Planners Network Manitoba (PNmb) was established in January 2006. Its primary goal is draw attention to the importance of planning in addressing issues of social inequity and environmental degradation. The intention of the founding members is to make the links between the concerns of many locally-based interest groups and broader planning and decision making processes at the municipal and provincial levels.

PNmb is a local chapter of the continent-wide Planners Network (PN), and joins Montreal and Toronto as active Canadian chapters.

Planners Network is an association of professionals, activists, academics, and students involved in physical, social, economic, and environmental planning in urban and rural areas, who promote fundamental change in our political and economic systems.

PN was founded in the mid-seventies, building on concerns raised by the US civil rights movement. For many years it functioned just as a network, providing planners, community organizers, activists and academics access to others who shared their concerns with social and environmental justice, occasionally meeting for conferences, and distributing a newsletter. PN has grown though, and since the mid-1990s the conference have become annual events, and the newsletter has blossomed into a quarterly magazine, Progressive Planning.

For more information about Planners Network visit www.plannersnetwork.org

Interested in joining the PNmb listserv? E-mail pnmanitoba(at)gmail.com

To become a member of Planners Network (and receive Progressive Planning magazine) member:

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