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The Fall 2025 issue highlights not only the work planners are doing to keep urban forestry and broadband expansion programs alive despite recent federal funding challenges but also how trauma-informed approaches are helping communities heal. Plus, learn how one Pennsylvania county is hopping onto a global bike trend to get kids to school safer and how AI is being harnessed to empower efficiency at the local level.


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Date Published
Oct. 1, 2025
Format
Adobe PDF
Publisher
American Planning Association National

Table of Contents

Out on a Limb

With the future of urban forests uncertain and federal funding on the chopping block, planners must adapt their approach. PLUS: Seven ways to help grow urban forestry efforts locally.

When Past Is Prologue

In trauma-informed planning, locals are the experts. Planners listen first, then guide the community toward built environments that help people heal.

Broadband, Interrupted

With recent policy shifts, have planners lost connection to high-speed internet for all? Here's how they're navigating a changing network.

INTERSECTIONS

Transportation: All aboard the bike bus

Tech: AI to empower efficiency

People Behind The Plans: Zoning reform

Exhibits: The private lives of public housing

TOOLS FOR THE TRADE

The Profession: Six ways to master the message

Housing: People over parking

Tech: Safeguard data infrastructure

Viewpoint: Lessons from a formerly unhoused planner

Planners Library: Beach reads

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Contributors

Perspectives: A new member benefit

Community Green: Painting a cooler future