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Featured: NAVIGATING CHANGE COVID-19 Resources for Planners

Planners continue to play an essential role in community response to the pandemic. From holding online public meetings, to positioning your community for economic recovery, to using data analysis to ensure the recovery is equitable, you need information to help you serve your community. Visit our COVID-19 resources collection, organized by topics that are foremost in your mind.

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How COVID-19 Has Underscored the Digital Divide

Broadband access — or reliable, high-speed internet access — is a necessity, not a luxury. APA's Sagar Shah talks with Anna Read, an officer for the broadband research initiative at The Pew Charitable Trusts, about the work that several communities across the country are doing to close the broadband gap.

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Planning Ethics: Lessons from 2019

What kind of ethical issues are planners most likely to face? Read this report of the 2019 activities of the AICP Ethics Committee to learn about the challenges facing planners and prepare to face them with ethics and integrity.

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Racial Equity in Planning Organizations

To create equitable communities, planners must also create equitable planning departments. In the latest issue of the Journal of the American Planning Association, this viewpoint explores the history and present of racial inequality in planning and offers a framework for guiding racial equity goals.

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  • Featured Content
    COVID-19 | Health | Plans

    How Planners Can Collaborate With Public Health During a Pandemic

    Live facilitated discussion on June 25th at 12pm CDT. COVID-19 has intensified preexisting conditions and radically transformed life in our cities. As we move through the response and recovery, the collaboration between planners and public health departments is needed to rebuild and reshape communities to ensure safety, health equity, and prosperity for all its inhabitants.
  • Career Development

    The Private Practice Challenge: Going Out on Your Own

    This course will provide planners with expert advice on the basic and essential elements necessary when considering launching and operating a private practice.
  • Housing Policy | Law | Planning History and Theory | Zoning and Ordinances

    Deregulatory Trends in Land Use

    This course will discuss recent and proposed legislation in Minnesota and California that illustrate these trends, as well as the potential legal issues that come with such legislation.
  • COVID-19 | Career Development | Health

    Rigor, Relevance, and the Value of the Letters

    Setting yourself apart from job applicants is challenging and may be needed now more than ever. Listen to professionals discuss advantages to achieving professional development and recommendations for applying these lessons learned.
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Road to Recovery: An APA Chat with John Porcari

APA president Kurt Christiansen, FAICP, chats with John Porcari, president of Advisory Services for WSP and former deputy secretary at U.S. DOT, about the road to recovery and the essential role of planners in restoring our economy and rebuilding communities.

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