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March 13, 2025
When's the Right Time to Rezone Abandoned Strip Malls?
Uncovering JAPA: Learn more about how the rise of e-commerce and how remote work has led to an oversupply of retail space, revealing a zoning mismatch that urges planners to rethink and repurpose vacant retail areas for more sustainable uses. -
March 6, 2025
Transportation Workers’ Perspectives on ADA
Uncovering JAPA: Despite ongoing ADA compliance challenges, especially in transportation infrastructure, emphasize the need for a system-wide approach, greater support, and expanded education to enhance accessibility for people with disabilities. -
February 20, 2025
A Community-Created Rubric for Heat Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how the 'HeatReady Neighborhoods' rubric helps planners address extreme heat with an equity-focused framework, optimizing local assets and involving residents in climate adaptation strategies. -
February 13, 2025
Planning is Not Project Management
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how planners can go beyond project management with negotiation, persuasion, and creativity to navigate digital media, advocacy, and development. -
February 6, 2025
How Libraries Became Community Resilience Hubs
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how local public libraries act as resilience hubs in the face of economic stressors and extreme weather events — and how planners can support their role in building community resilience. -
January 31, 2025
The Connection Between Unpermitted ADUs in San José and the Need for Zoning Reform
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how policymakers are using computer vision to identify unpermitted ADUs in San José — shedding light on informal housing and the barriers to legal construction. -
January 23, 2025
Last-Mile Impacts on Deliveries
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how cities are tackling emissions from last-mile deliveries to reshape urban freight and reduce climate impacts. -
January 16, 2025
Basic Income Trials
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how basic income trials use unconditional cash to address inequities and guide equity planners toward scalable solutions and policy reforms. -
January 2, 2025
Transforming Atlanta's Transit
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how an On-Demand Multimodal Transit System (ODMTS) in Atlanta tackled transit challenges by addressing the first/last mile problem. -
December 19, 2024
Choosing the Road Less Valued
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how reducing urban roadways by 10 percent, which currently occupy 20-25 percent of urban land, could generate $27.8 billion in annual net benefits and unlock land for alternative uses. -
December 12, 2024
These U.S. States Are Planning for Salinization
Uncovering JAPA: Climate change is driving salinization of U.S. coastal water supplies, but inconsistent state-level planning and limited resources for small systems highlight the need for stronger governance and adaptive strategies. -
November 21, 2024
Three Takeaways for Climate Adaptation Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how the Climate Navigators program shows how local knowledge, mental health support, and trust-building improve climate adaptation planning. -
November 14, 2024
Informal Transportation Testing
Uncovering JAPA: A pilot project in Kampala, Uganda, reveals how targeted subsidies can create profitable and equitable informal transport routes, enhancing mobility for underserved communities. -
November 7, 2024
How Practitioners Define Sustainability
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how city sustainability leaders define their work, focusing on aspiration, collaboration, and resource sharing to drive local initiatives. -
November 4, 2024
Understanding Housing Instability
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how city planners, urban practitioners, and policymakers to better understand the vulnerabilities of urban residents and the multidimensional manifestation of housing precarity. -
October 24, 2024
How Nonprofits Are Shaping Community Organizing
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how subcontracting community organizing to nonprofits can enhance resident participation but risks perpetuating power inequities without addressing systemic racial and class-based disparities. -
October 17, 2024
Holding Landlords Accountable
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how OpenRefine is being used to track landlords' property ownership, enabling planners to target code enforcement and improve housing policy efforts. -
October 10, 2024
Rethinking Walkability: Prioritizing Pedestrian Movement
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how Hong Kong is tackling pedestrian detour ratios (PDR) to address challenges in high-traffic areas and promote safer, more walkable infrastructure. -
October 3, 2024
From Global Classroom to Home: Confronting Cultural Differences
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how haigui leverage their U.S. education to advocate for innovative planning practices in China, navigating cultural differences along the way. -
September 26, 2024
Navigating Intra-Ethnic Tensions
Uncovering JAPA: Gentrifiers of color can contribute to neighborhood revitalization, but this often results in increased displacement, underscoring the urgent need for urban planners to implement policies that support economically disadvantaged communities. -
September 20, 2024
Mapping Indigenous Food Infrastructure
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how an indigenous-led photovoice food systems approach reveals vital cultural and ecological assets, advocating for more equitable and resilient food systems. -
September 12, 2024
Reimagine Tolling With HOTTER Lanes
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how transforming metropolitan freeways into sustainable, multimodal systems can offer congestion-free travel for non-drivers and underserved populations by integrating toll revenue and incentives to reduce traffic and promote alternative transportation. -
September 5, 2024
Bridging the Gap: Planners and Stakeholders
Uncovering JAPA: See how planners can enhance transparency and collaboration to address power imbalances and prevent corruption in projects. -
August 29, 2024
Applicability and Ethics of Extended Reality (XR) in Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how extended reality (XR) is utilized for urban design and public engagement, and the rising question about whether XR will enhance planning or lead to dystopian outcomes. -
August 22, 2024
Multinational Survey: Planners' Use of New Technology
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how planners are adopting new technologies and how AI is expected to impact administrative work, while its role in community engagement remains uncertain. -
August 15, 2024
A Cold Shower is Not Heat Resilience
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how reframing urban heat as an infrastructure issue and engaging communities in planning can build resilience against rising temperatures. -
August 8, 2024
Predicting Grocery Access After a Hurricane
Uncovering JAPA: As disaster storms increase, discover how they significantly impact food access for vulnerable communities. -
August 1, 2024
Deregulating Parking
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how Champaign, Illinois, has combated onsite parking constraints by removing minimum parking requirements and improving the utilization of existing parking. -
July 25, 2024
A New Tool for Infill Policy
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how states are enhancing infill development to lower housing costs by using statistical models to support state agencies prioritize and monitor local zoning regulations. -
July 18, 2024
Can ChatGPT Analyze Public Feedback?
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how ChatGPT analyzes public feedback data, aiding urban planners with high accuracy and essential human oversight. -
July 11, 2024
How Can Carshare Help Low-Income Travelers?
Uncovering JAPA: Carshare programs can benefit low-income travelers but there remain some challenges that need to be addressed. -
June 27, 2024
Sustainable Development: Vision or Policy?
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how 20 years of sustainability emphasis has led to slow and uneven progress in implementing effective sustainability policies. -
June 20, 2024
Applying Online Community Engagement Lessons to In-Person Meetings
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the community engagement strategies and approaches planners utilized during the COVID-19 that provide valuable insights for enhancing future in-person engagement practices. -
June 13, 2024
Integrating Community Animators into Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how community animators can help municipal governments effectively engage marginalized communities in planning processes by bridging gaps between community members and urban planners. -
June 6, 2024
Property Taxes Cannot Fund Climate Adaptation in Florida
Uncovering JAPA: Explore Florida's coastal counties' fiscal vulnerability to sea level rise and the pressing need for alternative revenue sources and efforts. -
May 30, 2024
Can We Measure Land Use Policies’ Role In Fair Housing?
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the Fair Housing Land Use Score and how it measures whether local governments' land use policies promote neighborhood inclusion. -
May 23, 2024
What Is a Complete Community?
Uncovering JAPA: Explore 'Complete Communities' and how it evolved to emphasize positive attributes like sustainability and livability. -
May 9, 2024
Can Transit-Oriented Developments Include Affordable Development?
Uncovering JAPA: Explore hurdles to affordable housing in Southern California's transit-oriented developments, and the importance of legislative and local government support for inclusivity in transit communities. -
May 2, 2024
Will We Zone For Transit?
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how transit-oriented development (TOD) emerged as a crucial strategy in curbing urban sprawl with the 2023 Montreal light rail project. -
April 23, 2024
Hardening the American Landscape
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the diverse policy options for local leaders to curb hardscape expansion during rapid infill, emphasizing the importance of modeling local factors and utilizing machine learning techniques to mitigate environmental risks. -
April 18, 2024
Navigating Quayside: Lessons in Smart City Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the challenges faced in public-private partnerships using Toronto's Quayside project. -
April 11, 2024
Planning for Dollar Stores
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the challenges and opportunities posed by the rapid expansion of dollar stores, addressing the issues related to food access and community vitality. -
April 4, 2024
Learning from Ad Hoc Mixed-Use Partnerships in Toronto
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the evolution of Creative Mixed-Use (CMU) development in Toronto, emphasizing the critical role of cross-sectoral partnerships and the challenges faced during this transformative process. -
March 29, 2024
Planners Can Integrate Climate Migrants
Uncovering JAPA: Explore climate migration, as researchers discuss depictions of "climate havens" and "welcoming cities," and offer insights for planning inclusive communities. -
March 14, 2024
Residents’ Changing Perspectives on Disaster Resettlement
Uncovering JAPA: In Tacloban City, Philippines, holistic restoration, community empowerment, site development, transparent communication, and flexible participation are emphasized in post-disaster relocation efforts. -
February 15, 2024
Long Beach’s Approach to Youth Advocacy in Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Long Beach invests in Youth, establishing a Global Model with the Office of Youth Development. -
February 1, 2024
Considering Flood Risk in Development Decision Making
Uncovering JAPA: North Carolina sees rapid new flood risk development, revealing complex socioeconomic factors in risk management. -
January 25, 2024
Refocus Heat Action Plans To Mitigate Indoor Heat Risks
Uncovering JAPA: Study finds the importance of prioritizing building improvements over tree planting strategies for mitigating the risk of indoor extreme heat. -
January 19, 2024
60 Years of Racial Equity in Urban Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Insightful analysis about racial equity planning to inform planning practitioners' efforts to advance racial and social justice. -
January 11, 2024
Mitigating Flood Risk Through Smart Land Use Practice
Uncovering JAPA: A 20-year study on North Carolina floodplain development underscores the need for evidence-based policies and robust flood mitigation plans.
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