Cooperation Between Developers & Environmentalists	Increased Focus on "Participatory" Planning	Cyberspace Impacts on Land Use
More Compact Developments & Mixed Use Centers	Open Space Networks & Greenways Expand	Integrating Transportation & Land Use Planning
Growing Needs of the Poor & Older Americans	Downtowns Come Back	Regional Cooperation Increasingly Valued

Over the past nine years, the Planning Commissioners Journal has covered many of the emerging trends in planning. Our Tracking Trends pages provide excerpts from a number of past PCJ articles, along with selected links to other useful material available on the Web.

The nine trends we highlight reflect our editorial judgement, and are not based on survey or questionnaire results. So feel free to blame us for trends we omitted. For the most part, the trends we have selected represent what we consider positive planning-related developments. Thus, for better or worse, we did not include (for example) continuing trends towards global warming and population growth, which will surely have profound consequences for communities.

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