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

Happy new year and welcome to 2009’s first edition of the IPM CPD Mail, the monthly one stop shop for all your CPD requirements. Published on the 3rd Monday of each month, 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

January's edition of the IPM Place Bulletin is available online at:
http://files.placemanagement.org/newsletter/newsletter10/Front_page/newsletter.html

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 news on the recent planning review which aims to simplify the planning process, a second academy for East Midlands towns courtesy of EMDA, a report on festive period retail sales, and some exciting developments from the United States where it has emerged that president elect Barack Obama has been urged to focus effort on place as a means to getting the US economy back on track. In addition we have an interesting article from RUDI which gives an overview of the trend for waterfront developments in the Middle East.

CODE: 324958
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/newsletter/newsletter10/Front_page/newsletter.html

CPD Mail Resource – RUDI podcast:Empowering communities: public involvement and neighbourhood planning. Nick Wates, Director, Nick Wates Associates & Editor of Communityplanning.net (60 points available)

Continuing our series of RUDI’s excellent podcasts, Nick looks at community empowerment and the strategy for its delivery in The Castleford Project, which readers of our Place Bulletin will know is 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: 647538
LINK: http://www.rudi.net/node/20685

CPD Mail Resource – CABE paper: Delivering great places to live: 20 questions you need to answer(60 points available)

This publication from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment explains the 20 criteria used for the ‘Building for Life’ standard. Developers can use the 20 questions that go with them as a basis for writing development briefs, helping them to speed up planning approvals and win local community support. Local authorities can use them to demand high standards of design - in addition, anyone involved in the creation/maintenance of great places should find the insights useful.

CODE: 873126
LINK: http://www.cabe.org.uk/AssetLibrary/12320.pdf

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: 'Streets are places, too’ (10 points available)

Local authorities could – and should – have taken a little trouble to make sure that road design and maintenance was coordinated with town planning. But, says Colin Davis, most of them didn’t, leaving us with many problems to address.

CODE: 413768
LINK: http://www.rudi.net/node/19724

CPD Mail Resource – RUDI article ‘Survival of the fittest: places must respond to survive' (10 points available)

Planning meets preservation; urban design meets conservation. If we reconcile identity and technology, there is no reason why character and innovation should not go together, says Jack Warshaw.

CODE: 674925
LINK: http://www.rudi.net/node/19568

ADDITIONAL CPD-MAIL OPPORTUNITIES

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

Key reading 1 (60 points available)

Examining the dimensions of a lifestyle tourism destination
Michael J. Gross, Chris Brien and Graham Brown

CODE: 792816
LINK: keyreading1jan09grossetal.pdf

Key reading 2 (60 points available)

Sustainable development in the city of Tampere: Working together with residents
Ari Ylo¨ nen

CODE: 438126
LINK: keyreading2jan09ylonen.pdf

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

Place marketing: how did we get here and where are we going?
Mihalis Kavaratzis, Gregory Ashworth

CODE: 538462
LINK: jpmdacadjan09ashworthetal.pdf

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

People-managed places
Robin Gower

CODE: 291857
LINK: jpmdpracjan09gower.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: RUDI_Place_Making.pdf

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 18th May 2009.