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An annual event is the M2 year wrap up presentations of Taking the Pulse of Practice. This is usually held in the MPPI office. Students present a summary of their case to invited MPPI members and usually a Council Member or City official.
MPPI/UMCP 73.747 w2005:
Taking the Pulse of…. ‘Planning Practice: Case-in-Point’ Exhibits
The exhibits introduce the emerging results of planning practice case study research, conducted by M2 UMCP students in collaboration with planning practitioners.
Dana Bao, with David Palubeski MCIP and Rajinder Singh (Lombard North Group Inc) Implementing Sustainable Development in Rural Manitoba: Modifying Intensive Livestock Operations Via Environmental Overlay Zoning
Haijing Gao, with David Palubeski (Lombard North Group Inc.) Planning Deliberatively: Reflections on the Brandon Assiniboine River Corridor Master Plan
Meagan Henke, with Peter Spearey (Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Fort McMurray) Downtown Urban Greenway Planning: The Recent Brandon Experience
Christa Jacobucci, Dwayne Rewniak (MHRC) and Terry Kozak (MHRC) Building Partnerships and Affordable Housing: MHRC’s Infill Housing Program
Jennifer Jenkins, with Stephen Wilson (Exec. Dir., The Graffiti Gallery) The Writing’s on the Wall: The Graffiti Artistic Program’s Transformative Role in Point Douglas, Winnipeg
Amy Jordan, with Scott Stephens (Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata) Community Engagement as Effective Community Development: The Case of Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata’s Community-Based and Community-Driven Practice
Om Joshi, with Martin Grady (City of Winnipeg) Alternative Development Standards as a Post-Modern Planning Tool: Lessons from Markham, Ontario and Langley Township, BC
Allison Lazaruk, with Tom Yauk (HOP) & Ian Skelton (City Planning, UofM) Planning as Civic Entrepreneurship?: The Case of Winnipeg’s Housing Opportunity Partnership (HOP)
Erin McLeery, with Linda McFadyen (Manitoba Intergovernmental Affairs) Provincial Process and City-Region Planning: Recent Initiatives in the Manitoba Capital Region (tentative title)
Khalid Asseel Ahmad Mohammed, with Robert Nicol (City of Winnipeg) Intercultural Integration - Role of the Planner: The Case of Collingwood Neighbourhood House, Collingwood Village, East Vancouver, BC
Susan Radstrom, with Lloyd Talbot (Manitoba Intergovernmental Affairs) and Henry Sikora Sustaining Stories of Cultural Identity: Lessons in Story from St. Laurent, Manitoba
Leah Ross, with Linda Ring (City of Winnipeg) Aboriginal Youth and Planning: Celebrating Diversity
Jayson Sechele, with Wes Paetkau (Landmark Planning and Design) Laying the Foundation for City-Region Planning vis-a-vis New City-Regionalism: Manitoba Capital Region Initiatives
Cheryl Selig, with Jason Granger (Executive Director, Art City) Innovative Community Development: Art City and Youth Leadership !
Tom Young, with Alex Regiec (Winnipeg Transit) and Erik Backstrom (City of Edmonton) Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) in Edmonton Greyfields: A promising project, but is ad hoc planning good enough?
Click on link here for 2004, 2003 and 2002 Taking the Pulse of Practice and Case in Point topics.
MPPI Mentorship Evening (2004)
The MPPI Academic Affairs & Professional Development Committee arranged the 6th annual Mentorship Program Wine & Cheese Event! Please with food, drink and stimulating conversations, to unveil the 'new and improved' Mentorship Program!
Where: The Forks Market Atrium.
What: An introduction to the new Mentorship Program, a chance to meet new and returning City Planning students and an opportunity to mingle with other professionals! In 2002 the new and improved program was launched. Mentorship Program, members of the AA&PD committee, with assistance from the department of City Planning and the University of Manitoba Association of Planning Students (UMAPS), listened to and learned from past participants of the Program about what they enjoyed and what changes they would like to see. Using this feedback, the committee restructured the Mentorship Program to better address these mentor and student needs. See the MPPI website for more details including the revised Mentorship Guidebook. For more information contact: Donovan Toews at dtoews@ndlea.com
Excerpt from the MPPI press release:
Winnipeg MB – Members of Manitoba’s four professional design associations will commemorate November 8, the 52nd annual World Town Planning Day (WTPD) by holding a design charrette on the Kapyong Barracks site. The design charrette, hosted by the Manitoba Professional Planners Institute (MPPI), the local affiliate of the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) will take place on Saturday, November 3. Professional design associations co-hosting the event include the Manitoba Association of Architects (MAA), the Manitoba Association of Landscape Architects (MALA), and the Professional Interior Designers Institute of Manitoba (PIDIM).
In proclaiming November 8th as World Town Planning Day, Premier Gary Doer recognized "the contribution that sound planning makes to the quality of our settlements and environment," and the "accomplishments made in the collective decisions concerning our cities and regions that bring quality and meaning to our lives."
According to Chris Leach, President of the Manitoba Professional Planners Institute, "World Town Planning Day acknowledges the tremendous contribution made by the professional planning and design community in Manitoba towards enhancing the quality of life for all citizens. We are pleased to celebrate this day with the participation and support of all the professional design associations in the province."
The Kapyong Barracks site, generally located on the west side of Kenaston Boulevard between Wilkes and Grant Avenues, is currently occupied by the Canadian Armed Forces. The site has been deemed surplus by the military and is scheduled to be closed in the next few years. Members will participate in this intensive one-day design charrette in order to generate potential ideas, options and alternative uses for the site that will help stimulate public dialogue regarding the future of the site.
A design charrette is an intensive interdisciplinary planning and design exercise intended to generate a number of design solutions for a particular site over a short period of time. The charrette is intended to stimulate analysis, debate and ideas that are rooted in the site’s context, as well as the physical, social, cultural, economic, and ecological setting. A design charrette will create options and alternatives, without compromising the interests of various communities.
WTPD, officially celebrated on November 8th, was founded in 1949 by the late Professor Carlos Maria della Paolera of the University of Buenos Aires to advance public and professional interest in planning, both locally and abroad. The celebration now includes 30 countries on four continents, and continues to grow each year. WTPD is promoted internationally by the International Society of City and Regional Planners, headquartered at The Hague in The Netherlands.
For other City Planning pages related to MPPI, see Mentorship Program initiative intended to strengthen ties between students and professional planners. See the students UMAPS page.