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.

Jumping into a supervisory role or any level of management is a career goal many people share. While basic management skills are a necessity, there are unique challenges and situations which only a planner will face. This six-part series course is

Planners have perpetuated racist zoning and land use policies that have led to inequities today. Can planners be part of the solution to reverse racist zoning and promote self-determination? Yes, the Neighborhood Self-Defense Project in Dallas tackles these inequities.

Many of us know best practices for designing equitable engagement but, in reality, struggle to make “DEI” more than another checkbox. Hear what planners have learned when they pushed equity to the forefront of their projects: the successes and mistakes.

We have a once-in-a-lifetime moment to enact innovative policies, programs, and tools to support local businesses through unprecedented ARPA funding, corporate support, and other tools. Learn how to attract and sustain these beloved businesses equitably.

How does your office incorporate ADA compliance when evaluating proposals? Changes to increase compliance can be simple, and a small investment up front can save you time and money in the future. Well-planned inclusive spaces benefit all users.

Get a midstream assessment of Detroit’s $130 million Strategic Neighborhood Fund, a reinvestment program that seeks to catalyze equitable revitalization in the city's neighborhoods through resident-centered planning processes.

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.

Highways were considered progress from 1940 to 1965. However, they have been costly and destructive to cities, and particularly to low-income communities and communities of color. Advance your understanding of highway removals with some lessons learned.

Explore how the implementation of smart cities may provide an opportunity to make cities more equitable and environmentally sustainable through the integration of technology, nature, and community. How might current COVID-19–related developments in com

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.

This curated selection of nine bite-size presentations captures the flavor of planning today from a variety of perspectives. This grouping is ideal for those interested in international planning, transportation and economic development.

This enduring vision for the San Diego/Tijuana region by Donald Appleyard and Kevin Lynch (1974) inspired almost 50 years of planning innovation and sets the stage for a 2-part session. Prominent planners reflect how it influenced policy and regional thinking.

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.

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.

Statistics on smartphone adoptions and demographic data from Transit App show low-income Americans disproportionately rely on real-time apps, indicating a greater role for technology in equity-minded service planning.

Safe places to walk and roll are beneficial for all ages and abilities, but especially so for older adults. Older adult walking programs have helped jumpstart environmental change projects that support aging in place.

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.

A spatial approach to fiscal impact analysis is superior to existing methods. Nearly all revenues and expenditures in a city are spatial. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used to comprehensively estimate fiscal impact and create a detailed planning database. An intermediate course for experienced planners.

This curated selection of five bite-size presentations aim to inform you by capturing the flavor of today's planning from a variety of perspectives. This grouping is ideal for those interested in zoning, career development and big data.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Municipal planners can find it difficult to differentiate between residential and commercial demand in the high-stakes competition for on-street parking. The residential dependency estimate provides an objective measure to inform studies and zoning decisions.

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.