Reinvesting in America: The New Metropolitan Planning Agenda, 50th Annual ACSP Conference, Crystal City, Virginia, 1-4 October 2009

摘要

In keeping with the theme of 'the new metropolitan planning agenda,' the 50th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) met in the Washington DC metropolitan region, in Crystal City, Virginia, 1-4 October 2009. The 2009 conference marked a half-century of ACSP meetings to discuss the scholarly, pedagogical, and administrative concerns of planning and planning education.rnFortuitously, the conference also coincided with two other important benchmarks for planning as a discipline and profession in the US. The first National Conference on City Planning was held in Washington, DC in 1909, making 2009 the 100th anniversary of the organised planning movement in the US; and 25 years ago, in 1984, ACSP, the American Planning Association (APA), and the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) came together to create the Planning Accreditation Board (PAB), the organisation that oversees quality control in planning education in the US.