As built-out cities continue to densify, how can planners create new parkland in the face of land and resource scarcity? Learn how cities across the country are overcoming these challenges to create high-performance green spaces in underserved urban neighborhoods.

Planners are charged with helping community members move their cities toward a publicly created vision. Equitable access to resources and amenities is crucial to achieving success, and as such, responsive, community-minded transit planning is a necessary but often overlooked aspect.

Planners have a role in emergency management, especially in the post-disaster recovery process, which can be very complex. Planners have the knowledge/coordination skills needed to help their communities recover. Discover the disaster recovery process now before disaster strikes your community!

Scenario planning is an iterative, data-driven process that allows planners and others to evaluate policies and other development strategies against their short- and long-term land use goals for feasibility and successful implementation.

The disruption of the nation’s food supply brought by COVID-19 showcased the need to plan for a more resilient food system. Learn how planners can address systemic vulnerabilities and increase food security at the national, regional, and community levels.

Discover a new and dynamic way to engage the public and reimagine the traditional multi-year comprehensive planning processes. Learn practical, yet creative, strategies to leverage technology and politics to adopt a modern and equitable comprehensive plan for your community.

Urban heat islands, aquatic dead zones, and cardio-threatening air quality – U.S. city planners have a role in disrupting these patterns. Follow the journey of one city making green infrastructure easier for planners, landscape architects, and engineers to plan for.

The follow-up to the popular Planning Supervisors’ Playbook, Part 1, includes 3 interactive sessions that go deeper into key managerial skills. Sessions will focus on reimagining your team, building an inclusive environment and supporting resiliency.

The focus on the transition to zero-emission technologies is increasing. Learn how planning with the community helps ensure that those most vulnerable to the effects of climate change can benefit and not be burdened in the transition.

This two part course will introduce you to the roles and responsibilities of planners in the hazard mitigation planning process. In particular, you will learn how to effectively plan, mitigate, and advocate for effective risk reduction and community resilience.

Learn about NYC's climate action efforts in environmental justice communities through incorporating climate budgeting, growing the green economy, and improving air and water quality for all residents.

Farmers continue to face environmental, social, and economic challenges to their agricultural operations which outdated land use policies and regulations can exacerbate. Planners have opportunities to adapt land use regulations in order to support farm viability.

$250,000,000,000: the estimated cost of five disasters impacting the Houston-Galveston MPO since 2016. H-GAC will expand upon a 2018 FHWA Resiliency Pilot Program to inform a Regional Resiliency Plan to increase the region’s resiliency to climate change and billion-dollar disasters.

Monuments are more than reminders of the past; they communicate powerful messages about belonging in the present. Learn how cities are rising to the challenge to develop inclusive communities by reimagining who, and how, we remember in public.

This session dives into the journey from inception to execution of planning and constructing local restricted housing in various western mountain owns, with an in-depth study of McCall, Idaho, Summit County, Colorado, and Jackson, Wyoming.

Reimagining Urban Planning is a series that explores new and innovative frameworks that critically challenge the competencies that planners are currently trained under and also re-examines the role of the planner. This is part one out of five sessions.

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.

Building resilience demands an ecosystem approach. This enables the complexity and interconnectedness of a community's ability to cope with uncertainty. This session will transform your toolkit and create new pathways to drive solutions.

In an era of rapid urbanization and climate uncertainty, urban planners must navigate uncharted territories. Explore how innovative technologies fortify city resilience, equipping planners to create adaptive, sustainable, and future-ready urban landscapes.

THEA’s Selmon Extension is a model for incorporating equity during the development of a regionally significant project. The team will discuss diverse methods and inclusionary protocols utilized throughout the public engagement process to provide a community-focused resilient corridor project.

Planners are grappling with housing supply issues and climate change impacts. This case study offers an investigation of both. Planning for housing that can withstand current and future conditions will be fundamental to the profession for generations to come.

Freight decarbonization is crucial for cities facing growing logistics demands, pollution, congestion, and equity challenges. Planners can lead by integrating innovative, sustainable approaches that balance economic growth, environmental justice, and public health, creating resilient, livable, and inclusive communities.

Case studies drawn from “struggling” communities—from a Florida suburb to rustbelt and gateway cities—demonstrate how proactive policies to expand mixed-income housing can serve as a powerful tool to achieve challenging equity, economic development, environmental, and placemaking community-wide goals.

What does it take to decarbonize all 1-4 unit homes in a cold climate city like Minneapolis, and can this be done equitably? Learn how to leverage data and participatory processes to create a roadmap to achieving your climate goals.

The Safer Streets Priority Finder enables planners to identify high-risk areas for road safety improvements through an easy-to-use web interface, bringing sophisticated safety analysis into reach for agencies without advanced GIS or data analysis skills in-house.

Seven concise, 10-minute presentations delivered by diverse professionals.

Our cities are not designed for, by, or with teenagers, specifically teen girls. This panel will explore how we can engage youth in the planning process for public spaces that better support their experiences, well-being, and sense of belonging.

​​Traffic crashes are one of the leading causes of death among children. The Safe Routes to School program emphasizes mode shifts rather than safety. For program success, a focus on speed reductions is needed, in line with Vision Zero Initiatives.

Modelers who prepare planning forecasts face difficult puzzles after 2020: Key time-series data and model assumptions are substantially changed. Commercial real estate space, changed transportation and activity patterns, the economy, in-person work, and residential choice patterns are all affected.

Locally-led solutions are critical for increasing the supply of diverse, attainable, and equitable housing. An innovative partnership of planners, local officials, homebuilders, realtors, and financial leaders have come together to identify new opportunities for reform, including a consensus policy playbook for communities and housing leaders.