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16,000+

circulation

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2

pass-along rate

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32,000+

total readership

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Planning Readers Have an Impact on Purchasing

Our readers have nearly $57.5 billion in collective spending power and they buy what you are selling.

97% - Waste Management Services
94% - Legal Services
93% - Distance learning and continuing education
92% - Consultant management
90% - Mapping supplies and services (including GIS)
89% - Project management
88% - Planning consulting
87% - Computer software
87% - Demographic data
83% - Landscape and architecture services
82% - Streetscaping (street and landscaping materials)
80% - Playground equipment
79% - Simulation software

2025 Planning Editorial Calendar

Summer 2025 Issue

Space Due: 5/19/2025
Art Due: 5/30/2025

  • Amid Uncertainty, Cities Use Data to Get the Lead Out
  • How the Push to Revive 'Ghost Stores' Can Bring Back Hyperlocal Communities
  • As Fires Increase and Intensify, Planners Need a Proactive Approach
  • How to Use Social Media to Build Your Planning Entourage
  • Unlock Suburban Housing Potential and Put Empty Offices to Work
  • 20 Years After Kelo v. New London
  • TECH TOOLS: 4 Tech Tools to Visualize Your Urban Design

Fall 2025 Issue

Space Due: 8/11/2025
Art Due: 8/21/2025

  • Broadband For All—Maybe?
  • Transportation Trends You Need to Know
  • Understanding Demographics and Societal Change
  • TOOLS: Developing Data Literacy
  • PLUS: Planners Library, Tech Tools, People Behind the Plans

Celebrating 90 Years of Innovation and Excellence!

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