PlanSmart NJ honors key players with the C. McKim Norton Community Development Award, the Van Zandt Williams, Jr. Community Involvement Award, and the Awards for Economic, Environmental, Resource Efficiency, and Regional Equity Achievement.
This program describes the crossover between Conservation Design and the New Urbanism, showing how they can be blended. In areas served by public water and sewer, conservation design techniques can be readily combined with TND principles to create walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods, often involving infill projects and incremental growth around the community's outer edges.
View the Flyer:Â http://policy.rutgers.edu/news/events/CandeubLecture10-28-10-LR.pdf
Affordable Housing Strategies discusses policy considerations and the political and financial challenges that confront developers of housing for individuals and families earning less than 80% of the area median income (AMI).
This course will familiarize participants with the basic elements of planning: principles of planning, the comprehensive plan, plan adoption and specific plans. Participants will learn how planning is practiced in the United States, and explore how to apply the concepts in their communities.
Contextual site analysis is a pre-design research activity which focuses on the existing, imminent and potential conditions on and around a project site. It is, in a sense, an inventory of all the pressures, forces and situations and their interactions at the property where our project will be built.
Business Development for Planners is an introductory class that will provide planners that are new to consulting - or agency planners that want to learn the overall business development process - tools and techniques to build their business development skills, identify potential opportunities, and pursue business opportunities.
Join us on November 3 for a Fall MIT DUSP Alumni Reception and Open House event for alumni and prospective students in New York City. Come to hear current trends in Planning, Design, and Development of NYC Schools from DUSP Alumna Sharon Greenberger (MCP '93) and Department Head Amy Glasmeier. Meet and mingle with NYC-area colleagues, classmates, and old friends.
Join us for the 2010 NJ Planning Conference!
ULI NNJ cordially invites you to participate in an interactive half-day conference. The program designed to showcase excellence in the design and development of K-12 projects. The program will consist of presentations and discourse about specific projects and critical issues relevant to successful K-12 facilities.