Oct 2nd - Environmental Impact Assessment 101

The PPD Department will be beginning it's professional development series with a workshop on Environmental Impact Reports (EIR). This series of workshops is something that we as students have pushed for to serve as a complement to our classes. Not only will this be a great event but your attendance will show the department our appreciation for making this happen.

Speaking will be Joan Kelly, managing principal of Bonterra Consulting and John Kain, president of Urban Crossroads.

12pm - 3:30 pm, SE 307

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Oct 3rd - Green Port Fest

The Port of Long Beach is hosting a Green Festival on October 3rd.

Please see link for more details.

http://www.polb.com/community/portfest/default.asp

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OC Restaurant Week Sept 13-19

More than 100 restaurants across Orange County’s vast dining landscape are ready to dish up amazing food at fantastic prices during Orange County’s most anticipated culinary event.

From all corners of the county this foodie celebration provides OC locals the opportunity to indulge in a selection of specially priced prix fixe menus from over 100 of Orange County’s best Restaurants. These menus showcase some of the region’s most talented chefs who have personalized each menu to reflect their culinary style. The prix fixe menus are priced at $10, $15 and $20 per person for lunch, and $20, $30 or $40 per person for dinner.

The only thing to make for dinner during Restaurant Week is reservations! This is the time for food lovers to try new places, get groups of friend and dine out and just really enjoy a week of fabulous dining. Start planning your week of dining out.

more info here...

Pretend City

Pretend City Children's Museum in Irvine


But where's the pretend blight, pretend hookers, pretend traffic of a real city? And the pretend chests of OC housewives?


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Panic on the Streets of London?

As an attempt to reduce congestion, the city of London will turn on street lights in a certain area around town and film traffic for several weeks.

Doing so will supposedly cause more drivers to be more cautious.

more at NY Times...

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LA Times ARTIC Critique

The role that train travel plays in the American popular imagination is an increasingly contradictory one these days, somehow deeply nostalgic and symbolic of the future at the same time.

Getting from one city to another by train remains a thoroughly romanticized exercise — a humane relic of a more cosmopolitan and energy-efficient era in transportation. And yet trains have also become a key component of efforts by young planners, architects and politicians to re-imagine or revivify American urbanism, with separate piles of federal and state funds — in California’s case, nearly $10 billion — already earmarked for a network of new high-speed rail links.

more from LA Times...

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Mobility 21

Southern California is at a crossroads. We have a once-in-a-generation
opportunity to shape our transportation future, escape gridlock, protect our
environment and improve our quality of life.

However, without champions for transportation in the state and federal legislatures, and without a vision of how we can achieve this 21st century transportation network, we will be left with a system that does not meet our needs.

Sustainable, innovative solutions are on the horizon, funding reforms are being considered and regional cooperation is improving the way our transportation network serves residents and commerce alike. What’s missing is a groundswell of support for investing the needed capital and the flexibility for implementing these innovations.

On September 21, 2009 join transportation providers, businesses, elected officials and others to develop Mobility 21’s action plan to advocate for Southern California’s transportation future in Sacramento and Washington, D.C.

Register here

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