Planning Marks First 100 Years

In May 1909, the First National Conference on City Planning was held in Washington, D.C. with 43 attendees. From now through the end of 2009, APA will celebrate our profession's 100 years of making great communities.

The celebration of the Centennial of the Planning Movement in America will include audio and video histories recorded by APA members, web profiles of important people in planning, unique looks back like the list of 100 Essential Books of Planning we're compiling now, the Next 100 Years Video Competition for APA student members, and a lot more.

We'll mark the actual anniversary with a special symposium and gala dinner in Washington in May 2009.

Centennial Video

The Broadcast APA team recorded a number of centennial video histories at the 2008 National Planning Conference in Las Vegas.

If you'd like to participate in APA's centennial video history project, send an e-mail to getinvolved@planning.org.

View long-time members Jerome Kaufman, FAICP; Brenda Scheer, AICP; Dwight Merriam, FAICP; and Christopher Silver, AICP, as they tell Planning's Executive Editor Ruth Knack, AICP, what motivated them to enter the field of planning.