Hey everyone. Taking a real vacation of sorts to address the APA Virginia membership tomorrow on “The New Diversity of Planning” and “Planning Around A Civic Inferiority Complex.

Here’s a photo of where we are at right now. (It’s cloudy, you don’t need to be jealous).

Meanwhile, if you are here at the conference and coming to the page for the first time, you can do a couple of things.

Read my about page. This will help you during my talk tomorrow morning to get a sense of my background and what I’m doing with this site and my various workings.

Learn what I mean with the civic inferiority complex. Bonus points if you read up on how it affects the “voting with your feet” phenomenon.

Follow me on Twitter.

Subscribe to my email list. (You get essays, podcast episodes and the like before anyone else).

Keep up with planning and development news in North Carolina with my sister site, North Carolina Placebook. You can get that info directly in your email box too.

Special thanks to Earl Anderson, Andy Boenau, Malcolm Kenton and all of you lovely people that I’ve met this week here at the Wintergreen Resort.

Come back here as I’ll be updating this post with pictures and speech audio as soon as all those things happen.