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November 17, 2023
Improving Inclusivity of Urban Governance
Uncovering JAPA: Nurturing the culture of a governing body can make it more inclusive for everyone. -
November 9, 2023
The Impact of Prejudice Data on Advancing Equitable Planning Practices
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the impact of the Mapping Prejudice project on advancing more equitable planning policies and practices. -
November 2, 2023
Impact of Low-Cost Housing Interventions
Uncovering JAPA: The positive impact of low-cost housing remediations led to reduced blight and crime in Philadelphia. -
October 27, 2023
Strategies for Creating More Just and Equitable Societies
Uncovering JAPA: This viewpoint explores three aforementioned strategies that can be used to start dismantling the existing system in favor of a more just system that that works for everyone. -
October 20, 2023
Dissecting 30 Years of Black Urbanist Thought in Urban Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Analysis confirms planning journals and practitioners have not focused on Black voices and Black urbanism for nearly three decades. -
October 12, 2023
A New Tool for Assessing Equity in Health Impact Assessments
Uncovering JAPA: A new approach to ensuring racial and ethnic equity are advanced in health impact assessments (HIAs). -
October 6, 2023
Mural Festival Advances Creative Placemaking
Uncovering JAPA: Explore a successful model of creative placemaking using murals to engage the community from Springfield, Massachusetts. -
September 28, 2023
Planning for Care - A Necessary Element of Equitable, Livable and Healthy Communities
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how care work depends on the urban environment and how planning can enhance the social and material conditions for caregiving in cities. -
September 21, 2023
A New Way to Identify Bargain Areas for Child Economic Mobility
Uncovering JAPA: Explore a new way to identify neighborhoods with a more reasonable cost of living that can increase children's economic mobility. -
August 31, 2023
Addressing Racial Harms Through Reparative Planning
Uncovering JAPA: A framework that provides theory and practice for planners working toward urban justice. -
August 10, 2023
Using Reparative Planning to Address Infrastructural Systems
Uncovering JAPA: ACT-LA aims to apply a divest-invest approach to stopping systems and practices that have caused harm. -
August 3, 2023
Black Counternarratives in Planning History
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding planning history from the perspective of those oppressed by traditional planning ensures the oppressed are no longer dismissed as passive victims but active players in their lives and communities. -
July 13, 2023
SHELTER: A Redistributive Affordable Housing Policy
Uncovering JAPA: Plan to reuse existing revenues to fund innovative housing policy reforms. -
July 6, 2023
Understanding Opportunities and Challenges in Publicly Traded Planning Firms
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding how to balance the opportunities and challenges of working in a publicly traded planning firm. -
June 29, 2023
Discretionary vs. By-Right Approval: Which is Faster?
Uncovering JAPA: Is by-right or discretionary approval faster? -
June 22, 2023
Transit Oriented Development and Crime in Chicago
Uncovering JAPA: Is there a connection between transit oriented development (TOD) in Chicago's public transit system. -
Increasing Sharing Options in Housing to Improve Mental Health
Uncovering JAPA: Planners can promote sharing capabilities to create a flexible backdrop for people to live within to meet the social needs of Americans today. -
June 8, 2023
A Framework for Systematizing Rigor in Planning Research
Uncovering JAPA: Incorporating empirical rigor into planning research to improve review articles and thus improve recommendations and collaboartion. -
June 1, 2023
Designing Age-Friendly Connectivity in Melbourne, Australia
Uncovering JAPA: Study finds it necessary for planners to take action to ensure the built environment becomes more age-friendly. -
May 26, 2023
Building Business Resilience for Minority-Owned Businesses
Uncovering JAPA: Three critical aspects for understanding business resilience in underserved communities. -
May 18, 2023
Do Municipalities Use Cost-Benefit Analysis for Incentive Zoning?
Uncovering JAPA: Exploring the use of cost-benefit to develop incentive zoning programs. -
Opening the Policy Window for Bike Lanes in Sydney
Uncovering JAPA: Learning to leverage policy windows by committing to evidence-based solutions and political coalition-building. -
May 4, 2023
Examining Food Systems and Sovereignty In Conflict Cities
Uncovering JAPA: Future planners should be prepared for the politics of planning, especially the challenging role of planning in conflict cities aiming to protect food systems. -
Centering Equity in Planning and Public Health Collaborations
Uncovering JAPA: Without an equity focus, planning and public health collaborations can harm vulnerable communities or lead to ineffective policies. -
April 20, 2023
What is the Role of Theory in Planning?
Uncovering JAPA: Is planning theory important or nonexistent now? -
April 13, 2023
Understanding and Protecting the Benefits of Immigrant Food Businesses
Uncovering JAPA: Smaller-scale ethnic food businesses contribute to community health and well-being but also boost the local economy. -
Applying Intersectionality as Planners to Combat Health Inequities
Uncovering JAPA: Planners must understand the multiple overlapping factors that can produce health disparities. -
March 30, 2023
Enforcing Asian Exclusion Through Design and Planning Regulations
Uncovering JAPA: Three cities in Los Angeles County developed stringent development controls to encourage Anglo or Spanish heritage in response to Asian newcomers. -
March 23, 2023
Effectiveness of Regional Scenario Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Exploration of three metropolitan regions for how their regional plans are reflected in municipal plans. -
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. -
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." -
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). -
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. -
Revisiting the Edge City, 30 Years On
Uncovering JAPA: Analysis if the edge city is transforming or encouraging sprawl. -
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. -
Challenging Storytelling and Narratives That Reinforce Inequity
Uncovering JAPA: The risk of reproducing racist assumptions or narratives in planning. -
Relationship Potential Between Planning and Immigrant Affairs Departments
Uncovering JAPA: How are planners grappling with immigrant needs. -
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?
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