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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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Have your event added to the map. E-mail details to ncpm@planning.org.

National Community Planning Month

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.

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 Announcements

APA has created recorded and live-read public service announcements (PSAs) to celebrate the importance of planning this October.

Listen to PSAs

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)

Purchase a copy of Becoming an Urban Planner