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Planning Editorial Calendar

Spring 2024

  • The New Math of Climate Resilience
  • Please, Stop Yelling at Me!
  • PLUS: 3 Skills to Up Your Planning Practice.
  • Planning to Age in Grace

INTERSECTIONS

  • Historic Preservation: The stories behind the sites
  • Economic Development: Downtown drinking zones
  • People Behind The Plans: Dave Amos, YouTube professor
  • Et Cetera: An homage to workers

TOOLS FOR THE TRADE

  • Infrastructure: Leveraging parks
  • Tech: Multimodal planning
  • The Profession: Advice for new leaders
  • Planners Library: Single family housing, homelessness

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

  • Contributors
  • Perspectives: APA's evolving strategy
  • Community Green: South Texas Ecotourism Center 

 

Space Due: 2/6/2024
Art Due: 2/20/2024

Summer 2024

  • Arizona’s Antidote to Car-centric Sprawl
  • To Save Pedestrian Lives, Put Your Roads on a Diet
  • The Marvelous World of City-building Games

INTERSECTIONS

  • Climate Resilience: Florida's first Dark Sky Community
  • Economic Development: Saving rural grocers
  • People Behind the Plans:  Happiness expert Megan Oliver
  • Et Cetera: Concrete Utopia

TOOLS FOR THE TRADE

  • The Profession: 5 tips for managing conflict in meetings
  • Tech Tools: Digital twins
  • Community Engagement: Citizen planning academies

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

  • Contributors
  • Perspectives: Housing Supply Accelerator Playbook
  • Community Green: San Geronimo Commons, Marin County, California 


Space Due: 5/14/2024
Art Due: 5/24/2024

Fall 2024

  • What Now for Communities and the Unhoused?
  • The Manufacturing Renaissance Means Rural Places Need Strong Regional Planning

INTERSECTIONS 

  •  Green Means Go: Seattle’s AI Solution to Reduce Stoplight Idling
  • Flexible New Historic Preservation Policies Support Housing and Climate Solutions

Tools You Can Use

  • Tech Tools: 5 Tech Tools for Conservation Planning and Urban Green Projects
  • Yes, You Can Convert Vacant Retail to Housing

 

Space Due: 8/9/2024
Art Due: 8/21/2024 

winter 2025

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Space Due: 11/8/2024
Art Due: 11/21/2024


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