Studies show extreme heat causes more deaths in cities than all other weather events combined. Explore the ways that cities all over the globe are addressing urban heat island and building livable cities.

Tired of planning resilient facilities and infrastructure after a natural disaster or emergency? Or because a certain community leader asked you to? Find out how this past year's weather has brought energy and water security planning to the forefront.

States continue to be on the frontlines of zoning reform. Parking minimums, ADUs, and zoning are major issues in state legislatures. Find out what’s being done, the implications for planning, and successful legislative and communication approaches.

Moakley Park in Boston offers a roadmap for addressing pressing climate change needs while also prioritizing social, cultural, economic, and environmental equity. Learn the pivotal role this 60-acre waterfront park will play in Boston’s future.

COVID-19 profoundly impacted small businesses, with minority-owned enterprises the hardest hit. Solutions demand that planners evaluate their toolkit to include short-term wins and inclusive outcomes.

Environmental justice is a planning issue. Learn how communities have been deliberate in calibrating their place-based efforts to meet the needs of underserved communities. Environmental justice can enhance your planning outcomes.

Complimentary for a limited time: This is an extraordinary moment of pain for the nation and the populations that have borne the brunt of longstanding injustices and inequalities. Now is the time for the planning profession to reflect on unjust practices to evolve the infusion of diversity, equity, and inclusion into all aspects of planning.

Understand how evolving uses of housing and changing resident bases in destination communities has impacted local worker housing affordability and availability and how innovative planning and policy tools and funding mechanisms can be leveraged.

This course will highlight the fiscally standardized cities (FiSC) database. This tool can be used by cities to benchmark their fiscal data to comparable cities and thereby explore new measures for local fiscal health in U.S. cities. This is an intermediate course for experienced planners.

Housing continues to be a central issue for the nation. New research highlights the ongoing challenge of underproduction and its related problems. Zoning reform is an essential part of solving this problem. This year’s Burnham Forum will feature national leaders examining how planning and zoning reform can boost supply, increase affordability, and advance equity.

Learn to put your best Zoom face forward and build quality virtual relationships with your team as well as stakeholders and community leaders.

Mindfulness and reflection are keys to effective practice. A mindfulnesspractice can free the best of your cognitive and emotional intelligence. Reflectioncan keep you anchored in the process of thinking-in-action. Learn about both concepts in this facilitated discussion.

Electric vehicles are a hot topic, but is your community ready to support them? Our panel of experts turn your battery "range anxiety" into "range confidence" with real world case studies and planning approaches to enhance sustainability and equity.

In planning, city digital twins can be used for experimentation and simulation, to test policy options, to enhance cross-departmental collaboration, and to improve community engagement. Learn how to get started with examples from Columbus, Georgia, and Boston.

Integrating climate science into local planning practice can help communities adapt to changing conditions. When combined with equity considerations, adaptation planning prepares communities for greater extremes, including flooding. Learn about practices to equitably implement climate change adaptation planning.

Cities are particularly vulnerable to floods due to their high concentration of people and assets, as well as their proximity to rivers and coasts. Hosted by the APA International Division's Climate & Sustainability Working Group, speakers present case studies from Indonesia, the Netherlands, and the United States.

See how a new, innovative approach moves away from antiquated nuisance code enforcement methods and uses artificial intelligence to improve efficiency, minimize conflict, and reduce geographic bias to focus on community interventions.

The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) provided historic investment in states and communities at a pivotal moment. Find out how communities are advancing solutions using ARPA funds and what policy changes may open new ARPA opportunities.

What is it like to live, work, and seek to thrive in a white, cisgender, straight world as a non-white, non-cis, LGBTQ+ planner? Get an equity focus on professional practices.

Learn about a conceptual framework for how power systems in primarily white-led planning, real estate, and design fields affect health equity, and a test a beta action framework to challenge conventional practice.

Despite decades of efforts to combat discrimination, racist planning practices remain common. Learn how to transform the culture of white privilege in planning workplaces and education.

Communities are facing acute infrastructure needs to provide safe and reliable transportation with limited public funding available. It is critical for planners and local authorities to understand the procedures and approaches for securing and leveraging

Top officials from the Biden Administration discuss these initiatives and why they see housing planning and zoning reform as vital to the success of the infrastructure law.

View five technological advancement examples designed to emphasize the use of international smart technology in planning.

How will the political landscape shift and how will it affect planning and the programs and policies planners need? Expert election analysis will help you prepare for potential impacts and understand possible implications for your community. Find out how the political winds are blowing and how to navigate change as the nation heads into a pivotal election season.

Planning for diversity and inclusion requires intentional efforts to dismantle systems of oppression and advance liberation and self-determination. This course equips planners with concepts and skills to perform inclusive and equitable planning and work effectively in diverse communities.

Arts and planning has a new Federal Government champion with a big and bold vision.

Learn the elements of an effective and equitable economic development initiative, how to successfully engage community members and partner organizations, and best practices for establishing feasible and achievable benchmarks to evaluate your initiative's effectiveness.

Learn as this diverse panel of women share how they are working to achieve a more inclusive and equity-sensitive culture in their organizations, communities, community boards and commissions.

Georgia Tech's urban design studio partners with 2 Presbyterian churches, a Baptist Church, and a Synagogue to conduct deep-dive explorations into opportunities, challenges, and realities that communities of faith face when they get involved in the City'