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Jan 29, 2025 · The 2025 Trend Report features a list of over 100 existing, emerging, and potential future trends that the APA Foresight team and our Trend Scouting Foresight Community …

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Jun 12, 2025 · Thousands of readers — planners and the public alike — turn to the latest Planning magazine. Each new issue is full of innovative ideas that are reshaping communities across …

Dec 5, 2024 · In January, the American Planning Association (APA) published the 2025 Trend Report for Planners in partnership with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. APA's Foresight …

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In 2009, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American planning movement, the American Planning Association created a list of the books essential to planning, organized by decade: …