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CPD MAIL – OCTOBER 2008

(200 points available + additional opportunities)

Welcome to the October edition 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.

EVENTS

RUDI conference 3rd December (360 points available)

The second of RUDI’s Re-Making Places events will be held in London on 3rd December 2008. Entitled ‘Unlocking Potential: Finding the right solutions to today’s economic, social and environmental challenges’, the event will play host to a number of speakers including Nick Wates of Communityplanning.net and Richard Rees, director of the urbanism group at BDP.

The event will provide approximately 6 hours of learning and development, equating to 360 CPD points.

CODE: 123896
LINK: http://www.rudi.net/pages/20177

THIS MONTH'S CPD OPPORTUNITIES

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

http://files.placemanagement.org/newsletter/newsletter7/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 of a smoking ban in India which is causing unusual problems for businesses, we have some interesting public realm themed news including a new scheme which has stripped a city centre road of all its signage and markings, and a study which claims that when it comes to urban design, it really is a man's world. In addition we have a report on Blackpool's attempts to regenerate following their super casino disappointment and the final part of our oil series which this month looks at how transport and employment are being affected.

We also have a number of IPM updates, including an Approved Partner update and a CPD process recap. 

CODE: 572468
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/newsletter/newsletter7/Front_page/newsletter.html

CPD Mail Resource – RUDI podcast: Re-making places for 21st century challenges(60 points available) Professor Michael Hebbert, Manchester University

RUDI's first Re-making Places event took place in February 2008 and brought together a range of views on the theme of remodelling and re-engineering places. Michael Hebbert, Professor of Town Planning, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester & Editor of ‘Progress in Planning’, looked at techniques for designing and re-designing urban and suburban areas for 21st century challenges. Michael’s presentation can be accessed via the link below.

CODE: 684295
LINK: http://www.rudi.net/pages/18927

CPD Mail Resource – European City Brand Barometer (60 points available)

This study, entitled ‘The City Brand Barometer’ and created by London-based Saffron Consultants, ranks 72 of Europe’s largest cities based on a comparison of their assets and attractions against the strength of their brands. To support the analysis, Saffron commissioned a YouGov poll of 2,000 consumers to find out what people most want from a city. The paper makes for interesting reading and can be accessed through the Waterfront Expo event page below (the link to the report PDF itself can be found at the bottom of said page).

CODE: 536492
LINK: http://www.waterfrontexpo.com/cm/public/news/news_event.php?newsid=1303&pubdep=5

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: ‘Vital & Viable Towns’ (10 points available)

CODE: 421587
LINK: http://www.rudi.net/pages/19699

CPD Mail Resource – RUDI article: 'Access all areas: A new city heart for Liverpool' (10 points available)

CODE: 425389
LINK: http://www.rudi.net/pages/19545

ADDITIONAL CPD-MAIL OPPORTUNITIES

Key reading 1 (60 points available)

Urban development versus sustainable development in Poland
Strzelecka, E

CODE: 412765
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload/CPD_Mail_Octo_2008/key_reading_1.pdf

Key reading 2 (60 points available)

Downtowns in transition. Emerging business improvement area strategies
Tony Hernandez, Ken Jones

CODE: 295467
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload/CPD_Mail_Octo_2008/downtown_intransition.pdf  

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

The role of stakeholders in town centre management: Guidelines for identification and analysis
Alessandro de nisco, Angelo Riviezzo, Maria Rosaria Napolitano

CODE: 516427
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload/CPD_Mail_Octo_2008/jpmd_article_nisco_academic.pdf

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

Place Management as a core role in government
John Mant

CODE: 368471
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload/CPD_Mail_Octo_2008/jpmd_mant_article_practitioner.pdf

RUDI Place Making Document

As an added feature of the CPD mail, each month we are offering CPD points for members wishing to read the RUDI produced document: ‘Place Making – Celebrating quality and innovation in urban life’ on a chapter by chapter basis. (60 points per month)

This month’s chapter is the third instalment, and is entitled ‘Place and Sustainability (pp. 41-59)

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.

CODE (for third chapter): 849712
LINK: http://files.placemanagement.org/upload/CPD_Mail_August_2008/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 points 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, would like access to earlier CPD-Mails, or require further 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 17th November 2008.

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