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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. -
August 6, 2020
Lowering Institutional Barriers for Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Uncovering JAPA: How can local planning and policy efforts better support immigrant entrepreneurs? What could cities do to lower barriers for immigrant businesses to thrive? -
July 30, 2020
A Guide to Choosing the Best Meeting Venues
Uncovering JAPA: Where should you have your meeting to engage the community? The Venue Creation Tool can help you decide. -
July 23, 2020
Planning for Climate Change, Planning for Communities
Uncovering JAPA: Can large-scale climate action coexist with community-based planning? One JAPA author says they can and they must. -
July 16, 2020
Where the Future of Transportation Is Leading Planners
Uncovering JAPA: The future of transportation remains uncertain, but scenario planning may help. Explore where planners might be headed. -
July 9, 2020
7 Ways to Plan a Stronger Climate Change Response
Uncovering JAPA: Current climate action plans are insufficient for the mounting climate crisis. Get seven principles to help bolster and fill the gaps in these plans. -
June 25, 2020
Preserving the Grass Root of Urban Agriculture
Uncovering JAPA: Does digital urban agriculture mean the end of small scale growing? -
June 18, 2020
When Climate Resiliency Is More Than an Afterthought
Uncovering JAPA: Affordable housing and resiliency must coexist. How can low-income households weather the storm? -
June 11, 2020
Sustainability Plans Can Be More Than Just Talk
Uncovering JAPA: Investing in a sustainability plan means investing in the future. -
June 4, 2020
A Simple Path to Sustainable Transportation
Uncovering JAPA: Shared autonomous vehicles will be part of the future, but do we need them to achieve sustainable transportation? -
May 28, 2020
Covenants, Codes, Restrictions, and Your Own Backyard
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the language of covenants, codes, and restrictions to learn the role homeowner associations play in regulating the aesthetic and ecological functions of yards. -
May 21, 2020
Challenges to Ambitious Planning in a Shrinking City
Uncovering JAPA: Can planners overcome cultural, political, legal, and economic barriers to “smart shrinkage” strategies in shrinking cities? -
May 14, 2020
Is Single-Family Zoning on the Way Out?
Uncovering JAPA: Is it time to give the ax to single-family residential zoning? Nine JAPA viewpoints argue the question from both sides. -
May 7, 2020
A "Wheely" Good Way to Save Commercial Corridors
Uncovering JAPA: How do we bring back the commercial corridor? In Toronto, the answer might be more bikes and fewer cars. -
April 30, 2020
Coping With Ethical Dissonance in Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Learn what research shows about the ways planners are responding to ethical dilemmas. -
April 23, 2020
The Generalist Journal and Its Value for Planning
JAPA articles grapple with concerns of broad interest and make contributions that can transform the wider domain of knowledge. -
April 16, 2020
Simplifying Coastal Planning for Small Cities
Uncovering JAPA: How can small coastal cities plan for climate uncertainty? -
April 9, 2020
Building a Participation Ladder With Youth
Uncovering JAPA: What possibilities would we have if youth could participate more fully in planning? Read about three new rungs of youth participation. -
April 2, 2020
Changing Climate Calls for Changing the Built Environment
Uncovering JAPA: Building water-efficient cities might let us stick to the rivers and lakes that we’re used to. -
March 26, 2020
Painting a Richer Picture of Older Adults' Mobility Needs
Uncovering JAPA: Interviews, focus groups, and walking audits can be added to statistics to help create a full picture of the mobility needs of older adults. -
March 19, 2020
Regional Planning Can Help With Environmental Impacts of Warehouses
Uncovering JAPA: How can planning help regulate the disproportionate concentration of e-commerce-related warehouse facilities in greenfield sites? -
March 12, 2020
More Than Articles: Review Essays in JAPA (Nerd Alert:Technical Details)
Get tips on writing a great review essay for the Journal of the American Planning Association. -
March 5, 2020
Locating Housing Affordability Amid Foreclosures
Uncovering JAPA: Planners may create communities more resilient to housing foreclosure by addressing location affordability. -
February 27, 2020
An Urgency for Insurgency: Lifting Marginalized Voices
Uncovering JAPA: Neighborhood association insurgents successfully challenged planning in one Detroit neighborhood, and planners can support marginalized voices elsewhere. -
February 20, 2020
The Hidden Cost in Housing Affordability
Uncovering JAPA: There is more to housing affordability than finding a place with a reasonable rent. What can planners do to promote energy efficiency and, more importantly, energy justice? -
January 16, 2020
JAPA in the Information Age (Nerd Alert: Technical Details)
What is the role of the Journal of the American Planning Association in the information age? Editor Ann Forsyth looks at the new information landscape. -
December 19, 2019
A Ladder to More Meaningful Community Participation
Uncovering JAPA: Arnstein's Ladder of Citizen Participation can't fix community participation, but it surely provides a space from which to start. -
December 11, 2019
Revisiting Arnstein’s Ladder: Justice as Parity of Participation
Uncovering JAPA: How can planning toward participation have a transformative effect on social equity? -
December 5, 2019
Noncitizens, Nonprofits, and Methods of Engagement
Uncovering JAPA: Three lessons from nonprofits in Los Angeles County can help planners build trust and representation for noncitizens. -
November 21, 2019
Moving Beyond Citizen Control to Co-Production
Uncovering JAPA: Co-production offers what citizen control can’t — systems change — but the public sector still has a great role to play. -
October 31, 2019
Missing Rungs in the Ladder of Citizen Participation
Uncovering JAPA: What happens when public participation is used to finesse existing plans and policies rather than provide opportunities to challenge them? -
October 17, 2019
The View From Arnstein’s Ladder: The Promise of Community Control
Uncovering JAPA: Is community control — a shift of power from the government to the majority of the community — the way to address injustice faced by marginalized members of the community? -
September 26, 2019
Research That Retrieves Lost Memories of Place
Uncovering JAPA: Engaging community members in storytelling can reveal forgotten heritage and draw new maps of the past. -
September 19, 2019
Building That Well-Known Ladder of Citizen Participation
Uncovering JAPA: Sherry Arnstein's influential Ladder of Citizen Participation grew from her frustration with government ideas about power in the 1950s and 1960s. -
September 12, 2019
Who Cares? Reimagining Planning as Caring
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners acknowledge and make use of all of their emotions in a productive way when engaging with the public? -
September 5, 2019
Changing California's Way of Measuring Traffic Could Equal More Housing
Uncovering JAPA: Switching from Level of Service (LOS) measurement to Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) could streamline the development process in California. -
August 29, 2019
Planners as Partners in Building Healthy Communities
Uncovering JAPA: What does it look like for planners to not simply involve communities but ensure they have agency and can lead? -
August 22, 2019
No Eyes on the Street: City Officials and the Future of AVs
Uncovering JAPA: Cities have only dipped their toes in the water when it comes to regulating autonomous vehicles and their technology. -
August 8, 2019
Are Bed Bugs a Planning Issue?
Uncovering JAPA: If cities want to attract new residents and planners want those residents to thrive, a coordinated response to bed bugs is necessary. -
August 1, 2019
Zoning: The Cause and the Cure for High Housing Prices
Uncovering JAPA: Single-family restrictions, lot sizes restrictions, and parking requirements limit developers’ ability to build affordable housing. However, in this quandary, we may also find the solution. -
July 25, 2019
Ride-Hailing Could Boost Mobility Beyond Rich, Urban Areas
Uncovering JAPA: Ride-hail services are used by a wide range of people around Los Angeles, suggesting that they might provide increased mobility in rural, suburban, and low-income areas. -
July 18, 2019
Does JAPA Publish Articles on Methods? (Nerd Alert: Technical Details)
Does JAPA publish methods papers? The short answer is yes, but not all types. -
July 11, 2019
JAPA Looks at Planning from International Perspectives
International topics have a substantial presence in the Journal of the American Planning Association — a role likely to increase in a globalizing world. -
June 27, 2019
How JAPA Articles Get Published (Nerd Alert: Technical Details)
The Journal of the American Planning Association adheres to scholarly practices in choosing, editing, and publishing articles that address critical issues in planning practice. -
June 20, 2019
What Makes a Good JAPA Article? (Nerd Alert: Technical Details)
What does it take to get an article accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Planning Association?
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