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Upcoming events

    • Thursday, March 28, 2024
    • 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Capitol Theatre, 204 Mass. Ave., Arlington

    The Planners' Movie and Meet-up series continues with a screening of Inundation District by David Abel and Ted Blanco

    In a time of rising seas and intensifying storms, one of the world’s wealthiest, most-educated cities made a fateful decision to spend billions of dollars erecting a new district along its coast — on landfill, at sea level. Unlike other places imperiled by climate change, this neighborhood of glass towers housing some of the world’s largest companies was built well after scientists began warning of the threats, including many at its renowned universities. The city, which already has more high-tide flooding than nearly any other in the United States, called its new quarter the Innovation District. But with seas rising inexorably, and at an accelerating rate, others are calling the neighborhood by a different name: Inundation District.

    The 79-minute film, a production by The Boston Globe, premiered in the fall of 2023 as the closing night film of the GlobeDocs Film Festival.


    This event includes an hour dedicated to networking, followed by the screening and a discussion with film co-producer and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Abel. A longtime reporter at The Boston Globe, Abel is also a professor of the practice in the journalism department at Boston University. His films have been broadcast on the Discovery Channel, PBS, BBC World News, and other major platforms, winning numerous awards.

    Also speaking with be Darrin Punchard, FAICP of Punchard Consulting. For over 25 years Darrin has combined his unique blend of expertise in community planning, hazard mitigation, climate adaptation, and disaster recovery to help clients solve their greatest risk and resilience challenges.

    5:30 pm: Networking, appetizers, cash bar

    6:30 pm: Showtime

    8:00pm: Discussion

    Register for this event on Eventbrite

    Admission: 

    Free for CPM, APA-MA, and MAPP members, as well as students. 

    Non-members: $10.00

    Sponsored by: Consulting Planners of MA, MA Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA-MA) and MA Association of Planning Professionals (MAPP)



    CM2.0 

         

    Information for AICP Members:

    AICP members can earn 2.0 Certification Maintenance (CM) credits for this activity, including one towards the AICP Sustainability and Resilience CM Targeted Credit Program. More information about AICP's CM program can be found at www.planning.org/cm.

Past events

Thursday, February 29, 2024 CPM 2024 Winter Social
Thursday, December 14, 2023 Planners' Movie and Meet-up: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 Advocacy Planning, Ethics and the Unfinished Business of Planning
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 Book Panel: Idea City
Friday, October 27, 2023 King Tide 2023
Friday, June 16, 2023 Summer Social
Thursday, May 25, 2023 Workshop: What Factors Impact Access to Public Spaces and for Whom?
Saturday, March 18, 2023 CPM at CPTC Annual Conference 2023
Thursday, February 23, 2023 POSTPONED: CPM 2023 Winter Social
Thursday, November 17, 2022 Conversation with Ann Sussman, CPM Speaker Series 2022-23
Friday, October 21, 2022 Conversation with Dr. Nir Buras on The Art of Classic Planning, CPM Speaker Series 2022-23
Thursday, July 28, 2022 Micromobility Forum: Meeting with Spin Scooters
Thursday, July 14, 2022 CPM Annual Meeting & Networking Event
Friday, June 10, 2022 North Station Micromobility Infrastructure Tour
Thursday, April 28, 2022 Micromobility Forum: Meeting 2 (Rescheduled)
Thursday, March 31, 2022 Creating a Race Equity Framework and Tools for Planners
Friday, February 25, 2022 Micromobility Forum: Meeting 2 - POSTPONED
Friday, January 21, 2022 Micromobility Forum
Friday, November 05, 2021 King Tide 2021: Tour the Impacts of Super High Tide on Boston's Waterfront
Sunday, June 27, 2021 Summer Social
Thursday, December 10, 2020 Celebrating Human Rights Day
Monday, October 19, 2020 KING TIDE
Thursday, March 05, 2020 Planners Roundtable: Autonomous Vehicles--How & when will they change our lives?
Thursday, January 09, 2020 2020 Early Winter Get Together
Thursday, October 10, 2019 The Human Scale
Wednesday, June 05, 2019 Boston By Foot Upcoming Tours
Thursday, May 23, 2019 Information Technology Tools in Engineering & Planning
Tuesday, April 02, 2019 "The Experimental City" film screening
Wednesday, March 07, 2018 Citizen Jane: Battle for the City documentary and networking event
Thursday, March 01, 2018 Immigration and Urban Planning
Monday, January 29, 2018 Passive House for Affordable Housing
Saturday, January 13, 2018 Get your Ethics CM Credits! Some are FREE!
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 “Enhancing Wayfinding and Public Address Systems for a Positive Traveler Experience”. Free AICP credits
Monday, December 11, 2017 Get your Ethics AICP CM Credits for FREE: Ethics and the Digital World
Wednesday, December 06, 2017 2018 Florida Legislative Preview. Free AICP credits.
Monday, November 27, 2017 Chapter 40B workshop for municipal officials & board members
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 Creating Healthy Places For Healthy People. Earn AICP credits at your desk
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 Responding to Irma. Earn AICP credits at your desk
Monday, November 13, 2017 Zoning and Transportation. Earn AICP credits at your desk
Thursday, November 09, 2017 Healthy Communities Collaborative: Earn AICP credits at your desk
Wednesday, November 08, 2017 Giving New Life to Dying Malls - webinar - 1 CM credit
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Legal Issues in Planning -- 1.5 AICP required CM credit
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Mass. Audubon Workshop: AICP Credits 2.0
Thursday, September 28, 2017 MA Chemical Safety and Climate Change Preparedness Training
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 Free Webinar: Operational and Business Continuity Planning for Prolonged Airport Disruptions
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 2017 Massachusetts Association of Planning Directors Annual Conference
Wednesday, June 07, 2017 Free Webinar: Innovative Financing for Public Transportation: Value Capture and Small-and Medium-sized Public Private Partnership
Friday, June 02, 2017 Promoting Walkability Workshop
Thursday, May 25, 2017 Free Webinar: Planning for Profitable Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems
Thursday, May 25, 2017 Listening to the City: Engagement, Exploration + Intervention through Sound
Thursday, May 18, 2017 Smart Growth Alliance Conference
Saturday, May 06, 2017 APA National Planning Conference 2017
Saturday, May 06, 2017 Housing Trust Conference
Monday, May 01, 2017 Jane Jacobs in the Woo
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 Increasing Access: Low Income Community Shared Solar
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 Reducing the Impact of Lead Emissions at Airports (1.5 CM FREE credits)
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 Dangerous by Design: A challenge for change (FREE 1.5 CM credits)
Thursday, April 13, 2017 Financing Climate Change Solutions (1.0 FREE CM credits)
Tuesday, April 04, 2017 Parking Benefit Districts (PBD) Workshop
Monday, April 03, 2017 Sign up for reduced rates now for APA National Planning Conference 2017
Thursday, March 30, 2017 2017 Urbanism Summit
Thursday, March 23, 2017 Free AICP credits: webinar on Collaborative Decision-Making at Airports
Thursday, March 23, 2017 Communicating About Clean Energy and Climate Change Solutions
Saturday, March 18, 2017 Citizen Planner Training Collaborative Annual Conference
Thursday, March 16, 2017 FREE AICP CM credits: Livable Transit Corridors
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 Planners' Movie and Meet-up
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 Free AICP Credits - webinar on Aircraft impacts on Stormwater Runoff
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Free AICP credits - webinar on Airport security screening
Thursday, February 23, 2017 Kick-off Social (Planners Network Greater Boston Chapter)
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 Implementing Water 2070: Water Conservation Planning for Florida Communities (1.5 CM credits)
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Free Webinar on using Online Community Engagement
Friday, February 10, 2017 Documentary on the Art of Design
Friday, February 10, 2017 Webinar: Bicycling Innovations for Small Towns & Rural Communities
Thursday, February 09, 2017 FREE AICP credits: webinar on Safety Management for Wildlife at Airports
Thursday, February 09, 2017 FREE AICP CM credits: webinar on Incorporating Climate Solutions into Day to Day Adaptation
Friday, January 27, 2017 Workshop on Community Resilience: FREE CM CREDITS
Friday, January 20, 2017 Webinar: How to Mitigate the Effects of Climate Change
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Florida growth management and other bills - free CM credits
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Plan4Health - free CM credits (at your desk)
Monday, December 19, 2016 Gingerbread House Design Exhibit Reception
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 Get FREE AICP credits: Effective Stakeholder Relationships at Airports
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 Effective Stakeholder Relationships at Airports
Monday, December 12, 2016 Vote for your favorite Gingerbread House (theme: Boston your my home)
Friday, December 09, 2016 APA-MA/MAPD Annual Awards and Holiday Luncheon
Wednesday, December 07, 2016 Earn your Ethics credits for FREE! Ethics and the Digital World
Wednesday, December 07, 2016 Ethics & the Digital World (get your ethics credits)
Friday, December 02, 2016 CM Credits from your desk: "Subdivision Design and Flood Hazard Areas”
Sunday, November 20, 2016 Webinars to earn AICP credits from your desk
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 Planners' Movie and Meet Up
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 ABX 2016
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 Job Retention and Attraction: Strategy and Implementation
Thursday, October 20, 2016 Innovation, Urbanization, and the Metropolitan Revolution
Thursday, October 20, 2016 SNEAPA 2016
Friday, October 14, 2016 The Technology Revolution in Transportation
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 MIT Dept. Of Urban Studies & Planning Colloquium
Friday, June 24, 2016 Tour of Spectacle Island
Thursday, June 02, 2016 “Communities making great places”
Thursday, May 19, 2016 2016 MAPD Annual Conference
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 Group viewing: Wed., May 11, 4:00-5:30 p.m. “Translating the Plan into Implementation” (1.5 CM credits)
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 MAPC Community Engagement Workshop
Thursday, May 05, 2016 Online: Thurs., May 5, 2:30 p.m.-4:00p.m. Accessible Pedestrian Signals (1.5 CM credits)
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 Free Webinar on Housing Affordability: Crisis and Solutions
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 Future of the Massachusetts Mill Community
Thursday, April 07, 2016 Cocktails and Conversation: Imagine Boston
Wednesday, April 06, 2016 Planners Meet-up and Movie! April 6 in Arlington
Saturday, April 02, 2016 National APA Conference
Friday, April 01, 2016 The Dynamic City: Futures for the Past
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Imagine Boston 2030 Forum: “Making Choices for a Growing City.” Mayor Martin J. Walsh
Saturday, March 19, 2016 Citizen Planner Training Collaborative 15th Annual CPTC Conference
Thursday, March 17, 2016 Boston APP/Lab's Night of Everything Arts
Monday, February 22, 2016 event 1
Tuesday, February 09, 2016 THE PRESENT & FUTURE OF AUTOMATED DRIVING: TECHNOLOGY, POLICY AND THE HUMAN FACTOR
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 Great Places and Great Art
Friday, January 15, 2016 MAPD Lunch N Learn
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 Shaping Boston's Future: The Myra Kraft Open Classroom
Monday, January 11, 2016 Designing Boston: City Hall and Plaza
Friday, January 08, 2016 Boston Bike Party
Friday, January 08, 2016 Housing Coordinators/Planners Holiday Breakfast
Saturday, December 12, 2015 Boston Society of Architects Family Design Day—Gingerbread Houses!
Friday, December 11, 2015 Free online Ethics APA session Friday, Dec. 11 at 1:00 p.m.
Friday, December 11, 2015 APA Massachusetts/MAPD Holiday and Awards Luncheon is Friday, December 11, 2015
Wednesday, December 09, 2015 Lecture on Corita Kent: Behind the Scenes. Wed., Dec. 9, 2016
Friday, December 04, 2015 Boston Society of Architects presentation: Emerging Cities: New Cairo and Masdar City December 4, 2015,
Wednesday, December 02, 2015 FREE APA web conference, “Planning, Economic Development, and the New Normal,” Wed., December 2. Earn 1.5 AICP CM credits
Wednesday, December 02, 2015 FREE Workshop on Downtown Upper Floor Utilization (Earn 4 to 5 AICP CM credits)
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 “How to Manage a Planning Firm" (Earn 1.5 AICP CM credits)
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 APA Sustainable Communities Division Mixer
Friday, October 16, 2015 Deer Island Tour
Friday, October 16, 2015 Scenes from the Deer Island Tour
Thursday, June 25, 2015 Boston Boat Cruise
Thursday, June 25, 2015 Economic Development Listening Sessions
Thursday, June 25, 2015 Scenes from the MACP Boat Cruise!
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 APA Northeast Planning Conference
Monday, June 22, 2015 Boston Futures
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