Celebrate the best of 2020 with a single hashtag. Submit 2020’s positive, wholesome, amazing, or good planning-related events, experiences, projects, or ideas.
Share your best 2020 experiences during our annual holiday celebration Read More »
Beginning Nov. 2nd, you will be electing a new Director-Elect and Administrative Director. But first, we need nominations (due by October 16).
Call for nominations: Election of Northern Section leaders Read More »
By Jason Jordan, September 3, 2020. The next federal transportation bill is poised to take a planning-led approach to issues ranging from climate change and resilience to new mobility and social equity. Congress needs to hear directly from planners and other community leaders about the importance of acting now.
Centering planning in the federal Surface Transportation debate Read More »
From CED Berkeley News. From the early 1980s, Professor Innes was an authority on collaborative approaches to urban planning and decision-making, and was twice director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley.
In memoriam, Judith Innes, UC Berkeley planning theorist Read More »
By Alex Hinds, September 11, 2020. Small town post offices dot our Northern Section. They’re critical, and loved.
Northern Section is more than the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas Read More »
By Laura Bliss, Bloomberg CityLab, August 25, 2020. “The fire was a monumental event and altered people’s way of thinking about things,” including whether the entire community should be surrounded by defensible space.
The price of saving Paradise Read More »
By Roxane Gay, Work Friend, The New York Times, August 9, 2020. It is absolutely unacceptable that your agency is asking you to spend your own money to improve the agency’s thinking and efforts around diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The deceased in 1999. Bay Area planners may remember him as the planning director in Novato and the community development director in Vallejo.
In memoriam, Brian Mattson, 84 Read More »
By Noah Friedman, August 18, 2020. Vibrancy is a reasonable proxy for a city’s general health and well-being. Essential to our cities’ future is an understanding of what makes the places where we come together vibrant.
Key characteristics of vibrant places Read More »
