What APA Members Zoned In On for 2025
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- See what planners read, watched, and listened to in 2025.
- Housing, 3D design tools, and pickleball topped the list of most-read content.
- Understanding the trends impacting the profession had viewers tuning in.
It's a wrap! It's a recap! It's a replay! It's the end of the year, and what better way to look back on how fast the calendar flipped than to see what American Planning Association (APA) members zoned in on for the year. Let's check out what you read, watched, and listened to this year.
2025 — Zoned In
Blog Post
'ROAD to Housing' is Paved by Planning
Of course, housing hits the list. Readers drove to learn about the ROAD to Housing and why this legislation has been called a landmark bill.
Planning Magazine
4 Tech Tools to Visualize Your Urban Design
Readers were interested in tools to support data-informed decision-making, using 3D modeling and evaluation software.
Zoning Practice
Managing Pickleball Noise Through Zoning
Pickleball might be the fastest-growing sport in the U.S., but it's also introducing a slew of new land use considerations for planners to address.
Planning Advisory Service
PAS Memo: Maintaining Sustainability Mainstream: The 5A Planning Approach and the Rogers Innovation Adoption Curve
Readers were interested in learning about a new paradigm to make sustainable practices easier and more attractive than the status quo.
PAS QuickNotes: Decolonizing the Future: An Inclusive Approach to Futures
A fast read about rethinking how futures are envisioned to create more equitable, inclusive futures captured readers.
Research Knowledgebase
Accessory Dwelling Units
And when it came to finding guidance, policies, regulations, and model codes, accessory dwelling units (ADUs) were at the top of the list.
Podcast Episode
Critical Conversations in Transportation Planning: Wes Marshall and Trung Vo, AICP
It wasn't all about reading this year. Listeners were enthralled with transportation safety, traffic engineering standards based on flawed assumptions, and challenging the reactive approach of waiting for crashes to happen instead of proactively designing safer streets for all users in this podcast episode.
Video
Viewers tuned in to learn about trends that are or have the potential to impact the planning profession as part of the 2025 Trend Report for Planners launch.
Thanks for reading, listening, and watching this year! See you in 2026 with even more insights, information, and education.
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