Planning Magazine Fall 2025

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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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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