What must local planners do to comply with their state legal requirements on regulating — or prohibiting — marijuana businesses? This course is approved for 1.5 CM Law.

This Case Study highlights an innovative, often unorthodox, strategy to repurposing a 450-acre industrial site near Dallas. Learn how planning, environmental analysis, and municipal diligence resulted in the reuse of a former asbestos pipe manufacturing site.

If parks, trails, and other public places are so good for our health and well-being, and our cities, why are so many parks underutilized? Learn from a case study community which approached parks planning from a new perspective.

Learn transferable lessons from a first-of-its-kind program addressing decades of disinvestment in the nation's largest public housing authority. The session focuses on strategies for engaging residents in needs assessment, participatory planning, and collaborative budgeting for improving City's public housing system.

This session will challenge/encourage planners to practice listening to understand the different viewpoints of a complex topic, how to encourage relationship building, and engage in innovative approaches to transparency, communication, and outcomes that can benefit equitably across a jurisdiction.

Streets too big for good placemaking? Don't throw up your hands in despair! This Case study describes a comprehensive redesign of every single Salt Lake City street, taking cross-sections that were originally designed for oxen and retrofitting them for people.

Planners must clearly communicate to the public and policy makers the importance of addressing climate change and promoting resiliency. Learn about innovations in mapping and visualization that illustrate the impacts of climate change in a visually interesting and understandable manner.

How do we know when we achieve equity? How do we know that there are disparities that are attributed to inequities? This presentation highlights tools to assess existing conditions and track future progress.

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of billboard and off-premises sign regulations. This session will explore the background of the underlying case, ruling, and APA's involvement in it.

For years, zoning ordinances have been written without knowing their true effects or what the on-the-ground outcomes will be. This case study bridges the digital divide to better visualize and forecast future outcomes with the right GIS tools.

Learn how to use TDR to implement plans involving environmental protection, growth management, urban design, green infrastructure, redevelopment, and preservation in ways that mitigate/sequester greenhouse gases and adapt to growing climate-change threats.

Past policies and planning practices have contributed to adverse health, economic and climate impacts in communities. Hear about innovative, community-led transformation of historically marginalized neighborhoods ensuring community benefits through funded projects and plans.

Downtowns and urban commercial districts have been forced to question “business as usual”, as the pandemic has reshaped daily life and how public life unfolds. How can we think of downtown public realms as a launching point for economic recovery?

The planning system forms a whole system framework that shapes food retail and community growing settings and can promote community health by regulating access to unhealthy food retail while supporting real estate-led approaches to micro-food production that promotes healthier populations.

Listen as four speakers highlight sustainable implementation lessons from East Africa, Sao Paulo, Nepal, and Maldives.  

Pandemic-fueled digital transformation is challenging every organization to rethink how they manage data and technology. Data standards such as GTFS for transit provide gains when a common schema describes civic systems, but how should we set the standards?

Can a prior "steel town" of 75,000 people reuse a 1,600 acre brownfield to attract over 8 million visitors a year and create more than 4,200 jobs? Certainly, it's the story of Bethlehem's rebirth into a 3rd century of innovation.

Community engagement processes must adapt to the age of increased polarization, digitalization, and inequity. This case study shares how successful storytelling approaches find alignments and shared values of the public while helping to establish public trust in planning processes.

Suburban poverty is up 70% since 2000. Meanwhile economic, demographic, and technological changes are reshaping suburbs. What's missing for most suburbs, is a robust and achievable equity-inclusion agenda.

Learn how the Port of NY and NJ and the City of Philadelphia are building and operating sustainable, climate-resilient airports for the 21st Century that are not only global gateways but also important community anchors.

This session provides an important opportunity to convene to discuss the Commonwealth-led Call to Action on Sustainable Urbanisation (CTA) and the Declaration on Sustainable Urbanisation, share good practice and explore strategies for creating a practical plan of action.

Well-designed graphics are far more effective than words. How can you communicate information clearly and effectively to others using graphics? See how an academic, urban designer, and social justice planner use graphics to tell their story.

From COVID-19 to cryptocurrency to climate change, the world is changing before our very eyes. Our future depends on our ability to operationalize a future focus in our daily work. North Carolina’s Research Triangle Region provides an interesting case study.

Planners and designers will share the inspiration, value, and lessons learned behind an unprecedented data collection effort to understand and develop actionable, project-based plans tailored to the unique COVID-19 economic impacts to downtowns, businesses, and residents.

These 10 tips will change how you use hybrid engagement without losing momentum, engage people living in a digital desert, utilize your community leaders and partner agencies, and build a framework for equitable engagement in an ever-changing world.

The Comprehensive Plan: Sustainable, Resilient, Equitable is a new, groud-breaking resource for planners. Drawing on the latest research and best practices across the US, this course explores how to leverage this resource to help communities meet 2lst century challenges.

Americans are living together in new and different ways, and zoning rules are changing to accommodate them. This course explores how cities are using the Fair Housing Act and new zoning approaches to accommodate the various group living arrangements.

Due to climate change and extreme temperatures, dark surfaces such as streets, bicycle lanes, and sidewalks are getting hotter yearly. This presentation explores smart, climate-resilient measures that maximize heat mitigation from the effects of climate change.

The housing supply crisis is an international challenge. Planners and policymakers in countries around the globe are grabbling with how to increase housing diversity, attainability, and equity. The Presidents of APA, the Royal Town Planning Institute, and the Canadian Institute of Planners will talk about what’s happening in their respective countries and how planners are rising to the challenge.

The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) represents a fundamental shift in the number and types of infrastructure projects undertaken by federal, state, regional and local agencies, with large implications for regional, urban, and district-