Planning July 2011

In This Issue:

The Gulf Coast is proving resilient — but still faces major hurdles. Craig Guillot reports.

Tony Hiss extols the virtues of deep travel. A Sustaining Places story.

Mary Means and Elaine Clisham tell how to control the conversation before the naysayers can. With a sidebar by Sarah Reginelli.

Good news and not-so-good news from the decennial count. Chris Williamson explains in Planning Practice. With Timothy Moran.

Challenges — and changes — in Asia. By Christopher Gray, Sohrab Rashid, Jerry Walters, and Anna Luo.

One planner's professional — and personal — experiences in Bhutan. By Dale Vanessa Holiday.

A regular column by CEO Paul Farmer.

San Diego shift, census challenges.

Airport zoning, water use limits.

Statistics in the news, compiled by APA's Research Department. This month: oil.

This month Reid Ewing examines the distinction between urban design and urban planning.

Freight update, older planners.

Place matters, century of the city.

News reports, blogs, videos, etc.

Zoning is no cure-all.

Cover: Beach cleanup on Grand Isle, Louisiana, May 2010. Courtesy BP: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0.

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