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May 3, 2021
Boston's new zoning amendment works to affirmatively further fair housing and addresses concerns about displacement.
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April 29, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: In Hong Kong, building new towns requires strategic spatial planning to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
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April 28, 2021
Moakley Park Resiliency Plan creates a modern 21st century community park to address climate change needs and prioritizes social, cultural, economic, and environmental equity.
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April 19, 2021
Massachusetts' Shared Streets and Spaces grant program offers a look at improving quality of life by investing in public spaces.
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April 16, 2021
APA remembers the life and work of former AIP President Leon Eplan, FAICP.
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April 13, 2021
Zoning reform efforts are underway in Connecticut, a state with a long history of exclusionary zoning. Several bills that aim to tackle zoning reform are in play at the legislature this session — and planners are weighing in.
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April 12, 2021
Baltimore's GIS-based CoDeMap application connects the importance of housing and health, allowing for place-based intervention approaches.
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April 2, 2021
A bipartisan bill that would empower planners to reform zoning and development codes, create housing action plans, and modernize regulatory structures has been introduced in Congress.
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April 2, 2021
Planners and communities are eager to see transformational infrastructure policy move forward in Washington. While President Biden's infrastructure plan offers much promise, there are also important questions that remain unanswered about support for planning-led solutions in any infrastructure package.
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March 25, 2021
Earmarks are back on Capitol Hill, giving planners a new pathway for securing funding for critical projects. APA's Jason Jordan breaks down what planners need to know to secure federal support for transportation project earmarks.
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March 25, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: A survey of Black and Latinx planning students found that the students experienced different levels of discrimination depending on their citizenship status, race/ethnicity, nationality, and citizen status. Participants did not believe that planning education was allowing students to develop the skills to be culturally sensitive planners.
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March 18, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Duke University seeks community input when deciding how to invest in its surrounding neighborhoods in Durham, North Carolina.
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March 11, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: The grid system of American city streets has tangible implications for equity in mobility, public health, and environmental sustainability.
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March 4, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Using the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard (PIRS), researchers studied the Dutch city of Nijmegen to determine how integrated planning can reduce flooding vulnerability.
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February 18, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Neighborhoods that were once targets of redlining now have higher land surface temperatures than other neighborhoods in the same city. Planners need to correct past policy errors to make cities more equitable, including in urban heat management.
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February 16, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Chicago's policy of selling vacant lots at a very low cost to adjacent landowners and other purchasers with local connections has resulted in a reduction in neighborhood crime.
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February 11, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Why do landlords set housing rents below market? Can planners use this to expand affordable housing without public subsidies?
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February 10, 2021
Petra Hurtado, PhD, APA's Research Director, explores patterns and the agility and technological innovation planners need.
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February 4, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: How effective are industrial preservation policies in promoting industrial activity, and can planners use them as an economic development tool?
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January 29, 2021
Sponsored Content from Granicus: Whether because of COVID concerns or in spite of them, the growth of the short-term rental market was rapid in 2020, and it looks like that trend will continue in 2021.
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January 28, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Read some early research into whether density aggravates the COVID-19 pandemic.
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January 27, 2021
A new economic development bill includes provisions that will make it easier for towns and cities across Massachusetts to produce more housing by greenlighting certain local zoning changes with a simple majority vote.
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January 21, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: How do researchers inventory restrictive regulations and assess their relationship to the underproduction of housing?
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January 15, 2021
A Guide for the Idealist post: Planners need to be more reflective about their practice, and radical planners might adopt different reflective frameworks.
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January 14, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Get recommendations for integrating proactive and resilient greenspace improvements into disaster recovery planning.
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January 7, 2021
Read APA's statement regarding the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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January 7, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Tackle uncertainty using a robust decision-making framework for transportation planning.
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January 6, 2021
APA offers insight into seven trends and spotlights helpful resources to help planners prepare for 2021 and beyond.
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December 21, 2020
The Solar@Scale team recently analyzed the existing literature on planning and zoning for large-scale solar development and identified some significant gaps.
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December 18, 2020
APA developed a survey and conducted a series of interviews in an attempt to uncover how planners think about plan integration, and what relationship local plan integration efforts may have with building community resilience.
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December 17, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Curious which themes are most prominent in the urban planning literature? Check out an analysis of 30 years of articles.
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December 10, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners best use exploratory planning scenarios?
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December 4, 2020
Incoming AICP President Mitchell Silver outlines upcoming changes to the AICP certification program that represent continued evolution and relevance to the needs of planners and communities.
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November 19, 2020
How can we measure success for the Journal of the American Planning Association?
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November 16, 2020
City and regional planners are uniquely trained to consider the broader impacts to society of uncrewed aircraft systems like drones.
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November 13, 2020
A Guide for the Idealist post: The value of professional reflection is widely recognized, but how do you do it? A new book looks at how to develop reflective habits.
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November 13, 2020
Digital credentials are more than just a badge or image. This new free member benefit is tied securely to your certification record and backed by APA.
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November 12, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners use big, open data to look at transit-oriented development?
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November 5, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How and why should planners better understand the terms Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx?
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October 29, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners make driving safer and make stronger arguments for carpooling? What if planners could also become advocates for immigrants at the same time?
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October 22, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: What do quantitative methods reveal about LGBTQ neighborhood development and historic preservation?
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October 15, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Can making spaces more compact reduce obesity among young adults? It's not that simple.
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October 14, 2020
APA has partnered with the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) on Solar@Scale, a new U.S. Department of Energy-funded project to help realize the potential benefits of large-scale solar development for cities, counties, and special districts.
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October 8, 2020
The APA Foundation awards seven scholarships to aspiring planning students in 2020.
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October 8, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: The Flint water crisis shows when it's right to rightsize.
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October 7, 2020
APA remembers the life of APA Senior Leadership Associate Lynn Jorgenson, who died on September 18, 2020, after a short illness.
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October 1, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: What can planning departments do to adopt an organizational racial equity framework?
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September 24, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Step one in planning for equitable outcomes: create an equitable workplace.
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September 17, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Ride-hailing is overturning the transport industry, but what are the factors leading people to choose it over public transit?
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September 10, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: What's the best approach for securing more public benefits from development: negotiation or exaction?
