Community-Based Planning: Mobilizing for Neighborhood Change Conference

On October 29, the Community Development Institute and the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey hosted a conference on community-based planning.

The keynote speaker was Dr. Kenneth Reardon, Chair of Cornell University’s Department of City and Regional Planning and a nationally known expert on community planning.

A webcast of his entire speech and his powerpoint is available free. Please click here. (If you receive a “this page cannot be displayed” error, please click the “Go” button on the right side of the browser screen.) If you are unable to view all or a portion of the webcast, please see below.

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Talk about it: an online forum on community-based planning

After watching the webcast, if you want to talk about community-based planning, please join our free online forum offered by the Community Development Institute. The forum will run from Monday, November 8 to Friday, November 19, 2004. To join the forum, please contact the forum moderator, Leonardo Vazquez, at vazquezl@rci.rutgers.edu.

About the webcast

The webcast was produced by the Rutgers University Office of Continuous Education using the Digiscript platform. Besides watching the video and PowerPoint presentation, you can also:

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  • See an outline of the presentation (Clicking on the outline headings will take you to that part of the speech.)
  • Read a complete transcript of the presentation

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