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Tuesdays at APA Join APA each month for the after-work lecture and discussion series, Tuesdays at APA. Practicing planners and researchers discuss innovative ideas and concepts or present their latest projects. Come find out what's working for your colleagues and discuss the latest trends and controversies in the profession. APA's Chicago office bookstore will be open during the event so you can peruse the latest planning-focused publications. The events are free and open to APA members and nonmembers. No reservations required.
APA's Chicago office is located on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Adams Street, directly across from the Art Institute of Chicago. Several public transportation lines are close by, and paid parking is available in nearby public garages.
Local Planning for Broadband Infrastructure Tuesday, September 16, 2008 • 5:00 p.m. In Illinois, the governor's Broadband Deployment Council has developed recommendations for growing Internet infrastructure to ensure the future economic vitality of the state. These recommendations raise a number of questions for local planners. Ronald Thomas, AICP, and Layton Olson, co-chairs of the Illinois Broadband Deployment Council, will discuss how broadband right-of-way planning works in the physical and virtual world. They will also speculate on how broadband speeds could redefine the built environment.
Employer-Assisted Housing Tuesday, October 14, 2008 • 5:00 p.m. Employer-Assisted Housing (EAH) in Illinois has proven itself to be a meaningful strategy for leveraging employer dollars as well as leadership from both the private and public sectors. With Illinois among the top 10 states for residential foreclosures, most planners agree that public sector resources are insufficient to address the demand for quality affordable housing. In both expensive high job growth communities and more affordable redeveloping communities, resources are tight, community acceptance is limited, and political leadership around housing is very challenging. Still, there's been tremendous headway on housing policy at the state and local level in the last ten years, when Illinois' first ever state housing policy was created, transformed into a Comprehensive Housing Plan and codified into law. Various pieces of legislation have passed to support this new Plan, and dozens of local leaders have introduced new policies, development proposals which advance both state and local housing goals. Robin Snyderman will share how EAH has worked for employers and communities of all types and sizes, and she will discuss how policymakers have leveraged this investment to support greater affordable and workforce housing policies and proposals.
Food Systems Planning Tuesday, November 11, 2008 • 5:00 p.m. For planners there is no better time than now to start thinking about where our food comes from, beginning with the farm and ending on our plates. With a global food crisis gaining momentum what role can planners play in both preservation and improvement of the food system? Lynn Peemoeller, co-chair of the Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council, will discuss the environmental, health, social justice, and policy implications of food, and she will share her perspective on how APA's Community and Regional Food Policy Guide informs the planner's role in the complex food system.
January 13, 2009 February 10, 2009
Did you miss Tuesdays at APA? Information about the presentations is available.
July 15, 2008: Integrated Ecological Planning and Site Design: Approaching Green Practice June 2008: Chicago's Plan for the 2016 Olympics May 2008: Man, Machine, and Movement: The Parking Garage April 2008: Green Infrastructure Mapping March 2008: Madison Street Corridor Revitalization February 2008: City of American Dreams, A History of Chicago Homeownership January 2008: The I-Go Car Sharing Program November 2007: Regional Water Supply Planning in Northeastern Illinois October 2007: Tax Increment Financing in the Chicago Region September 2007: Historic Chicago Greystone Initiative July 2007: The Last Four Miles: Completing Chicago's Public Lakefront June 2007: Planning in Today's New Orleans May 2007: Effects of Regional Housing Dynamics on Older Suburbs March 2007: Historic Preservation in Chicago February 2007: Chicago's Zoning History January 2007: LISC Chicago's New Communities Program December 2006: The Two Visions of Private Land November 2006: Regional Planning in Northeastern Illinois: A New Direction October 2006: The Politics of Planning August 2006: Using New Urbanism to Transform Corridors June 2006: Anthony Flint and This Land May 2006: On The Corner: Day Labor in the United States March 2006: Selling Mixed Use in a Low Density Suburban Community December 2005: LEED Standards for Neighborhood Developments (LEED-ND) November 2005: Post-Disaster Recovery Planning September 2005: Too Big, Boring, or Ugly
Are you interested in presenting at a future Tuesdays at APA? Contact Contact David Morley at dmorley@planning.org.
Questions? Call APA at 312-431-9100 or e-mail PublicInfo@planning.org
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Ronald Thomas, AICP, was the executive director of the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission from 2000–2008. He led the commission's Common Ground initiative, which has become a national model for community-based regional planning. He is currently consulting on the Charleston, South Carolina, Regional Plan, the America 2050 Megaregion initiative, and the Illinois Broadband Initiative.
Layton Olson is an attorney, government relations advisor, and project manager with over 40 years of experience in California, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Since 1995, he has been working at Howe & Hutton, Ltd. Olson has led Chicago regional and Illinois statewide public-private initiatives in environmental improvement, regional planning, leadership development, and telecommunication extension to underserved areas.
Robin Synderman is the vice president of community development for the Metropolitan Policy Council (MPC). While working at MPC she helped launch several nationally recognized regional efforts, including the Regional Employer-Assisted Collaboration for Housing (REACH), the landmark Regional Rental Market Analysis, a partnership with the Housing Committee of the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, the Building Successful Mixed Income Communities Forums, and the Regional Housing Initiative. In 2002, Snyderman staffed the Transition Team Housing Committee for Governor Rod Blagojevich and currently serves on the executive committee of the Governor's Housing Task Force.
Lynn Peemoeller is a food systems planner who lives in Chicago and works on projects and policy to support sustainable agriculture, strengthen the local food system, and encourage environmentally sound economic development. Peemoeller has more than 10 years experience with farmers markets throughout the country and was previously the program director at Sustain. Currently she is an independent consultant working on community food plans and a freelance writer on planning, food, and nature. Peemoeller is on the board of directors for Slow Food Chicago, and a co-chair of the Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council.