Planning Magazine Spring 2021
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From Old to New and Newer
The Spring edition of Planning magazine is all about adaption, agility, and flexibility. In this issue, planners repurpose old buildings into much-needed housing, create more inclusive public spaces, regulate newly legalized cannabis, and use digital twin city models to visualize the future. Plus: zoning reform, tackling transportation barriers to mass vaccination, historic preservation and LGBTQ communities, and much more.
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Table of Contents
New Lives for Old Spaces
Adaptive reuse of existing buildings can help solve the housing crisis — with a little help from planners and policy makers.
PLUS: 5 advantages of adaptive reuse
Greenlighting Cannabis
Sixteen states and counting have legalized recreational cannabis. It's probably coming to your state soon — here's what you need to know.
DISRUPTORS
A Room of One's Own
A well-designed public space is an inclusive one, where everyone feels welcomed and like they belong.
PLUS: Strategies for designing for all
Mirror Mirror
Smart city digital twins allow planners to be agile and experiment with solutions.
INTERSECTIONS
Public Health: No ride, no vaccine
Housing: Massachusetts zoning changes
Et Cetera: To read, now streaming
Viewpoint: Volunteerism
TOOLS FOR THE TRADE
JAPA Takeaway: Historic districts and LGBTQ communities
How-To: Outdoor public engagement
Legal Lessons: Housing for the homeless
Planners Library: Main Streets, rising seas
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Contributors
Perspectives: APA's Nominating Committee Chair, Kurt Christiansen
Letters: Transit, disruptors, Twitter
Great Places: The Village of Shelburne Falls, Shelburne and Buckland, Massachusetts