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Geoengineering
PAS QuickNotes 107by: Senna Catenacci August 01, 2024This edition of PAS QuickNotes offers planners a primer on geoengineering, the intentional, large-scale manipulation of natural systems to mitigate global warming.Nonmember price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Complete Streets Drive Housing, Jobs, and Retail Gains
A new study finds measurable economic benefits beyond the aesthetics, traffic calming, and pedestrian and bicyclist safety they already are known for.by: Arthur Nelson, FAICP August 01, 2024A new study finds measurable economic benefits beyond the aesthetics, traffic calming, and pedestrian and bicyclist safety they already are known for. -
How Planners Can Win the Battle with Imposter Syndrome
Managing your response to negative feedback and knowing the value of your training are keys to confidence.by: Sophia Burns July 30, 2024Managing your response to negative feedback and knowing the value of your training are keys to confidence. -
Omaha Leverages Public-Private Partnerships to Increase Housing Supply
With an eye on equity, layering funding sources creates a revolving loan fund for developing or refurbishing housing.by: Jon DePaolisWith an eye on equity, layering funding sources creates a revolving loan fund for developing or refurbishing housing. -
'King Coal' Unearths Appalachia’s Entanglement with Extraction
A new PBS documentary examines the culture built on a fading resource and asks, “What’s next for coal country?”by: Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP July 18, 2024A new PBS documentary examines the culture built on a fading resource and asks, “What’s next for coal country?” -
5 Tech Tools for Conservation Planning and Urban Green Projects
APA’s Technology Division recommends tools planners can use to put sustainable infrastructure principles into practice.by: Kevin Meindl, AICP, Lian Plass, AICP, Alana Tucker, AICP July 11, 2024APA’s Technology Division recommends tools planners can use to put sustainable infrastructure principles into practice. -
What Now for Communities and the Unhoused?
Planners find solutions even before the recent Grants Pass Supreme Court decision.by: Daniel Vock July 02, 2024Planners find solutions even before the recent Grants Pass Supreme Court decision. -
Strategic Planning for Communities and Organizations
PAS Report 607by: Wayne Feiden, FAICP, University of Massachusetts Center for Resilient Metro-Regions July 01, 2024Strategic planning is any short-term process designed to take advantage of strategic opportunities that results in a plan for concrete actions or programs.Nonmembers$25.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Why Paid Community Engagement is Worth the Investment
Compensation policies help planners build sustainable and authentic relationships, says Noah Boggess, AICP.by: Sophia Burns June 27, 2024Compensation policies help planners build sustainable and authentic relationships, says Noah Boggess, AICP. -
$13 Million in DOE Funding Heats Up Geothermal Energy Projects in Justice40 Communities
From Alaska to Vermont, retrofits and pilot programs revive an old heating and cooling technology that cuts greenhouse gases (and utility bills too).by: Joe Tedino June 25, 2024From Alaska to Vermont, retrofits and pilot programs revive an old heating and cooling technology that cuts greenhouse gases (and utility bills too). -
Beat Extreme Heat with These 8 Tactics
America’s deadliest weather disaster calls for both mitigation and management strategies — in the hottest months and beyond. Here's how to get started today.by: Ladd Keith, Sara Meerow June 20, 2024America’s deadliest weather disaster calls for both mitigation and management strategies — in the hottest months and beyond. Here's how to get started today. -
Climate-impacted Native Alaskan Towns Seek Solutions in Manufactured Housing
Melting permafrost and a lack of labor add challenges to residential home building.by: Gregory Scruggs June 13, 2024Melting permafrost and a lack of labor add challenges to residential home building. -
Can Strong Social Infrastructure Cure the Loneliness Epidemic?
Creating havens, hubs, and hangouts brings people together and can enhance well-being. Here are 4 steps to get started.by: Kimberly Driggins, Bridget Marquis June 11, 2024Creating havens, hubs, and hangouts brings people together and can enhance well-being. Here are 4 steps to get started. -
Managed Retreat
PAS QuickNotes 106by: Scarlet Andrzejczak June 01, 2024This edition of PAS QuickNotes explores managed retreat as a climate adaptation and risk management strategy.Nonmember price$0.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
As Gayborhoods Shrink, Pop-Up LGBTQ+ Spaces Can Build Inclusive Communities
Events are meeting queer people where they are. Here’s how planners can open doors to more.by: Aaron Greiner May 30, 2024Events are meeting queer people where they are. Here’s how planners can open doors to more. -
Champion Reforms to Solve the Housing Crisis
The Housing Supply Accelerator Playbook recommends ready-to-implement strategies that local elected officials and planners should embrace to create more diverse, attainable, and equitable housing options in communities big and small.by: Joel Albizo, FASAE, CAE May 23, 2024The Housing Supply Accelerator Playbook recommends ready-to-implement strategies that local elected officials and planners should embrace to create more diverse, attainable, and equitable housing options in communities big and small. -
Test Concepts and Go Beyond the Screen with the Latest City-Building Video Games
From Spider-Man to Cities: Skylines, creating communities has never felt more real — and more relevant — for planners.by: Bill Jones May 16, 2024From Spider-Man to Cities: Skylines, creating communities has never felt more real — and more relevant — for planners. -
Flexible New Historic Preservation Policies Support Housing and Climate Solutions
Four federal policy statements guide planners seeking more modern approaches to housing, climate change, burial grounds, and Indigenous Knowledge.by: Sara Bronin May 09, 2024Four federal policy statements guide planners seeking more modern approaches to housing, climate change, burial grounds, and Indigenous Knowledge. -
Support Grows for Preserving Rural Grocery Stores
Lawmakers and communities fight to save access to affordable, healthy food and the social infrastructure local markets provide.by: Kevin Hardy May 07, 2024Lawmakers and communities fight to save access to affordable, healthy food and the social infrastructure local markets provide. -
How the National Zoning Atlas Visualizes and Demystifies the Power of Zoning
Sara Bronin’s sweeping vision gives planners a tool to push for reform.by: Sophia Burns May 02, 2024Sara Bronin’s sweeping vision gives planners a tool to push for reform. -
Yes, You Can Convert Vacant Retail to Housing
Rethinking ground-floor regulations to include residential uses is a controversial but doable solution to housing underproduction and a glut of empty storefronts.by: Larisa Ortiz April 30, 2024Rethinking ground-floor regulations to include residential uses is a controversial but doable solution to housing underproduction and a glut of empty storefronts. -
‘Concrete Utopia’ Shows How to Heal Cracks in the Social Fabric
After an earthquake levels most of their city, tenants self-govern for survival in this South Korean disaster flick.by: Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP April 25, 2024After an earthquake levels most of their city, tenants self-govern for survival in this South Korean disaster flick. -
The New Math of Climate Resilience
A groundbreaking project in Norfolk, Virginia, multiplies the impact of a $112 million federal grant by making social vulnerability and environmental justice, not just property values, major factors in its calculations.by: Jim Morrison April 18, 2024A groundbreaking project in Norfolk, Virginia, multiplies the impact of a $112 million federal grant by making social vulnerability and environmental justice, not just property values, major factors in its calculations. -
Turn Down the Lights and Turn Up Conservation Benefits
How a Florida city became the state's first DarkSky-certified community through planning leadership, thoughtful policy creation, and ongoing community engagement.by: Rebecca Susmarski April 11, 2024How a Florida city became the state's first DarkSky-certified community through planning leadership, thoughtful policy creation, and ongoing community engagement. -
Bringing Culdesac’s Car-Free Vision into Focus
A bold experiment in human-centric development relies on the city’s long-term planning that puts density, transit access, and walkability first.by: Patrick Sisson April 02, 2024A bold experiment in human-centric development relies on the city’s long-term planning that puts density, transit access, and walkability first. -
Dimensions of Equity
PAS QuickNotes 105by: Senna Catenacci April 01, 2024This edition of PAS QuickNotes defines and offers examples of structural equity, procedural equity, cultural equity, distributional equity, and intergenerational equity and demonstrates how planners can center these dimensions of equity in their work.Nonmember price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
3 Insights into the Future of Food Production
From gene editing to space tomatoes, here are some innovative approaches from the "2024 Trend Report for Planners."by: Jon DePaolis March 28, 2024From gene editing to space tomatoes, here are some innovative approaches from the "2024 Trend Report for Planners." -
The Best of Planning’s Community Green
In celebration of Earth Day, here’s a roundup of eye-catching and planet-protecting projects.by: Sophia Burns March 26, 2024In celebration of Earth Day, here’s a roundup of eye-catching and planet-protecting projects. -
Smart Tech to Help Build Your City’s Digital Twin
APA’s Technology Division recommends datasets planners can use for these powerful scenario planning tools.by: Andrew Buck, AICP, David Wasserman, AICP March 21, 2024APA’s Technology Division recommends datasets planners can use for these powerful scenario planning tools. -
Green Means Go: Seattle’s AI Solution to Reduce Stoplight Idling
Soon, AI may do more than just drive your car — it might control traffic lights and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.by: Joe Tedino March 14, 2024Soon, AI may do more than just drive your car — it might control traffic lights and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. -
Planning for Advanced Air Mobility
PAS Report 606by: Adam Cohen, Susan Shaheen, Yolanka Wulff March 08, 2024Advanced air mobility has the potential to change communities, and planners should be prepared to address its impacts and help shape sustainable and equitable outcomes.Nonmembers$0.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
From Strategy to Action: APA’s Evolution
How using data and foresight to align people, processes, and priorities is advancing APA's mission to ‘create great communities for all.’by: Mike Welch March 07, 2024How using data and foresight to align people, processes, and priorities is advancing APA's mission to ‘create great communities for all.’ -
Finding Solutions for Older Adults to Age in Grace
By considering the needs of a burgeoning senior population, planners can promote creative and community-focused housing options.by: Patrick Sisson February 29, 2024By considering the needs of a burgeoning senior population, planners can promote creative and community-focused housing options. -
Megan Oliver, AICP, Gives Planners the Key to Happy Places
Learn what planners need to know about the brain, neurodiversity, and fighting the loneliness epidemic.by: Sophia Burns February 27, 2024Learn what planners need to know about the brain, neurodiversity, and fighting the loneliness epidemic. -
The Path to Safety: How Road Diets Can Save Lives
A comprehensive new study shows that narrowing lanes may curb fatalities, save money, promote walking and biking, and mitigate urban heat.by: Jon DePaolis February 22, 2024A comprehensive new study shows that narrowing lanes may curb fatalities, save money, promote walking and biking, and mitigate urban heat. -
How Planners Can Inspire and Empower Citizens to Get Involved
Community planning academies offer a way to educate community members and motivate them to make positive contributions to their neighborhoods.by: Donna Carney February 15, 2024Community planning academies offer a way to educate community members and motivate them to make positive contributions to their neighborhoods. -
3 Tips for New Leaders to Overcome Potential Pitfalls
How to understand your new role, handle age gaps, go from peer to supervisor, and more.by: Enessa Janes, AICP, Justice Wahid Cotton, AICP February 08, 2024How to understand your new role, handle age gaps, go from peer to supervisor, and more. -
Treasure Philly! Embraces and Protects Neighborhoods, Narratives, and Hyperlocal Traditions
Planners lead a pilot program to preserve, protect, and celebrate important historic sites, starting by listening to the stories of North Philadelphia’s Black residents.by: Jake Blumgart January 25, 2024Planners lead a pilot program to preserve, protect, and celebrate important historic sites, starting by listening to the stories of North Philadelphia’s Black residents. -
Obama's Emmy-Winning Docuseries Shows Day in the Life of Workers
Step into someone else’s shoes (or boots or bus) from the comfort of your couch.by: Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP January 23, 2024Step into someone else’s shoes (or boots or bus) from the comfort of your couch. -
5 Open-Source Tools for Sustainable Multimodal Planning
APA’s Technology Division digs into free tools that help pave the way for transportation solutions.by: Lian Plass, AICP, Isabel Youngs January 18, 2024APA’s Technology Division digs into free tools that help pave the way for transportation solutions. -
Planning for Wellbeing Can Transform the Planner — and the Practice
Senchel Matthews shares how embracing 'messiness' can lead to healthier relationships with communities.by: Senchel Matthews January 18, 2024Senchel Matthews shares how embracing 'messiness' can lead to healthier relationships with communities. -
Use These 5 Conflict Resolution Tips to Design Better Meetings
Don’t get bulldozed. Learn ways to navigate conflicts to achieve shared goals with stakeholders.by: Jon DePaolis January 11, 2024Don’t get bulldozed. Learn ways to navigate conflicts to achieve shared goals with stakeholders. -
Can New Open-Carry Alcohol Laws Give Downtowns a Buzz Again?
Hoping to draw more people to the heart of the city, visitors can now shop, sip, and stroll.by: Kevin Hardy January 09, 2024Hoping to draw more people to the heart of the city, visitors can now shop, sip, and stroll. -
Mobility as a Service
PAS QuickNotes 104by: Ievgeniia Dulko January 02, 2024This edition of PAS QuickNotes explains how Mobility as a Service combines integrated digital platforms, supportive policy frameworks, and sustainable, equitable transportation solutions to create more cohesive, efficient, and eco-friendly mobility systems.Nonmember price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Protecting Zoning Reform Gains
Zoning Practice — August 2024by: Brian Connolly August 01, 2024This issue of Zoning Practice reviews recent legal challenges to state and local zoning reform legislation and offers strategies for planners and their allies who must defend against them. It profiles four specific reform efforts that faced legal challenges, and then offers tips and strategies to help planners implement and defend similar zoning reforms.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Planning Educators Illuminate New Pathways to Racial Reconciliation
Learn why the field is uniquely situated to assist changemakers and help communities heal.by: Sophia Burns December 21, 2023Learn why the field is uniquely situated to assist changemakers and help communities heal. -
Reclaiming the Missing Middle Ground: How Planners Got NIMBYs to Yes
During a contentious zoning debate, planners in Arlington, Virginia, used data and meaningful engagement to help the community expand housing choices.by: Patrick Sisson December 14, 2023During a contentious zoning debate, planners in Arlington, Virginia, used data and meaningful engagement to help the community expand housing choices. -
3 Ways Planners Can Prompt ChatGPT for High-Quality Results
Generative AI can act as your virtual assistant, but only if you ask the right questions.by: Jacquelyn Kirkwood December 12, 2023Generative AI can act as your virtual assistant, but only if you ask the right questions. -
Strategic Investments in Parks Can Spark Economic Vitality Downtown
Homing in on people-centered places may be our best bet for reviving struggling city centers.by: Carol Coletta, Mitchell Silver, FAICP December 07, 2023Homing in on people-centered places may be our best bet for reviving struggling city centers. -
How Does Climate Change Impact You and Your Community?
APA divisions are asking planners about their experiences, challenges, and perspectives.by: Karla Ebenbach, AICP November 30, 2023APA divisions are asking planners about their experiences, challenges, and perspectives.
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