Win $10,000!

The ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition is a graduate-level annual competition that is intended to provide an interdisciplinary learning experience for real estate and design students in the United States and Canada. Self-formed student teams are asked to provide an urban design and a financial feasibility strategy for a large-scale real life site that ULI has identified somewhere in the United States. Through the formation of multidisciplinary teams, the program encourages cooperation and teamwork among future real estate professionals and the many allied professions, such as architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, engineering, real estate development, finance, psychology, law, and others.

Click here to visit the competition website

Call for Presentations

EMU is hosting the Michigan Association of Planning (MAP) Student Conference at the Student Center on Friday, February 6th, 2009. We are seeking brief presentations from students and young professionals of no more than 25 minutes.

One purpose of the Student Conference is to give students an opportunity to present work done for a class or an internship to people, both fellow students and professionals, from around the state. Having done a professional presentation looks great on a resume, and provides good practice doing something any planner will have to do many times over the course of a career!

The deadline for proposal submissions is Thursday, November 6th. Proposals need be no more than 50 words in length.

Click here to download complete presentation guidelines

Proposals can be submitted online at the MAP website

Space for presenters is limited, and once all submissions are in the best proposals will be selected by a committee of students and professionals.

As the host school, it would look wonderful to have a good turnout of students and young professionals from EMU doing presentations. If you're unsure about what to present, or a bit nervous, talk to your professors: they're really excited to help you.

If you have any questions, contact Adam Cook at acook10@emich.edu.

PLACE takes the Kiosk by storm!

PLACE kicked off the school year in style by painting the Kiosk the night of September 21st. Pictured practicing their graffiti skills are Aaron Flohr, Greg Peruski and Courtney Veraldi.






As PLACE is now an official Student Organization we should have more opportunities for 'vandalism' in the future. Be sure to join us!

Field Trip to Cherry Hill Village and McKenna Associates!

We hope you can join us for this great opportunity on Friday, November 7th!

We will do a walking tour of the Cherry Hill Village in Canton lead by Canton Twp's head planner Jeff Goulet. We shall grab some lunch afterward and then finish the trip in Northville taking a tour of McKenna and Associates head quarters and go there for a tour and a discussion with some private practice planners.

I can take up to 4 people in my car.

We will be leaving EMU at 9:30 AM and should be back by 3:30 PM.

We can meet at EMU and head out from there if that'll be easier for everyone.

Let me know so I can make the final arrangements. We'll talk about it more exclusively on Oct. 23's meeting.

Thanks,

Dave

Meet Wayne State Planning Students

The Wayne State planning department student association (WSSUP) is having their Fall kick-off meeting this Thursday. This is a good opportunity to meet your fellow planning students at another school and hear about what's going on at Wayne State. Students from PLACE and WSSUP had a mixer earlier this year at Traffic Jam in Detroit, and we had a great time. Hopefully we can continue the tradition of networking between our two student organizations.

The meeting will be Thursday, October 23rd at 8 PM at Motor City Brewing Works (470 West Canfield in Detroit, right across the street from Traffic Jam). Contact Adam Cook if you're interested in carpooling there, acook10@emich.edu

PLACE Meeting This Thursday

Hey everyone, well the PLACE October meeting is drawing near and we
just wanted to send out a reminder for everyone the the next meeting
will be Thursday October 24th at around 4:50 PM. We will be talking
about our experiences at the MAP Conference, upcoming events, and the
PLACE social club night.

Hope to see all of you there,

Thanks,

Dave
Aaron
Courtney

Planning Articles in Sunday's Free Press

There were two articles in yesterday's Free Press that might be of interest to planners.

One was a feature on Grand Rapids' leadership in green building

The other is an article about local communities updating their zoning ordinances to respond to an increase in demand for pawn shops and tattoo parlors