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Port of Kennewick celebrates 100 years of economic development
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Storm-weary New York City needs to adapt faster to climate change
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Gary looks to fight blight with data
Times (Munster, IN)March 01--GARY -- City officials hope compiling comprehensive data on blighted property in the comm...
Scranton area in for dramatic growth study shows
Times-Tribune (Scranton, PA)March 01--The region's population is on the cusp of a boom, a new study shows. Much of the surge, w...
Public Transit Cuts on the Horizon: Service Reductions Will Save $1.2 Million, Cost 18 Jobs
Ledger (Lakeland, FL)Feb. 28--LAKELAND -- Weekday bus service will be reduced and Saturdays will be gutted under a propo...
Selling riverfront land presents 'chicken or egg problem' for city
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New Publications from APA
Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery
Flood, earthquake, tornado, wildfire, hurricane... In 1998, APA published the first guidebook on local response to natural disasters. Now there’s a new Planning Advisory Service Report, Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery: Next Generation, to guide planning for the unexpected. Learn waders-on-the-ground lessons and find out how you can prepare your community to come back stronger if disaster hits home.
Planning Atlanta
More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil War to the 1996 Olympic boom to the current housing crisis, the city's history is a cycle of rise and fall, ruin and resurgence. In Planning Atlanta, two dozen planning practitioners and thought leaders bring the story to life. They probe the city's economic and environmental growing pains. And they look toward new plans that will shape Atlanta's next incarnation.