February 2010
A surge in wind power means the U.S. needs to seriously upgrade its grid. Allen Best expounds in Planning Practice.
Do host cities win or lose with the Olympic Games? James Krohe Jr. seeks the answer.
Sidebar: Perfect Marriage
Sidebar: A Sustainable Approach in Vancouver
Protected areas could offer best practices for rural planning. Elizabeth Watson reports.
Sidebar: Unique Protections
Web Only Sidebar: Programs for 'Protected Areas'
Heather Wooten describes places that are linking planning and health.
Web Only Sidebar: How Can Planning Departments Support Healthy Communities?
A massive redevelopment is transforming Paris, says Yonah Freemark.
Sidebar: The Grand Scheme
Jill Mazullo confirms that monoculture is no longer the way to go.
An excerpt from William Lucy's new APA Planners Press book upends some assumptions about the financial health of inner cities and their suburbs.
The central Ohio MPO is changing with the times, reports Ellen Marrison. A Sustainable Communities story.
Wildlife overpasses, Great Lakes lawsuit.
Subdivisions, as-applied challenges
Our regular feature on statistics in the news — compiled by APA's Research Department. This month: the Olympics.
Reid Ewing reviews a bonanza of high-impact articles from the Journal of the American Planning Association.
Great places, Austin incubator.
Handbook for regionalists, climate change.
News reports, blogs, videos, etc.
The transforming power of transit.
Cover: High-voltage transmission lines near Kemmerer, Wyoming. Photo by Allen Best.
