Program
About the Program

APA’s National Planning Conference bring together over 6,000 participant weekend, orientation tours, training seminars and opening of the Expo showcase highlighted in the evening by the Philadelphia Local Host Committee premier welcoming reception at the National Constitution Center providing the most spectacular views of the would famous historic landmarks the treasured Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. Opening keynote speaker Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. kickoff the daily schedule of panel sessions and mobile workshops addressing the widest possible range of planning topics from start to end over the next four days followed by the Taste of Philadelphia evening opening reception in the Grand Hall of the Pennsylvania Convention Center-the nation’s last surviving single-span arched train shed. Monday evening featured a change to see Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs at the famed Franklin Institute on its final national stop of it worldwide tour. Tuesday Ambassador Carolina Barco Isakson addresses global planning issues ending with two fun filled evening events a Night Out to the Ol’ Ball Game or the ever popular Tippler’s Tour of Olde Philadelphia. On Wednesday the conference closes with an engaging panel discussion on the legacy of one of the nation’s most influential city planner, Edmund N. Bacon FAIP who not only shaped modern Philadelphia but also forever influenced the fields of urban planning and design.