2018 Conferences in Planning and Design
An annual sampling of some of the best professional development conferences in the coming year for the planning and design professions, by L.A. County Planner Clement Lau.
In what has become an annual endeavor, L.A. County Planner Clement Lau previews some of the premier planning and design conferences taking place in 2018. Neither presuming to be exhaustive nor objective, he writes about what he likes in each of the conferences. Included in his preview are the following:
- UCLA Extension Land Use Law and Planning Conference (January 19; Los Angeles, CA)
- New Partners for Smart Growth Conference (February 1-3; San Francisco, CA)
- Active Living Research Conference (February 11-14; Banff, Alberta, Canada)
- AEP State Conference (March 25-28; Rancho Mirage, CA)
- APA National Planning Conference (April 21-24; New Orleans, LA)
- National Outdoor Recreation Conference (April 23-26; Burlington, VT)
- CNU 26 (Congress for New Urbanism - May 16-19; Savannah, GA)
- AIA Convention (June 21-23; New York City)
- APA California Planning Conference (October 7-10; San Diego, CA)
- ULI Fall Meeting (October 8-11; Boston, MA)
- ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo (October 19-22; Philadelphia, PA)
- ACSP Annual Conference (October 25-28; Buffalo, NY)
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- The Deliberate Segregation of U.S. Cities, as Evidenced by Freeway Congestion
- A Retiring Dean Considers the Changing Responsibilities of Planners
- A New Kind of Planning Controversy: the Emoji House
- Mobility Data: How Your Travel Patterns Could Inform Policy
- Shared Mobility Subsidies Dry Up, Revealing the Industry’s Economic Realities
- Voters Will Decide on $3.5 Billion Transit Funding Bond in Houston
- As Cities Densify, New Building Design Strategies Keep Them Livable
- New D.C. Development Guidelines Require More Consideration of Walkability
- Columbia River Crossing Project Officially Back From the Dead
- Gentrification and Race in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Climate Change as a Housing Crisis 'Threat Multiplier'
- Unified Fare Payment in Detroit
- Twin Cities Light Rail Cuts Overnight Service, Displaces Hundreds of Homeless Riders
- As Housing Units Multiply, Local Businesses Struggle to Hang On in Downtown Oakland
- 'Housing Twitter' and the Great Debate
- Good and Bad News in California's Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory
- Oil and Water: Ride-Hailing and Airport Traffic
- New Landscape Architecture Prize the First of its Kind
- Train Travel Gains Popularity as 'Flight Shame' Trends in Europe
- New Paper: Exclusionary Is a National Problem in Need of Federal Action
