past - Inventing the Future" on Thursday, June 7th at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. The full day conference includes 16 educational sessions and field workshops on preservation, sustainable design, archaeology, historic site stewardship, state parks, historic roads, and much more.
Join PlanSmart NJ, APA-NJ and The Sustainability Institute for our first Policy Briefing exploring the changing landscape of DEP Water Quality Management Planning in NJ. Hear speakers representing different perspectives discuss the opportunities and challenges they face.
This session will explore promising efforts to mobilize and innovate Federal solutions to aging issues cross-agency and intra-agency such as: creating a single agency entry point, providing a forum for dialogue or serving as a repository for policy and programs related to aging.
The presentations will include the development history of the Borough, the architectural history, the successful efforts to preserve the greenbelt and a discussion of other unique land use issues the Borough has faced in the last 20 years. Highlights will include access to a famous New Deal art mural by Ben Shahn in the school building that depicts the founding of the Borough on three large panels as well as a discussion of one of the earliest experiments in ecologically aware affordable housing, the Roosevelt Senior Citizens' Housing, which set out to incorporate energy-efficiency within traditional designs.
Planners and design professionals can substantially reduce future incidents of crime in their communities. Â This session will present the practice of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) as a method for using good design and land use planning to reduce fear and crime. Â Presenters will include representatives from the law enforcement, architecture, and planning communities with experience and knowledge to explain how to understand and use CPTED in the field.
The Raritan River Region: Flooding, Regeneration and the Next Generation
Save the Date: June 14 - Duke Farms, Hillsborough, NJ
The 4th Annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference