Planning August/September 2012

In This Issue:

Georgia's 20-year battle with Florida and Alabama enters a new phase, and Craig Pittman wades in.

Exurban areas are embracing family farms — as Adam Regn Arvidson reports. A Sustaining Places story.

A look at an ambitious plan for the province's lightly populated but resource-rich northern territory. By David F. Brown and Ginette Lamontagne.

Allen Best explains why the stakes are high for everyone in the Keystone pipeline debate. With a sidebar about hydrofracking by Tom Daniels.

An excerpt from Rick Pruetz's recent APA Planners Press book celebrates some remarkable efforts to save rural areas. In Planning Practice.

Carole Moore describes three rural places that are thriving despite a down economy, plus one web-only profile.

A regular column by APA's CEO, Paul Farmer.

Drilling and roads, pot farm.

Public trust waters, commercial signs.

Statistics in the news — compiled by APA's Research Department. This month: rural America.

Tim Beatley revisits Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

Trams missing, proofreading alert.

Inside Oregon, urbanism for the elderly.

Guide to growth, parking winners.

Planners as first responders.

Cover: Fall harvest in unincorporated Kane County, Illinois. Photo by Janice Hill, AICP.

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