Events, Lectures + Exhibitions : Planners Network Conference on Design
The conference was held June 2-5, 2005, with over 250 participants.

Tours

The following tours will take place on Friday, June 3rd. The tours are full-day tours and include a box lunch.

Note: Minnesota weather in early June can be unpredictable. Please bring warm, comfortable clothing and rain gear for the tours.

Tour 1-Indigenous Planning in Minneapolis and Mille Lacs
Tour leaders: John Koepke, UMN Department of Landscape Architecture and Richard Milgrom, Metropolitan Design Center

Tour 2-Ecological Restoration in the Center Cities
Tour leader: Laura Musacchio, UMN Department of Landscape Architecture

Tour 3-Urban Food Systems
Tour leader: Beth Munnich, Renewing the Countryside

CANCELLED - Tour 4-Central City Open Space and Low Impact Design
Tour leader: Katherine Thering, Metropolitan Design Center

CLOSED - Tour 5/6-Affordable Housing
Tour leaders: Ed Goetz, UMN Planning Program, Gretchen Nicholls, Center for Neighborhoods, and Ann Forsyth, Metropolitan Design Center
Please note that this tour is a combination of two separate housing tours advertised earlier.

CANCELLED - Tour 7-L(a)RT: Public Art and Design on the Light Rail and Beyond
Tour leaders: Kristine Miller, UMN Department of Landscape Architecture and Shelly Willis, UMN Weisman Art Museum
Please note that this is an afternoon tour.

Tour 8-Transit Oriented Development and the Light Rail: From Affordable Housing to the Mall of America
Tour leader: Mark Garner, City of Minneapolis and Frank Fitzgerald, Metropolitan Design Center

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Events, Lectures + Exhibitions : Planners Network Conference on Design The conference was held June 2-5, 2005, with over 250 participants.

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Events, Lectures + Exhibitions : Planners Network Conference on Design
The conference was held June 2-5, 2005, with over 250 participants.