NY Metro Chapter of the American Planning Association presents its Annual Conference
Creating a More Livable Region
In conjunction with NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management
Encompassing issues from transportation to infrastructure and neighborhood design, speakers and panelists will discuss the planner's role in creating guidelines and implementing best practices relating to the use and conservation of energy and water, brownfields re-use, neighborhood planning design, local and regional transportation patterns, and land use and zoning
Plenary/keynote speakers
Rutherford Platt
Professor of Geography and Planning Law, University of Massachusetts Amherst and
Editor of "The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st Century City"
and
Elliot G. Sander
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
NYU Kimmel Center for University Life, Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor
Washington Square South, New York City
Friday, October 12, 2007