Blogs

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.