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APA NEWS
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Top speakers on tap
If you are looking for qualified speakers to participate in an educational event, turn first to APA's new Speakers Directory. Enter a search term, hit "GO," and your search will return a list of names extracted from almost 4,000 individuals who have presented at National Planning Conferences. Filter your results by location, event, APA membership, or AICP credential if desired.
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Global efforts toward sustainable development
On our own, and on behalf of allies in the Global Planners Network, APA will be a key contributor to the U.N. Economic and Social Council's High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. Bruce Stiftel, FAICP, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, is a forum participant. APA's Sustaining Places initiative demonstrates the relevance of our work to the forum.
APA remains engaged in Planners for Climate Action, an international effort to share practices, educate planners and officials, identify research targets, and inform international forums about planners' important role in addressing climate change and sustainability.
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EVENTS
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OPPORTUNITIES
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Educate, advocate, celebrate
October is National Community Planning Month, APA's annual observance celebrating the achievements of planning in the United States. It opens opportunities for planners to connect with elected and appointed officials and talk with the media about the importance of inclusive planning. This year's theme, "Housing as Community Infrastructure," spotlights the centrality of housing.
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How can you participate? Act now to raise the profile of planning in your community by encouraging your mayor or governor to proclaim October as Community Planning Month. Plan a site visit for federal, state, and local elected officials that showcases how your community is tackling housing affordability challenges. Offer tours of nearby APA-designated Great Places in America. For more inspiration, check out the National Community Planning Month Story Map to see how planners in other communities spotlight their efforts.
When you're ready to act, APA's newly updated Planning Month Resource Hub has all the tools you'll need to elevate your planning story this October.
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RESOURCES
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Borrow from our resiliency e-book collection
The APA Library E-book Collection now offers a curated selection of e-books and audiobooks about resiliency. Materials cover how planning can help individuals and communities feel safer, stronger, and more prepared, and include content on climate change and disaster resiliency. Members may check out and get free, instant access to these important planning resources.
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For more on resiliency
Meet Daphne Lundi, a flood resilience and neighborhood planner in the Brooklyn Office of the Department of City Planning. Her family's roots are in Haiti, and in 2012, Hurricane Sandy dramatically showed her the challenges faced in common by Caribbean countries and U.S. coastal communities. Now she ensures that projects in coastal neighborhoods meet the latest resilient construction standards, and she educates communities about flood risk and climate change.
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Revisit a blog post by APA's Joseph DeAngelis, AICP, about a workshop where participants used a scenario planning tool to visualize and suggest solutions to local flooding challenges.
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Lessons for leaders
Guide for the Idealist author Richard Willson, FAICP, has thoughtful suggestions for planners who have moved up the career ladder into a management position. He notes that collaboration is a key component of successful management, and that good managers comfortably rely on their teams.
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Municipal Waterfronts: Planning for Commercial and Industrial Uses
Much waterfront development occurred before the advent of planning and zoning. By the mid-1950s, cities were recognizing and beginning to address waterfront problems. In 1952, this historic PAS report examined the status of waterfront planning for commercial and industrial uses and illustrated how cities were planning, zoning, and investing in working waterfronts.
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Albany County Planning Department
Laramie, WY
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City of Madison
Madison, WI
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Monongalia County Planning Commission
Morgantown, WV
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City of Bozeman
Bozeman, MT
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Send questions or comments about Interact to interact@planning.org.
Interact is a member e-newsletter of the American Planning Association and its professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners.
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