Midwest APA Networking Luncheon - March 23, 2007
Midwest APA Networking Luncheon - March 23, 2007
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North Central Texas Regional SmartCode Workshop - Monday, 5 March, Grapevine
The North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG), in partnership with the North Central Texas Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism (NCTCNU), is pleased to bring the SmartCode OnSite Workshop to our region on Monday, March 5th, 2007 at the Grapevine Convention Center in Grapevine, TX.
To register for the workshop, please go to www.nctcnu.org. There is a registration fee of $24 (lunch included). Registration ENDS February 28, 2007.
Questions? Please contact Lyndsay Krodel at (817) 704-2505 or lkrodel AT nctcog DOT org.
You don’t want to miss this great opportunity to learn more about how to recreate the traditional neighborhoods and sense of community from our past. We look forward to seeing you at this exciting event!
PS Don’t miss the great deal for early graduate student registrants!!
1 CommentUTA Campus Master Plan: John Hall, VP Administration and Campus Operations; 5.30pm Monday, 5 March
Mark your calendars for 5.30-7.00pm, Monday, 5 March, University Hall 532! SPA presents John Hall, Vice President for Administration and Campus Operations, for a presentation of the status of the UT Arlington Campus Master Plan. Mr. Hall is custodian of the master plan and has been working closely with President Spaniolo to enhance our physical facilities and environment, and with the City of Arlington to integrate the University with the surrounding community.
This is an open meeting, so please feel free to invite your friends or anyone else you know who might be interested. We’ll provide a little something on which to nosh beginning at 5.30pm; Mr. Hall will begin his presentation at 6pm.
“Truth Be Tolled,” a Trans-Texas Corridor documentary
Arlington, Texas, 16 February 2007
The University of Texas at Arlington Student Planning Association will sponsor a showing of Truth Be Tolled, a recent documentary film critical of the Trans-Texas Corridor project. The film will be shown at 7 pm, Friday, February 23, in Room 115, University Hall, on the University of Texas at Arlington campus. It will be followed at approximately 8:30 pm by a 30-minute open discussion of the film, the project, and associated issues.
The film presents citizen reactions to the initiative and highlights many of the issues that have proven so controversial in the selling of the project by Texas Governor Rick Perry. This showing will come hard on the heels of a pro-Trans-Texas Corridor talk given in Fort Worth at the Women’s Transportation Seminar luncheon by Phil Russell, Director of the Texas Turnpike Authority Division of the Texas Department of Transportation.
The event is free and open to the public. For further information please contact Kent Hurst at klhurst AT uta DOT edu. For directions to University Hall, please visit the UT Arlington Web site at http://www.uta.edu/maps. Free parking is available the evening of the event in lots to the south and west of University Hall.
WTS Luncheon, 20 February - Phil Russell, Texas Transportation Commission
The Women’s Transportation Seminar
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 20, 2007
at The ITC, in the John B Board Room, 2nd Floor
1001 Jones Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
WTS Luncheon, 20 February 2007
Phillip Russell, P.E., Texas Turnpike Authority’s Director, will be our distinguished
speaker. Mr. Russell is the director of the Texas Turnpike Authority Division of the
Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). As division director since 1998, he is
currently developing two high-priority elements of the Trans-Texas Corridor. For
Russell, this involves overseeing the environmental studies, financing options,
contracting agreements and public-private partnerships.
Under his direction, the division is also responsible for expanding the state highway
system through the development of toll roads, working with districts and local officials
on the formation of regional mobility authorities and state toll projects, and overseeing
the preparation of all comprehensive development agreements for TxDOT.
Mr. Russell will be sharing his Trans-Texas Corridor presentation.
SUPA Environmental Interest Group: Climate Change Teach-in
Tomorrow, Tuesday, 20 February, hundreds of campuses, cities, and businesses will be participating in the Global Emergency Teach-In on climate change. University Hall room 532 will be set up for the live web-cast, and an auditorium is being set up in the Architecture Building as well (room 204). A pdf flyer is attached.
Climate Change Teach-In — 12-2.30pm, Tuesday, 20 February 2007
For more information, see http://www.2010imperative.org/. But if you want to watch the web-cast, please come to one of the UTA locations (or, for that matter, other locations in the Metroplex; see “Who’s Tuning In” on the web page). In order to avoid overloading the servers, the organizers are asking people to participate in organized sessions rather than logging on individually.
Why?
Because time is running out.
What?
The 2010 Imperative Global Emergency Teach-In addressing global warming and climate change is an interactive web-cast broadcast live from New York, reaching more than 500,000 students, faculty, deans and practicing professionals in the architecture, planning and design communities in both North and South America.
Who?
Dr. James Hansen, NASA GISS
Edward Mazria, AIA, Architecture 2030
Chris Luebkeman, Arup
Susan Szenasy, Metropolis Magazine
How?
All design schools, professional design firms and governmental entities (planning departments, city officials, etc.) are being asked to substitute the Teach-in for classes/work on February 20th, 2007, from Noon to 3:30pm EST. Many schools and offices are planning day-long activities around the event.
Jeff Howard, Asst. Professor
School of Urban & Public Affairs
University of Texas at Arlington
Box 19588, University Hall 519
Arlington, TX 76019-0588
Phone 817-272-5119 Fax 817-272-5008
