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Jan 29, 2025 · The 2025 Trend Report features a list of over 100 existing, emerging, and potential future trends that the APA Foresight team and our Trend Scouting Foresight Community identified as relevant to planning.

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Planning is elected leaders' most effective tool for managing growth, navigating change, and making tough decisions facing communities, like where to invest in transportation, housing, …

We are planning this multi-day conference to provide opportunities for engagement, collaboration, and (re)establishing partnerships with your colleagues, new and old, throughout New England.

Apr 29, 2025 · The work typically has been narrowly focused on addressing the task at hand, like current planning issues and responding to applying a zoning code, but it was not necessarily hitting the higher-level themes of equity, diversity, and inclusion, as well as housing policy or transportation policy.

Since 1935, the quarterly Journal of the American Planning Association has published research, commentaries, and book reviews useful to practicing planners, scholars, students, policy makers, and others interested in the planning profession.

We are listening and engaging with experts to assess impacts on planners and planning to help you navigate these times. Check out the latest resources for APA members.

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APA Florida is hosting three Legislative Session Reviews to help our members break down the budget, the bills, and their impact on community planning across the state.