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November 30, 2023
The Lasting Legacy of Harmful Land-Use Regulations
Uncovering JAPA: Early land-use regulations shaped the concepts of race, which challenge today's planners to create equitable spaces. -
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 15, 2023
Student-Led University Course Challenges Conventional Planning Processes
Equity in Practice: Learn how students created a new course at the University of Michigan to DO WHAT. -
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 23, 2023
Investing and Rejuvenating Historic All-Black Towns
Equity in Practice: Weekend festival focuses on helping historical all-Black towns survive and thrive. -
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 26, 2023
Renaming Streets to Promote Reconciliation
Equity in Practice: Learn how Charlotte, North Carolina, approached and ultimately renamed streets that had honored Confederate and white supremist leaders. -
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 28, 2023
Using Public Space to Expand Storytelling on the National Mall
A new temporary exhibit on the National Mall aims to balance protecting historic spaces while increasing opportunities for more stories to be shared. -
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 20, 2023
Eliminating Food Insecurity With Aquaponics
Equity in Practice: East Oakland partners to address food insecurity. -
June 21, 2023
Three Chicago Housing Developments Meeting Community Needs
Members of the Housing Supply Accelerator Steering Committee tour three housing developments on Chicago's south and west sides to see innovation at work. -
June 13, 2023
Six LGBTQ+ Walking Tours
This June, learn about LGBTQ history while on your feet at one of these six historical walking tours. -
June 7, 2023
The Importance of Intergenerational Communities
Multigenerational and age-friendly communities create a vehicle to bring generations together; reduce age segregation and ageism; decrease social isolation, depression, and loneliness; and improve community infrastructure and facilities. -
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. -
An Activist Walking Guide to Philadelphia's Chinatown
A walking tour during NPC23 illustrates the opportunities and challenges facing Philadelphia's Chinatown. -
May 26, 2023
Building Business Resilience for Minority-Owned Businesses
Uncovering JAPA: Three critical aspects for understanding business resilience in underserved communities. -
May 15, 2023
Practical Tips to Foster Diversity and Inclusion in Your Workplace
Understanding the barriers to diverse planners' recruitment, retention, promotion, and leadership. How employers can promote a welcoming environment and encourage access to opportunities for career growth. -
May 5, 2023
Take 5: Celebrating Five Locations Honoring AAPI Heritage
Take 5: Travel the U.S. and learn about five places of significance that honor the heritage of Asian American and Pacific Islander community. -
March 28, 2023
Understanding the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program
Understanding the purpose and history of the Disadvantage Business Enterprise program. -
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. -
Removing Freeways and Healing Communities
Equity in Practice: The economic and community outcomes of removing Milwaukee's Park East Freeway. -
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 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." -
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. -
Restoring Pueblo Housing and Rebuilding Community Value
Equity in Practice: Owe'neh Bupingeh Preservation plan guides housing improvements according to cultural values. -
How to Integrate Climate Equity Into Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Apply three aspects of equity to make the climate action planning process more inclusive. -
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. -
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. -
October 21, 2022
Advancing Public Safety
Equity in Practice: Portland neighborhood prioritizes people over vehicles to help reduce violence. -
GIS Prioritizes Federal Funding to Revitalize Neighborhoods
Equity in Practice: GIS helps prioritize funding for neighborhood revitalization and keeps the entire process transparent. -
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. -
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. -
Online Dissent: Fostering a Necessary Component to Planning
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners preserve dissent in online public engagement opportunities? -
Professional Inequality Within Urban Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Planner Eun Jin Shin investigates representation and wage gaps within the planning profession. -
June 23, 2022
Ensuring "Open Streets" Plans Advance Social Equity
Uncovering JAPA: Pandemic-created open streets can be a lifeline, but also exacerbate inequities without careful implementation. -
May 13, 2022
Going Beyond "Use" Zoning to Promote Housing Equity
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: How can deregulation expand housing supply and support housing equity? -
April 14, 2022
Confronting Spatial Inequalities
Uncovering JAPA: 'Place-based' policies can help address growing interregional inequality within the U.S. -
University of Florida Department of Urban and Regional Planning Celebrates Women in Planning
Sponsored Content: The University of Florida Department of Urban and Regional Planning is highlighting two of our alumnae, Jennifer Krouchick and Lian Plass. -
Making Disaster Recovery More Equitable
Uncovering JAPA: The aftermath of Hurricane Dolly (2008) on the colonias of the Rio Grande Valley illustrate the need for equitable disaster recovery. -
March 31, 2022
A Potential Solution to the Problem of Vacant Land in U.S. Cities
Uncovering JAPA: Analysis of Chicago's Large Lot Program to make neighborhoods more aesthetically pleasing and more equitable. -
March 24, 2022
Do Light Rail Stations Spur Gentrification?
Uncovering JAPA: Researchers explore the gentrification impacts of light rail stations. -
Leading the Firm: Advice from Women Business-Owners
A Q & A with two women planners who started their own businesses. Together they reflect on their personal career paths, the unique perspective women-owned businesses can bring, and their advice to the next generation of women planners.
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