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How can planners begin to right past wrongs and build trust with community members historically left out of the planning process? This year's Daniel Burnham Award for a Comprehensive Plan winner, Richmond 300, started by elevating voices that had gone unheard for decades. |
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Survey Results
Insights from planners on equity
More than 3,000 planners share their perspectives on workplace satisfaction, interactions with colleagues, education, and professional organizations’ efforts to incorporate EDI efforts. Learn more about the ACSP/APA Practitioner Diversity Climate Survey and recommendations for professional organizations, planning employers, and planning educators. |
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Voices of Equity
Planning, equity, politics
Planning for equity is inherent in the profession — from the classroom to everyday practice. Wes Grooms, PhD, shares his recommendation that planners look toward elected office as another way to use their skills and understanding of social equity for the public good. |
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Meaningful Conversations
Let's talk about privilege
How can planners help their communities become more equitable and just? Facilitating conversations is one necessary, but sometimes difficult, step. This APA Learn course offers strategies and activities to help planners guide constructive conversations about discrimination and privilege in their own communities. (Member $30/Nonmember $60). CM | 1.5 | Ethics
AICP planners: Don't forget to log your CM credits. |
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Planning Practice
Planning for diverse communities
Get the tools and actionable information to engage people of color in planning processes and improve quality of life for all from the PAS report Planning with Diverse Communities. Learn how to advance the well-being of individuals through economic opportunities, access to transportation, housing options, health, and safety. |
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Addressing Inequities
Cities building momentum for equity
From creating formal civil rights offices to making racial equity goals a binding city policy, revisit how Baltimore, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Austin, and Portland, Oregon, are addressing inequities in this article from the Planning magazine archives. |
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