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

Welcome to March’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.

Don’t forget to bank your points in your online portfolio! For details of how to bank your points, please refer to the bottom of this email.

THIS MONTH'S CPD OPPORTUNITIES

March 's edition of the IPM Place Bulletin (60 points) is available online at: http://files.placemanagement.org/newsletter/newsletter12/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 more activity from the office of Barack Obama, concerning news that some developers are violating ‘green agreements’, whether planners can learn anything from the controlled chaos of the Indian slums, an interesting story from the Sydney Morning Herald and reaction to the Parkinson report which looks into the impact the credit crunch is having on regeneration.

CODE: 623514
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/newsletter/newsletter12/Front_page/newsletter.html

CPD Mail Resource – RUDI podcast: Encouraging creative solutions to open up new possibilities (60 points available)

John Letherland, Urban Design Director, Farrells John discusses the creative solutions developed to address the Marylebone-Euston Road zone as both a link and a place.

CODE: 471582
LINK: http://www.rudi.net/node/20686

CPD Mail Resource – BCSC paper - Retail-led Regeneration: Why It Matters to Our Communities (60 points available)

Retail-led regeneration is an important mechanism to revitalise communities by providing jobs, promoting economic growth and creating attractive places to draw people into an area. The aim of the report is to identify good practice in terms of the community and social impacts of retail-led regeneration projects and draw lessons for future similar developments.

CODE: 542316
LINK: http://www.bcsc.org.uk/publication.asp?pub_id=282

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: ‘DIY urbanism’(10 points available)
The idea of supporting communities of self-builders is gaining ground in the UK, says Juliana O’Rourke

CODE: 976245
LINK: http://www.rudi.net/node/19650

CPD Mail Resource – RUDI article: ‘More than the sum of its parts’(10 points available)

We need to learn from traditional place-making, and not turn our backs on the streets, the squares and the places that have been successful through the ages. Academy of Urbanism directors talk ‘place'.

CODE: 286753
LINK: http://www.rudi.net/node/19586

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)

Consumers and Cities
Edward L. Glaeser, Jed Kolko and Albert Saiz

CODE: 795132
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload//keyreading1.glaeseretal.pdf

Key reading 2 (60 points available)

Small retailers in an inner city community: A case study of Adamsdown, Cardiff
Clifford Guy and Mary Duckett

CODE: 481279
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload//keyreading2.guyetal.pdf

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

Transforming the governance of plan-making in Hong Kong
Yim King Penny Wan, Lai Har Rebecca Chiu

CODE: 312578
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload//jpmdacademicarticle.wanetal.pdf

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

Space and place – Imperial War Museum North
Jonathan Shaw, Ben Squire Scholes, Christopher Thurgood

CODE: 527139
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload//jpmdpractitionerarticle.shawetal.pdf

PREVIOUS EDITIONS' RESOURCES

IPM CPD-Mail: February 2009
http://files.placemanagement.org/cpd_mails/CPD_Mail_Feb_2009/CPDMailFebruary2009.html

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 20th April 2009.

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