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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? -
February 1, 2023
Revocation of Credentials For Ethical Misconduct
Recent disciplinary actions taken by the AICP Ethics Committee in January 2023. -
January 30, 2023
Not Quite Ready For Retirement
Mark Hinshaw reflects back on a 40-year career in urban planning. Aging, dealing with a layoff, and not ready to retire, Mark had to get creative to find a soft landing to close out his long-tenured career. -
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 24, 2023
Updated Large-Scale Solar Guidance from Solar@Scale
Is your community ready to have a conversation about large-scale solar development? Check out the new second edition of the Solar@Scale guidebook for a comprehensive discussion of local policies and actions that can affect the siting and design of community- and utility-scale solar facilities. -
January 20, 2023
What to Expect in State Legislatures on Zoning Reform in 2023
State legislatures in 2022 focused on increasing affordable housing within their respective regions. The trend of state legislatures preempting zoning reform is expected to continue in 2023 across the country. -
January 19, 2023
Potential of Manufactured Housing and Resident-Owned Communities
Uncovering JAPA: Manufactured housing deserves more academic attention. -
January 13, 2023
Demystifying the Zoning Reform Process
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: Is your community overdue for a new development code? -
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. -
January 10, 2023
Congress Funds New ‘YIMBY’ Grants for Zoning Reform
Congress passes a new $85 million grant program aimed at zoning reform. The funding represents a new and significant incentive and support for local zoning reform and planning for housing affordability. -
December 22, 2022
Removing Freeways and Healing Communities
Equity in Practice: The economic and community outcomes of removing Milwaukee's Park East Freeway. -
December 19, 2022
Discovering the "heART" of Planning
A reflection of the Chicano experience of understanding planning through art. -
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 13, 2022
APA Congratulates Successful November 2022 AICP Examinees
APA congratulates those who successfully completed the November 2022 AICP Certification Exam. These members may use the AICP Candidate designation until they earn the full AICP credential. -
December 13, 2022
Creating a Collaborative Diversity-Oriented Internship Program
Equity in Practice: Five planning firms create a joint internship to help create a diversity-oriented internship program. -
December 12, 2022
Queuing Up Drive-Thru Zoning Reforms
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: What does a sensible approach to zoning for drive-through services look like? -
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 7, 2022
Finding Meaning in Municipal Careers: Insights From Planning Directors
Municipal planning careers can be the main focus of one’s work life — or one chapter of a larger story. -
December 1, 2022
Tiny Yet Mighty Ways Enterprise Permitting & Licensing Software Efficiencies Add Up to Huge Savings
Sponsored content from Tyler Technologies. Learn how municipalities, after switching to an integrated permitting and licensing software, quickly discover that surprisingly small efficiency gains create enormous cost and time savings. -
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 22, 2022
Restorative Planning in Action: Lessons from Mound Up!
Equity in Practice: Community-led planning effort builds upon Memphis 3.0 to revitalize Orange Mound neighborhood. -
November 17, 2022
Restoring Pueblo Housing and Rebuilding Community Value
Equity in Practice: Owe'neh Bupingeh Preservation plan guides housing improvements according to cultural values. -
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 14, 2022
Elevating Community Stories Through Historic Contexts
Equity in Practice: Los Angeles City Planning's Office of Historic Resources (OHR) has prepared a series of ground-breaking historic contexts to help make historic planning initiatives more equitable. -
November 11, 2022
Don’t Sleep on Coliving
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: Your zoning code probably isn't ready for modern coliving communities. -
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 9, 2022
Building Community Relationships Through Pop Ups
Equity in Practice: Champaign, Illinois, planners use a pop up park to create a stronger relationship with the Garden Hills neighborhood. -
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 26, 2022
Planning With Nature at the Center
The vision of life in a biophilic city is one where we are not separate from nature, but intimately embedded within it. -
October 21, 2022
Advancing Public Safety
Equity in Practice: Portland neighborhood prioritizes people over vehicles to help reduce violence. -
October 20, 2022
The Transgressive Urban Forest
Uncovering JAPA: Exploring a more radical conception of urban forestry. -
October 18, 2022
GIS Prioritizes Federal Funding to Revitalize Neighborhoods
Equity in Practice: GIS helps prioritize funding for neighborhood revitalization and keeps the entire process transparent. -
October 14, 2022
Challenging Storytelling and Narratives That Reinforce Inequity
Uncovering JAPA: The risk of reproducing racist assumptions or narratives in planning. -
October 13, 2022
Is Your Zoning Ready for the EV Surge?
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: Your zoning code could probably be doing more to facilitate the transition to electric vehicles. -
October 6, 2022
Relationship Potential Between Planning and Immigrant Affairs Departments
Uncovering JAPA: How are planners grappling with immigrant needs. -
October 5, 2022
APA Recognizes 2022 Award Winners
From ambitious comprehensive plans to outstanding planning educators, APA is proud to recognize this year’s award-winning planning efforts. -
October 4, 2022
3 Ways Emerging Technology Enhances Your Connection with the Public
Sponsored content from Tyler Technologies. Discover three ways you can leverage emerging technologies to better connect with your constituents. -
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 20, 2022
Five+ Federal Infrastructure Programs Every Planner Should Know
The passage of the landmark Bipartisan Infrastucture Law saw the largest direct investment in community planning in a century. Here are 5 new or expanded programs created by BIL that every planner should know about right now. -
September 19, 2022
7 Tips for Starting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committees
As municipal planning departments adopt a fairness and equity mindset in their work with the communities they serve it highlights the state of their own workplace practices and the work needed to elevate equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) goals within the planning firms and public agencies. Offer how to get unstuck on translating the goals into action. -
September 15, 2022
Planning for Emerging Infectious Disease Pandemics
Uncovering JAPA: A framework for how planners can be involved in infectious disease management. -
September 13, 2022
Do Your Planning Boards Reflect Your Community?
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: It's time to get serious about diversifying local planning and zoning boards. -
September 1, 2022
How Cities Can Streamline the License and Permit Process
Sponsored content from Tyler Technologies. The move to digital solutions is often touted as more efficient and easier for both citizens and government employees. When making the switch, the City of Rancho Cordova, California found that to be true, even drawing hard data on how much time their own departments saved. -
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 23, 2022
Ralph Willmer Named AICP Ethics Officer
Longtime APA member Ralph Willmer, FAICP, has been hired as the new AICP Ethics Officer following the retirement of Jim Peters, FAICP. -
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. -
August 16, 2022
How Should We Zone for Post-Retail Streets?
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: It's time to rethink zoning requirements that mandate active ground-floor uses.
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