| April 2003 |
An Honorary Land
Economics Society
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| Feature
Story:
Weekend Experience in San Diego (May 1-4, 2003) Register now! Time is closing in quickly on the Weekend Experience to be held May 1-4, 2003 in San Diego. Highlights of the Weekend include four-star hotel accommodations at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, private motor coach tours of San Diego, including La Jolla, the Salk Institute, Scripps Institute of Oceanography and the Burnham Institute, San Diego Zoo Twilight Bus Tour with cocktails and dinner, and other important venues. Prominent speakers include Gail Naughton, Dean of the San Diego State University's business school and co-founder of Advanced Tissue Sciences, John Davies, Chairman of the U.C. Board of Regents, former director and president of San Diego's Centre City Development Corporation, and chair of the San Diego Planning Commission. Special Articles:Commercial Real Estate Market Surge... Chapter News: George Washington Chapter Julius S. Levine and Douglas R. Porter, President of Growth Management were inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Planning Association during APA's National Conference March 29, 2003 in Denver. Golden Gate Chapter Helen Sause, after many years with the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, has retired. She will continue her NAHRO committee work, participate in Lambda Alpha, SPUR and the Development Fund. She can be reached at helensause@alamedanet.net Ely-Chicago Robert Bruegmann, Chairperson, Art History and Professor in Department of Art History, School of Architecture, Program in Urban Planning, University of Illinois at Chicago will be the featured speaker April 16th at noon in Chicago on "Sprawl and the Fate of the Inner City." Dr. Bruegmann has recently published a book questioning much of the conventional planning thinking on suburban sprawl. For more information call 312-726-4030 or email ElyChapter@aol.com. Featured Book of the Month: David B. Glancey, President of the Philadelphia Chapter, wrote the chapter entitled, "P.I.L.O.T.s [payments in lieu of taxes] - The Pennsylvania Story": in the book: Property-Tax Exemption for Charities : Mapping the Battlefield David Glancey will be attending the San Diego Weekend Experience if you would like to meet him. In Memoriam:Former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan died on March 26, 2003. Senator Moynihan was awarded LAI's International Urban Affairs Award at the 1997 Biennial Congress in Memphis. As a citizen and government official, Senator Moynihan played a leading role in the revitalization of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. and the conservation of important Washington landmarks including the National Building Museum, the Old Post Office Building and Daniel Burnham's Union Station. Throughout his professional and political career he provided continuing support of urban affairs, architecture and urban planning. Announcements: With this inaugural edition of OnLine KeyNotes, we would like to welcome our new webmaster, Josh Kent of New York City. Josh has designed for us an attractive and user-friendly OnLine KeyNotes, and will also be administering the LAI website. The Board of Governors of Lambda Alpha International would like to thank our founding webmaster, Elizabeth Ghaffari of Technology Place, Inc. for all her efforts on behalf of LAI. We appreciate the great job she did in helping us establish our web presence. We would appreciate suggestions for improving our website. Please email us at LAI@lai.org with your comments. |
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