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Planners Network is an association of professionals, activists, academics, and students involved in physical, social, economic, and environmental planning in urban and rural areas, who promote fundamental change in our political and economic systems.

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.
  • 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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