World Town Planning Day

Planning towns all over the world - sucking the life and character out of each until they are all clones of one another.  

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World Town Planning Day

World Town Planning Day is celebrated in 30 countries on four continents each November. It is a special day to recognize and promote the role of planning in creating livable communities.

World Town Planning Day presents an excellent opportunity to look at planning from a global perspective, and APA encourages its members to consider planning challenges and solutions around the globe on that day.

The American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) endorses World Town Planning Day as a strategy to promote a broad-based awareness, support, and advocacy of community and regional planning among the general public and all levels of government through activities in recognition of American accomplishments on World Town Planning Day of each year.

Program History

The international organization for World Town Planning Day was founded in 1949 by the late Professor Carlos Maria della Paolera of the University of Buenos Aires to advance public and professional interest in planning, both locally and abroad.

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The APA's PowerPoint presentation that supports the World Town Planning Day gives insight to the scope of the organization's involvement in town planning.  

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Who are planners?

• Professionally educated and trained
• Visionaries with a comprehensive view
• Ability to address the challenges of growth and change within a community
• Many achieve certification and advanced specialty certification:  by the American Planning Association's professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP)

Planners address challenges

• Housing affordability
• Commute times
• Obesity
• Pollution and air quality
• Safety concerns

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I will come back to the last set of challenges planners address later - but for now, each reader should figure out for him or herself what issues urban planners can actually have some effect on.  Is is 0 or 5 or somewhere in between?  

Who drives the Town Planning agenda?  How can all countries, cultures and small towns retain their heritage, character and INDEPENDENCE if they all have the same blueprint for the future, or are following the same leader?   

Understand that we are only "Partners" with a larger government if we want to be.  Retaining and reclaiming our independence at every level is of utmost importance to future generations.  Once our independence is signed away in the form of a partnership or intergovernmental agreement, we can't get it back.