World Town Planning Day
APPI supports World Town Planning Day (WTPD) as an opportunity to promote better understanding and awareness of Canadian Planners and planning to the local community and all levels of government. WTPD is November 8 of each year. APPI Regional Event Committees are proud ambassadors and host various events to connect planner, public and government.
On the week of November 4-8, CIP will hold a week-long online conference, which will showcase presentations on important planning issues and innovations from Canada and around the world.
https://www.cip-icu.ca/WTPD2019#
CIP WTPD Call for Abstracts Deadline: September 13, 2019 5:00 pm EDT https://www.cip-icu.ca/Files/WTPD/Call-for-Abstracts-WTPD-2019.aspx
APPI 2019 WTPD Events!
'City Dreamers' a film by Joseph Hillel November 6 at the Metro Cinema, 7:00 PM, Edmonton Click here for the poster.
WTPD Webinar, November 8 online, 10:00 AM, School of Community Government Click here for the poster. Contact Scott Lough, [email protected] for further information and to register.
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APPI Council Call for Nominations
The APPI Nominating Committee is tasked with the duty of presenting the membership with a slate of nominees for vacant positions on Council, including President Elect, and the Committee is actively recruiting potential volunteers at this time. If you are interested in running for a position on APPI Council, or if you would like additional information about serving on APPI Council, please contact the APPI Office. Click here for further information and the Nominating forms.
University of Calgary, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
Doctor of Design
A doctoral degree for practicing design professionals who want to build recognized expertise in a specific topic area and elevate their professional career to a new level.
The DDes is intended for mid-career design professionals with at least five to seven years of professional experience and a desire to augment the expertise developed in their career through focused, applied research at the doctoral level. \
Deadline to apply is February 1, 2020. Click here for complete information. Click here for press release.
PLAN North West
The Summer 2019, Issue 5 is now available, click here.
PLAN NW invites planners who are members of APPI as well those who are not, to submit articles or concepts for articles, for consideration in upcoming issues of this planning publication. Click here for submission information.