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Planners Network International Conference 2013
Beyond Resilience: Actions for a Just Metropolis

June 6 – 8, 2013, New York City Metro Area
Registration Open! Please visit http://justmetropolis.org/

Cataclysmic events across North America and throughout the world such as Hurricane Sandy lay bare the ongoing crises in low-income communities: unemployment, foreclosures, homelessness, and service cutbacks. However, community-based organizations and activist networks are mobilizing, networking, and filling the gaps left by the failure of local and federal responses. This organizing continues beyond simple resilience, toward building a more just collective future. The conference includes:

• Screening of “My Brooklyn” and a discussion with the filmmaker.
• Dialogue with community groups & residents at mobile community workshops.
• A celebration of justice and action at Pratt Brooklyn’s historic Higgins Hall.
• A full day of diverse conference panels, interactive workshops, and plenaries.
• An evening performance by Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping.

Featured presenters include

John Davis, Burlington Associates; Mindy Fullilove, NY State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University; Rachel LaForest, Right to the City Alliance; Erminia Maricato, University of São Paolo; Peter Marcuse, Columbia University; Marla Nelson, University of New Orleans; Miguel Robles-Durán, Parsons/New School; Tony Schuman, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Aixa Torres, Smith Houses Resident Association; and dozens more!

Co-sponsored by Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility and Association of Community Design.

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