[Massplanners] A challenge to a Monday morning

[Daphne Politis]

Thank you Carolyn. We (Consulting Planners of MA and APA-MA and MAPP Film Collaboration) have had this film on our list for a while now.  Your email has prompted us to explore the possibility of screening it sooner!

Hopefully we will be able to bring it to area planners soon!

Will keep you posted.

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....it is also used to indicate and define "place.”

> On Jan 29, 2024, at 1:25 AM, Carolyn Britt via MassPlanners <massplanners at masscptc.org> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> Below is a link to a movie that has been making the rounds of the North Shore to sold out audiences.
> 
> https://www.inundationdistrict.com/
> 
> Inundation District - a play on Innovation District -  is a film made by David Abel of the Boston Globe, the Barr Foundation and others about investment and flooding in the "Innovation District". Its focus is on the decisions made by the City of Boston and private developers to put hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in an area that already floods and will clearly get worse in the future. It is a cautionary tale for planners (yes, one is interviewed in the trailer). David Abel has accompanied the film on some occasions and provided further explanation and details. It has been sponsored on the North Shore by Storm Surge in Newburyport and I believe a consortium of folks on Cape Ann in Rockport.
> 
> This film (although I must admit I have not yet seen it - might get to next week) should be required viewing for planners throughout the state, but certainly in coastal communities.
> 
> As a retired planner, I have gotten involved in some demonstrations, including in the Innovation District when there was a meeting at the Seaport Hotel of the Northeast Gas Association. I chatted with the unfortunate hotel employee who was assigned to keep an eye on we well-over-60 somethings demonstrating out front. I asked him if he ever saw flooding in the streets, and he, of course, said yes. I then told him the real threat to his hotel was upstairs at the Gas Assoc. meeting. Demonstrators are at least given a decent role in the trailer, as are environmental organizations, and city officials.
> 
> Please watch the trailer, then set up an event, lunch, or afternoon at a movie theater for us all to see it together.
> 
> Carolyn Britt AICP
> 
> Ipswich Climate Resiliency Committee
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> 1 Shagbark Woods, Ipswich, MA 01938
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> 978-356-9881
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