International Planning

Planners and their organizations throughout the world provide leadership in addressing many societal issues. Often, challenges and successes cross geographic, national, and institutional borders.

Global Planners Network

Global Planners Network (GPN) is a network of national planning associations, including APA, that came together to share planning ideas, approaches, and good practices and thereby build the capacities for planning across the globe.

GPN was formed in 2005 in preparation for the World Planners Congress in Vancouver in 2006, where 13 national institutes became signatories to the Vancouver Declaration.

The network is supported by other international organizations and networks such as the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and the Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP).

Global Planners Network website

APA in China

Since China's economic reform in 1978, and especially since 1996, the American Planning Association has been working closely with the central and local governments in the People's Republic of China.

Since 1978, APA has sent planners to China for teaching, discussion, and projects. For several years, APA has received many delegations of planners and government officials from China. Workshops help Americans interested in getting more involved in China's planning.

APA's China program