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Welcome, one and all, to the first website of the Planning Awareness Club of Eastern, or PLACE.  We are a student organization at Eastern Michigan University committed to diffusing the merits of Urban Planning and Design.  Whether most of us are aware of it, this art mingles with our lives every day; every hour-- and it has since time immemorial.  It is ubiquitous.  Planning is not just the act of designing urban space; it is the propagating of community, it is at once a herald and progeniture of culture itself.  This is our craft. 

Our goal with this website is nothing less than to engender a community space that is at the same time an Urban Planning database, a social nexus and an informational medium for our organization.  This site is for students, for alumni and for faculty- indeed it is for everyone. 

When complete (but when is anything ever complete?), we will be able to offer you an interactive online forum to meet past classmates, old friends, current students, anybody- and talk about what is on your mind.  We will offer you an extensive database of planning-related information, literature and ideas.  We will provide you with the latest news regarding our program and events. You can browse the history of PLACE, and peer into our future.  You also have access to the latest internship and job information, and employers can browse through student projects and résumés.  There is an archive for the Journal of PLACE. 

In the future there will be so much more...

We give you more than a student website.  We give you an intricate tapestry of the Human Community and our place in the urban world.  Some may call our aspirations grandiose- please do by all means- for they are nothing less. 

You have entered our world.  We invite you to stay a while and promenade the electronic streets of our delightful PLACE. 

We are searching for a webmaster.  Are you interested?  Contact us. 

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