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August 20, 2026
Longer Crosswalk Distances Linked to More Collisions
Uncovering JAPA: Longer pedestrian crossing distances are linked to higher collision rates, highlighting how planners can improve safety through targeted interventions such as curb extensions and refuge islands. -
August 6, 2026
The Evolving Municipal Bond Market for Housing
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how changes in the municipal bond market could affect affordable housing financing, public investment, and long-term housing affordability. -
July 30, 2026
Three Lessons from California's Gentle Density Efforts
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how California’s ADU reforms reveal the opportunities and challenges of using homeowners, and small developers, as drivers of neighborhood densification. -
July 23, 2026
Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Online Civic Engagement
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how digital engagement platforms can strengthen and undermine meaningful public participation, and what planners should consider before relying on such platforms. -
July 16, 2026
Designing Parks for the Ebb and Flow of Use
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how smartphone data is helping planners uncover the daily and seasonal rhythms of park use, leading to time-based park classifications that can inform more responsive design, programming, and management. -
July 10, 2026
Lessons from Rural Community Development
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how rural community development informs planning through local capacity, collaboration, and community-driven solutions that bridge the urban-rural divide and address rural needs. -
July 2, 2026
Where Will the Warehouses Go?
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how planners are using zoning to manage warehouse development and why stronger environmental justice policies are essential for more equitable freight planning. -
June 22, 2026
Integrating Wildfire Planning: Lessons from Chile and Victoria, Australia
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how planning approaches in Chile and Victoria, Australia, can better integrate wildfire risk into land use planning and development decisions. -
June 18, 2026
Rethinking Staff Reports: Lessons from Fashion and Art
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how creative formats and group reflection can improve planning staff reports by making complex information clearer, more engaging, and easier for commissioners and staff to understand and use in decision-making. -
April 22, 2026
From the Field and the Academy: JAPA Honors Its 2025 Award Winners
Each year, the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) recognizes the papers and authors that best exemplify the journal's commitment to research that is useful to practicing planners, policymakers, scholars, and students. -
April 9, 2026
From Pop-up to Permanent School Bike Lanes
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how a Miami case study on recurring pop-up protected bike lanes revealed strong community support, improved school traffic operations, and advanced exploration of permanent infrastructure for safer student travel. -
April 2, 2026
What Federal Mandates Mean for Local Green Infrastructure
Uncovering JAPA: Federal mandates shape local green infrastructure, with Cleveland emphasizing social and environmental justice, while St. Louis focused on demolition and cost, showing performance and budget often drive decisions. -
March 26, 2026
More Than Just Tree Canopy: Assessing True Shade Access
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how digital tools for urban tree planting often focus only on canopy cover, overlooking social, environmental, and access factors that determine who truly benefits. -
March 12, 2026
What Can Planners Give Back to the Land?
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how planners can confront colonial legacies and climate change by treating land as a living entity, integrating Indigenous knowledge, and fostering reciprocal relationships with more-than-human life. -
February 26, 2026
Can We Blame Highways for Urban Sprawl? It's Not That Simple.
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how a study of a proposed Portland, Maine, highway shows that new roads don’t automatically cause sprawl and how integrated land use–transportation modeling can guide smarter planning decisions. -
February 12, 2026
Lives Are Not the Only Thing That Matters in Hazard Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how planners balance saving lives with costs, equity, and economic tradeoffs in flood hazard mitigation. -
February 5, 2026
What Does AI Recommend For Your City's Resilience Plan?
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how AI can help planners generate context-specific resilience indicators by pairing data analysis with practitioner expertise, offering a flexible framework for strengthening urban resilience across systems. -
January 22, 2026
What Does "Just Green Enough" Really Mean?
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how planners and residents in Minneapolis grappled with gentrification concerns and tested the limits of the “just green enough” approach while shaping a new park on a former industrial site. -
January 15, 2026
Rethinking How We Teach Zoning in Planning School
Uncovering JAPA: Discover why zoning remains a central planning tool and how teaching it with an equity-focused perspective, connected to broader planning strategies and local contexts, can better prepare future planners for practice. -
December 11, 2025
Using Public Testimony to Guide Restorative Land Policies
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how planners can use insights from California’s reparations processes to advance land-based justice, equity, and community restoration through reparative planning practices. -
December 5, 2025
Which Planning Skills Do Employers Want?
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how employers value planners who combine broad knowledge of land use and related fields with strong managerial, analytical, communication and engagement skills across specializations. -
November 14, 2025
Four JAPA Award Winners Honored in Minneapolis
At the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s annual conference in Minneapolis in October, the American Planning Association (APA) recognized two scholars and two papers that appeared in the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA). -
November 11, 2025
Advancing Equitable Planning Practices
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how a 2024 survey finds planners value equity but face funding, knowledge, and support gaps that hinder implementation. -
October 23, 2025
How COVID-19 Redefined Urban Public Space
Uncovering JAPA: Recently adopted street policies helped shape emergency responses as cities transformed streets into cafés and social spaces during COVID-19. Explore if these programs represented an adaptation of existing policies or a dramatic change, and needed actions for maintaining viable street cafe programs. -
October 9, 2025
Rethinking Transportation for Aging Communities
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how older adults without cars face mobility challenges, and why flexible, affordable transportation options and walkable communities are essential to keeping them connected. -
October 2, 2025
How Cities Can Plan For Persistent Remote Work
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift to home-based activities, cutting out-of-home travel and office use while boosting remote work and housing demand. -
September 25, 2025
San Antonio's Infill District Zoning
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how San Antonio’s Infill Development Zone uses flexible, parcel-specific zoning to promote walkable, mixed-use infill while preserving neighborhood character and aligning with city planning goals. -
September 19, 2025
Emotions in Emails Matter: Communication Dynamics Between Planners and Politicians
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how planners are most effective at shaping political decisions when their emails are positive, consistent, and come from multiple voices—not just by sending more messages. -
September 11, 2025
Historic Districts and Housing Goals: A Case Study of Two L.A. Neighborhoods
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how a Los Angeles case study shows historic preservation districts extend beyond architecture, driving debates over zoning, property rights, development, and housing affordability. -
September 4, 2025
Lessons in Managing Public Opinion During E-Scooter Pilot Program in Eugene, Oregon
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how Eugene, Oregon’s e-scooter pilot reveals how planners navigated shifting public opinion, built trust, corrected misconceptions, and helped officials interpret feedback to guide the program’s success. -
July 31, 2025
State-Mandated Climate Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Discover a study of California’s Senate Bill 379 found that flexible, state-mandated climate adaptation planning modestly improved local efforts but revealed persistent challenges in coordination, engagement, and local capacity. -
July 18, 2025
How Geography Shapes Small Island Developing States
Global Perspectives: Discover how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) use global ties and niche strategies to navigate geographic and economic challenges. -
June 26, 2025
France’s Model for Smarter Cities Through Urban Data Standardization
Global Perspectives: Learn how France improved urban data comparability while preserving local context through standardization, a centralized platform, and public-private collaboration. -
June 12, 2025
Understanding Why Residents Remain in Japan's Flood Zones
Global Perspectives: Discover how deep cultural ties, economic constraints, and policy gaps influence why residents in Japan’s flood-prone areas choose to stay, offering planners valuable insights for community-informed resilience strategies. -
June 5, 2025
How Three European Countries Are Modernizing Land Records
Global Perspectives: See how three European countries are modernizing cadastral systems through 3D mapping, public-private collaboration, and AI to deliver more accurate, accessible, and future-ready land data for planners. -
May 22, 2025
Land Management in Vienna and Hungary
Global Perspectives: Learn how Vienna and Hungary use effective land management strategies to equip planners with powerful tools for improving affordable housing access and shaping equitable urban futures. -
May 15, 2025
Japan's Approach to Aging Urban Housing
Global Perspectives: Learn how Japan’s approach to aging condominiums offers planners a flexible model for keeping older housing viable amid shifting demographics worldwide. -
May 8, 2025
Coastal Planning Lessons from Brazil and Spain
Global Perspectives: Learn how coastal planning balances growth and sustainability through Brazil’s tourism-driven model and Spain’s ecological restoration approach. -
May 1, 2025
London's Housing Reforms: Lessons on Deregulation for Global Planners
Global Perspectives: London’s housing reforms reveal the trade-offs of deregulation, highlighting the need for planners to balance accelerated development with livability and affordability. -
April 17, 2025
Eliminating Owner-Occupied Restrictions for Missing Middle Housing
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how allowing private developers to build middle housing is key to making single-family zoning reform effective and expanding affordable housing options. -
April 10, 2025
Rethinking the First-Mile/Last-Mile Fix
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how a Milwaukee pilot program challenges the effectiveness of first-mile/last-mile services and reveals the need to center rider input and regional coordination in transit planning. -
March 27, 2025
Educational Needs for Disaster Recovery Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how planners can strengthen disaster recovery efforts by embracing proactive roles, utilizing planning tools, and leading recovery initiatives to build more resilient communities. -
March 20, 2025
The Case for Rental Registries: Uncovering Ownership
Uncovering JAPA: Learn about rental registries and their role in improving housing transparency while addressing legal and privacy concerns. -
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.
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