Planning March 2014
Issue Contents
Mother Nature, Designer
Nicola Davies describes how to use biomimicry for planning and urban design.
Hotter in Texas
While parts of the country still struggle, investment in Lone Star cities is on fire. Bridget Mintz Testa counts the ways.
The Bond Ratings Game
Funding municipal infrastructure when times are tough. Corry Buckwalter Berkooz explains in Planning Practice.
Oglethorpe and Savannah
A historic plan has modern applications. By Thomas Wilson and Patrick Shay.
Yoking Form-Based Codes and Historic Districts
Philip Walker makes sense of the best combinations.
My House Is Your House
A fresh look at home sharing — by Anne Wyatt.
Perspectives
A regular column by APA's CEO, Paul Farmer.
News
Lost city, participatory budgeting.
Legal News
Statewide zoning, rail rights-of-way.
By the Numbers
Statistics in the news. This month: pensions.
Ever Green
Tim Beatley takes the microbial view.
Letters
RFPs, city kids.
Planners Library
Public life, endangered species.
Media
New reports, blogs, videos, etc.
Viewpoint
You're already a marketer.
Cover: Detroit Industry, north wall (detail), Diego Rivera, 1923–33, fresco. Detroit Institute of Arts.