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1. Seven Need-to-Know Trends for Planners in 2024

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2024
   By APA Foresight team

   From artificial intelligence to de-extinction science, emerging technological and social innovations are changing the world. In partnership with the Lincoln Institute, the American Planning Association has identified trends for planners to watch.

2. An Urban Planner’s Guide to Climate Information

   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2022
   Donovan Finn , Ellie Evans , and Kevin A. Reed

   As the risks to communities from climate change becomes more pronounced, urban planners need access to better and more user-friendly forms of climate data for a variety of planning tasks ranging from...

3. Scenario Planning Using Climate Data

   New Tools Merging Science and Practice
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2022
   Donovan Finn and Naomi Miller

   The integration of climate data into scenario planning is an important next step in helping local planning practitioners more usefully engage with the public around questions of how to address local...

4. Scenario Planning for Climate Resilience

   Revista Land Lines
   Marzo 2022
   By Katharine Wroth, March 3, 2022

   How can communities use scenario planning to better prepare for and reduce the impacts of climate change? That was the primary theme of the fifth annual Consortium for Scenario Planning Conference, which drew a record number of participants.

5. Planning with Foresight

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2021
   By Petra Hurtado, November 15, 2021. 

   Foresight is a planning approach that aims at making sense of the future, understanding drivers of change that are outside of one’s control, and preparing for what may lead to success or failure. The Lincoln Institute partnered with the American Planning

6. Scenario Planning in Small and Mid-Size Legacy Cities

   Framework and Tool Adaptations in Youngstown, Ohio
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2021
   Thomas Hilde and Hunter Morrison

   This paper examines how scenario planning frameworks and tools—largely designed for contexts of regional growth—can be adapted for land use and development planning in small and mid-size...

7. City Tech

   Data Companies Track Our Pandemic Patterns
   Revista Land Lines
   Junio 2020
   By Rob Walker, June 30, 2020

   Numina, a tech startup based in Brooklyn, New York, uses purpose-built sensors to gather data on pedestrian and bicyclist behavior, offering urban planners, policy makers, and mobility-focused...

8. Virtual Viewpoints

   Will the Pandemic Change the Face of Public Meetings Forever?
   Revista Land Lines
   Mayo 2020
   By Liz Farmer, May 20, 2020

   Over the past 25 years, the western edge of Missoula, Montana, has been a hotbed of growth. Thousands of residents have moved into new neighborhoods built on former agricultural land, with big box...

9. New Publication

   Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions Teaches Planners How—and Why—to Apply This Critical Tool
   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2020
   By Allison Ehrich Bernstein, April 6, 2020

   In the face of rapid changes to technology, the climate, and the global economy, a growing number of cities and regions use scenario planning to prepare for an uncertain future. The new book Scenario...

10. City Tech

    New Apps Encourage Climate Positive Design
    Revista Land Lines
    Marzo 2020
    By Rob Walker, March 24, 2020

    A couple of years ago, landscape architect Pamela Conrad got curious about the climate impact of her work. How much carbon dioxide did her chosen materials release into the atmosphere? How much...