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| May 30, 2006 UIC Hosts Planners Network National Conference The University of Illinois at Chicago's Urban Planning and Policy Program will host the annual conference of Planners Network, June 8-11. "Tending the Garden: From Grassroots to Green Roofs" will bring together planning practitioners, organizers, policy analysts, faculty and students from the United States, Canada and elsewhere who will explore the history and future of planning as a progressive profession. "Planners Network wants to shape the planning profession to produce more equity in our communities," said Janet Smith, UIC associate professor of urban planning and policy. "The conference provides a forum to share innovative strategies and successful models for changing public policy." Dozens of presentations and workshops will be featured. Activists from New Orleans will conduct a panel discussion about their work before and after Hurricane Katrina. Local activists will lead city tours focusing on public housing transformation, community-based public art, Chicago labor history, sustainable and green development, Uptown gentrification, and bicycling in Chicago. Actress Anu Yadav will present the Chicago premier of "Capers" at 6 p.m., June 10 at UIC's Student Center East, 750 S. Halsted St. The one-act play is based on Yadav's talks with public housing residents who protested the demolition of the Arthur Capper/Carrollsburg public housing projects in Washington, D.C. A discussion will follow the play. Admission to the public performance is $10. The goal of the conference is to "create equity that cuts not only across social barriers, but also across generations," said Lee Deuben, a UIC graduate and conference organizer. Planners Network is an association of professionals, activists, academics, and students involved in physical, social, economic, and environmental planning in urban and rural areas who promote fundamental change in our political and economic systems. For more conference information, visit http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/upp/pn/index.html UIC ranks among the nation's top 50
universities in federal research funding and is Chicago's largest university
with 25,000 students, 12,000 faculty and staff, 15 colleges and the state's
major public medical center. A hallmark of the campus is the Great Cities
Commitment, through which UIC faculty, students and staff engage with
community, corporate, foundation and government partners in hundreds
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