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May 1, 2024
Key Findings From the 2023 APA Member Equity Survey
Overview of key findings from APA's 2023 member equity survey. -
February 15, 2024
Long Beach’s Approach to Youth Advocacy in Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Long Beach invests in Youth, establishing a Global Model with the Office of Youth Development. -
January 19, 2024
60 Years of Racial Equity in Urban Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Insightful analysis about racial equity planning to inform planning practitioners' efforts to advance racial and social justice. -
January 17, 2024
Reconnecting a City to its Cherokee Culture Through Planning
How an architecture firm connected with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to craft a downtown master plan in Cherokee, North Carolina. -
January 10, 2024
Creating Vibrant, Safe Streets
Equity in Practice: The City of Minneapolis elevated native culture and rebuilt trust by partnering with the Little Earth Residents Association and the Native Youth Arts Collective to improve the safety of 18th Avenue South. -
December 21, 2023
Prioritizing Environmental Justice in Comprehensive Planning
Uncovering JAPA: California plans are analyzed for environmental justice (EJ) incorporation, revealing advancements in BIPOC communities while underscoring the absence of an explicit racial focus. -
December 14, 2023
Restorative Pathways: Navigating Healing and Justice in Communities Affected by Spatial Trauma
Uncovering JAPA: Addressing spatial trauma in Black and brown communities, urging today's planners to embrace equitable spatial development through healing approaches. -
December 8, 2023
Recommended Reading for Advancing Equity in the Planning Profession
Expand your knowledge about equity in the planning profession with this curated list of books. -
December 6, 2023
The Continuing Evolution of Complete Streets
December 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the first official use of the term "Complete Streets," learn about key trends and influencing factors that will continue to shape the Complete Streets of the future. -
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 14, 2023
Whose Status Quo Should Zoning Protect?
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: How can zoning protect historically disadvantaged and vulnerable neighborhoods and business districts? -
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 6, 2023
New Habitat Restoration Tool Helps to Prioritize Equity
Equity in Practice: Fort Collins created a habitat equity tool that focuses not just on nature but people. -
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 31, 2023
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. -
April 27, 2023
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 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. -
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 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. -
December 22, 2022
Removing Freeways and Healing Communities
Equity in Practice: The economic and community outcomes of removing Milwaukee's Park East Freeway. -
December 13, 2022
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." -
November 22, 2022
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. -
November 17, 2022
Restoring Pueblo Housing and Rebuilding Community Value
Equity in Practice: Owe'neh Bupingeh Preservation plan guides housing improvements according to cultural values. -
November 17, 2022
How to Integrate Climate Equity Into Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Apply three aspects of equity to make the climate action planning process more inclusive. -
November 14, 2022
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. -
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. -
November 9, 2022
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.
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