Looking for a professional development? Want to visit Chicago? Here’s a way to do both. Join national experts Alan Mallach, Joe Schilling, and Terry Schwarz for an intensive workshop, Tackling the Challenges of Vacant Properties, on November 8 and 9. The workshop – part of APA’s Planner’s Training Service – will dive into a number of issues,
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The Metropolitan Institute (MI) welcomes four new faces. As co-director of the VPRN, Virginia Tech Associate Planning Professor Maggie Cowell will assist MI Director Joe Schilling with the Network’s overall strategic direction and management. Congratulations to MI’s new post-doc Katie Wells who completed her PhD in Geography from Syracuse and Research Associate Lauren Bulka who
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Separate from the AESOP/ACSP Conference and events, the Metropolitan Institute co-hosted a Shrinking Cities Research Café. This was an informal gathering of scholars with the goal of engaging in cross disciplinary discussions about how to improve and enhance the art of comparative case studies from Europe and the United States shrinking cities as a way
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AESOP/ACSP Joint Congress 2013 Planning for Resilient Cities and Regions July 15th -19th 2013 University College Dublin | Ireland The 2013 Joint Congress hosted by AESOP and ACSP focused on resilience, a focal issue which has become a new banner for various societal and related planning efforts in cities and regions across the globe. These
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On Wednesday, July 31st, Director Schilling participated in a panel at a Congressional educational briefing, “From Vacant Lots to Vegetable Plots: Converting Brownfields to Urban Wealth.” The briefing, co-sponsored by the House of Representatives Urban Caucus and American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA),
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