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    •  Check out the latest in sustainable living architecture at Cities Alive next week! Held at the Congress Plaza Hotel, there is a wide range of price points for seminar registration depending on selections. Download free trade show passes: http://livewall.com/docs/Cities_Alive_Pass.pdf
      October 12 at 1:13pm
    • Trouble to stay update with the urban world? Urbanicide is a collaborative platform using Facebook as a giant news feed in urban planning and architecture. Taking part of Urbanicide not only means following urban planning and architecture current affairs, it also means sharing the pages you like with all the community. Share with us now!
      October 11 at 8:15am
    •  An interesting review by the NRDC of a documentary on how America has failed to design communities that allow senior citizens to age in place. http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/our_failure_to_create_meaningf.html
      October 10 at 11:15am
  2. Time is running out! Vote for the sessions you want in the Members' Choice Track at the next National Planning Conference. Tomorrow is the deadline to vote.

    http://www.planning.org/conference/program/memberschoice.htm
    Photo: Time is running out! Vote for the sessions you want in the Members' Choice Track at the next National Planning Conference. Tomorrow is the deadline to vote. 

http://www.planning.org/conference/program/memberschoice.htm
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  4. The Academy of Urban Planning in Brooklyn is a thematic high school. It opened in 2003 as part of the New Century High School Initiatives, a program that aimed to reform large traditional high schools and transform them into smaller, theme-based learning communities.

    Read more about the school's progress at http://blogs.planning.org/kids/2012/10/12/update-from-brooklyns-urban-planning-high-school/
    Photo: The Academy of Urban Planning in Brooklyn is a thematic high school. It opened in 2003 as part of the New Century High School  Initiatives, a program that aimed to reform large traditional high schools and transform them into smaller, theme-based learning communities.  

Read more about the school's progress at http://blogs.planning.org/kids/2012/10/12/update-from-brooklyns-urban-planning-high-school/
  5. Are comprehensive and sustainability plans adequately addressing public health? APA’s Planning and Community Health Research Center’s free report analyzes 22 plans.

    The link to the full report is available at: http://blogs.planning.org/sustainability/2012/10/10/a-snapshot-of-health-in-planning/
    Photo: Are comprehensive and sustainability plans adequately addressing public health? APA’s Planning and Community Health Research Center’s free report analyzes 22 plans. 

The link to the full report is available at: http://blogs.planning.org/sustainability/2012/10/10/a-snapshot-of-health-in-planning/
  6. What is the planning connection between Canberra, Australia, and Chicago? Find out tonight at a free lecture at the APA Chicago Office.

    http://www.planning.org/features/2012/canberra.htm

    (Photo: Australian Capital Tourism)
    Photo: What is the planning connection between Canberra, Australia, and Chicago? Find out tonight at a free lecture at the APA Chicago Office. 

http://www.planning.org/features/2012/canberra.htm 

(Photo: Australian Capital Tourism)
  7. October is National Community Planning Month. It's time to celebrate planning and planners. Click "like" if you support planning.
    Photo: October is National Community Planning Month. It's time to celebrate planning and planners. Click "like" if you support planning.
  8. Kudos to The Morrisville, North Carolina, Planning Department for showing us a great way to interact with a local elementary school during National Community Planning Month.
  9. Hydrofracking? Microblight? Civic hacking? Smart growth? The choice is yours. Time is running out to vote for the sessions you want in the Members’ Choice Track at the April National Planning Conference. Cast your vote by Oct. 17.
  10. Which public health topics receive the most and least attention in comprehensive and sustainability plans? APA reviewed 22 plans for a detailed evaluation of their goals, objectives, and policies as part of its ongoing Planning for Public Health research project.
  11. Join planners from across the DC region for a free networking reception and roundtable discussion.
    Monday, October 1 at 6:00pm in EDT at Busboys & Poets. 5th and K St, Washington DC

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