FSU Social Sciences provides webinar on metropolis planning and local community action

The topics of city organizing and communities of shade will consider centre stage Thursday, Feb. 25, at the subsequent Wicked Webinar collection at Florida Point out University’s University of Social Sciences & General public Policy. 

The on the web panel discussion, “Neighborhoods First: Group Action for Equitable Town Setting up,” will be led by Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Preparing Tisha Holmes and feature leaders from Tallahassee’s Providence Community Association (PNA), including Walter McDonald III, Rahni Wright, Leslie Harris, Monet Moore and Dr. Vanessa Byrd. 

Alongside one another, the team will discuss the pathways communities can acquire to engage in the metropolis organizing approach. Those processes include building community capability for engagement, the possibilities and limitations of neighborhood partnerships, and the potential customers for sustaining community engagement for the duration of and after a worldwide pandemic.

The PNA has much more than 20 years of practical experience engaging in neighborhood scheduling processes with governmental and nongovernmental associates. These collaborations generated the neighborhood’s Rennaissance System (2003) and the Sustainability System (2019), as well as the latest updates to the Neighborhood Initial Setting up Process that identify priority motion regions and monitor the progress of limited-expression projects and extensive-expression local community development plans.

Pursuing the panel dialogue, attendees can question inquiries and make reviews in a moderated public forum. 

The event, which is cost-free and open to the general public, will take place on the internet:

THURSDAY, FEB. 25
5:30 P.M.
Register: https://fla.st/3034Xaj