53rd Annual Conference 

November 1-4, 2012
Local Host: University of Cincinnati
Netherlands Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio

Conference Planning Status

• The 2012 Call for Papers and Posters has been delivered by email. Begin considering pre-organized sessions and encouraging students to submit. New submission information included in the Call.
• The abstract submission site is open.
• The abstract submission site will close March 13, 2012 at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time.

Conference Theme 

RESURGENCE OF PLANNING IN A NEW CENTURY

American cities become a leading example of how major transportation; infrastructure and civic improvements can be carried forward through a return to planning. Today many cities are working to encourage populations to return to their urban core through the creation of revitalization efforts to distressed neighborhoods and old downtown centers. Given the importance of cities as significant social, political and economic centers, the resurgence of planning comes at a principal moment when urban policy must be able to plan for a sustainable future in relation to the individual needs of neighborhoods, individuals and established urban systems.

The 53rd Annual ACSP Conference will also draw attention to dynamic issues, changing the way in which planners develop investigative and pragmatic approaches towards planning in regional contexts. The conference will address how joint governance surrounding regional issues can provide the basis for lasting regional partnerships. Resurgence in planning is shifting the manner in which cities become places of commerce and economic opportunity toward a shared vision of how integrated systems can come together to create a shared sense of common future.

Subthemes that resonate with the idea of “Resurgence of Planning” include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Resurgence of planning
• Effectiveness of planning
• Civic participation
• From neighborhoods to region
• Urban indicators
• Multivariate nature of comprehensive planning
• Relationships between distinctive and often opposing urban systems
• Adaptive planning
• Joint governance toward a shared sense of equal opportunity and common future
• Best (and Worst) Practices: Informing Future Possibilities
• Visualization Methods for Planning
• Beyond Sustainability: From Punitive to Restorative Planning Strategies (e.g. from Land Use Zoning and Growth Boundaries to Performance Zoning, Form-based coding, and Design Guidelines)
• Moving Backwards into the Future: Historic Preservation, Adaptive Reuse, and Historic Placemaking
• Planning for Public Health
• Arts, Culture, and Creative Placemaking
• Urban Ecology as an Emergent Planning Paradigm