Hello Future Planners, and welcome to the first issue of Plan2Plan for the 2009 calendar year. January was a busy month for many planning students across the country, and it looks like things won’t be slowing down until the end of the semester. Thankfully many of us will have the soul-refreshing, sleep-laden reading week to refresh our minds and bodies.
At the top of the news for this issue is the review of the 2009 CAPS-ACÉAU Conference, hosted by the Montreal Urban Planning Association (MUPSA). MUPSA is a group of planning students from McGill, Concordia, UQAM, and the Université de Montréal, who came together to deliver a fantastic conference, which just happened to be hosted in one of the most culturally rich and dynamic cities in Canada. Sure it was -16, but that didn’t stop us from exploring all that the conference and Montreal had to offer.
The conference’s organizing committee, composed of Jonathon Jacob, Marie-Eve Dostie, Cedric Capacchione, and Stephanie Jolicoeur, all deserve a round of applause for the fine work they did. Starting last year in Toronto, this team of students worked tirelessly to pull together what proved to be an educational and exciting event. Not only did the MUPSA team manage to draw out 175 students, who marked the 25th anniversary of the CAPS-ACÉAU conference by hosting the event with simultaneous translation services, making it the first bilingual CAPS conference in history! Let’s hope this tradition continues in the future, as it broke down communication barriers and allowed a greater exchange of dialogue between all delegates at CAPS-ACÉAU.
This year’s conference theme was “Micro to Macro,” and the event focused on the various scales of intervention that planners can use to affect change in cities. The theme was reflected in the programming of the event where delegates could see ‘Macro’ type planning interventions such as Mega Projects in Montreal and The World’s Largest Underground Pedestrian Network, as well as ‘Micro’ scaled topics such as one student presentation entitled “Assessing Bias in the Use of 3D Computer Visualizations”.
This issue is full of information about the CAPS-ACÉAU conference, including highlights from the CIP representatives’ meeting and school accounts of their experiences in Montreal. Read on, and don’t forget to vote in the upcoming student election!
Adam Cooper
2008-2009 Student Representative
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