Events

Planners Network NYC Disorientation and Fall Social

Do you believe that urban planning should be a tool for eliminating inequalities and injustice, rather than maintaining the status quo? If so, come to the second annual Planners Network NYC Disorientation and Fall Social, to meet other progressive planners, activists, students, and professors!

By Aaron Donovan

9:07 PM EDT on September 12, 2007

This event will have mixing, discussion corners, and fun & games. Learn more about local, national, and international planning issues, make new contacts, and get involved with Planners Network or other local organizations.

At 8 o’clock, there will be short presentations by special guests

Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice: Community development and participatory planning in the Bronx
The Young Planners Network: High school students using planning to change communities
Reportback from the US Social Forum in Atlanta

About Planners Network NYC
PN-NYC is the local New York City chapter of Planners Network. 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.

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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