Blogs

September 21, 2023

A New Way to Identify Bargain Areas for Child Economic Mobility

Uncovering JAPA: Explore a new way to identify neighborhoods with a more reasonable cost of living that can increase children's economic mobility.

August 31, 2023

Addressing Racial Harms Through Reparative Planning

Uncovering JAPA: A framework that provides theory and practice for planners working toward urban justice.

August 10, 2023

Using Reparative Planning to Address Infrastructural Systems

Uncovering JAPA: ACT-LA aims to apply a divest-invest approach to stopping systems and practices that have caused harm.

August 3, 2023

Black Counternarratives in Planning History

Uncovering JAPA: Understanding planning history from the perspective of those oppressed by traditional planning ensures the oppressed are no longer dismissed as passive victims but active players in their lives and communities.

July 13, 2023

SHELTER: A Redistributive Affordable Housing Policy

Uncovering JAPA: Plan to reuse existing revenues to fund innovative housing policy reforms.

July 6, 2023

Understanding Opportunities and Challenges in Publicly Traded Planning Firms

Uncovering JAPA: Understanding how to balance the opportunities and challenges of working in a publicly traded planning firm.

June 29, 2023

Discretionary vs. By-Right Approval: Which is Faster?

Uncovering JAPA: Is by-right or discretionary approval faster?

June 22, 2023

Transit Oriented Development and Crime in Chicago

Uncovering JAPA: Is there a connection between transit oriented development (TOD) in Chicago's public transit system.

Increasing Sharing Options in Housing to Improve Mental Health

Uncovering JAPA: Planners can promote sharing capabilities to create a flexible backdrop for people to live within to meet the social needs of Americans today.

June 8, 2023

A Framework for Systematizing Rigor in Planning Research

Uncovering JAPA: Incorporating empirical rigor into planning research to improve review articles and thus improve recommendations and collaboartion.

June 1, 2023

Designing Age-Friendly Connectivity in Melbourne, Australia

Uncovering JAPA: Study finds it necessary for planners to take action to ensure the built environment becomes more age-friendly.

May 26, 2023

Building Business Resilience for Minority-Owned Businesses

Uncovering JAPA: Three critical aspects for understanding business resilience in underserved communities.

May 18, 2023

Do Municipalities Use Cost-Benefit Analysis for Incentive Zoning?

Uncovering JAPA: Exploring the use of cost-benefit to develop incentive zoning programs.

Opening the Policy Window for Bike Lanes in Sydney

Uncovering JAPA: Learning to leverage policy windows by committing to evidence-based solutions and political coalition-building.

May 4, 2023

Examining Food Systems and Sovereignty In Conflict Cities

Uncovering JAPA: Future planners should be prepared for the politics of planning, especially the challenging role of planning in conflict cities aiming to protect food systems.

Centering Equity in Planning and Public Health Collaborations

Uncovering JAPA: Without an equity focus, planning and public health collaborations can harm vulnerable communities or lead to ineffective policies.

April 20, 2023

What is the Role of Theory in Planning?

Uncovering JAPA: Is planning theory important or nonexistent now?

April 13, 2023

Understanding and Protecting the Benefits of Immigrant Food Businesses

Uncovering JAPA: Smaller-scale ethnic food businesses contribute to community health and well-being but also boost the local economy.

Applying Intersectionality as Planners to Combat Health Inequities

Uncovering JAPA: Planners must understand the multiple overlapping factors that can produce health disparities.

March 30, 2023

Enforcing Asian Exclusion Through Design and Planning Regulations

Uncovering JAPA: Three cities in Los Angeles County developed stringent development controls to encourage Anglo or Spanish heritage in response to Asian newcomers.

March 23, 2023

Effectiveness of Regional Scenario Planning

Uncovering JAPA: Exploration of three metropolitan regions for how their regional plans are reflected in municipal plans.

March 16, 2023

Can Zoning Solve Healthy Food Accessibility in Schools?

Uncovering JAPA: Little research has considered equity implications of zoning policies to reduce access to unhealthy foods. This simulation study aims to understand impacts and outcomes.

March 9, 2023

Retrofitting Suburban Arterials for Smart Growth

Uncovering JAPA: Four Toronto region corridors are examined for walkability and retrofitting potential.

March 2, 2023

Maximizing Affordable Housing Production Under Inclusionary Zoning

Uncovering JAPA: Authors aim to understand the effectiveness of different inclusionary zoning policies.

Risk MAP Program's Impact on Hazard Mitigation Planning

Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the importance of combining enhanced data into a collaborative process for hazard mitigation planning.

Understanding the Motivations and Barriers to ADU Construction

Uncovering JAPA: What are the barriers to building ADUs?

February 9, 2023

Lessons for American Zoning From Australia and Canada

Uncovering JAPA: Learning from Australia and Canada's zoning decisions to advance environmental goals, not exclusionary motivations.

February 2, 2023

Expanding the Benefits of Ride-Hail to Lower-Income Households

Uncovering JAPA: Ride-hails are filling mobility gaps, but does the cost hinder use?

January 26, 2023

Understanding the Diverse Perceptions of Covid-era Street Schemes

Uncovering JAPA: How enduring is the support for outdoor dining and street closures post-COVID?

January 19, 2023

Potential of Manufactured Housing and Resident-Owned Communities

Uncovering JAPA: Manufactured housing deserves more academic attention.

January 12, 2023

Decriminalizing Vehicular Homelessness in Los Angeles

Uncovering JAPA: Restrictive vehicle ordinances do not reduce the prevalence of vehicular homelessness, but shift it to different communities.

December 15, 2022

A New Framework for Understanding Tax-Increment Financing

Uncovering JAPA: New analysis of the public costs and private gains of TIF.

December 8, 2022

Increase Representation with Community Naming

Uncovering JAPA: A tool kit for planners to help increase representation in our cities through the practice of "community naming."

Reading Plans With Machines for Improved Efficiency

Uncovering JAPA: How can planners be more efficient in staying informed on current issues by using natural language processing (NLP).

How to Integrate Climate Equity Into Planning

Uncovering JAPA: Apply three aspects of equity to make the climate action planning process more inclusive.

November 10, 2022

It’s Time to Rethink Disparity Analyses in Transportation

Uncovering JAPA: The comparison between sufficiency and disparity analysis helps demonstrate how disparity analyses may do more harm than good if planners do not contextualize their findings.