This year’s Regional Assembly, Big Plans • Bold Innovations • Bright Future, will bring together local and international civic leaders to explore strategies for the tri-state area and examine how world cities are confronting vital public-policy questions. Keynote speakers and panelists will address planning as it confronts funding constraints, climate disruptions and increased energy costs.

We invite you to join us at our celebratory event honoring founding faculty members of the Bloustein School.  Reception, recognition program and networking opportunities with some of the nation's most respected thought leaders in Urban Planning, Public Policy and Public Health.

The format for this event will be presentation and discussion. Four researchers will each give a 15-20 minute overview of this new research. The second panel will consist of stakeholders asking the researchers questions about what the literature says about various policy initiatives.