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Anti-Displacement Strategies: Stories from the SBAN Network
Gentrification is both a residential and commercial phenomenon, yet few tools exist to help keep businesses in place. Learn how the Small Business Anti-Displacement Network is providing tools and best practices for planners and other interested stakeholders.- Manuel Ochoa, AICP
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Reframing the Role of the Urban Planner
Reimagining Urban Planning is a series that explores new and innovative frameworks that critically challenge the competencies that planners are currently trained under and also re-examines the role of the planner. This is part one out of five sessions.- Richard Aviles
- Chandra Christmas-Rouse
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Data-Driven Planning: Leveraging the National Accessibility Evaluation Study
Discover how these publicly available datasets can refine your planning approach with multimodal travel-time metrics to essential destinations at the block level. Utilize this groundbreaking data to quantify the impact of land use and transportation, revealing connected or isolated communities.- Eric Lind
- Saumya Jain
- Shiqin Liu
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Charging Smart — Transportation Electrification for Local Governments
Explore how Charging Smart, a technical assistance and designation program, can support local planning and zoning officials in accelerating equitable electric vehicle (EV) charging development within their communities.- Ed Gilliland, AICP
- Bonnie Trowbridge
- Elizabeth Tart, AICP
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The Mothership: From Pinkie-Promise to Groundbreaking
What we affectionately call The Mothership provides Urban Peak, a local Denver nonprofit dedicated to serving youth experiencing homelessness, with the capacity and space to meet the needs of our community's most at-risk and deserving population.- Cory Rutz, AICP
- Chad Holtzinger
- Christina Carlson
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Mastering RFP/Qs and Proposals: Strategies for Effective Projects
Elevate your RFP/Q game! This session unpacks the secrets to fine tuning project requests, from writing compelling RFP/Qs to submitting client focused proposals. Learn innovative strategies to overcome common challenges and drive project success in both public and private sectors.- Joshua Olhava, AICP
- Timothy Dlubac, AICP
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Geospatial Data Toolkits for Progressive Community Planning
The amount of data that planners need to analyze has exponentially grown in the past decade. The speakers will showcase how evolving technologies, such as data science and GIS, are utilized to facilitate community data collection, analysis, monitoring, and storytelling.- Wenhao Wu
- Haley Ralston
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Planning for the People: New Age Comprehensive Planning
Discover a new and dynamic way to engage the public and reimagine the traditional multi-year comprehensive planning processes. Learn practical, yet creative, strategies to leverage technology and politics to adopt a modern and equitable comprehensive plan for your community.- Christopher Gomez, AICP
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State Trends and Momentum for Housing Reform
In 2024, the pace and impact of state housing reform continued to accelerate. At least 20 states acted on housing supply. As state action grows, experts will examine the policy reforms, politics, and impacts on planning from around the country.- Kiley Chapley
- Cameron Rifkin
- Charles Gardner
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Housing Supply and the New Washington
In post-election Washington, housing is a rare area of bipartisanship. While the opportunity is real, the path forward on policies for zoning reform, taxes, and funding is uncertain. Policymakers will discuss the road ahead and the impact of the Administration.- Jason Jordan
- Mike Kingsella
- Mike Wallace
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Making Sustainability Mainstream
Explore how planners can mainstream sustainability by leveraging the Rogers innovation adoption curve and the 5A framework, creating environments and services that make sustainable behaviors the easy, attractive choice for communities, accelerating the path to a sustainable future.- Petra Hurtado, PhD
- Norman Wright, AICP
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Brick by Brick: Houston Freedmen’s Town Street Restoration
Learn about a unique collaboration between city government, community organizations, artists and community members to plan the restoration of historically and culturally important streets in Houston's Freedman's Town. A strategy balancing infrastructure provision, accessibility, resiliency, cultural heritage preservation, and placemaking.- Robert Carleton, AICP
- Donald Buaku, AICP
- Sharon Fletcher
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Building Neighborhood Buy-In: Engagement for Housing Zoning Reform
To tackle the housing crisis, robust community engagement is crucial. Discover how one community’s dynamic approach to zoning reform overcame barriers and built trust. Learn how proactive engagement can streamline reform adoption and drive attainable, inclusive housing development.- Jacqueline Berg, AICP
- Ned Noel, AICP
- Emily Berge
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Brownfields Boxing: Punching Through Challenges and Climate Change
Step into the ring – the Brownfields Boxing ring! Discover knockout strategies to tackle climate change issues and other brownfields redevelopment challenges. Learn to dodge the usual punches and land a TKO with proven tactics and processes to achieve success!- Joelle Greenland, AICP
- Amy Schifferli, AICP
- Joel Markland
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Safer Streets Priority Finder: Safety Analysis Made Easy
The Safer Streets Priority Finder enables planners to identify high-risk areas for road safety improvements through an easy-to-use web interface, bringing sophisticated safety analysis into reach for agencies without advanced GIS or data analysis skills in-house.- Theja Putta
- Omar Peters, AICP
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All Is Fair in Love and Housing
Updating a city’s zoning code to fully comply with the Federal Fair Housing Act is not only necessary, it’s an opportunity to ensure equity in housing, eliminate outdated definitions of family and household, and remove barriers to affordable housing typologies.- Paul Cancilla, AICP
- Corey Layman, AICP
- Katie Rakus, AICP
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Building Readiness and Resilience in Rural Michigan
The Michigan Office of Rural Prosperity is working with communities to help them prepare for and respond to complex changes facing rural Michigan. New programs and research led by the Office are offering important solutions for planning in rural areas.- Sarah Lucas, AICP
- Andrea Brown, AICP
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NPC25 Opening Keynote: Inclusive Planning for Social Change
Dr. Mary Beth Janke holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and a Master’s in Forensic Psychology. She has supported individuals facing anxiety, trauma, and domestic violence. As a former Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service, she was the only woman to protect a foreign president abroad. Dr. Janke gave a 2022 TEDx Talk, "How to Live a Badass Life at Any Age.” She now consults in forensi- None None
- Sue Schwartz, FAICP
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Digital Twins 101
Developing an effective Digital Twin requires starting with the fundamentals: what, why, and how. In this course, you’ll learn about the benefits, standards, and capabilities of Digital Twins, illustrated by examples of use cases and case studies.- Adam Beck
- Sagar Shah, PhD, AICP
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Emerging Trends and Signals: APA's 2024 Trend Report
As in previous years, the 2024 Trend Report features a list of over 100 existing, emerging, and potential future trends that the APA Foresight team, together with our Trend Scouting Foresight Community, identified as relevant to planning. The trends are structured within three timeframes (Act Now, Prepare, Learn and Watch), which indicate the urgency of planners’ action.- Petra Hurtado, PhD
- Joseph DeAngelis, AICP
- Ievgeniia Dulko
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Mastering Conflict for Effective Planning: Navigation and Resolution
This webinar will explore key skills needed to manage conflicts in planning work. It will focus on managing relationships and finding the best ways to design meetings for better planning outcomes.- Jennifer Raitt
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Unlocking the Secrets of Image Creation with Generative AI
Unlock your ability to create the future of urban planning in this webinar. Learn how to wield AI for image creation from simple text prompts, expanding your toolkit and transforming your ideas into visual realities.Chicago, Illinois- David Wasserman, AICP
- Lian Plass, AICP
- Katherine Perrott
- Ann Dillemuth, AICP
- Sagar Shah, PhD, AICP
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Getting Information from a GIS Map
By mapping data, you can use your strongest sense, your vision, to see patterns that are otherwise hidden in tables of numbers and facts. This course shows you how to create a map that reveals the hidden meaning in data.#9275922Esri
Suitability Modeling: Introduction
In this course, you will discover the types of real-world problems that can be addressed with a suitability model. Then, you will learn how to define a problem in terms of an analysis goal and suitability criteria that can be modeled with data. You will also gain an understanding of how to prepare data for a suitability model.#9276681Esri
Going Places with Spatial Analysis
Gain a deeper understanding of spatial data analysis. This course is for people who know something about data analysis and want to learn how the special capabilities of spatial data analysis provide deeper understanding.#9276678Esri
Suitability Modeling: Creating a Simple Suitability Model
In this course, you will learn how to create a simple suitability model, which produces a binary result that is easy to interpret. You will also learn how to use sensitivity and error analysis to evaluate results.#9276682Esri
Exploring 3D Features Using ArcGIS 3D Analyst
This course explores the spatial analysis approach to help you understand when 3D data and analysis are required. You will learn how specific types of input data are used for 3D analysis methods and practice 3D proximity and visibility analysis.#9276719Esri
Understanding Spatial Relationships
Using the Overlay toolset in ArcGIS Pro, GIS professionals can easily perform analysis to discover and quantify the spatial relationships between and among features. This web course will introduce you to spatial relationships and the tools available for describing them.#9276680Esri
Getting Started with Spatial Analysis
Spatial analysis helps you to understand your world. Explore how the six categories of spatial analysis can help you answer geographic questions. Navigate these questions using the spatial analysis workflow and learn how to apply it to your own projects.#9276679Esri
Introduction to 3D Visualization
Visualizing data in a 3D environment allows for realistic visualizations, can offer a different perspective, and can aid in identifying patterns and trends that may not be available in a 2D environment.#9276718Esri
Performing Viewshed Analysis in ArcGIS Pro
The Viewshed tool visualizes visible areas from a vantage point. This tool has many practical uses, including how to locate guard towers, fire watch towers, or event surveillance. In this course, you will learn how to adjust the tool for your analysis.#9276721Esri
Performing Line of Sight Analysis
Some geographic questions can only be answered in 3D. In this course, you will perform line of sight analysis to solve problems and create information that cannot be obtained in 2D.#9276722Esri
Displaying Raster Data in ArcGIS
Learn techniques to display and enhance rasters and imagery in ArcGIS. Learn to appropriately symbolize rasters based on their attributes and intended use, modify raster properties to support better visualization and interpretation, and apply out-of-the-box appearance functions to enhance the viewing experience.#9276730Esri
ArcGIS Pro: An Overview of 3D Analysis
This session provides an overview of the wide range of 3D analysis techniques available in ArcGIS Pro including surface modeling, 3D feature creation and analysis, visibility assessment, and volumetrics.#9276717Esri
Building the Foundation for Green Infrastructure Planning
Green infrastructure planning involves the identification and protection of intact habitat cores. This course will get you started with two green infrastructure apps. You will learn how to select and prioritize local habitat cores according to your project goals.#9276745Esri
Introduction to Green Infrastructure
Green infrastructure is a strategically planned and managed network of open spaces, natural lands, wildlife habitats, parks, and other assets. This course will get you started with one of three green infrastructure apps and teach you basic questions to consider when beginning the design process.#9276742Esri
ArcGIS Urban: Sharing and Collaborating
In this course, you will learn how to share your ArcGIS Urban model with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate collaboration. Enabling collaboration options in your Urban model allows you to share information with others, start discussions, and collect feedback.#9276739Esri
ArcGIS Urban: Creating Urban Design Scenarios
In this course, you will learn how to create projects and plans and then configure these scenarios using development information. Urban design scenarios, which include projects and plans, are a way to visualize developments and analyze metrics.#9276738Esri
ArcGIS Urban: Importing Planning Data
In this course, you will learn about configuring types data and feature layers into an ArcGIS Urban model. An Urban model supports planning data such as space use, land use, and zoning.#9276736Esri
ArcGIS Survey123 Basics
In this course, you will learn how to use ArcGIS Survey123 to create surveys, get answers, and analyze results. You will also explore the various components that make up ArcGIS Survey123 and learn how these components fit into the ArcGIS Survey123 workflow.#9276753Esri
Location Analytics Using ArcGIS Insights
Build skills to quickly identify data patterns and relationships using drag-and-drop functionality, powerful analysis tools, and interactive maps, charts, and tables. This course provides a solid grounding in ArcGIS Insights capabilities and components.#9276749Esri
Applying the Racial Equity Workflow Using ArcGIS
Many organizations are working toward a commitment to achieving racial equity within their communities. To achieve racial equity, it is important to have the capabilities to analyze inequities and provide change while engaging the community. ArcGIS can play a significant role in assisting organizations in applying the racial equity workflow to address inequities.#9276677Esri
ArcGIS Online Basics
ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based geographic information system (GIS) that is used to map data, share content, and collaborate. In this course, you will learn foundational skills for working with ArcGIS Online. You will also learn about ArcGIS Online's potential benefits for you and your organization.#9276663Esri
GIS Basics
GIS allows people to visualize and analyze data to help solve spatial problems and make smarter decisions. In this course, learn the fundamental components and capabilities of GIS and discover how ArcGIS can help organizations address business needs.#9276666Esri
Symbolizing Map Layers
Maps communicate important information about features on the earth. However, without good use of symbols, the maps will not be effective. This course teaches how to best symbolize your map data so that your audience gets the information that it needs.#9276675Esri
Integrating Data in ArcGIS Pro
ArcGIS Pro provides tools to efficiently organize, create, and manage data. In this course, you will learn about some common types of data used for GIS mapping and analysis, and practice adding data to a file geodatabase to support a planned project.#9276676Esri
Querying Data Using ArcGIS Pro
A single dataset may store thousands of records and querying the dataset is a fast way to find features. Learn the building blocks of a query expression and how to select features that meet one or more attribute criteria.#9276674Esri
Getting Started with Mapping and Visualization
In this course, you will explore 2D and 3D information products that you can create using ArcGIS. You will learn how to identify and choose the best information product for your audience and needs.#9276673Esri
ArcGIS Pro Basics
ArcGIS Pro provides the tools to integrate, visualize, analyze, and share your data. This course introduces you to the powerful capabilities of ArcGIS Pro and how it can be used in your work.#9276672Esri
ArcGIS Pro Terminology Guide
A short guide to help you become familiar with ArcGIS Pro. It includes terminology and user interface cross-reference with ArcMap and other ArcGIS Desktop applications.#9276665