Past Events
September 2019
APA Webinar: Regenerative Urban Developments Are Changing Planning
This Webinar focuses on the current sustainability planning predicament: sustainability-planning-as-usual may not produce sustainability in time as the accelerating trends close the window of opportunity. Yet, planning and planners can make a critical contribution to success. The session panelists share and discuss their research and studies on projects in San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Ottawa, Canada, and other cities. These multiple projects are pursuing certifications such as Living Community Challenge (Sacramento Valley Station Master Plan), One Planet (Zibi Community, Ottawa,
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APA Webinar: Integrating Urban and Regional Sustainability Planning
Habitat III, in 2016 in Quito, Ecuador, introduced the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and was important to planners in the US and internationally for presenting the New Urban Agenda (NUA) through SDG 11. SDG 11 in turn was influenced by APA and other planning organizations who provided their input to the NUA through their white paper, The City We Need. The session will describe and compare how different US and international planning organizations and initiatives address the integration of
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