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Are you interested in the urban trends on 3 different time scales?

Summary of the report titled 2025 Trend reports for planners from 2025, by Petra Hurtado PhD, Ievgeniia Dulko, Senna Catenacci, Joseph DeAngelis, Sagar Shah PhD, and Jason Jordan, published by the American Planning Association in partnership with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

This is a great preparation to our next interview with Petra Hurtado in episode 352 (https://wtf4cities.com/2025/08/21/352i_petra-hurtado-chief-foresight-and-knowledge-officer-at-the-american-planning-association/) talking about urban trends and their management.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how urban planners and individuals can plan for the upcoming trends. This report organises crucial trends and signals into three timeframes: Act Now, Prepare For, and Learn About and Watch.

Find the report through this link (https://www.planning.org/publications/document/9304884/).

Abstract: APA Foresight helps planners navigate change and prepare for an uncertain future. With foresight, 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 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 fourth 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 2025 Trend Report features a list of over 100 existing, emerging, and potential future trends that the APA Foresight team and 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’ actions. 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.

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No.275R – Trends in research and development for CO2 capture and sequestration (https://wtf4cities.com/2024/11/26/275r_trends-in-research-and-tevelopment-for-co2-capture-and-sequestration/)

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