2024

September

Division Selects Two 2024-2025 Scholars

2025 APA Student Planning and Design Competition - Register by December 15!

May

Division Receives 2023 APA Overall Division Performance and Contribution to the Planning Profession Achievement Awards

Division Kicks-Off Historic and Cultural Resources Policy Update with Two National Preservation Month Webinars

April

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wins Seventh Annual APA Student Planning & Design Competition

Division Announces APA Historic and Cultural Resources Policy Update

March

Division Releases North Miami, Florida D-PRAT Final Report

2023

November

Division's D-PRAT North Miami, Florida Site Visit Featured in Planning Magazine

APA Provides Comments on Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Draft Housing and Historic Preservation Policy Statement

October

Partner Event: NTHP PastForward National Preservation Conference

Partner Event: AIA RUDC Symposium 2023

2024 APA Student Planning and Design Competition-Register by November 17

City of North Miami, FL selected as 2023 D-PRAT community

August

Division Chair Talks to APA Interact About Public Space and Storytelling

April

Arizona State University Wins 6th Annual APA Student Design Competition

Division Releases Second Design-Preservation Rapid Assistance Team (D-PRAT) Report for Milan, Missouri

February

2022 Student Scholar Publishes Urban-Design Video

January

Partner Events: Webinar Series—Preserve the Past, Build for the Future

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2022

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July

Partner Events: Celebrating "Women's Work" (Virtual)

Partner Post: African American Cultural Heritage Fund Announces $3M in 2022 Grants

Partner Opportunity: PastForward 2022 Diversity Scholarship Program

Partner Event: PastForward 2022 Registration Open

May

National Capital Planning Commission Seeking Public Comment (Through July 13, 2022)

April

Upcoming Event (Non-Division): Docomomo US: National Symposium

March

Partner Post: Calculating Carbon Savings from Building Reuse and Retrofit (Webinar April 12th, 2022)

Partner Post: Pocantico Fellowship (App. Due Apr. 19th)

Partner Post: Future Faculty Career Exploration Program

February

Partner Post: PastForward 2022 Call for Sessions

Partner Post: 2022 Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit (Event: April 18-22, 2022)

Partner Post: Brown v. Board of Education in Delaware (Webinar: 3-30-22)

Partner Post: Saving Historic & Vintage Signs—Best Practices Regulating These Community Icons (Webinar: 3-9-22)

Partner Post: Forum Webinar—Historic Preservation Advocacy Requests in 2022

January

Partner Post: 2022 National Preservation Awards—Nominations Open

Partner Post: National Fund for Sacred Places (Grant)

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2021

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December

Partner Post: Grant - African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

November

Partner Post: Grants Now Available!

September

Partner Post: CEUs Available for PastForward Online 2021

Partner Post: New Resources for Key Preservation Issues

Partner Post: Register Now for Early Bird Rates: PastForward Online 2021

Partner Events: PastForward Conference Workshops

August

Partner Post: YEP! The Power of Youth—Girls Who Plan Program

Partner Post: Preservation Project Planning Basics [Webinar: August 17th]

Partner Post: PastForward Registration Now Open

Job Announcement: City Urban Designer (Denver)

July

Partner Post: Now Accepting Applications for Scholars and Mentors—PastForward Diversity Scholarship Program

June

Partner Event: America's Civic Stage: A Vision to Celebrate Pennsylvania Avenue (June 29th)

Partner Event: Webinar: Using State Historic Tax Credits to Create Affordable Housing (June 30)

Partner Events: Summer Preservation Webinars: Women's History (June 24 / August 12)

May

Partner Events: Upcoming Webinars From the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions

Partner Post: Tell The Full Story — Preservation Month

March

Partner Event — Webinar: The Tidal Basin in Context: Memorials and Controversy

Job Posting: Rhodeside Harwell—Urban Designer / Planner

February

Partner Event: Webinar — March 4th: Historic Preservation Advocacy Requests in the 117th Congress

Partner Event: Webinar — March 3rd: The Tidal Basin in Context: Planning for Environmental Change

Partner Event: PastForward 2021 — Call for Proposals

Partner Event: National Preservation Awards — Nominations Open

Partner Program: Apply for National Fund for Sacred Places

Partner Event: Webinar — Brown v. Board Featuring Cheryl Brown Henderson

January

Partner Program: Summer Internship at Design Workshop

Partner Program: A Nationwide Survey

Job Posting: Planner III / Senior Planner | Bossier City - Parish Metropolitan Planning Commission

Partner Events: Upcoming Events from the National Trust (January-March)

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2020

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December

Houston Gateway Project Complete

Partner Program: Grants Now Available: African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

November

Division Event: PlaceEconomics Planning Webinar Series on the Historic Urban Landscape Framework and Historic Preservation

Partner Event: Planning and the Black Community | 40th Anniversary Conference Invitation

October

Partner Event: Design Competition—Crook Point Bascule Bridge Reuse

Partner Event: PastForward Online 2020—CEUs Available

September

Partner Event: Webinar on Brown v Board of Education

Partner Event: Equity by Design

Partner Event: PastForward 2020 — Registration Now Open

August

Partner Event: PastForward Diversity Scholarship Program—Now Accepting Applications

Employment Opportunity: City of Cambridge, MD

July

Employment Opportunities: Design Workshop

Partner Project: Parking Survey

Partner Program: Free Online Course: Advocacy in Action

June

2020 APA—Idaho State Conference: Call for Proposals

Partner Updates: National Consortium for Creative Placemaking (Event + Resources)

Partner Event: Creating a Successful Case Statement (Webinar)

Partner Event: What is Our "New Normal" Like? (Webinar)

UDP Book Club — July 2020

May

Partner Events: Upcoming Events from the National Trust

Partner Event: Virtual Public Meetings Part 1: Legal Issues (Webinar)

UDP Virtual Book Club

Partner Event: Virtual Preservation Month

April

Partner Event: Leveraging Insurance to Aid Your Organization During the Coronavirus (Webinar)

Partner Event: Coronavirus Response—The Historic Tax Credit As An Economic Recovery Tool (Webinar)

Partner Event: Transforming Digital Engagement at Historic Sites (Webinar)

Partner Event: Communicating and Fundraising for Preservation in a Time of Uncertainty (Webinar)

Partner Event: COVID-19 — Implications for the Preservation Field

March

EDGE Article Wins Divisions Council Award

Spotlight on Youth Engagement: Westminster, Colorado

February

New Program Incoming: D-PRAT (Design-Preservation Rapid Action Teams)

Regional Co-Coordinators Needed

Our Performance

Recommended Reading: On The Hill

RFP: Town of Pulaski, Virginia

January

Partner Event: Call for Proposals—PastForward 2020

Partner Program: Pocantico Center Preservation Fellowship

Partner Event: PastForward 2020 Call for Ideas

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2019

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Partner Announcement: Nominations Open for 2020 National Preservation Awards

Planning Superheroes Campaign

"Mini CPAT" Program Naming Competition

Partner Program: Grants Now Available — African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

Job Posting: Public Space Planner

Partner Event Update: PastForward 2019 Conference Videos Online

Partner Event: Climate Heritage Network Global Launch

Partner Event: Driehaus Awards Announced

Partner Announcement: NCCP Summit Discount

Partner Announcement: Free Livestream of PastForward

Partner Announcement: National Preservation Award Jury Members Announced

Upcoming Webinar Approved For Law Credits

Partner Event — Planning for Sign Code Success

Fellowship Application Due August 19th

Registration Now Live: PastForward 2019

Partner Event: Midwest Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit (Oct. 10-12)

Imagining the Barrier-Free City (Design Competition)

Conference Scholarship Money Available

Regional Networking Task Force

June 25th: Registration for Preservation Law Conference Open

Webinar Registration Now Open: Creative Placemaking Webinar Series

Creative Placemaking Competition Publication Now Available

Due May 15th: PastForward Diversity Scholarship Applications

2019 Pocantico Fellowship—Applications Due April 19th, 2019

Apply for National Fund for Sacred Places by May 1st, 2019

Webinar (Mar 14): Ensuring Perpetuity—Effective Easement Monitoring

App Due Feb. 1: Upcoming Trainings | Preservation Leadership Forum

Free Webinar: Re-saving Saved Places

Division Spotlight: Julie Ann Woods, FAICP

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2018

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Mentorship Program Update (Autumn 2018)

2018-19 Writing Competition Now Live

Campaign For Public Art

Division Spotlight: Don Carter, FAICP

Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit

Preservation Law at PastForward Conference

Zoning Practice Needs Authors

NPC '19 Call For Proposals

Lauren Trice, Chair-Elect, Reflects on APA Scholarship

ADUs

Our Library Is Up And Running

"Path as Place" Postponed

Apply to be our 2018 Fall Fellow

Division Spotlight: Frank Turner, FAICP

New Website

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Past Years' News Posts

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News Archive: 2017

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