Northern Section’s Awards Program encourages quality in planning and increases the public’s awareness of the planning profession by recognizing outstanding achievements in the planning field. For a description of the awards categories, rules, and applications, please visit norcalapa.org/awards/.
2023 Awards Program submittal period closes March 17 Read More »
Northern Section events and programs deliver professional development learning and networking opportunities. Featured in this section are upcoming events through May 15, 2023.
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Northern Section’s allied professional organizations offer events and programs in a variety of formats that you may find align well with your professional and continuing education goals.
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Join YEP and start building your professional network today. Northern Section’s Young and Emerging Planners Group (YEP) kicks off 2023 with renewed efforts to provide emerging professionals and students in planning-related fields opportunities to engage with other professionals in the Northern California region.
YEP Group returns to support young and emerging planners Read More »
The Northern Section Board’s January 2023 retreat balanced collaborative working sessions with team-building activities to focus strategic priorities and work programs on a year of action and engagement.
Northern Section January 2023 Board Retreat Report Read More »
Northern News is expanding its partnership with Island Press books to include author interviews, and the Northern News team is looking for aspiring Northern Section member volunteers to lead interviews with authors.
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Author Emily Marthinsen encourages people to see and to appreciate the significance, and the beauty, of Wurster Hall, now Bauer Wurster Hall, through its “context of ideas.”
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By Maryann Thompson, The San Francisco Standard, March 2, 2023 “There’s no doubt San Francisco is having one of the worst pandemic recoveries of any major U.S. city—even the mayor thinks Downtown SF may never be the same. So with 150,000 fewer workers Downtown, it would be reasonable to assume a drive to the city
If Downtown SF Is Dead, Why Is Traffic So Bad? Read More »
