Featured: CREATIVE PLACEMAKING Integrating Arts into Community Development
The role and impact of the arts within communities has been a longtime focus for APA. Now, with support from an NEA grant, APA and its project partners will introduce a pilot program to integrate the arts into planning processes through creative placemaking. This is the second NEA grant APA has received to assimilate the arts into community development.
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Your gift to the APA Foundation will help to shape the future of planning by connecting thought leaders with planners and the public, delivering new resources and tools for planners, providing financial support to students, and supporting social equity programs to help underserved communities.
There's Always Room for Ethics (Training)
Kim Porter, AICP, a member of AICP's Ethics Committee, posts a blog on ethics for anyone who is involved in the planning process, while recordings of ethics sessions at the recent National Planning Conference are now available for review.
APA Names the 2017 AICP Student Project Award Winners
Congrats to the five teams who received APA's 2017 AICP Student Project Awards! Award categories included application of the planning process, contribution of planning to contemporary issues, and applied research. See who won and check out their projects.
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News Release: NEA Grant to Help Integrate Art into Community Development
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June 23, 2017
Sustainable Groundwater Management Act
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Community Resilience in the Taunton Watershed (Part 2 of 2) - Halifax
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2017 Speaker Series - SB 1000: Bringing Environmental Justice into the General Plan
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