Summit: City Planning, Civic Engagement and the Internet
What: A three day summit exploring the Web’s potential to create better urban places.
When: Thursday, April 30, 2009 - Saturday, May 2, 2009 - times vary
Locations: Friend Center and Sherrerd Hall
Opening Plenary: Using Web Tools For Collaborative Planning
The E‐citizen: How Ordinary Folks can use the Web to Improve their Communities
Public Participation Tools: What Works, What Doesn’t
Make Boring Data Fun and Useful
Directions, Parking and Room Information>>
With most of the world’s population now living in cities and concern mounting about the economic, social and environmental challenges the face, interest in the field of urban planning has risen tremendously.
To meet some of these challenges, planners, policymakers, technology specialists, and citizen advocates are working to leverage the immense potential of the Internet to rethink how people can participate in decisions about the shape and direction of their community.
- Learn best practices for increasing public participation using the Internet.
- Find out how governments, non-profit organizations, and neighborhood groups are gathering and providing data online.
- See some of the latest web tools designed to help residents find out about trends and changes in their neighborhood.
Attendance is free, however space is limited and registration is required.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Film Screening - “Us Now”
A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet.
Learn more about the film>>
Friend Center 101
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Discussion
Friend Center 101
Friday, May 1, 2009
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Friend Center Convocation Room
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks
Friend Center Convocation Room
Opening Plenary: Using Web Tools For Collaborative Planning
See how web tools are being used to engage communities in planning processes.
Friend Center Convocation Room
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Online Public Participation Tools: What Works, What Doesn’t
Best practices for public participation in community planning decisions.
Friend Center Room 006
The E‐citizen: How Ordinary Folks can use the Web to Improve their Communities
See how web technology can help citizens to find out what happens in their neighborhood, and find out how governments and organizations can better respond to and benefit from its connected populace.
Friend Center Room 008
12:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
Friend Center Convocaton Room
1:30 PM- 3:00 PM
Taking the Plunge: Implementing Smart Web Technologies
A discussion about how public agencies and organizations have been able to overcome the technical, political and financial barriers that prevented them from developing and deploying citizen‐centered web technology.
Friend Center Room 008
GIS and Mapping for Everyone
Easy‐to‐use web based mapping tools that put the power of geographic information systems in the hands of the public.
Friend Center Room 006
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
Friend Center Convocation Room
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
The Internet Is Made For Sharing (Data)
How governments and organizations can use web technologies to make their data accessible and free to the public, and why they should do it.
Friend Center Room 006
Make Boring Data Fun and Useful
Examples of tools that make government and planning data and concepts user‐friendly and easy to understand.
Friend Center Room 008
Saturday, May 2, 2009
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
Sherrerd Hall, 3rd Floor
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Wii Planning: The new world of motion/touch sensitive, and location aware applications
Live demos and participation of a range of applications and techniques including using iPhones and mobile phone polls, and building asset maps with a team of GPS enabled iPhones and/or touch sensitive tablets.
Sherrerd Hall 101
The Best Web Applications For Planners
Learn how to use popular web technologies (mapping, blogs, sms) to engage communites in planning during this hands-on workshop.
Sherrerd Hall 101
12:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
Sherrerd Hall - 3rd Floor
Directions The Friend Center Building is located on Olden Street between Nassau and Prospect. It is on the corner of William and Olden, across the street from the E-Quad and next to the Computer Science Building. You can use the following address for a GPS: 35 Olden Street, Princeton, New Jersey.
Parking and Campus Shuttle Service
Please see the Visitor Parking website for information regarding parking in the appropriate visitor lots on campus. If you park in Lot 21, please take the East Communter Line shuttle service to the Friend Center building. For more information regarding the campus shuttle, including shuttles from the Dinky Station, please see the Campus Shuttle website.
There is also metered parking along William, Olden, and Prospect. The meters on Olden between William and Prospect are less expensive than the meters on William Street and Olden Street from Nassau to William.
Room Locations
Friend Center:
Enter through the main doors off Olden Street:
Room 101 - Walk all the way down the hallway and then veer to the left and then right toward the back of the building. Room 101 is the first door past the back stairway on the right.
Convocaton Room - Walk down the hallway and the Convocation Room is the first room on the right.
Rooms 006 and 008 are on the lower level. Walk down the hallway, past the Convocation Room, take the stairs to your left down, and turn left at the bottom of the stairway.
Room 112 is one level up from the Convocation Room. Walk past the Convocation Room, all the way down the hallway, and at the back of the building you will see a stairway to go to the upper level.
Sherrerd Hall:
Sherrerd Hall is the new glass building across from the Friend Center, between the Mudd Library and Wallace Hall. It is on Shapiro Walk and the corner of Charlton Street.
Room 101 is on the first floor. Enter the main doors to the building and turn left just past the “up” staircase. Room 101 is the first door on the right past the Atrium.
Room 001 is on the basement level. Enter the main doors of the building and turn left just past the “up” staircase. Turn left again to go down the staircase to the lower level. Room 001 is the room directly across from the staircase.
To see exact building locations go to Princeton University’s campus map, click on the drop down menu and go to either the “Friend Center” or “Sherrerd Hall.”
Recommended Lodging
The Nassau Inn, Ten Palmer Square, Princeton, NJ 08542 - Phone: 609.921.7500. The Nassau Inn is within walking distance to campus.
The Residence Inn Princeton at Carnegie Center, 3563 US Route 1, Princeton, NJ 08540 - Phone: 609.799.0550. The Residence Inn does provide shuttle bus service to campus.
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