2024 Trend Report for Planners
March 16, 2024 by Nicole Masson
Trends
APA Foresight helps planners navigate change and prepare for an uncertain future. With foresight in mind, planners can guide change, create more sustainable and equitable outcomes, and establish themselves as critical to thriving communities. Foresight is not about predicting the future — it is about understanding drivers of change that are outside of our control, how we can prepare for them, and when it is time to act. APA Foresight identifies emerging trends and how scenarios stemming from each may impact the world, our communities, and the planning profession in the years to come.
This is the third Trend Report for Planners developed by the American Planning Association (APA) in partnership with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. 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. Within each timeframe, trends are grouped into themed clusters. For each trend, the report gives insights and explains why it is important for planners to know about and consider the trend in their work. All trends and signals are based on facts and are neutrally described without judgement.
The purpose of the report is to share potential drivers of change and shifts that will possibly impact the work of planners and/or the communities we serve as planners.
This report was developed in partnership with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Download your report today.
Recent News
- » APA UT- Call for Nominations
- » 2024 APA UT Spring Conference: Cedar City, UT. The Call For Sessions is Currently Open.
- » Planning In The News- Opinion: As a commuter who can’t afford to live in Salt Lake City, I still deserve to be heard
- » Hurry, it’s the final week to grab your conference tickets at regular prices!
- » Planning in the news: BYU students aim to eliminate parking woes through AI tracking system
- » Planning in the news: Living in Daybreak- What residents say the Utah community is really like