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Issue #57: Winter 2005

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Energy Conservation & Community Planning
by Karen Hart

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--- How local governments are taking steps to promote energy conservation. Plus: Energy Trends & Land Use: two perspectives on the end of cheap oil, and its impact on how we live.

What Planners Do
-- a roundtable discussion

--- Four planners discuss how they deal with diversity and communicating with the public.

DEPARTMENTS

Planning for Our Aging Population
-- perspectives from three Planning Comm'rs Journal columnists:

  • The Future is Now: Mobility & Seniors
    by Hannah Twaddell
    --- Transportation planner Hannah Twaddell focuses on mobility concerns facing our aging population.
  • The Impact of an Aging Population on Planning
    by Greg Dale, FAICP
    --- As the baby-boom generation enters its senior years, planning commissions will be dealing with a variety of related housing, land use, and transportation issues. Greg Dale provides an overview.
  • Careful Attention to Older Citizens Benefits All
    by Elaine Cogan
    --- Elaine Cogan looks at ways of better involving older residents in community planning.

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    Downtown Matters:
    Why Downtowns (Should) Matter to Planning Commissioners
    by Kennedy Smith read excerpts from article order and download article

    --- Why should we care about our downtowns? Introducing a new series in the PCJ by national "main street" expert Kennedy Lawson Smith.

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