For Immediate Release
Contact: Anthony Flint 617-503-2116
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (March 31, 2011) – More than 5,000 planners, elected officials and others will attend the American Planning Association’s National Planning Conference in Boston April 9-12, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy will be there contributing expertise on the public finance crisis, regional planning, and planning for climate change.
Gregory K. Ingram, president of the Lincoln Institute, will introduce a major session on municipal and development finance, which will include a presentation on budgets and revenue sources by Jeffrey Chapman, professor at Arizona State University and a researcher at the Lincoln Institute.
In addition, Ingram will present on the imbalance between revenues and increasing costs and the restrictions states are placing on local revenues and expenditures in a session on the severe strains on local government amid economic turmoil. That panel also includes Arthur C. Nelson, FAICP, Presidential Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah; Martin A. Bierbaum, associate director of the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland; Dowell Myers, professor of urban planning and demography at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California; and Robert W. Burchell, professor and co-director of the Center of Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University.
Armando Carbonell, AICP, chairman of the Department of Planning and Urban Form at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, will lead discussions on climate change and coastal cities; keeping planning education current; recent planning initiatives in London; and sustainability in comprehensive plans, along with David R. Godschalk, FAICP, professor of Planning Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil, and Ann C. Bagley, FAICP, a Dallas-based community planner and consultant. Carbonell will also be on a panel of big city planning directors, many of whom gather at the Lincoln Institute each fall, including Joseph A. Horwedel, AICP, director of Planning, Building and Code Enforcement, San Jose, California; William R. Klein, AICP, Director of Research and Advisory Services for the American Planning Association; Barbara L. Sporlein, planning director of Minneapolis; and Harriet Tregoning, director of the Office of Planning, Washington D.C
Planners from the New England region will talk about the challenges of the day, from sustainability to fiscal strains, at a retreat at the Lincoln Institute followed by a panel organized by Peter Pollock, FAICP, a fellow at the Lincoln Institute, that will include Alexander Jaegerman, AICP, Planning Division Director, Portland, Maine Frederick S. Taintor, AICP, planning director, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Thomas E. Deller, AICP, Director of Planning and Development, Providence, Rhode Island; Wayne Feiden, FAICP, Director, Planning and Development, Northampton, Massachusetts; Susan M. Glazer, AICP, deputy director for community development for Cambridge, Mass.; David E. White, AICP, Director of Planning and Zoning, Burlington, Vermont; W. Rhett Lamb, Planning Director, Keene, N.H.; Jo Anne Miller Buntich, Director, Barnstable Growth Management Department; Jeffrey R. Levine, AICP, Director, Planning and Community Development, Brookline, Mass.; and Jonathan J. Reiner, AICP, Director, Planning and Community Development, North Kingstown, R.I.
An additional highlight will be a panel on regional planning in America, with Timothy Beatley, Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, School of Architecture, University of Virginia; Frederick R. Steiner, Dean, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin; Kathryn A. Foster, Director, University at Buffalo Regional Institute; and Ethan P. Seltzer, Professor, Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies & Planning, Portland State University, and co-author, with Armando Carbonell, of the newly published Lincoln Institute book Regional Planning in America.
A dialogue of journalists and planners on communicating climate change impacts on cities will include Anthony Flint, fellow and director of public affairs, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; Tracy Metz, Journalist, NRC Handelsblad, The Netherlands; Cristine Russell, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; and Will Travis, Executive Director, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
The Lincoln Institute is also hosting the Saturday evening networking reception April 9, and will provide coffee and refreshments at a Meet the Authors event for Regional Planning in America Monday April 11 at the Lincoln Institute’s exhibit booth in the Hynes Convention Center main exhibit hall.
APA’s annual four-day conference addresses the challenges communities face today as well as looking forward to the future – bus rapid transit, urban agriculture, economic development and shrinking cities. Top speakers include Raphael Bostic, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Harvard professors Michael Sandel and Edward Glaeser. Nearly 200 sessions and 60 mobile workshops have been scheduled to provide information and resources for planning practitioners, educators, citizens, business leaders, planning commissioners and elected officials. The sessions including participants from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy are below. The entire conference program can be viewed at: www.planning.org/conference/program/index.htm.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
1:00-2:15 p.m. — Climate Change and Coastal Cities discussion (S409)
Armando Carbonell, AICP, Chair, Department of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
5:30–7:00 p.m. —Not Your Usual Meet and Greet Reception
Sponsored by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in the Exhibit Hall, Hynes Convention Center
Sunday, April 10, 2011
10:30-11:45 a.m. — Regional Planning in America (S439)
Timothy Beatley, Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
Frederick R. Steiner, Dean, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin
Ethan P. Seltzer, Professor, Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies & Planning, Portland State University
Kathryn A. Foster, Director, University at Buffalo Regional Institute
1:00–2:15 p.m. — Municipal and Development Finance Course
Budget and Explanation of Revenue (S445)
Jeff Chapman, Foundation Professor, Arizona State University
Gregory K. Ingram, President and CEO, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
2:30-3:45 p.m. — Positioning Big City Planning Departments (S469)
Joseph A. Horwedel, AICP, Director Planning Building & Code Enforcement, San Jose, California
William R. Klein, AICP, Director of Research and Advisory Services for the American Planning Association
Armando Carbonell, AICP, Chair, Department of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln Institute
Barbara L. Sporlein, Director of Planning, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Harriet Tregoning, Director of the Office of Planning, Washington D.C.
4:00–5:15 p.m. — Communicating Climate Change Impacts on Cities (S474)
Anthony Flint, fellow and director of public affairs, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Tracy Metz, Journalist, NRC Handelsblad, The Netherlands
Cristine Russell, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Will Travis, Executive Director, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Monday, April 11, 2011
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Book Signing: Regional Planning in America (Lincoln Institute Exhibit Booth 210)
Armando Carbonell, AICP, Chair, Department of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln Institute, and Ethan P. Seltzer, Professor, Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies & Planning, Portland State University
4:00-5:15 p.m. — Keeping Planning Education Current (S537)
Armando Carbonell, AICP, Chair, Department of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln Institute
Jerry V. Mitchell, professor and chair in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
David S. Boyd, FAICP, Director of Business Development, MSA Professional Services, Inc.
Jennifer Cowley, AICP, Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning Section, Ohio State University
4:00–5:15 pm —The Fallout of the Great Recession: The End of Local Government in the United States (S541)
Arthur C. Nelson, FAICP Presidential Professor of City & Metropolitan Planning; Director, Metropolitan Research Center, University of Utah
Martin A. Bierbaum, Associate Director, National Center for Smart Growth, University of Maryland Dowell Myers, Professor of Urban Planning and Demography, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California
Robert W. Burchell, Professor and Co-Director, Center of Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University
Gregory K. Ingram, President, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
9:00-10:15 a.m. — Big Planning in London (S568)
Armando Carbonell, AICP, Chair, Department of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln Institute
Ann Skippers, President Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), London, England
9:00-10:15 a.m. — Planning Directors in the Hot Seat! (S577)
Alexander Jaegerman, AICP, Planning Division Director, Portland, Maine
Frederick S. Taintor, AICP, Planning Director, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Thomas E. Deller, AICP, Director of Planning and Development, Providence, R.I.
Wayne Feiden, FAICP, Director, Planning and Development, Northampton, Massachusetts
Peter Pollock, FAICP, Fellow, Department of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln Institute
Susan M. Glazer, AICP, Deputy Director, Community Development, Cambridge, Mass.
David E. White, AICP, Director of Planning and Zoning, Burlington, Vermont
W. Rhett Lamb, Planning Director, Keene New Hampshire
Jo Anne Miller Buntich, Director, Barnstable Growth Management Department, Mass.
Jeffrey R. Levine, AICP, Director, Planning and Community Development, Brookline, Mass.
Jonathan J. Reiner, AICP, Director, Planning and Community Development, North Kingstown, R.I.
10:30-11:45 a.m. — Sustainability in Comprehensive Plans (S542)
Armando Carbonell, AICP, Chair, Department of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln Institute
David R. Godschalk, FAICP, Professor of Planning Emeritus, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Ann C. Bagley, FAICP, community planner and consultant, Dallas
Expert sources are available by contacting anthony.flint@lincolninst.edu. The press contact for the APA is Roberta Rewers, 312.786.6395 / rrewers@planning.org
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