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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. -
February 23, 2023
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. -
February 16, 2023
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." -
December 1, 2022
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). -
November 17, 2022
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. -
November 3, 2022
Revisiting the Edge City, 30 Years On
Uncovering JAPA: Analysis if the edge city is transforming or encouraging sprawl. -
October 27, 2022
Re-Imagining Urban Industrial Rezoning in San Francisco
Uncovering JAPA: What is the potential for manufacturing to take root in strong market cities with high costs of production? -
October 20, 2022
The Transgressive Urban Forest
Uncovering JAPA: Exploring a more radical conception of urban forestry. -
October 14, 2022
Challenging Storytelling and Narratives That Reinforce Inequity
Uncovering JAPA: The risk of reproducing racist assumptions or narratives in planning. -
October 6, 2022
Relationship Potential Between Planning and Immigrant Affairs Departments
Uncovering JAPA: How are planners grappling with immigrant needs. -
October 4, 2022
Implementing Transit Value Capture Schemes More Equitably
Uncovering JAPA: What can transit value capture teach us about the intersection of entrenched segregation and transportation planning? -
September 22, 2022
The Benefits of Repeated Participation
Uncovering JAPA: Outcome of attracting the repeated participation of participants across multiple planning engagement processes. -
September 15, 2022
Planning for Emerging Infectious Disease Pandemics
Uncovering JAPA: A framework for how planners can be involved in infectious disease management. -
September 1, 2022
The Need for Human Experience in Big Data Research
Uncovering JAPA: The impact of community participation guiding big data use in planning. -
August 25, 2022
Three Ways to Build Support for Community-Centered Climate Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Strategies for building local support for planning climate action. -
August 18, 2022
Planning for Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond
Uncovering JAPA: Planning can be fraught with corruption. A study in Ghana identifies institutional and interpersonal factors that lead to corruption. -
July 21, 2022
Five-Part Framework to Guide Climate Relocation Plans
Uncovering JAPA: A new framework offers guidance to help planners navigate the complex process of considering disaster-related relocations. -
July 14, 2022
Online Dissent: Fostering a Necessary Component to Planning
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners preserve dissent in online public engagement opportunities? -
July 7, 2022
Using Forecasting Models to Predict Foot Traffic
Uncovering JAPA: A new forecast model and methodology help planners to estimate foot traffic along streets. -
June 30, 2022
Professional Inequality Within Urban Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Planner Eun Jin Shin investigates representation and wage gaps within the planning profession. -
June 23, 2022
Ensuring "Open Streets" Plans Advance Social Equity
Uncovering JAPA: Pandemic-created open streets can be a lifeline, but also exacerbate inequities without careful implementation. -
June 16, 2022
Supporting Nonprofits During Post Disaster Recovery
Uncovering JAPA: Researchers explore the differences of post disaster recovery on small and medium/large nonprofits and how planners can facilitate nonprofit post-disaster recovery efforts. -
June 9, 2022
Pros and Cons of Rightsizing Flint's Water Infrastructure
Uncovering JAPA: Should Flint, Michigan, replace its water infrastructure one-to-one, or resize the system? Read the commentaries on the pros and cons of each approach. -
June 2, 2022
Understanding Relocation Patterns of Older Adults
Uncovering JAPA: Who, why, and where do adults age 60 and older relocate in the U.S.? -
May 19, 2022
Learning from London’s Transition to Sustainable Modes
Uncovering JAPA: Learning from London's transition to sustainable transportation modes. -
May 12, 2022
Does Disaster Relief Actually Help Small Businesses?
Uncovering JAPA: As disaster relief becomes more necessary under climate change, are SBA loans for disaster recovery actually used by small businesses? -
May 2, 2022
Addressing the Multifaceted Threats of Extreme Heat
Uncovering JAPA: A survey of U.S. planners reveals how they are preparing for and responding to the dangers of extreme heat, with responses showing slight regional variations. -
April 28, 2022
The Built Environment, Bicycling, and Mental Wellbeing
Uncovering JAPA: Exploring the impact of the built environment and mental wellbeing of bicycling as a form of transportation. -
April 21, 2022
Mobile Home Parks Understudied in Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Manufactured housing, despite the importance impact to low-income homeownership, remains an understudied topic in planning research and practice. This article provides a needed spatial and regulatory analysis of mobile home parks in Houston. -
April 14, 2022
Confronting Spatial Inequalities
Uncovering JAPA: 'Place-based' policies can help address growing interregional inequality within the U.S. -
April 7, 2022
Making Disaster Recovery More Equitable
Uncovering JAPA: The aftermath of Hurricane Dolly (2008) on the colonias of the Rio Grande Valley illustrate the need for equitable disaster recovery. -
March 31, 2022
A Potential Solution to the Problem of Vacant Land in U.S. Cities
Uncovering JAPA: Analysis of Chicago's Large Lot Program to make neighborhoods more aesthetically pleasing and more equitable. -
March 24, 2022
Do Light Rail Stations Spur Gentrification?
Uncovering JAPA: Researchers explore the gentrification impacts of light rail stations. -
March 17, 2022
Political Partisanship and Transportation Reform
Uncovering JAPA: What role does partisanship play in transportation reform? -
March 10, 2022
The Costs of Wide Streets in the U.S.
Uncovering JAPA: America's streets are among the world's widest, what does this cost communities? -
March 3, 2022
Land-Use Characteristics Contributing to Region-Wide Housing Inequities
Uncovering JAPA: Authors examine 180 cities in Southern California to determine if changing residential land uses reduce housing inequities. -
February 24, 2022
How Planning Mandates Spur Florida's Climate Action
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the outcomes from climate mandates to address sea level rise in Florida. -
February 17, 2022
Examining the Impact of London's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the impact of mandatory inclusionary housing on the affordable housing stock in London, England. -
February 10, 2022
The Cost of Avoiding Public Transit During COVID-19
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the burden on individuals who avoided public transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
February 3, 2022
Recent Trends Around Zoning for Density
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding how major metropolitan areas have shifted their approach to zoning for density.
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