APA Trend Report – Future Insights for Planners

The American Planning Association’s Foresight Team produce an annual Trend Report for Planners. The 2024 Trend Report has recently been published and there’s a lot in there of immediate relevance to the challenges we face here in New Zealand

2024 TREND REPORT FOR PLANNERS

The purpose of the Trend 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 is their third Trend Report for Planners, and it builds on a knowledge base to predict future challenges. As in previous years, the 2024 Trend Report features a list of over 100 existing, emerging, and potential future trends that the team have identified as relevant to planning around the world.

The trends are structured within three timeframes. Act Now includes those global trends that we are addressing now such as Housing Challenges and the looming climate impacts and the trend of increased political polarisation that we’re seeing across the work. The report forecasts what planners need to Prepare for including the evolution of jobs, the collective feeling of moving toward a polycrisis, and changes to bricks and mortar retail. The Learn and Watch section of the Trends report tasks planners to look forward toward a future of energy innovation, mitigating global warming through geoengineering and more!

Join Ph.D. Petra Hurtado, speaking live from the USA on the 2024 Trend Report in the latest of our lunchtime webinars and take this opportunity to build on your CPD.

Presented by Petra Hurtado

Petra (Stieninger) Hurtado, Ph.D. is the Chief Foresight & Knowledge Officer at the American Planning Association, leading APA’s foresight practice to leverage knowledge as a catalyst for innovation and resilience in the planning profession and the organisation. She has a Ph.D. in urban planning from the Vienna University of Technology. Her areas of expertise and research include strategic foresight, urban futures and emerging technologies, urban sustainability, and environmental psychology.

Prior to joining APA, Petra worked as an advisor to different governmental agencies, planner, and educator in the global sustainability arena. As an adjunct professor, Petra has taught courses on planning with foresight at the University of Maryland and on urban sustainability and environmental psychology at the Vienna University of Technology. She has presented as a keynote speaker and subject matter expert at numerous conferences across the globe and guest lectured at Harvard GSD, Virginia Tech, among other universities. Passionate about empowering people to thrive in dynamic environments, Petra combines academic rigor with practical wisdom to inspire action and drive positive change.

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