Official Newsletter of the American Planning Association International Division Summer 2008 No 85 Table of Contents Our Earth as art Message from the Chair 2 ISOCARP & International UPAT 3 German Exchange Program 6 German Green Communities 7 Parole! 8 Mobility Nodes as Innovation Hubs 9 CORP 10 Work as a Planner Overseas 11 APA-ID Grants & Task Force 12 Ghana APA-ID Exchange Program 13
China & Italy Tours 15 The Netherlands International Planning Events 16
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American Planning Association ear fellow This quarter’s issue of Interplan highlights INTERNATIONAL DIVISION International several initiatives for 2008-2010 that are seek to DDivision accomplish this purpose, including our new Beth S. Offenbacker, Chair Members: webinar offerings on international planning Waterford Inc., Arlington, Virginia, USA topics (free to Division members) and planning [email protected] Like you, I frequently for our two by-right sessions at the 2009 am asked, “How does Minneapolis conference. Your ideas for future Jennifer Lindbom, AICP, Immediate Past Chair international planning topics for both of these efforts are greatly Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC), Abu Dhabi, differ from other kinds encouraged. United Arab Emirates of planning?” My [email protected] answer is that while it’s similar, of course it’s We are also launching an APA-ID Exchange Chris Kemper, Vice-Chair at Large very different. It’s different precisely because it Program Task Force (see page 13) and a United Nations (UN), Bangkok, Thailand calls upon us to reconsider our conceptions of Strategic Planning Working Group. Watch for [email protected] what community is—and what it means— additional details about the creation of a without the limitations of geography. Student Committee, comprised of student Jennifer Venema, Vice-Chair Special Projects members of the division that will advise the PMC, Modesto, California USA It is this point exactly that distinguishes the Division Leadership, and an International [email protected] International Division from others within the Planning Liaison Committee, which will serve as APA family. Moreover, in the interdependent an interface between the International Division Keith C. Hall, AICP, Vice-Chair Communications & st Co-Editor 21 century global community we live in, we and other international planning organizations New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI), Auckland, can scarcely afford not to identify and model (e.g., ISOCARP, Royal Town Planning Institute, New Zealand best practices that are successfully addressing etc.) for the purpose of information-sharing [email protected] complex issues such as global warming, and potential joint activities/programs. affordable housing and food system planning, Michael Weaver, Secretary / Treasurer among many others. The benefits to these Your participation is key to the success of these Evanston, Illinois, USA best practices can accrue both locally and initiatives. Please contact us at globally. In short, we provide a unique lens to [email protected] with your Matthew G. Flynn, AICP, International Exchange the practice of planning, and by doing so can thoughts, ideas and feedback. We look Program Coordinator City of Davenport Design Center, Davenport, Iowa positively enhance the quality of communities forward to an exciting year of Division activities USA around the world. that both extend and enhance the knowledge [email protected] enport.ia.us and practice of international planning. This drive and commitment to creating quality Ric Stephens, Co-Editor communities in all places serves as the core Best regards, Stephens Planning & Design, Beaverton, Oregon emphasis of the knowledge-focused, skill- Beth Offenbacker USA building programs and services that the Chair, APA International Division [email protected] International Division provides. 2008-2010
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presented to the local government at a public The Oregon meeting. A written report will be prepared to Urbanization summarize the UPAT findings and recommendations. International society of city Spectrum and regional planners A Great Place to Try Something New: Lincoln City Report excerpts from www.historiccutler.org he International Society of City and Ismael Fernandez, Pablo Coastal Community Revitalization Regional Planners (ISOCARP) is a global Vaggione, Jim Colman and The UPAT participated in the Lincoln City Cutler association of experienced, professional Ric Stephens T Charrette which included professionals from planners. Founded in 1965 with a vision of the west coast. The charrette produced a bringing together recognized and highly series of illustrations, documents, video and qualified planners in an international network. n invitation from the Urban Land posters outlining innovative approaches to ISOCARP is a non-governmental organization, Institute Oregon/SW Washington revitalizing this coastal community. The design recognized by the United Nations and the District and numerous supporting O team recommendations included a wide Council of Europe and with a consultative organizations, the ISOCARP Executive variety of strategies including status with UNESCO. ISOCARP organizes Urban Committee (EXCO) was invited to visit several converting neighborhood streets into Planning Advisory Teams (UPATs) to assist cities throughout Oregon for a combined public spaces (such as the Dutch communities with specific planning and urban Spring meeting and UPAT. This was the first U.S. woonerfs) design issues. The UPAT program focuses the ISOCARP EXCO visit, and the tour integrating local artists and artisans in expertise and experience of a select team of encompassed the spectrum of Pacific creating an entry statement for the ISOCARP planners, architects and urban Northwest U.S. planning issues. community and providing public art in designers to provide guidance on challenging open spaces community projects. The time-frame is Program consideration of a parallel road or loop intense—less than a week to prepare The Team was composed of nine EXCO from the highway to redirect/deemphasize community design recommendations. In members and two additional UPAT members traffic addition to the team’s skill, the UPAT provides from ten countries [See UPAT page 4]. Prior to new and innovative perspectives. ISOCARP is their visit, the host cities and organizations Farming Heartland: Junction City currently scheduling UPATs for Guadalajara, emailed background information on the issues www.ci.junction-city.or.us Mexico and Limmat Valley, Zurich. to be studied. When the UPAT arrived, they Rural Community Revitalization www.isocarp.org were given a briefing by agency officials, then taken on a tour of the project area. Afterwards Junction City is currently considering a “couplet” design to split the main the teams broke into smaller groups to work with local representatives in a workshop or thoroughfare. It is suggested that with careful charrette. The collective information was (Continued on page 4)
www.planning.org/international intERPLAN 85 Summer 2008 Page 3 (Continued from page 3) Local participants mentioned that population design, the couplet can be made to serve increase could range from 16,000 to 70,000 in both drivers and pedestrians, with positive spin- less than ten years. The economic base that Oregon UPAT offs for both. Design could be based on the would support this growth was not particularly following principles, the aim being to signal to clear, other than the influence of Portland’s ISOCARP President Pierre Laconte [Belgium] all drivers that the minute they enter the growth on housing demands. ISOCARP Secretary General Pablo Vaggione [Spain] couplet they are ‘guests’ of Junction City who ISOCARP VP Manfred Schrenk [Austria} must recognize that while in town, pedestrians In view of this, the preparation of a strategic ISOCARP VP Elias Beriatos [Greece] and cyclists have priority. Design principles plan that would contemplate how to create ISOCARP VP Jim Colman [Australia] might include and sustain a distinctive brand for Damascus ISOCARP VP Ismael Fernandez Mejia [Mexico] was proposed. This plan would benefit from ISOCARP VP Zeynep Enlil, PhD [Turkey] ISOCARP VP Paolo La Greca [Italy] roundabouts at both ends of the couplet scenario planning, depicting pros and cons of ISOCARP UPAT Member Robbert Rhemrev (entry/exit points) possible population futures and its implication [Netherlands] mandated and policed speed limit in the on the economic base, the environment, ISOCARP UPAT Member Francesco Martinico [Italy] downtown blocks between roundabouts infrastructure, land use, urban services and ISOCARP Exec Dir Judy van Hemert [Netherlands] of 10-15 mph civic amenities, and the overall character of ULI Worldwide President Rick Rosan sidewalk widening; variations in pavement Damascus. Key questions that this exercise ULI Oregon/SW Washington Chair & ISOCARP U.S. materials, colors, textures should address include What is the best future National Delegate Ric Stephens change of pavement material to for Damascus in 2017? What is the right ULI Oregon/SW Washington Urban Community Adviser Susan Marcus PhD encourage slower vehicle movement – amount of people for it? What is the economic ULI Oregon/SW Washington Coord Meagan Bailey why not cobblestones ? base that supports that figure? ULI & ISOCARP Member Lorraine Gonzales distinctive lighting and street furniture Lincoln City Urban Renewal Director Kurt Olsen generously sized dedicated and well This framework should not mean that Lincoln City Planner & ISOCARP Member Alexandra marked crossings for pedestrians and development must be avoided. What it would Roberts disabled bring is a roadmap of conservation for Damascus City Community Development Director conveniently located cycle lanes and development, intending to preserve without Anita Yap, AICP parking “freezing” opportunities for sustainable growth. Junction City Planner Kay Bork curbside parking lane. Metro President David Bragdon Metro Planning Director Andy Cotugno The community in Damascus is facing the rare Portland Planning Director Gil Kelley Such a system could bring fewer accidents, opportunity to plan a city from scratch in the Portland Planning Consultant Brian Campbell less noise, less pollution, and greater pride in 21st century. In its origin, the city of Damascus Portland Planning Commissioner & Stoel Riv es the downtown as a place for meeting, was named after a “new beginning”, Attorney Michelle Rudd shopping, strolling. This result will in due course portraying the spirit of the pioneer. But what Portland State University Director Ethan Seltzer PhD enhance the attractiveness of the town centre does the spirit of the pioneer mean in our APA Oregon President Philip Farrington, AICP as a good place to invest and do business. century? It transcended in the charrette that APA Oregon President-Elect Greg Winterowd, AICP building on strengths and capitalizing on this APA Oregon Board Member Deb Meihoff, AICP 21st Century Comprehensive Planning: spirit is a distinctive element in the city’s APA Oregon Conference Organizer Becky Steckler Damascus City APA Oregon Executive Director Patricia Zepp development strategy. Alpha Community Development Pres Jerry Palmer www.ci.damascus.or.us Host & Van Driver June Stephens New Community Planning (Continued on page 5)
www.planning.org/international intERPLAN 85 Summer 2008 Page 4 (Continued from page 4) winner for British Telecom who collects The New Look: Metro Short Message Service (SMS) fees when the www.oregonmetro.gov charge is paid over a mobile phone. Metropolitan Community Planning Madrid is home to many of the largest The UPAT was asked to focus their discussion construction companies and the Urban on Regional Transportation Infrastructure Management Forum (Chaired by Pablo Funding. The following notes are from the initial Vaggione) brings them together to Metro meeting: increase support for infrastructure provision Singapore cited as a model for directing and leveraging private sector investment. growth through investments in This gives the construction companies the infrastructure. opportunity to see the benefits of Coordination of infrastructure services, diversifying to meet new infrastructure especially for maintenance, is a key to needs (ie new telecommunications successful service provision. Vienna has equipment) consolidated service provision but not Greece uses a formula for paying for maintenance. infrastructure in new urban areas of 1/3 Coordination to put infrastructure in place paid by local residents, 1/3 by providers, is a good goal, but it is problematic when and 1/3 by the state. services are provided by a variety of Opportunities to change behaviors by entities and funds are available at different reducing or minimizing peak use of a times. variety of services. Singapore is so carefully Privatization of infrastructure is not always metered that there is no rush hour successful – examples of failure when basic congestion due to such high tolls on the services such as roads are privatized but roads at that time. Variable pricing can do not bring in expected revenues work for energy and water as well. (Australia freeways, UK/France Chunnel, Coordination can save money, increase Brit Rail). efficiencies for example running fiber Stone Cliff Inn, Oregon City, Oregon There are some good models of public/ cables through sewer lines. private partnerships in France and England for public planning and control of infrastructure, with a competitive concession for operations and These excerpts are from the Metro meetings maintenance. France has increased the and a comprehensive UPAT report currently in efficiencies of its concessions so that the draft. For a complete document, please profit margin is low. In Japan, high-speed contact UPAT Coordinator Ric Stephens at rail provides service of a similar distance [email protected]. from New York to Philadelphia in half the time, for half the cost, due to public-private partnerships and development concessions for Japanese rail operator. In London, the congestion charge is also a
www.planning.org/international intERPLAN 85 Summer 2008 Page 5 intended for city and regional planners and Green Communities economic development officials dealing with industrial projects The tour language will be English. Exchange A project brief of tour sites will be available. 2008 STUDY TOUR TO GERMANY Tools & Concepts for Sustainable Urban- The tour will start on Sept. 21 in Stuttgart and end Industrial Development Sept. 27 in Munich. For those interested a v isit to the Oktoberfest can be arranged. All transfers will be by September 21-27, 2008 private van from Stuttgart Airport to Munich Airport.
ity and regional planners, economic The study tour includes v isits to development agencies and site managers City of Freiburg, Germanys solar city that has Caround the world are facing similar issues implemented several urban development projects when addressing climate change mitigation and with emphasis on green buildings and car-free sustainable development. Changing transportation transportation. Meet Wulf Daseking, the head city patterns, housing requirements and industrial land planner, who will introduce you to Vauban – city use require different approaches to planning and quarter on redeveloped military base, aiming for technology integration. Green buildings, zero emission housing. Visit the Solarfabrik – a Zero decentralized energy concepts, brown-field Emission Factory, one of the motors of solar redevelopment, efficient public transport and Eco- development in Freiburg. City development are only some of the issues being City of Munich, Messestadt Riem - a redevelopment addressed. The recent awareness about global of the old Munich airport into suburb city with warming has focused the discussion on energy and ecological features. Meet Theo Bauernschmidt and CO², but solutions are broader and more interlinked his colleagues who will show you how the new than the recent discussion suggests. suburb has been planned and implemented. Visit an inner-city highway that has been tunnelled and The Exchange transformed into a park, a linear Green Roof. Learn Both in the US and Germany a number of about ‚Ecological Building Blocks’ that encourage communities, regions and agencies work on urban inv estors to think Green. planning approaches and practical solutions to Greater Stuttgart Region, the heartland of German address these issues. Through their international enterprises, is facing a number of land use issues, Green Communities Exchange exposure, the Devens Enterprise Commission, including urban sprawl. Learn about tools and The cost of the study tour is 1650€ / person Massachusetts, and Ecoindustry Co., Germany, policy of regional land management and brown- (including all transfers in Germany, meals and full have initiated the Green Communities Exchange to field redevelopment on former military bases, inner- guided program, excluding international airfare, enable a hands-on sharing of urban-industrial city land recycling and small footprint design. Meet accommodation, and individual travel insurance). solutions between the US and Germany. city and regional planners during a workshop for first For further details and a full tour schedule please -hand exchange of ideas. visit http://web.me.com/ecoprojects/ Initial exchange activities include a Webinar on Schoenau, a small town near Freiburg that has germantour2008/ or contact September 11, (see announcement) and a study bought their energy system from the large suppliers Organization & Coordination tour to Germany. and transformed it through its utility EWS to provide Andreas W. Koenig, Ecoindustry, Huenstetten only renewable energy to the city and other [email protected] The Study Tour customers nationwide. Learn about their policy The study tour will provide first-hand experience on approach how a change to renewables is possible. Peter Lowitt. Devens Enterprise Commission some of Germanys most prominent urban green [email protected] development cases in recent years. The study tour is
www.planning.org/international intERPLAN 85 Summer 2008 Page 6 industrial land. Session speakers will help German Green participants to apply German best practice concepts in the United States. With highly Communities Webinar regulated land use and environmental protection standards, and despite available or all International Division members in urban and industrial brownfields, urban sprawl is need of CM credits, you are welcome to a critical issue in Germany. Yet through Fparticipate in an International Division economic restructuring of the Ruhr District activity that has been submitted for 1.5 hours (Europe’s largest industrial area) and the of CM credits (pending approval). This is a free redevelopment of industrial complexes in eastern online webinar, and participants will need Germany after unification, several approaches to internet and phone access to participate. A sustainable land management have been full description of the event is provided below. developed and successfully implemented. Interested members who would like to reserve a spot can email [email protected]. You will The Session will highlight policies implemented by receive an email with login information and the city of Freiburg, including the Solar City approach and the new suburb of Vauban. The German Green Communities Organizers Web address once your registration is lessons provided by the Messestadt Riem are also processed. For further questions, please Peter C. Lowitt Proposer presented; a former airport site, it has been Andreas W. Koenig, Moderation contact Jennifer Venema, Vice-Chair for converted using an award-winning suburb [Photos on pages 6 & 7 courtesy of Andreas Special Projects, at concept, and maximization of sustainable Koenig] [email protected]. private sector investment has been achieved through innovative planning tools. The Session will Presenters & Working Titles German Green Communities: Best Practices in also delineate the experience of the cities in the Theo Bauernschmidt, Director of Planning, City Urban-Industrial Development pilot project for Eco-Industrial Parks in the state of Planning Office (East), Munich Thursday September 11, 2008 North-Rhine Westphalia, including: Bottrop’s Munich Riem: Development of a New City 9 am Pacific/ 12 pm Eastern engagement process that successfully assisted Quarter with Ecological Targets at the old enterprises in redeveloping industrial parks using Munich Airport Summary sustainability criteria, and the Metabolon Plagued with the challenges of urban sprawl, project’s conversion of a landfill into a Wulf Daseking, Director of Planning, City American planners are working to find viable commercial resource recovery park. Lastly, Planning Office, Freiburg alternatives to increased land consumption and insights are provided by the Stuttgart Region Sustainable City Planning in Freiburg the tools needed to capitalize on under-utilized Association about their use of a regional brownfield sites. settlement policy as a strategy for sustainable development, including a report on their Dirk Vallée, Director, Institute for Urban and engagement of rural communities in sustainable Transport Planning, RWTH Aachen University land management and the difficulties of (former Executive Technical Director, Stuttgart The session provides planners with insights from German planning experts who provide policy implementing smart-growth ideas in the existing Region Association) administrative and political landscape. Regional Settlement Management as Chance tools and approaches that have succeeded in for Sustainable Development the implementation of sustainable community development and the conversion of urban-
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Submitted by Ric Stephens to specific sites, urbanism, architecture, anthropology, and contemporary art are some arole is a dynamic dictionary of the of the multiple material included in parole. contemporary city, or at least this was the As its nature is permanently unstable and pintention when it was launched in June deprived of any hierarchy, parole is subject to 2000 in occasion of the 7th International shifts and alterations towards directions which Exhibition of Architecture at the Biennale in are actually unpredictable. Venice, Italy. In occasion of its different presentations within Since then parole has become a vast, loose, heterogeneous website, probably less easily defined with such a stringent term as “dictionary”.
Currently about 900 words related to the transformation of the urban landscape are organized in a hypermedia database, along with more than 1000 links to & from the Internet.
Images, texts, quotations, comments, fragments of text, links to external websites, videos, sounds, webcams are some of the Dirigible Instant City scattered elements which constitute its fragmented mosaic. localized conditions, such as a museum or a gallery space, we have tried to accomplish a parole acts as an open platform for certain degree of interaction with the context, information, discussion, archive, gathering of in order to allow the project to present a direct data, it is a place where much of the material vision of the condition of the contemporary included is directly provided by its users. As in a city in its permanent state of change. type of “Borgesian” dream it establishes a http://parole.aporee.org permanently fluid and unstable mapping of the actual urban condition throughout the world, looking at the variations and alterations in language and in the discourse of several A project of gruppo A12 (Italy), Udo Noll different disciplines. Neologisms, slang terms, (Germany) and Peter Scupelli (USA/Italy) theories, utopic projects, nicknames attributed www.planning.org/international intERPLAN 85 Summer 2008 Page 8 Mobility Nodes as Innovation Hubs
13th International Conference on complexities. Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Cities are the biggest and most complicated invented of mankind. They are important Society places for creativity and innovation as well as By Manfred Schrenk and Christa Kranzl for tolerance and solidarity in the Information and Knowledge Society more than ever. The ast year is the first time half the world’s question of sustainability for our planet will be population lived in cities. For the year decided in the cities. L2025, it is estimated that 6 billion people
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Manfred Schrenk Managing Director CEIT ALANOVA [email protected] or 70 percent of the world’s population will live www.ceit.at in cities. In order to offer city dwellers across the globe the possibility to live together under In places where many people come together, Christa Kranzl humane and peaceful conditions and to information and knowledge is exchanged and State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for support the individual development possibilities new ideas are created. Airports, train stations Transport, Innovation and Technology as well as the economy and the standard of and freeway rest areas are not only Austria living, future-oriented planning of transportation hubs, but rapidly develop as transportation systems and infrastructure is innovation hubs because: needed. Many people with different needs and ideas interact and take new ideas into the To this end, both planning and city world; administration rely on the most modern The reliable functioning of such hubs has to technologies for “comprehensive and future- be ensured so they can foster technical oriented city management” to overcome the (Continued on page 10)
www.planning.org/international intERPLAN 85 Summer 2008 Page 9 (Continued from page 9) and places of work for which they are not development getting any compensation. At the same time, Urban and transportation planning, it appears that every improvement to the architecture and real estate development higher level infrastructure only draws with it face special challenges increased transit and additional burden for the entire network. Transportation hubs rapidly develop as ORP - Competence Center of Urban and business centers, “airport cities” are REAL CORP 2008 focused on the mobility hubs Regional Planning, Association for Promotion noteworthy examples of this development. of the 21st Century. Cand Research of Urban Planning and How can the role of transport hubs as Regional Development in the Information Society. Since the critical infrastructure must function innovation hubs be improved? reliably even under peak loads and loads are Which technologies ensure the reliable CORP activities are not-for-profit and are aimed at always rising, the transportation hubs can be functioning of the hubs and where is further studying, supporting, developing, promoting and consulting on spatially relevant issues related to the fields of urban planning and development, regional planning and politics, urban and environmental technologies, sustainable dev elopment and env ironmental protection, geo-information and geo -data infrastructures, cultural heritage, information society and knowledge society.
The association is a union of physical and legal persons from the areas of economics, science and government who are jointly interested in the interdisciplinary further development of knowledge and promotion thereof in the aforementioned fields. A central issue is the close interconnection of science and research with the economy and government whereby the independence of science construed as drivers of technical progress that improvement needed? and research stands at the forefront. is constantly on the search for better and more How can anticipatory planning ensure the reliable solutions. sustainable development of those The association seeks close and comprehensive structures? collaboration with similar organizations and Transportation hubs also often go hand-in- How can unintentional spatial institutions. It represents the discipline of spatial hand with notable burdens for their neighbors development be avoided? planning and all the previously stated fields in international conferences and professional and the surrounding environment whereby How can environmental issues be dealt organizations. those who profit and those who bear the with? burden often are not the same group of Proceedings and papers from past CORP conferences have been held annually since people. One party is interested in a constant conferences are available at: 1996 and are now among Europe's major expansion of the transportation infrastructure www.corp.at congresses for presenting themes on Urban and better access to appease their mobility Development and Information Society. needs and economic interests, the other sees www.corp.at increasing burdens on their residential areas
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Editorial office By Ric Stephens Are your interests cultural or natural? Ric Stephens, Co-Editor At what level do you wish to engage with Stephens Planning & Design ow do you work as a planner overseas? Here international citizens? 8157 SW Campion Court, Beaverton OR 97008 is a brief guide to helping you decide on a (503) 501-7397 H program that is best suited for you. Where do you wish to work? Do you wish to work in a developing or Who would you like to work with/for? developed country? Educational Institution – Join a university, Do you wish to work in natural or urban institute, or college that has overseas programs. env ironment? Exchange Programs – Join an exchange Do you wish to work in a conflict or stable program that matches planners between env ironment? countries for extended periods. APA has organized exchange programs with the United When do you want to go and return? Kingdom. Select an approach that matches your Grants – Obtain a grant for an international commitment to stay in that country. project or program. Determine v isa and work permit requirements. International Contacts – Contract directly with Balance overseas work with other an overseas organization to prov ide planning commitments. serv ices. NGO – Join a non-governmental organization How can you prepare? that sends staff ov erseas. Refine and develop expertise/experience Private Sector – Join a private firm that sends relevant to the overseas project/program. employees ov erseas. You will need to research Learn about the country/countries planning companies that have ov erseas projects or practices, culture and language. offices. Network with your organization and overseas Planning Organization – Join an international or counterparts. multi-national organization that has international programs/ev ents. ISOCARP, IFHP Why do you want to go? and INTA are some examples. Your ability to make an international experience International Planning Organizations Public Sector – Join an agency that sends staff memorable and meaningful will be determined by ov erseas. There are numerous agencies that http://www.trafford.com/05-0917 how you answer these questions. If you are willing to have international staff: USAID, UNDP are some inv est the time, money and effort required, your examples. experience can even be transforming. Independent Research – Study a topic ov erseas and publish or present findings and recommendations.
What kind of experience do you wish to have? Please share your international planning Do you wish to have structured v isit or full experiences. Ric Stephens isthe co-editor for immersion? INTERPLAN and Principal for Stephens Planning & Design in Beaverton, Oregon.
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ongratulations to 2008 International Launched Division grant recipients Alexis Faraci, CMichael Hooper and Michael Gove. PA’s International Division Each will receive $500 in a Division grant to announces the launching of the further their studies in international planning. AAPA-ID Exchange Program Task Force. The task force will conduct a Alexis will conduct slum research in Mumbai, review during 2008-2009 of existing India. Michael Hooper is gathering social international professional exchange movement research in Dar Es Salaam and Michael Gove will focus on water resources programs (including the International research with UNESCO in Paris. Watch for Division’s exchange program) and the upcoming reports from each on their activities relationship with other APA related in future issues of INTERPLAN. initiatives, such as the Global Planner’s Network; consider existing and emerging e annually award THREE (3) US$500 needs and interests of division members as grants to undergraduate or they relate to professional development in Wgraduate students pursuing a study an international context, and provide abroad program, doing research, or recommendations regarding the future participating in an international internship scope, funding needs and long-term goals program approved by their School or Department. Our program is relatively flexible of the division’s professional exchange recognizing the varied needs that many program. students have for assistance. Applications are now being accepted for the 2009 funding Many thanks to Division members Matt round of this program. Flynn and Dale Medearis for agreeing to co-chair this important effort. Stay tuned Full grant details are on the APAID website at: for updates on the task force’s activities in www.planning.org/international/grants.htm upcoming issues of INTERPLAN. Please contact Chris Kemper for clarification or Mumbai, India if you need additional information. Congratulations and our best wishes to you in your worthy endeavors. www.planning.org/international intERPLAN 85 Summer 2008 Page 12 APA-ID Exchange Program in Ghana
By Kojo Fordjour show to articulate the role of planning in Ghana’s Vision 2015 to attain a middle class t is a matter of priority for the government of status. GIP has expressed interest in attending Ghana to provide adequate support and and participating in APA National and other Icollaborate with the bilateral and conferences and training sessions in 2008. international organizations, private and non- profit organizations, KNUST and Ghana Institute APA sees it as both moral and practical to of Planners (GIP) to restructure the planning advance the cause of good planning and the system in Ghana. On Thursday, December 20, interests of its membership. Recruiting 2007, the President of Ghana inaugurated the American planning expertise and students to Local Government, charged to develop work in Ghana to develop the capacity of the appropriate and adequate capacity in the Ghanaian planners, District, Municipal and enforcement of local government by-laws; local government officials; and KNUST students environmental management and waste is proposed as the core of the APA Ghana management; land use planning; and revenue Exchange program. mobilization. The program will deploy or transfer 3,000 current civil service personnel to Key components of the program include: work in the Local Government Services. The local government system was established in International Exchange and Study Tour the 1992 constitution of Ghana to decentralize The study tour will take the APA and students government services and to involve residents to cities, countryside, tourist sites, planning and in decision-making at the local level. This is the government offices and KNUST to observe, ask area where American Planning Association questions, and take good notes. It will be a (APA) can play a major role as the world’s very rewarding experience for the APA Ghana, Africa most experienced educational organization in member. It is an opportunity to learn how and (Map from Food and Agricultural Organization of the planning. APA recent experiences in China, why things are done the way they are done in United Nations] Mexico and Central America demonstrate its Ghana, and recommend solutions. It is an global recognition and influence. APA will opportunity for the American planning have no language barrier in Ghana because students to identify thesis topics and student English is the official language, and there will counterparts in Ghana to collaborate with. be no need for translation. GIP, Ghanaian planners and local government officials and staff may be invited to participate GIP and other Ghanaian planning bodies in APA conferences where they may share participated, for the first time, in the their planning experience in Ghana and learn celebration of the World Town Planning Day about planning in the USA. on November 8, 2007 by hosting planning conference and appearing on media talk (Continued on page 14)
www.planning.org/international intERPLAN 85 Summer 2008 Page 13 (Continued from page 13) in the USA by working with an American Training Courses planning agency or consultant, by attending The Ejisu Visioning project is a good model to conferences, and professional development start with as a field based learning. Develop tours in both public and private sectors in the short sandwich courses and workshops jointly USA. for planning professionals and metropolitan assemblies. APA, GIP and KNUST may establish Benefit to APA: a joint African Center for Planning and Opportunities to apply knowledge and skills Community Development in Ghana to in Africa. champion and promote good planning in Exposure to new perspectives and Africa. A list of potential training topics is encouragement to rethink American attached. planners’ assumptions about planning practices. Technical Assistance and promotion of Experience daily lives of Ghanaians. American private sector planning and design Research and publication opportunities for firms American planners and universities. Bring more American planning consultants into Professional development and contact with Ghanaian leaders and rejuvenation organizations. Also working side by side with Humanitarian reasons. To provide the Ghanaian planners, APA will impact resources, knowledge, or training to areas Ghana National Arms knowledge, skills and good planning practices of the world that is the least fortunate and [Coat of Arms courtesy Ghana People and Places] to the GIP counterparts. The American desperate. planning consultants have great opportunity Positive Image. It contributes to the positive to be involved in the successful image of APA and its prestige as a implementation of US government funded dynamic institution dedicated to poverty reduction programs and community excellence in urban and regional planning. development projects in Ghana. Ghana has Global Influence. APA will apply its received over $500 million to reduce poverty experience and expertise to influence from US Millennium Challenge Account, and issues of greater impacts such as HIV/AIDS, other community development initiatives from malaria, poverty, cultural conservation, the American government. heritage, social equity and environmental protection. Mentorship The GIP has struggled in the past ten years as an active professional organization. Therefore, This report is provided to the APA-ID by grant it does not have much visibility in the national recipient Kojo Fordjour [email protected]. planning and community development arena. APA will mentor GIP to be effective planning organization by helping build its membership and develop educational programs for them. GIP members may job shadow APA members
www.planning.org/international intERPLAN 85 Summer 2008 Page 14 APA China Tour Italian China's Ancient Capitals October 21–30, 2008 Placemaking Trip Exclusive Access to Rarely Seen Sites May 31-June 6, 2009 rare look at ancient city plans at the National Library of China. A sneak-peek at he Planning Commissioners Journal is teaming Anew archeological findings at the tomb of up with Adventures in Italy for a Place Making the terra cotta warriors. A talk with the chief Ttrip to Orvieto, Italy, next Spring. Sitting 700 engineer of the national historic preserv ation feet above the Umbrian valley, Orv ieto is rich in organization. APA's tour of China offers a once-in-a- Etruscan, medieval, and Renaissance history and lifetime chance to see China as only heads of state architecture. The flat hilltop provides both easy see it. walking and amazing v istas. Orvieto is renowned for both its wine and olive oil -- and it boasts what is arguably the best Gothic cathedral in Italy. 10 days in China with guides who know Terra Cotta Warriors, China Join the staff of the Planning Commissioners Journal planning as we: [Photo courtesy APA] Insiders explain the ins and outs of planning in China Discov er how this small city applied urban Discuss the latest trends and challenges with planning principles to create its extraordinary Chinese officials public realm, while sav oring Italian food, wine See China's ancient capitals from a planner's and culture. perspective Gain the insiders perspectiv e by meeting face- Enjoy traditional Chinese meals and top-notch to-face with the people guiding Orv ieto in hotels maintaining and enhancing its superb people- Visit famous landmarks and lesser-known — but friendly env ironment. spectacular — attractions Investigate CittaSlow, the international Slow Cities movement headquartered in Orvieto, Through its China Program, APA has been working which focuses on improv ing the quality of life for years to develop fruitful relationships among through a local economy, excellence in the American planners, their Chinese counterparts, and physical and natural env ironment, and by Chinese decision makers in government and welcoming outsiders. business. Those connections have helped us put Observe and document the qualities that make together a tour like no other with access to dynamic "people places." Orvieto, Italy exclusive sites and elite scholars and officials. Relax at the end of each day, and enjoy Extend your stay and attend the Global Planners [Photo courtesy Planning Commissioners Journal] conversations with fellow planners and their Network Congress in Zhenjiang and the World Urban companions. We'll share insights and reflect on Forum in Nanjing. how each days' discoveries can be applied in Global Planners Network Congress, Zhenjiang our own communities. October 31–November 2, 2008 Interested? Receive more information by calling our World Urban Forum, Nanjing office: (802) 864-9083. November 3–7, 2008
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