Need an excuse to go to Sun Valley for a few days this summer? Join us June
4=966 for the second Rural Town Symposium, Tools for Change in Rural Towns.
This year=92s symposium will be held a Sun Valley, Idaho in cooperation with
the Fiftieth Anuual Conference of the Association of Idaho Cities. We=92re
excited by the prospect of extending our audience to the entire membership
of AIC, as well as those who attended our first symposium. We hope to
attract presentations that demonstrate practical approaches to town and
rural planning from civic officials, professional designers and planners,
and academicians. I know a lot of you visionaries have been working on
interesting and appropriate projects that are worth sharing with our
audience. Also, spread the word to your peers who are not official
"visionaries."
We invite you to take advantage of this forum to share your work with your
peers and collegues as well as with those eager to find the tools to enhance
their communities. We will provide the opportunity for you to network with
those facilitating change (officials and administrators), developing
strategies and tools for change (professionals and academicians), seeking
change (community leaders and members), and learning about the process
(students and all of us).
If you'd like a copy of the call for participation, please e-mail me
<bhaglund@osprey.csrv.uidaho.edu> or call me <885-6781>. The proposal
submission deadline is March 1. I'm also happy to answer any other
questions about the event. Steve Drown, Landscape Architecture, and I are
organizing the symposium for the College of Art and Architecture in
cooperation with the Center for Business Development and Research and the
Association of Idaho Cities.