"What keeps you up at night?" Liability for regulating development in flood-prone areas should not be on your list! Learn about a valuable resource for local planners, floodplain professionals, and their legal counsel in navigating the law surrounding floodplain management.

Climate change intensifies risks for marginalized communities historically excluded from planning processes. Planners must adopt inclusive and creative strategies to address these disparities, ensuring that all communities in the future are stronger, resilient, and equitable.

To solve today's challenges, we need to think creatively and intersectionally. Art humanizes policy at a time when that is deeply needed. By sharing how we worked with artists, planners can draw inspiration and build capacity for their own practices.

Planners in small and mid-sized cities often face limited or fragmented data. This session showcases practical tools—from open-source geocoding to AI and social media—that transform data gaps into actionable insights for accessibility, community dynamics, and planning practice.

Discover how these publicly available datasets can refine your planning approach with multimodal travel-time metrics to essential destinations at the block level. Utilize this groundbreaking data to quantify the impact of land use and transportation, revealing connected or isolated communities.

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.

As planners, we need to apply best practices and success metrics to determine that our engagement processes are garnering input from audiences most impacted by our planning work. Intersectionality analysis is a valuable tool to achieve successful project outcomes.

Explore what "business-friendly" truly means in our communities. This course dives into varied perspectives from developers, economic professionals, and officials. Discover actionable strategies to enhance community engagement and shift perceptions about planning and development.

You do not need to reinvent the wheel with your housing strategy: Explore over a decade of best practices and lessons learned from efforts across the country including zoning and comp plan hacks, pre-approved plans, Housing Priority Mapping.

The Macon and Atlanta regions are both experiencing freight growth, similar to many regions in the country. This presentation focuses on related needs, challenges, and opportunities, and on freight resources created for use by transportation and land use planners.

Inclusive design goes beyond meeting and engaging with stakeholders; it expressly meets the unique spatial needs of populations often excluded from the process. This course reviews research on outside spaces and actual public school construction unique to the autistic community.

Housing, transportation, land use, economic development planners, and more: YOU have a role to play in reducing vehicle miles traveled (VMT) to meet emissions goals. Learn from MnDOT’s trailblazing efforts and take home VMT reduction strategies you can implement!

Cities of all sizes are addressing the changing landscape of work, housing, and public space post-pandemic. Representatives from Boulder, Salt Lake City, and Los Angeles will share recent wins, on-going challenges, and exciting visions for the future of their downtowns.

Depending on who you ask, e-bikes are either the future of urban mobility or a flammable death trap. Like them or not: they're coming in droves. Get ahead of the boom: learn about effective safety campaigns, policies, incentives/rebates, and other solutions.

Comparing the approaches, policies and politics of planning on the East Coast in Tampa, Florida vs. the West Coast in Tacoma, Washington will illustrate the impacts of the political dymanics of each state and locality on planning.

How do we address 1,500 miles of missing sidewalks and spend $300+ million in bond funds? How do trails and bikeways intersect with gentrification and displacement? ATX Walk Bike Roll tackled these big challenges by breaking them into manageable pieces.

Planners are advancing housing reform across states by building coalitions, educating stakeholders, and influencing policy. This session explores how planners elevated their voice, navigated political tensions, and translated technical knowledge into real, equitable housing solutions in Massachusetts, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Join the Planning Revolution: Explore how diversity and innovation are redefining our profession. Discover why this is not just the future but the very essence of urban planning success.

Rising traffic-related fatalities and injuries are unsettling. But there are solutions, especially when data are matched to contexts. This session equips planners with a cutting-edge safety toolkit and funding strategies to reduce crashes and increase safety for all roadway users.

Human-Centered Design begins with the real stories of real people and ends with policy solutions that address the challenges community members face. In between is a collaborative process to find solutions to uncover common needs that we might otherwise miss.

Short Term Rentals, and other transient lodging uses, can provide benefits for the local economy, but also have the potential to negatively impact the surrounding neighborhood when not regulated property. Collaborating with community stakeholders is key to creating effective regulations.

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.

Dramatic results in transportation safety will require multi-faceted solutions, including behavioral changes. Physical interventions alone will be insufficient to discourage unsafe driving, as humans are hardwired to ignore warnings in certain contexts.

Edgerton was a small Kansas town prior to annexation of a BNSF Intermodal Facility that caused an explosion of industrial development in a short amount of time. To prepare for smart-growth, the City adopted a new Envision Edgerton Comprehensive Plan.

This session will provide an updated overview of the landscape of tools for modeling land use and transportation scenarios, highlighting their analytical capabilities and use in public engagement through contemporary case studies.

The expected quantity of climate migration over the next decades will place significant pressures on receiving communities but present an opportunity for transformative change. This course explores how places can prepare for climate in-migration while managing community needs, equity, and resilience.

Twenty years ago, the first Diversity Forum was held at a National Planning Conference. Be a part of continuing to advance equity forward within APA and the planning profession.

Atlanta anticipates a population increase to 750,000 by 2050. Atlanta’s Department of Parks and Recreation created its Activate ATL master plan to address growth. Learn about its goals and progress using the Equity Data Tool prioritizing Parks of Greatest Need.

Discover real-world examples of how planners are advancing equity in communities of all sizes. This session features case studies in real life that demonstrate practical strategies for addressing past harms, fostering healing, and creating more equitable and just communities.

Discover real-world examples of how planners are advancing equity in communities of all sizes with lessons you can apply in your own community. This session features tangible examples of planners addressing past harms, protecting individuals, and creating more equitable communities.