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The achievements of planning are celebrated in October with National Community Planning Month. This year's theme is New Ideas for America's Future. This theme reflects on how planners help envision the future and address the needs of communities. 2011 National Community Planning Month Activities
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National Community Planning Month
Help elevate the role of planning in your community. Host a planning department or planning commission open house, talk to kids in schools about a career in planning, present a library display about planning and planners, sponsor a neighborhood tour to highlight how planning helps the community. Public Service AnnouncementsAPA has created recorded and live-read public service announcements (PSAs) to celebrate the importance of planning this October. Thinking About Becoming an Urban Planner?Michael Bayer, AICP, Nancy Frank, AICP, and Jason Valerius, AICP, discuss their new book, Becoming an Urban Planner during APA's 2010 National Planning Conference in New Orleans. Read "Becoming an Urban Planner: What Planners Do," an excerpt of Becoming an Urban Planner (pdf) | My APA
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Each year APA, its members, chapters, divisions, and professional institute sponsor National Community Planning Month to raise the visibility of the important role of planners and planning in communities across the U.S.
