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.

A cumulative impact assessment is one tool that the government can use to understand the disproportionate burden over time within its communities. This course will highlight the role planners can play in facilitating assessments that center on community leadership and equity.

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 federal support to make changes.

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.

With the unprecedented levels of federal, private and philanthropic funds currently available, how does one create a grant program that not only makes awards but genuinely supports projects with catalytic impact, and ensures those projects are completed successfully?

Removing or preventing a highway in a city is often a fight – and never a fair one! Learn the language of highway removal, tactics used by state DOT’s and how to present winning arguments, and available resources.

Open Zoning is democratizing zoning codes, allowing anyone to access them as simple visuals for any property or city in seconds, crowdsourcing new ways forward for the bottom-up response to the housing crisis.

The Johnston Town Center, a public-private partnership opened August 2021, facilitated by city led acquisitions and investments in a vibrant “downtown” gathering space with public amenities/art, surrounded by thriving commercial businesses.

As in previous years, the 2024 Trend Report features a list of over 100 existing, emerging, and potential future trends that the APA Foresight team, together with our Trend Scouting Foresight Community, identified as relevant to planning. The trends are structured within three timeframes (Act Now, Prepare, Learn and Watch), which indicate the urgency of planners’ action.

This webinar will explore key skills needed to integrate empathy and compassion in planning practice. It will focus on deepening planners' awareness of and practice of skills that support them in honoring their own identity (and stories) while also respecting and valuing the varied identities, stories, and experiences of the community, leading to relationships that can advance equitable and sustainable planning.

Equitable strategies don’t guarantee representative data, so it’s critical to know who you're reaching and who you’re not. Here's how one community adopted an approach that has resulted in 20,000+ residents engaging from all corners of the community.

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’s affordable housing scene.

Equity! Inclusion! Antiracism! These are the ingredients of progressive place-based efforts. Learn how three distinct organizations in DC, Maryland, and Virginia are developing their equity practice for place-based initiatives in one of the most diverse regions in the country.

During this unprecedented pandemic, forgotten urban neighborhoods suffered disproportionately – a stark reminder that cities aren’t fair. Can we continue planning for communities-of-color using pre-pandemic models? Trenton and Philadelphia in partnerships with respective medical institutions demonstrate a new way.

Five presentations on innovative equity- and social justice-oriented projects: gendered experiences in public spaces in Islamabad, collaborations to support international students, housing and cities so 'no one is left behind', map tools as community engagement, and green space in informal settlements.

Ethics Begins With Equity. Learn how equity and ethics are intertwined, particularly in the Code of Ethics Aspirational Principles, and how planners can practice equity and follow the Ethics Code in their everyday work.

Learn about current topics in planning ethics from members of the AICP Ethics Committee and the Ethics Officer. Understand how the new Code of Ethics was implemented in its first year. The updated Code of Ethics reemphasizes the commitment to equity and inclusion, to opposing harassment, and to preventing the misuse of the AICP credential.

The panel will answer your questions to help you understand and identify critical skills necessary for success in a new role with elevated responsibility. This discussion is designed to explore challenges, encourage personal growth, and instill confidence in planners looking to bridge the gap between getting the job and being comfortable in your new role.

Presented in partnership with The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, this course will introduce you to general aspects of how municipalities raise money, spend money, and develop budgets to meet the infrastructure and operations needs of the community.

How can cities foster more fiscal predictability into their community’s land use planning and development standards to take the financial debt pressure off the citizens of their community?

This course will draw out innovative approaches to teaching international planning and identify the key skills future planners will need to address the global challenges the world is currently facing.

Learn how one small city added over 1,000 housing units to its downtown in five years by improving zoning standards, focusing on affordable housing, collaborating with partner agencies, and overcoming opposition to change.

Moving forward upskilling, reskilling, and digitalization, practicing planners will learn how to create a norm of using a neurodiversity inclusive framework at early planning stages.

Learn how to use of the latest cutting-edge web-based GIS tools and how a GeoDesign driven approach is changing the Community Planning Process.

The U.S. Supreme Court has experienced a tectonic shift to the right with President Trump's appointments. That anti-regulation, pro-property rights refocusing has a profound impact on planning. Knowing what the Court decided this Term and what to expect is essential.

Health equity isn't just for large, progressive, urban areas. Rural communities, car-centric suburbs, and mid-sized legacy cities have tremendous opportunities for and interest in improving health equity...if it is made accessible and directly connected to peoples' everyday experiences.

This course elevates the work the South Bronx community has been doing, led by South Bronx Unite (SBU), to dream, envision, and advocate to transform the former Lincoln Recovery Center into a thriving community hub: The Hearts Community Center.

Learn how the planning department at the Borough of State College, PA has deployed a digital twin to analyze the impacts of new developments, specifically denser residential development to meet their modern housing needs.

This session will outline lessons for land use recovery from severe weather, earthquakes, and climate change from New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, and encourage planners to explore their role in the recovery process and to take action before a disaster strikes their community.