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CPD MAIL – FEBRUARY 2009
(200 points available + additional opportunities)

Welcome to February’s issue of the IPM CPD Mail, the monthly one stop shop for all your CPD requirements. Published on the 3rd Monday of each month, the CPD Mail contains links to IPM accredited CPD resources as well as events, enabling you to accrue CPD points on a manageable month by month basis.

Each CPD mail contains links to exclusive new CPD opportunities, as well as a round up of other resources which you will have had chance to access already. We are currently allocating codes to all our resources on an ongoing basis (including the Journal of Place Management & Development and key readings), therefore each month the list of additional CPD opportunities will be added to. For details of how to bank your points, please refer to the bottom of this email.

THIS MONTH'S CPD OPPORTUNITIES

February's edition of the IPM Place Bulletin (60 points) is available online at:

The Bulletin brings together news articles of particular interest to the place management industry plus all the latest updates from the Institute of Place Management. This month’s Bulletin includes more activity from the office of Hazel Blears, news from Scotland concerning place management learning networks, a report which predicts a tough year ahead for some northern towns including Liverpool, how canals can give a boost to flagging urban centres, and news of the proposed business rate supplement bill that has been the subject of much displeasure.

CODE: 342697
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/newsletter/newsletter11/Front_page/newsletter.html

CPD Mail Resource – RUDI podcast: Networks for change: Design and delivery of local area projects (60 points available) David Barrie, Urban Consultant, Design and Media Producer.

Continuing our series of RUDI’s excellent podcasts, David reflects on what he has learned from his involvement in The Castleford Project, an urban renewal initiative that set out to improve the public spaces of Castleford, West Yorkshire, and became the subject of a major new Channel 4 series in August 2008.

CODE: 583294
LINK: http://www.rudi.net/node/20684

CPD Mail Resource – The Civic Trust – Nightvision: Town centres for all (60 points available)

Following three years of research (supported by central Government, business and industry), the Civic Trust has developed the NightVision programme. The research showed that many more people would use town centres at night if they were safer, more accessible and offered more choice.

CODE: 564783
LINK: http://www.civictrust.org.uk/our-work/nightvision

RUDI ARTICLES

Each month we will feature two short articles from RUDI. These easily digestable articles are ideal for those who wish to accrue points in a short amount of time.

CPD Mail Resource – RUDI article: ‘Pictures speak louder than words…’ (10 points available)

From slick computer graphics to 3D models, getting the right message across is a ‘must-do’ for the equitable development of sustainable communities.

CODE: 325697
LINK: http://www.rudi.net/node/20638

CPD Mail Resource – RUDI article: ‘ABUNDANCE: urban agriculture demonstration plot on social housing estate maps the way forward for community food’ (10 points available)

The ABUNDANCE urban agriculture project in Brixton, London, aims to create a ‘low input, high output’ community garden, and to demonstrate just how productive urban agriculture can be. The organisers also aim to map cultivable green space across Brixton and to prepare a ‘space surveying’ manual.

CODE: 584239
LINK: http://www.rudi.net/node/20705

ADDITIONAL CPD-MAIL OPPORTUNITIES

Previously featured articles & reports can be accessed via the links to past CPD-mails in the section below:

Key reading 1 (60 points available)

An Evaluation of Mentoring for SME Retailers
Kent, T. Dennis, C. & Tatton, S.

CODE: 849162
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload//smementoring.pdf

Key reading 2 (60 points available)

Retail Development & Urban Regeneration: a case study of Castle Vale
Mitchell, A. & Kirkup, M.

CODE: 386971
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload//castlevale.pdf

Journal of Place Management & Development Academic article (60 points available)

To Rehabilitate or Redevelop? A study of the decision criteria for urban regeneration projects
Yung, Y. & Chan, H.L.

CODE: 289514
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload//rehabilitateorredevelop.pdf

Journal of Place Management & Development Practitioner article (60 points available)

Reclaiming Customers through a retail-led TCM scheme in taly
Coca-Stefaniak, J. A. Stasi, F. Codato, G. Franco, E. & Roberts, G.

CODE: 543697
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload//italytcm.pdf

RUDI Place Making Document

IPM Members can locate the entire document via the link below, for members wishing to obtain a hard copy, please contact gareth@placemanagement.org who will arrange for a copy to be delivered to you free of charge. Chapter CPD codes are available by contacting the IPM at cpd@placemanagement.org.

LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload/CPD_Mail_August_2008/RUDI_Place_Making.pdf

PREVIOUS EDITIONS' RESOURCES

IPM CPD-Mail: January 2009
http://files.placemanagement.org/cpd_mails/CPD_Mail_Jan_2009/cpdmailjanuary2009.html

HOW TO BANK YOUR CPD POINTS

STEP 1 - To bank your CPD points, log in to the E-Academy area of www.placemanagement.org

STEP 2 - Click the link on the left hand menu entitled ‘Bank your CPD’.

STEP 3 - To verify that the CPD activity being banked has been fulfilled, you will need to answer three set questions concerning the given CPD activity. You will be granted three opportunities to answer all three questions correctly, answer incorrectly three times and you will be blocked from banking this CPD resource.

STEP 4 - If the CPD activity being banked is an event, you will also be requested to answer some short questions concerning the quality of the session itself.

CONTACT

If you have difficulty banking your CPD points, or require assistance, please contact Gareth Roberts (CPD administrator) at gareth@placemanagement.org or call +44 (0)161 247 3780.

Next months’ CPD mail will be sent out on Monday 16th March 2009.

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