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The American Planning Association Massachusetts Chapter (APA-MA) is an official Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA). We are a 1,100-plus member organization of professional planners and planning officials who serve Massachusetts communities in many ways, at all levels of government, the private sector and not-for-profit organizations.
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The mission of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Planning Association is to enhance and support planning in Massachusetts through education, advocacy, outreach, communication, and provision of services & resources to members and the larger planning community, in a manner that maximizes diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Inundation City!
Planners’ Movie and Meet-up
“Inundation District”
Thursday March 28, 2024, Capitol Theater, Arlington, MA.
INUNDATION DISTRICT is a feature-length film about the implications of one city’s decision to ignore the threats posed by climate change.
The Planners' Movie and Meet-up series continues with a screening of Inundation District by David Able and Ted Blanco. The program will feature an in-person discussion with film co-producer and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Abel (who covers climate change for The Boston Globe)!
In a time of rising seas and intensifying storms, one of the world’s wealthiest, most-educated cities made a fateful decision to spend billions of dollars erecting a new district along its coast — on landfill, at sea level. Unlike other places imperiled by climate change, this neighborhood of glass towers housing some of the world’s largest companies was built well after scientists began warning of the threats, including many at its renowned universities. The city, which already has more high-tide flooding than nearly any other in the United States, called its new quarter the Innovation District. But with seas rising inexorably, and at an accelerating rate, others are calling the neighborhood by a different name: Inundation District. The 79-minute film, a production by The Boston Globe, premiered in the fall of 2023 as the closing night film of the GlobeDocs Film Festival. This is yet another event you do not want to miss! Space is limited!
When: Thursday March 28, 2024
5:30 pm: Networking, appetizers, cash bar
6:30 pm: Showtime
8:00 pm: Discussion
Where: Capitol Theatre, 204 Mass. Ave., Arlington, MA.
Admission: Free for current APA-MA, CPM, MAPP members and students.
This event is jointly sponsored by MA Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA-MA), Consulting Planners of MA (CPM) and the MA Association of Planning Professionals (MAPP) who are working together again to bring a fantastic continuing education opportunity for their memberships!
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