FALL 2013, ISSUE 11 APPI PLANNIN Alberta Professional Planners Institute Iqaluit: Transformation of an Inuit Capital Transportation Sharing in Paris Planners Ponder their Careers Book Review – Assessing Sustainability APPI Council The APPI Planning Journal offers opportunity for publication of original President Eleanor Mohammed, rPP, mciP works that are both community-based and research oriented, and relevant to [email protected] Past President Alberta, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. Types of submissions include Beth Sanders, rPP, mciP [email protected] case studies, analysis of events and/or trends, profiles of notable planners, treasurer projects, or programs, overviews of best practices and guidelines, book Dnyanesh Deshpande rPP, mciP [email protected] reviews or excerpts, and opinion pieces. councillor Scott Pragnell, rPP, mciP [email protected] The APPI Planning Journal Committee is anxious to hear your councillor feedback. Please submit any comments you may have about this issue to Ken Melanson, rPP, mciP [email protected] [email protected]. Your comments, suggestions and feedback are councillor critical for the Journal’s continued improvement and for us to provide the Teresa Goldstein, rPP, mciP best possible publication that meets the expectations of our readers. [email protected] councillor Misty Sklar, rPP, mciP Earn CPL Learning Units! [email protected] By preparing an article for the Planning Journal you can earn between councillor Anthony Ferri 3.0 and 6.0 structured learning units. 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Comment on this issue of the Planning Journal and follow APPI activities online at: @ _APPI_ (2 underscores on each side of APPI) or you can use the following link: http://twitter.com/#!/__APPI__ Search Group Page: APPI-Alberta Professional Planners Institute or http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=33730560446&v=wall Search Group Page: APPI-Alberta Professional Planners Institute or http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3342927&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr desin & layout by Plumbheavy Design Inc. www.plumbheavy.ca cover imae source: Arif Sayani IN thIs Issue… Iqaluit: Transformation of an Inuit Capital submitted BY Arif Sayani rPP, mciP Transportation Sharing in Paris submitted BY Jennifer Black Sports & Entertainment Centres submitted BY Ron Bidulka SOURCE: Jennifer Black Planners Ponder their Careers interviews by Imai Welch & Tasha Elliott Book Review – Assessing Sustainability submitted BY Amber Nicol rPP, mciP SOURCE: iStockphoto 2012 APPI Planning Awards Part II In Memory of: Panagoitios (Peter) Apostolakos submitted BY Christopher Booth SOURCE: Glenbow Archives Fellow Talk submitted BY Bill Shaw fciP, rPP SOURCE: Bill Shaw Search Group Page: APPI-Alberta Professional Planners Institute or http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=33730560446&v=wall Search Group Page: APPI-Alberta Professional Planners Institute or http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3342927&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr submitted BY Cities and Environment Unit, Dalhousie University Message from the President I would like to start off by thanking the Membership manual. This manual will be released this fall and for electing me to be your President. I am excited will assist members in understanding what CPL and grateful to be taking on such an important role is all about and the ‘ins and outs’ of recording for our Institute. I would also like to thank outgoing units. The Municipal Government Act Task Force Council Members Tara Steell and Gary Buchanan has also been hard at work researching and - their work for and with the Institute has been gathering the Membership’s feedback for changes tremendous and we have all benefitted from it. we’d all like to see to the Municipal Government In June the new APPI Council met to explore Act. As a final push before the Task Force makes and delineate our intentions for the coming recommendations to APPI Council, it will be hosting year. At this meeting a number of items came workshops this fall. Please take the opportunity to the forefront including the importance of to participate in these events, as your feedback communication, mentorship, membership in the is important to the Institute and is in the overall north, right to practice, continuous professional Public’s interest. learning, APPI’s relationship with the Canadian Finally, I want to congratulate the 2013 Institute of Planners, and the need to start updating Conference Committee on the great work that they the APPI 2010-2014 Strategic Plan. These items have completed to date. We are on track to have have been prioritized and scheduled in future a fantastic conference in October at the Fairmont Council agendas right through to next year’s annual Jasper Park Lodge. The conference - Plant, Shake general meeting. While these items were at the and Sustain your Tree: Which Competency are you top of Council’s mind, there is always room on its Developing? - has been developed around CPL and meeting agendas to add items brought forward by the APPI Competency Tree. It invites us to reflect on the membership. Should you have an item or an our own learning paths and what competencies we initiative that you wish Council to address, I invite need to develop and maintain in order to succeed you to contact either myself or APPI Administration. in our professional planning careers. I’m really There are a number of initiatives underway looking forward to the conference and hope to at the Institute, two of which I will take the see you there! opportunity to highlight here. Last year the Membership voted in favour of mandatory Eleanor Mohammed rPP, mciP recording of continuous professional learning President (CPL) units. In order to support this endeavour, the Alberta Professional Planners Institute Continuous Professional Learning Committee has been hard at work preparing a new user-friendly 4 Alberta Professional Planners Institute Message from the Past President As past president, I serve as APPI’s representative In behind these two scenarios are some really on the board of the Canadian Institute of Planners, big questions – which would be in the national a role I have undertaken immediately following public interest? Is there a third option? What are our AGM on April 26, 2013. Following CIP Council’s your thoughts? organizational meeting in July 2013, I am serving CIP is required by federal legislation to put in as Treasurer and chair of the finance committee, as place new bylaws by November, 2014, so you can well as on the governance committee, critical roles expect to be engaged over the next year and a half as CIP grapples with identifying a new purpose for to chart the next iteration of CIP and what it means the organization. to the profession and Canadians. Over the last 18 months, the context for CIP has As members of APPI and CIP, please let me changed dramatically. The Professional Standards know your thoughts. I can be reached at 780-886- Committee (formerly the National Membership 0354 or [email protected]. Standards Committee) has largely completed its work coordinating the development of standards for Beth Sanders rPP, mciP member certification and accreditation of academic Past President planning programs across Canada. The Professional APPI Representative on CIP Council Standards Board, created by APPI, five affiliates and CIP, is established and overseeing member certification and accreditation. These two pieces of work only need CIP’s attention as a partner. So CIP needs to figure out its purpose and organize accordingly. I see two options: 1. CIP as an association of professional planning institutes from across the country, where all – and only – affiliate members are members of CIP; or 2. CIP as a broad “big tent” family where membership is self-selected and cross-disciplinary, like the American Planning Association. Planning Journal, Fall 2013 5 Message from the Journal Committee With each prospective issue of the Journal, the Committee casts its net wide looking for contributors, and seeding ideas in the hope that someone will take the time to nurture them.