Deadline for
submitting
Session
Proposals to the
Minnesota
Chapter Local
Program
Committee is
July 21, 2008.
It’s time to get
your 2009
National APA
Conference
session
proposals into
the Minnesota
Chapter Local
Program
Committee, a sub
committee of the
Minnesota Local
Host Committee.
The National APA
Conference will
be in
Minneapolis
April 25-29,
2009, and the
Minnesota
Chapter is
allocated a
particular
number of one
hour and fifteen
minute national
conference
sessions.
As a member of
the Minnesota
Chapter, or if
you know of a
non member who
would be
interested in
submitting a
session proposal
in collaboration
with you, please
submit to the
Minnesota Local
Program
Committee. The
Local Program
Committee will
make its local
program
selections later
this summer.
Submittals must
be submitted to
the Local
Program
Committee via
the APA National
Web page at
http://www.planning.org/2009conference/sessionproposal/localhost.htm
and must be
received by the
end of the day
on July 21, 2008
for
consideration.
If your proposal
is not selected
by the Local
Program
Committee, it
will be reviewed
with all the
proposals
submitted
nationally for
possible
selection by
National APA.
Remember the
submittal dead
line is July 21,
2008. If you
have questions,
contact Richard
Krier at
rkrier@mchsi.com
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Dear Members:
We are in need of two new members
for the Public Relations Committee for the 2009
National Conference of APA in Minneapolis.
Please get in touch with me if you are at all
interested in volunteering for this committee.
Greg Kruschke
City of Faribault
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2009 APA
National Planning Conference Logo Design Competition
The 2009 APA Conference Committee of the Minnesota Chapter of the
American Planning Association is launching a design competition for the
creation of a logo for the 2009 American Planning Association (APA)
National Planning Conference. The 2009 conference will convene April
25-29, 2009. All interested parties are invited to submit a logo design
for consideration. This is an open competition to be judged by the 2009
APA Conference Merchandising Committee and selected 2009 APA Conference
Committee Chairs.
Information on Prizes, Rules and Submittal Deadlines is available on the
.pdf file for this competition.
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Dear MnAPA
members:
As you know the
national APA conference is coming to our state next
year. The conference dates are April 25-29, 2009.
We want to show
everyone a good time and part of the fun is
MOBILE WORKSHOPS.
We would like you to put on your creative thinking
cap and start developing ideas for mobile
workshops. A formal request for proposals for
mobile workshops will be available online soon.
Before then, please think about where you would go
and what you would like to see if you were a planner
visiting our state. Here are some guidelines for
the workshops:
* The
Tracks for the 2009 APA Conference are:
Why Places Grow
Neighborhood
Planning in a Citywide Context
Green Urban
Design
Reclaiming the
Waterfront (and the Mississippi River )
Is Regional
Planning Coordinated Planning?
Civic Planning
and the Role of Foundations (mini track)
The Arts and
Culture Economy
Small Town and
Rural Planning
Youth Engagement
in Planning
Climate Change
and a Sustainable Future
The Changing Face
of the American Community
Planning and
Community Health and Activity
Transportation
Infrastructure: The Next Hundred Years
Don't let this
list limit you, however.
* You
should plan for at least 3 people to accompany the
mobile workshop to act as tour guides and talk about
the topic.
* Transportation modes can include
walking, biking, public transportation and motor coaches. All mobile workshops will start and
end at the Minneapolis Convention Center
*
Workshops should vary in length. The majority of
the workshops should range between 4 and 5.5 hours.
However, 10 to 15 percent of the workshops should be
less than three hours and 5 to 15 percent of the
workshops should be as long as eight hours.
* Plan
for a group of 50-100 people
An orientation
meeting for people wishing to submit a mobile
workshop proposal will be held this summer.
Let's have fun!
Hilary Dvorak
Mobile Workshops
Conference Committee Co-Chair
hilary.dvorak@ci.minneapolis.mn.us
