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2024 Division Webinars

2024 Urban Design and Preservation Division Webinar Program

Hosted by APA Divisions and Chapters Planning Webcast Series

Friday, October 18, 2024 | 1 PM - 2:30 PM ET

Planning Pioneer or Planning Pariah? Rethinking Bartholomew’s Legacy

Named a planning pioneer by the American Planning Association, Harland Bartholomew profoundly impacted professional planning, formalizing the use of zoning and comprehensive plans and influencing transportation and housing practices nationwide.  These past planning practices shaped today’s communities and created and sustained racial and economic segregation. This webinar will explore the complicated legacy of Harland Bartholomew nationwide and in three cities: Washington, DC, Louisville, KY, and St. Louis, MO.  The panel will also discuss measures to identify and address these legacies in the built environment.

Speakers:

Moderator: Melissa Lindsjo, AICP, Urban Planner, National Capital Planning Commission

Marcel Acosta, Executive Director, National Capital Planning Commission

Joel Dock, AICP, Planning Supervisor, City of Louisville, Kentucky Office of Planning

Don Roe, Executive Director, City of St. Louis, Missouri Planning and Urban Design Agency

Dr. Mark Benton, Assistant Research Professor, University of Missouri College of Health Sciences Center for Health Policy

AICP: CM: 1.5, Equity: 1.0

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Friday, August 23, 2024 | 1 PM - 2:30 PM ET

D-PRAT and Serving the Underserved: Lessons on Creative Partnerships

For too many disadvantaged communities, change for the better remains elusive. Access to planning and urban design expertise is limited and often non-existent. The American Planning Association’s Urban Design and Preservation Division (UDP) created and deployed the Design and Preservation Rapid Assistance Team (D-PRAT) to solve problems related to planning, urban design, and historic preservation in collaboration with local governments and community organizations. This unique program has allowed us to engage UDP members as volunteers to help create various partnerships with communities across the country and include other supporting regional and state agencies to address problems such as equity design, climate adaptation, placemaking, historic preservation, and main street revitalization. D-PRAT offers a model that can be applied to communities from small rural areas to dense urban centers. The program is centered on an intense two-day workshop focused on a quick-response strategy while daylighting the steps needed to build the framework for long-term revitalization opportunities. This unique program has allowed us to engage UDP members as volunteers to help create various partnerships with communities across the country and include other supporting regional and state agencies to address problems such as equity design, climate adaptation, placemaking, historic preservation, and main street revitalization. D-PRAT offers a model that can be applied to communities from small rural areas to dense urban centers. The program is centered on an intense two-day workshop focused on a quick-response strategy while daylighting the steps needed to build the framework for long-term revitalization opportunities. [CM: 1.5]

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Friday, June 21, 2024 | 1 PM - 2:30 PM ET

Take Me Out to the Ballgame: Connecting Stadiums to Communities

Speaker: Janet Marie Smith, Executive Vice President, Planning and Development, Los Angeles Dodgers and Founder & Executive Chair, Canopy Team

When carefully planned with their surroundings, new sports facilities offer the opportunity to revitalize communities, promote economic development, and create great places. Learn lessons from renowned urban designer and architect Janet Marie Smith, who was instrumental in overseeing the design of the pioneering Orioles Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, the renovation of historic Fenway Park in Boston, the development of minor league and spring training stadiums, and the recent modernization of Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles. In addition to serving as the Executive Vice President of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Smith and Fran Weld, recently formed Canopy, a woman-led company devoted to the design and management of sports projects and their surrounding developments. [CM 1.5]

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Friday, May 31, 2024 | 1 PM - 2:30 PM ET

Planning, Preservation, and Change: The Federal Perspective

Speaker: Sara Bronin, Chair, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

Sara C. Bronin, the Senate-confirmed Chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, underscores the importance of historic and cultural resources within the federal development portfolio and offers a refreshing approach to historic preservation and its role in addressing some of today’s most pressing issues. Chair Bronin recently issued a report on federal historic preservation standards that guide federal, state, and local regulatory processes, and she is encouraging new interpretations and additions to them that respond to the need for economic growth and housing, environmental sustainability, and climate change.  She is also guiding the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation through a process that could update the way these standards are interpreted in upwards of 120,000 federal agency actions reviewed under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act annually. [CM: 1.5]

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Friday, May 3, 2024 | 1 PM - 2:30 PM ET

The Relevancy Guidebook: How We Can Transform the Future of Preservation

Speaker: Bonnie McDonald, CEO & President, Landmarks Illinois

Join Landmarks Illinois CEO Bonnie McDonald to discuss the preservation field's current challenges based on her interviews with preservation professionals and advocates. Key findings from the Relevancy project include creating a just preservation movement, dismantling preservation's "culture of preciousness," focusing on affordable housing, addressing climate change, and creating preservation job opportunities. [CM: 1.5]

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