In May 1909, the First National Conference on City Planning was held in Washington, D.C., with 43 attendees. Throughout 2009, APA is celebrating our profession's 100 years of making great communities.
Conference
APA 2009 Upper Midwest Conference
September 24-26, 2009
Chicago
Join planners from all over the Midwest at a conference that takes you out and about to explore the legacy of the Chicago Plan.
1909-2109: Sustaining the Lasting Value
of American Planning
May 21, 2009
Washington, D.C.
The symposium brought together federal officials, planners, academics, and grassroots advocates who focused on the achievements of America's first 100 years of planning.
APA asked students to create a video that captures their vision for the next 100 years. Congratulations to the winners, Michael Lancaster and Catherine P. Walsh from the University of Maryland.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American planning movement, the American Planning Association has created a list of the books essential to planning.
These essential books come from every decade starting in 1909, the date of the first national planning conference.
The Legacy of Daniel Burnham:
Architect and City Planner
August 7-9, 2009
Chicago
The Society of Architectural Historians is hosting a three-day summer study tour to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago.
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.
2009 National Planning Conference
Centennial Track
The staff and the editors of the Journal of the American Planning Association offered a track of sessions celebrating the centennial at the 2009 conference. In a session called "The Enduring Legacy of the Chicago Plan," Timothy Mennel, APA Planners Press editor, led panelists Roger P. Miller and Judith A. Martin, University of Minnesota, and Chris Silver, FAICP, University of Florida, in an examination of the long-term impact of Daniel Burnham's historic 2009 plan.
Walking Tours
Celebrate on Foot
Take a look at how your community developed or how it is evolving by hosting a planning walking tour. The tour can be a way to celebrate 100 years of planning or to look at how planning has impacted your community.
Anyone can develop and host a walking tour. Consider doing the tour as part of a chapter activity or for your student planning organization.
Tour subjects could include a historic master planned community such as Radburn, New Jersey; Greenbelt, Maryland; Morgan Park, Minnesota; The Woodlands, Texas; Greendale, Wisconsin; or Greenhills, Ohio.
