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October 7, 2021
Who Benefits From Detroit's Development Boom, and How?
Uncovering JAPA: What do citizens in Detroit gain from private development? -
September 30, 2021
Exploring Increased Density in Residential Neighborhoods
Uncovering JAPA: An experiment to determine if the number of people impact the quality of a public space? -
September 23, 2021
Latino Vendor Markets: Community Connections and Implications for Planning Practice
Uncovering JAPA: Focusing on Latino Vendor Markets can help create community connections among ethic groups in a city. -
September 16, 2021
Measuring the Jobs-Housing Balance in California
Uncovering JAPA: How has the jobs-housing balance in California shifted from the results measured in earlier research? -
September 9, 2021
Measuring the Causal Impact of Plans on Development
Uncovering JAPA: The impact of plans on development. A case study of Seattle and San Francisco. -
September 2, 2021
Testing Geodesign for Navajo Community Plans
Uncovering JAPA: See how Geodesign was used in two Navajo community plans to ensure participation without tokenization. -
August 26, 2021
How Does Historic Preservation Show Up in Comprehensive Planning Documents?
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the intersection of planning and historic preservation in comprehensive planning documents in Portland's historically-Black Albina neighborhood. -
August 19, 2021
Measuring the Early Impact of Eliminating Single-Family Zoning on Minneapolis Property Values
Uncovering JAPA: See early measurements on the impact of eliminating single-family zoning on Minneapolis property values. -
August 16, 2021
Basing Transportation Policies on Accessibility
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding how to assess if a planning initiative improves accessibility. -
August 5, 2021
Food For the People: Planning For Equitable Regional Food Systems
Uncovering JAPA: Understand the work that remains in regional food systems planning to make them more equitable. -
July 29, 2021
Are We Planning for Equity? Equity Goals and Recommendations in Local Comprehensive Plans
Uncovering JAPA: Do local comprehensive plans advance equitable outcomes? -
July 22, 2021
Linking Transportation Equity and School Choice Policy
Uncovering JAPA: The ideal of school choice has travel implications for youth/students. -
July 15, 2021
Understanding Responses to COVID-19-Induced Shifts in Cultural Norms
Uncovering JAPA: Cultural biases impact how people will respond differently to government and planning interventions. -
July 8, 2021
An Overview of Exclusionary Zoning Debates in the United States
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the history of exclusionary zoning practices. -
July 1, 2021
Using Staff Reports to Ensure Successful and Consistent Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Local decision makers using staff reports to ensure consistency with comprehensive plans. -
June 24, 2021
Shifting Social Consequences of Climate Change
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the shifting social consequences of a changing climate. -
June 17, 2021
Big Little Towns: The Growing Reality of Western Gateway Communities
Uncovering JAPA: The changing realities of Western gateway communities. -
June 10, 2021
Human Rights and the City
Uncovering JAPA: What are the implications of human rights for planning in Canadian cities, and beyond? -
June 3, 2021
Gender Equity and Shanghai's Shared Rental Market
Uncovering JAPA: Discover the emerging trends in shared rental housing in Shanghai, specifically that of bed space rentals, and their implications for gender equity. -
May 13, 2021
Prioritizing the Public in Public Utilities
Uncovering JAPA: Performance benchmarking in public water and sanitation services may only feign efficiency and efficacy in many low- and middle-income countries. -
May 6, 2021
Ridership Forecasts Should Do More Than Go With the Flow
Ridership forecasts predict the future, but this Uncovering JAPA post explains their past. -
April 29, 2021
New Towns and the Struggle for Work-Life Balance
Uncovering JAPA: In Hong Kong, building new towns requires strategic spatial planning to maintain a healthy work-life balance. -
March 25, 2021
The Continued Challenges of Bias and Discrimination Within Planning Education
Uncovering JAPA: A survey of Black and Latinx planning students found that the students experienced different levels of discrimination depending on their citizenship status, race/ethnicity, nationality, and citizen status. Participants did not believe that planning education was allowing students to develop the skills to be culturally sensitive planners. -
March 18, 2021
Move Aside and Let Communities Decide
Uncovering JAPA: Duke University seeks community input when deciding how to invest in its surrounding neighborhoods in Durham, North Carolina. -
March 11, 2021
Car Ownership Levels in America Follow Trends of Urban Street Griddedness
Uncovering JAPA: The grid system of American city streets has tangible implications for equity in mobility, public health, and environmental sustainability. -
March 4, 2021
Making Room For the River
Uncovering JAPA: Using the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard (PIRS), researchers studied the Dutch city of Nijmegen to determine how integrated planning can reduce flooding vulnerability. -
February 18, 2021
Urban Heat Management and the Legacy of Redlining
Uncovering JAPA: Neighborhoods that were once targets of redlining now have higher land surface temperatures than other neighborhoods in the same city. Planners need to correct past policy errors to make cities more equitable, including in urban heat management. -
February 16, 2021
Chicago Sells Vacant Parcels For $1 and Nets Crime Reduction
Chicago's policy of selling vacant lots at a very low cost to adjacent landowners and other purchasers with local connections has resulted in a reduction in neighborhood crime. -
February 11, 2021
Affordable Housing Without Public Subsidies
Uncovering JAPA: Why do landlords set housing rents below market? Can planners use this to expand affordable housing without public subsidies? -
February 4, 2021
Does Industrial Preservation Promote Industrial Activity?
Uncovering JAPA: How effective are industrial preservation policies in promoting industrial activity, and can planners use them as an economic development tool? -
January 28, 2021
Early Research on the COVID-19 Pandemic and Density
Uncovering JAPA: Read some early research into whether density aggravates the COVID-19 pandemic. -
January 21, 2021
Surveying Restrictive Regulations: What Do Planners Know?
How do researchers inventory restrictive regulations and assess their relationship to the underproduction of housing? -
January 14, 2021
Greenspace Resilience in the Wake of Disasters
Get recommendations for integrating proactive and resilient greenspace improvements into disaster recovery planning. -
January 7, 2021
A Framework to Strengthen Transportation Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Tackle uncertainty using a robust decision-making framework for transportation planning. -
December 17, 2020
Tracking the Major Themes in Urban Planning Literature
Uncovering JAPA: Curious which themes are most prominent in the urban planning literature? Check out an analysis of 30 years of articles. -
December 10, 2020
Exploratory Scenario Planning for Uncertain Futures
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners best use exploratory planning scenarios? -
November 19, 2020
How APA Members Can Understand JAPA's Value
How can we measure success for the Journal of the American Planning Association? -
November 12, 2020
Big, Open Data Offers New Tools for Transit-Oriented Development
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners use big, open data to look at transit-oriented development? -
November 5, 2020
How Do Planners Understand the Terms Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx?
Uncovering JAPA: How and why should planners better understand the terms Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx? -
October 29, 2020
A Driver's License Can Equal Carpooling, Safety, and Social Justice
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners make driving safer and make stronger arguments for carpooling? What if planners could also become advocates for immigrants at the same time? -
October 22, 2020
LGBTQ Communities and Historic Preservation
Uncovering JAPA: What do quantitative methods reveal about LGBTQ neighborhood development and historic preservation? -
October 15, 2020
Changing Spaces Won’t Change Your Weight
Uncovering JAPA: Can making spaces more compact reduce obesity among young adults? It's not that simple. -
October 8, 2020
When It’s Right to Rightsize
Uncovering JAPA: The Flint water crisis shows when it's right to rightsize. -
October 1, 2020
Adopting Racial Equity Frameworks in Planning Organizations
Uncovering JAPA: What can planning departments do to adopt an organizational racial equity framework? -
September 24, 2020
Concerned About Planning Equity? Start With Your Office
Uncovering JAPA: Step one in planning for equitable outcomes: create an equitable workplace. -
September 17, 2020
Demographics Key to Transit versus Ride-Hail Choice
Uncovering JAPA: Ride-hailing is overturning the transport industry, but what are the factors leading people to choose it over public transit? -
September 10, 2020
Techniques for Securing Public Benefits from Development
Uncovering JAPA: What's the best approach for securing more public benefits from development: negotiation or exaction? -
August 27, 2020
Life Satisfaction and Your Neighborhood Built Environment
Uncovering JAPA: Do walkability, transit, and parks improve life satisfaction? It depends. -
August 20, 2020
Whiteness and Planning in America
Uncovering JAPA: What are the spatial and economic implications of Whiteness in the U.S.? -
August 13, 2020
Polycentric Development and the Future of Regions
Uncovering JAPA: If employed correctly, polycentric development can promote sustainable growth — allowing regions to thrive economically while preserving the environment.
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