Minutes from 1.27.05
Attendance
- Julia has list
- Total number on email list___
Overview of “what planning is all about” (Ted)
Overview of plan for the club (Kristin)
- events or meetings every 2 weeks
- events to include speakers, discussion, movie nights, involvement with local planning issues, involvement with APA
- help start an official concentration or major in planning at UC Davis
- faculty advisor is Susan Handy. Are there ideas for additional advisors?
Club website (Justin)
- check it out! And send Justin (jlanska@gmail.com) feedback
- send in a profile to have it listed on the website
- suggestion: post links to articles of interest
- suggestion: post example student projects
Overview of APA and official student membership (Julia)
- $56 to join as a student, but brings discounts at APA events
- upcoming event: Feb. 9 wine-tasting ($20 / $5 with membership)
- upcoming annual conference in San Francisco: ($100 / volunteer option with membership)
- membership form can be completed online; should be done as soon as possible
What people want out of the club:
- learn about the planning
- learn what other people / departments bring to planning
- get exposed to contributions of different majors
- resource and literature sharing
- feel out future career / academic direction
- information filter; bring together contributions related to planning from many different fields
- learn about current research and emerging issues in planning
- find internships and jobs; network
- learn about graduate school options
- find a way to apply oneself professionally
- find specific direction after completing a “generalist” major
- Additionally, from previous meeting:
- come up with local policy recommendations and effect change
- have parties and meet people
- get involved in local community service projects
Why people are interested planning in general / this club in particular:
- planning is an important tool
- always wanted to be a planner
- no experience with planning
- past exposure to planning / projects / planners sparked interest
- like the mix of creative and analytical work involved in planning
- want to learn how cities are destroyed / revitalized
- the role of planning in shaping cities is evolving; it is an interesting time to get involved
- care about the future of particular places or projects (such as hometown, home state, “don’t want to see Sacramento turn into Los Angeles”, goal to establish sustainable student housing on campus)
- desire to learn how to make a difference on certain issues
- environment
- planning for the future without destroying character of old cities
- how cities are revitalized / destroyed
New suggestions for events:
- speakers: non-planners of interest, in addition to planners
- speaker: Matt Quigley (or someone like that) to discuss affordable housing or other economic issues
- presentations of student / faculty research occurring on campus
- reading group; possibly as 2-unit lunch seminar
- open house of senior landscape architecture projects
Upcoming events:
- February 9, 2005: Sacramento Valley Section of the APA, Wine-tasting and Annual Awards event ( 5:30-7:30pm, Barton Gallery, 1723 I Street, Sacramento), an opportunity to meet practitioners in the Sacramento chapter. Cost is $20 or $5 with APA membership. All ages are welcome (must be 21 to have wine, though)
- March 11-12, 2005: “The Future Metropolitan Landscape,” conference hosted by Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design, UC Berkeley, see http://www-laep.ced.berkeley.edu/laep/news/metrolandscapeconf/MetropolitanLandscapeConference.html
- March 19-23, 2005: APA Annual Conference, San Francisco . Student cost: $100, but option for fee waiver with volunteer hours. See information and download volunteer application at: http://www.planning.org/2005conference/students.htm.