From the Herberger Center Director
		Mary Kihl, AICP
			Author Info

Greetings Planners:

Communication is essential if planners are to learn from experience, be attuned to current issues, and test new ideas. All of you who were able to attend the New York Conference will agree that we heard a number of excellent presentations. With concurrent sessions, however, we no doubt missed hearing many panels that we hoped to take in. This CD-ROM will help provide an overview of the full conference.

The CD-ROM includes all conference papers that were submitted to the editorial team before the publication cut off date. Any papers that came in later will be made available on the Internet. You will find this updated set of papers at the following Internet address: http://www.asu.edu/caed/proceedings00. The proceedings of the 1997, 1998, and 1999 APA conferences are also available on Internet. Unfortunately, it is not possible to capture, either on the CD or the Internet, informal presentations that do not include written text support.

In addition to the New York 2000 conference proceedings, this CD includes, as a bonus feature, a helpful land-based classification system developed by Sanjay Jeer of the APA staff and Joe Johnson and Clem Henriksen of the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI).

Acknowledgments

The electronic publication of the New York 2000 Proceedings has been a team effort. The Herberger Center of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Arizona State University was pleased to join with the APA and AICP in this important publication effort. The editors gratefully acknowledge the efforts of the program participants in developing quality papers and rushing them to us in time to be included in this publication. The conference session chairs played a key role in encouraging their panelists to forward papers.

The editorial team acknowledges the continued enthusiastic support of the AICP Commission. Glenn Coyne of the APA staff deserves special recognition for his effectiveness in marshalling this effort. ESRI provided both financial support for production of the CD-ROM and technical support in the development of the Land Classification program.

The project would not have been possible without the capable, dedicated editorial services of Bill Kasson, planner and an editor with the Herberger Center, publication arm of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Arizona State University. Bill personally converted each of the papers and associated images into HTML format.

Much of the credit for spearheading the electronic publication of the proceedings belongs to Ray Quay, Assistant Director of Planning with the City of Phoenix. His talents as an on-line editor in building Websites, publishing on the Internet, and in creating the 1999 CD-ROM disk have been invaluable. Ray worked many hours, much of it on his own time, in building the search engine, creating headers, converting files, and creating a master CD. He also personally installed the New York 2000 Proceedings on the Internet. Ray's motivation for this amazing effort is his personal dedication to furthering communication among planners and enhancing the quality of our profession.

Mary Kihl, AICP,
Director
Herberger Center for Design Excellence
Arizona State University