Planning Hindsight/Foresight

Sunday, April 2, 2023

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CDT

Location: 120A

CM | 1.5

Division Endorsement: Planning and the Black Community Division

Moderator and Speaker(s)

GL

Geoffrey M. Logan

Speaker(s)

Odessa L. Phillip, PE (she/her/hers)

President & CEO
Assedo Consulting, LLC
Laurel, Maryland
Jennifer Goldson, AICP (she/her/hers)

Founder & Managing Director
JM Goldson
Boston, Massachusetts
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Siyuan Li
RA

Roy Alston

We look back now on planning initiatives and movements such as City Beautiful, modernism, and new urbanism. In 2050, what will we think early- to mid-21st-century planners were best known for?

From managing urgent requests from city managers to responding to controversial zoning applications, planners aren't always afforded the time or space needed to innovate. This presentation offers planning professionals an opportunity to reflect and asks participants:

What do you think are the most cross-cutting topics we can learn from planning history?
What do we need to do now to prepare us for communities of the future?
What has to change or improve to enable planners to succeed?

Reflect, define, and strive to create a more proactive future through innovative forecasting.

NPC Peer Reviewers assigned this presentation a learning level of Advanced. For more on learning-level descriptions, visit our General Information Page.

Learning Objectives:

Make connections between urban planning history and planning future communities.
Reflect on issues that planners must respond to now and in the future.
Apply core skills and novel techniques to forecast your community’s future needs.