-
July 15, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Cultural biases impact how people will respond differently to government and planning interventions.
-
July 8, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the history of exclusionary zoning practices.
-
July 1, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Local decision makers using staff reports to ensure consistency with comprehensive plans.
-
June 24, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the shifting social consequences of a changing climate.
-
June 17, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: The changing realities of Western gateway communities.
-
June 10, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: What are the implications of human rights for planning in Canadian cities, and beyond?
-
June 3, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Discover the emerging trends in shared rental housing in Shanghai, specifically that of bed space rentals, and their implications for gender equity.
-
May 13, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Performance benchmarking in public water and sanitation services may only feign efficiency and efficacy in many low- and middle-income countries.
-
May 6, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Ridership forecasts predict the future, but this post explains their past.
-
April 29, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: In Hong Kong, building new towns requires strategic spatial planning to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
-
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.
-
March 18, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Duke University seeks community input when deciding how to invest in its surrounding neighborhoods in Durham, North Carolina.
-
March 11, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: The grid system of American city streets has tangible implications for equity in mobility, public health, and environmental sustainability.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
February 11, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Why do landlords set housing rents below market? Can planners use this to expand affordable housing without public subsidies?
-
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?
-
January 28, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Read some early research into whether density aggravates the COVID-19 pandemic.
-
January 21, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: How do researchers inventory restrictive regulations and assess their relationship to the underproduction of housing?
-
January 14, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Get recommendations for integrating proactive and resilient greenspace improvements into disaster recovery planning.
-
January 7, 2021
Uncovering JAPA: Tackle uncertainty using a robust decision-making framework for transportation planning.
-
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.
-
December 10, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners best use exploratory planning scenarios?
-
November 19, 2020
How can we measure success for the Journal of the American Planning Association?
-
November 12, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners use big, open data to look at transit-oriented development?
-
November 5, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How and why should planners better understand the terms Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx?
-
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?
-
October 22, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: What do quantitative methods reveal about LGBTQ neighborhood development and historic preservation?
-
October 15, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Can making spaces more compact reduce obesity among young adults? It's not that simple.
-
October 8, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: The Flint water crisis shows when it's right to rightsize.
-
October 1, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: What can planning departments do to adopt an organizational racial equity framework?
-
September 24, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Step one in planning for equitable outcomes: create an equitable workplace.
-
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?
-
September 10, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: What's the best approach for securing more public benefits from development: negotiation or exaction?
-
August 27, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Do walkability, transit, and parks improve life satisfaction? It depends.
-
August 20, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: What are the spatial and economic implications of Whiteness in the U.S.?
-
August 13, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: If employed correctly, polycentric development can promote sustainable growth — allowing regions to thrive economically while preserving the environment.
-
August 6, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How can local planning and policy efforts better support immigrant entrepreneurs? What could cities do to lower barriers for immigrant businesses to thrive?
-
July 30, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Where should you have your meeting to engage the community? The Venue Creation Tool can help you decide.
-
July 23, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Can large-scale climate action coexist with community-based planning? One JAPA author says they can and they must.
-
July 16, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: The future of transportation remains uncertain, but scenario planning may help. Explore where planners might be headed.
-
July 9, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Current climate action plans are insufficient for the mounting climate crisis. Get seven principles to help bolster and fill the gaps in these plans.
-
June 25, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Does digital urban agriculture mean the end of small scale growing?
-
June 18, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Affordable housing and resiliency must coexist. How can low-income households weather the storm?
-
June 11, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Investing in a sustainability plan means investing in the future.
-
June 4, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Shared autonomous vehicles will be part of the future, but do we need them to achieve sustainable transportation?
-
May 28, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the language of covenants, codes, and restrictions to learn the role homeowner associations play in regulating the aesthetic and ecological functions of yards.
-
May 21, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Can planners overcome cultural, political, legal, and economic barriers to “smart shrinkage” strategies in shrinking cities?
-
May 14, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Is it time to give the ax to single-family residential zoning? Nine JAPA viewpoints argue the question from both sides.
