Jenn Kaplan
@jennkaplan2
Urban Planner đź“Ť Boston
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07-03-2016 00:52:40
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There are 4 very interesting job openings at the moment for people who want to spend their time thinking about shaping #Boston -- its built environment or its streets or the #BostonHarbor. They're all for people who believe "the best way to predict the future is to create it." 👇🏽
Just picked up my free copy of Janette Sadik-Khan’s #Streetfight at the GSD! Can’t wait for her presentation next month 🤗
What I love about this tweet is that it embodies something we desperately need right now: public imagination. When we focus on imagining and debating new possibilities of what we want to accomplish, instead of relentlessly fixating on limitations, we build the will to do more.
Graduate schools cannot treat cities as living laboratories or claim to prepare students for professional practice if they don't reflect the diversity around us. Read my letter to the editor in The Boston Globe Boston Globe Opinion. bostonglobe.com/opinion/letter…
Takeaway: our national decline could just be the result of too few cat people running for president. huffpost.com/entry/presiden… via HuffPost Politics
"At its root, planning implies that we need something other than the market to govern society and action—a belief that is pretty counterculture in American society right now." —The GSD's Abby Spinak @HarvardUP hgsd.us/2VVuHJ6 ✍️ Jessica Lynne
As businesses slowly reopen there are a variety of ways that municipalities can support. Check out our newly published report at Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC)
Webinar today at 2PM: we'll discuss Mass. Transportation's new grant program for munis to quickly implement or expand improvements to sidewalks, curbs, streets, and parking areas in support of public health, safe mobility, and renewed commerce. Register: zoom.us/meeting/regist…
How can we increase support for Asian immigrant entrepreneurs? On March 17 at 3:30pm, we'll discuss policy recommendations and the results of our regional survey with Asian Community Development Corporation, BCNC, Chinatown Main Street, QARI, and filmmaker Daphne Xu. Register: mapc.ma/AAPIPanel