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Cross-post, APA CA Chapter-Northern (Northern News, August 2012) Living Future’s Living Cities – Explorations of a Positive End Game, Scott T. Edmondson, AICP, Katja Irvin, AICP, co-directors, Sustainability Committee The International Living Future Institute (ILFI: http://bit.ly/MRlhDm) recently won the Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2012 (http://bit.ly/MC32TN) for its innovative framework known as the Living Building Challenge (LBC) 2.0 (http://bit.ly/OSyfjE)—“a […]

The Urban Planning Tour of Brazil, organized by the Northern California Section of the American Planning Association (International Committee) kicks off this weekend in Sao Paulo for a 2 and 1/2 week visit through the country, including stops in Rio, Brasilia, and Curitiba. Meetings will include visits with Academics in Brasilia to discuss the history

The Northern Section Board elected two planners to positions at its July meeting. Please join the Board in welcoming Florentina Craciun as the Section’s new Membership Director and Erik Balsley, AICP as Communications Director.  Florentina is an Environmental Planner in the Oakland office of URS Corporation.  She will replace Rodrigo Orduña as Membership Director and work on improving

Earlier this year we offered a series of three free Planning Commission training workshops (February, April and May). These trainings were geared to local government planning commissioners, elected officials, professional planners and/or interested parties in Northern California. Each workshop had a different theme and related presentations by seasoned members of the planning community. Each workshop

Update: position has been filled by Florentina Craciun. We are seeking one or two motivated planners to serve on the Board to oversee membership and communications for the Northern Section. Please consider applying if you have particular interest or experience in marketing or communications. Graphic design and social media knowledge are desired but not required. As