Gearing Up the Filipino Planner for National and Global Change

Gearing Up the Filipino Planner for National and Global Change
PIEP NATIONAL CONVENTION 2004
October 29-30, 2004, Century Park Hotel
599 P. Ocampo St., 1004 Malate, Manila Philippines

Day 1:
Registration and opening Ceremonies
Keynote Address

Keynote speech 1: Planning for a Legacu to National Development: Charting Directions for the MTPDP.
* Localizing the Millenium Development Goals
* The National Urban Development and Housing Framework
* Federalism and the Parliament: Their Implications in Planning
* Population Management for Sustainable Development

Lunch: Investiture of New Fellows

Keynote Speech 2: Creating New Urban Centers towards Planning for Decongesting Metro Manila
* Restructuring Metro Manila: From Primacy to Priming Up New Urban Centers
* Towards More Progressive Housing and Land Use Regulations: Initial Findings
* Priming Up the Subic-Clark Growth Corridor
* Industrializing the Countryside

Day 2
Keynote Speech 3: New Directions in Planning Education and the Profession
* Enhancing Planning through GIS Technologies and Instruments
* Attuning the Profession to Global and National Change
* Integrating Environmental Planning and Management in the Professional Service
* The Local Planning and Development Coordinators: The Key to Local Development Planning and Implementation
* Impact of the Clean Water Act on the Planning Profession

Lunch: PIEP Business Meeting

Keynote Speech 4: Socio-Economic and Cultural Challenges for Urban Planning
* Packaging the LGU for investors: Best Practices
* Role of the Private Sector as Partner in the Planning of Towns and Cities
* Small is Beautiful: Planning a Place for the Entrepreneur
* The Mall: Catalyst for Local Government?
* Pride of Place

Conference Resolutions and Closing Ceremonies

Registration Details
Sign up for By Sept 30 After Sept 30
1. PIEP Member Php3,000.00 Php3,500.00
2. Student Php2,500.00 Php3,000.00
3. Non-PIEP Member Php4,000.00 Php4,500.00
4. Foreign Participant US$150.00 US$200.00

Registration fees,contact PIEP, UP SURP, 920-9705 / 927-3595