For 100 years, Regional Plan Association has worked to create a more equitable, healthy, prosperous, and sustainable region. Join us as we reflect on the past and envision the future during our Centennial celebration — RPA 100.
Our Region
RPA operates in the interconnected 31-county New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan region.
Our Areas of Expertise
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Energy & Environment
learn moreRPA’s Energy & Environment program helps the region to rise to the challenge of climate change through proactive regional planning, smart policy development, and advocacy for sustainable land use practices.
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Housing & Neighborhood Planning
learn moreRPA’s Housing & Neighborhood Planning program explores how to make the region affordable for everyone and builds collaborative local plans focused on healthy, inclusive, and well-designed communities.
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Transportation
learn moreRPA’s Transportation program helps shape and strengthen the network of railways, roads, airports and ports that binds the region together and connect us to the rest of the world.
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Governance
learn moreRPA works to fix the institutions that are failing us by assisting and reforming the governments and agencies responsible for investments and policies that cut across the region’s three states and 782 municipalities.
If planners are not careful and intentional, equity could become a buzzword instead of an outcome people experience as a result of our work.”
In the 1950s, some members of the Board of RPA considered its dissolution, on the grounds that its mission, the promotion of the First Regional Plan, was largely complete with the building of the Verrazano Bridge.
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The Fourth Plan seeks to address issues including housing affordability, overburdened transportation infrastructure, and vulnerability to climate change — by addressing the underlying shortcomings in the region’s governance structures.
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