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| The Planners Network 2007 Conference took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, from May 30 to June 2. This website is an archive of the conference website, and is for reference only. |
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Community Workshop
Meeting Point
Thursday May 31st. 9:00 AM SHARP.
All Community Workshops will
depart from the Hampton Inn at
226 Carondelet. Buses will be
leaving at 9:00 AM so please arrive
by 9am at the latest. Being early is a sign of wisdom
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| GETTING AROUND AT THE
CONFERENCE: Information
on car rentals, getting to and from the airport and
conference center, rideshares + where to get your
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PRESENTATIONS,
PANELS, WORKSHOPS & CAUCUSES: We
are thrilled to have a diverse and interesting array of
classroom-based sessions, led by practitioners, researchers,
students and citizens from around the world. Sessions are divided
into four categories, in order to enable attendees to choose not
only the correct subject area but the type of session.
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MUMFORD AWARDS:
The funky and famous Maple Leaf Bar in Uptown and local
legends Soul Rebels will help the conference will close
out in style, with a celebration of some of planning's
best in true New Orleans style. The event will also mark
the beginning of ADPSR and ACD's Great Gumbo Conference.
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YOUTH PLANNERS @ PN2007:
High schoolers from California, New York and Louisiana
will meet for their very own mini-conference in New
Orleans in conjunction with PN2007, as well as
participate in conference workshops, sessions and in the
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Celebrating the City- A Night
of People's History on Film:
Planners Network is joining forces with local filmmakers and
activists to host an evening of independent film shorts from
New Orleans and the nation. Friday evening June 1.
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| HOST A LOCAL CONFERENCE
FUNDRAISER! Get to know
other local PNers and help chapter members pay for the
conference by hosting a local fundraiser. Planners
Network can even help subsidize the cost of the event!
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| TWO GREAT CONFERENCES
- ONE WEEK IN LOUISIANA: PN is collaborating with the
Association for Community
Design (ACD)
and
Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility
(ADPSR) to ensure that our many joint
members can attend both the PN conference and
The Great Gumbo:
Stirring the Pot of Community Design,
June 3-5 at
LSU in Baton Rouge. ADPSR's 2007 Louis
Mumford awards, to be held in New Orleans on Saturday evening, June
2nd, will be a shared event.
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| ACCOMMODATIONS:
Information on hotels,
B&B's, hostels, and homestays, as well as where to go
for housing assistance and advice.
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PLENARY PANELS: An in-depth
conversation on planning in the aftermath of Katrina. Participants
include
Mtangulizi Sanyika (African American Leadership Project), Traci
Washington (NAACP Gulf Coast Advocacy Ctr.), John Forester, Chester
Hartman, Richard Hayes (ACORN Housing), Dominique Duval-Diop (PolicyLink)
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Hurricane Katrina exposed
tremendous rifts over class, race and community, not just in
New Orleans
but throughout the United States and around the world. It also shook
the very foundation of planning and governance, whose failures were
broadcast in high definition to the global community. Yet the effort
to dig out and rebuild has been marked by tremendous innovation and
will on the part of local communities, despite
continued abandonment at the federal level.
The
2007 Planners Network
Conference will
confront issues of race, class, injustice and the failures of
planning, while seeking to learn from the work of community-based
organizations, dedicated planners and
local residents.
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. The
planning department at the
University of New Orleans
is the only accredited planning program in Louisiana, Mississippi or
Arkansas, and has been extremely active in community-based planning
efforts in the aftermath of the hurricanes. |
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