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September 11, 2025
Historic Districts and Housing Goals: A Case Study of Two L.A. Neighborhoods
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how a Los Angeles case study shows historic preservation districts extend beyond architecture, driving debates over zoning, property rights, development, and housing affordability. -
September 4, 2025
Lessons in Managing Public Opinion During E-Scooter Pilot Program in Eugene, Oregon
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how Eugene, Oregon’s e-scooter pilot reveals how planners navigated shifting public opinion, built trust, corrected misconceptions, and helped officials interpret feedback to guide the program’s success. -
July 31, 2025
State-Mandated Climate Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Discover a study of California’s Senate Bill 379 found that flexible, state-mandated climate adaptation planning modestly improved local efforts but revealed persistent challenges in coordination, engagement, and local capacity. -
July 18, 2025
How Geography Shapes Small Island Developing States
Global Perspectives: Discover how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) use global ties and niche strategies to navigate geographic and economic challenges. -
June 26, 2025
France’s Model for Smarter Cities Through Urban Data Standardization
Global Perspectives: Learn how France improved urban data comparability while preserving local context through standardization, a centralized platform, and public-private collaboration. -
June 12, 2025
Understanding Why Residents Remain in Japan's Flood Zones
Global Perspectives: Discover how deep cultural ties, economic constraints, and policy gaps influence why residents in Japan’s flood-prone areas choose to stay, offering planners valuable insights for community-informed resilience strategies. -
June 5, 2025
How Three European Countries Are Modernizing Land Records
Global Perspectives: See how three European countries are modernizing cadastral systems through 3D mapping, public-private collaboration, and AI to deliver more accurate, accessible, and future-ready land data for planners. -
May 22, 2025
Land Management in Vienna and Hungary
Global Perspectives: Learn how Vienna and Hungary use effective land management strategies to equip planners with powerful tools for improving affordable housing access and shaping equitable urban futures. -
May 15, 2025
Japan's Approach to Aging Urban Housing
Global Perspectives: Learn how Japan’s approach to aging condominiums offers planners a flexible model for keeping older housing viable amid shifting demographics worldwide. -
May 8, 2025
Coastal Planning Lessons from Brazil and Spain
Global Perspectives: Learn how coastal planning balances growth and sustainability through Brazil’s tourism-driven model and Spain’s ecological restoration approach. -
May 1, 2025
London's Housing Reforms: Lessons on Deregulation for Global Planners
Global Perspectives: London’s housing reforms reveal the trade-offs of deregulation, highlighting the need for planners to balance accelerated development with livability and affordability. -
April 17, 2025
Eliminating Owner-Occupied Restrictions for Missing Middle Housing
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how allowing private developers to build middle housing is key to making single-family zoning reform effective and expanding affordable housing options. -
April 10, 2025
Rethinking the First-Mile/Last-Mile Fix
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how a Milwaukee pilot program challenges the effectiveness of first-mile/last-mile services and reveals the need to center rider input and regional coordination in transit planning. -
March 27, 2025
Educational Needs for Disaster Recovery Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how planners can strengthen disaster recovery efforts by embracing proactive roles, utilizing planning tools, and leading recovery initiatives to build more resilient communities. -
March 20, 2025
The Case for Rental Registries: Uncovering Ownership
Uncovering JAPA: Learn about rental registries and their role in improving housing transparency while addressing legal and privacy concerns. -
March 13, 2025
When's the Right Time to Rezone Abandoned Strip Malls?
Uncovering JAPA: Learn more about how the rise of e-commerce and how remote work has led to an oversupply of retail space, revealing a zoning mismatch that urges planners to rethink and repurpose vacant retail areas for more sustainable uses. -
March 6, 2025
Transportation Workers’ Perspectives on ADA
Uncovering JAPA: Despite ongoing ADA compliance challenges, especially in transportation infrastructure, emphasize the need for a system-wide approach, greater support, and expanded education to enhance accessibility for people with disabilities. -
February 20, 2025
A Community-Created Rubric for Heat Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how the 'HeatReady Neighborhoods' rubric helps planners address extreme heat with an equity-focused framework, optimizing local assets and involving residents in climate adaptation strategies. -
February 13, 2025
Planning is Not Project Management
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how planners can go beyond project management with negotiation, persuasion, and creativity to navigate digital media, advocacy, and development. -
February 6, 2025
How Libraries Became Community Resilience Hubs
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how local public libraries act as resilience hubs in the face of economic stressors and extreme weather events — and how planners can support their role in building community resilience. -
January 31, 2025
The Connection Between Unpermitted ADUs in San José and the Need for Zoning Reform
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how policymakers are using computer vision to identify unpermitted ADUs in San José — shedding light on informal housing and the barriers to legal construction. -
January 23, 2025
Last-Mile Impacts on Deliveries
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how cities are tackling emissions from last-mile deliveries to reshape urban freight and reduce climate impacts. -
January 16, 2025
Basic Income Trials
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how basic income trials use unconditional cash to address inequities and guide equity planners toward scalable solutions and policy reforms. -
January 2, 2025
Transforming Atlanta's Transit
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how an On-Demand Multimodal Transit System (ODMTS) in Atlanta tackled transit challenges by addressing the first/last mile problem. -
December 19, 2024
Choosing the Road Less Valued
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how reducing urban roadways by 10 percent, which currently occupy 20-25 percent of urban land, could generate $27.8 billion in annual net benefits and unlock land for alternative uses. -
December 12, 2024
These U.S. States Are Planning for Salinization
Uncovering JAPA: Climate change is driving salinization of U.S. coastal water supplies, but inconsistent state-level planning and limited resources for small systems highlight the need for stronger governance and adaptive strategies. -
November 21, 2024
Three Takeaways for Climate Adaptation Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how the Climate Navigators program shows how local knowledge, mental health support, and trust-building improve climate adaptation planning. -
November 14, 2024
Informal Transportation Testing
Uncovering JAPA: A pilot project in Kampala, Uganda, reveals how targeted subsidies can create profitable and equitable informal transport routes, enhancing mobility for underserved communities. -
November 7, 2024
How Practitioners Define Sustainability
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how city sustainability leaders define their work, focusing on aspiration, collaboration, and resource sharing to drive local initiatives. -
November 4, 2024
Understanding Housing Instability
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how city planners, urban practitioners, and policymakers to better understand the vulnerabilities of urban residents and the multidimensional manifestation of housing precarity. -
October 24, 2024
How Nonprofits Are Shaping Community Organizing
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how subcontracting community organizing to nonprofits can enhance resident participation but risks perpetuating power inequities without addressing systemic racial and class-based disparities. -
October 17, 2024
Holding Landlords Accountable
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how OpenRefine is being used to track landlords' property ownership, enabling planners to target code enforcement and improve housing policy efforts. -
October 10, 2024
Rethinking Walkability: Prioritizing Pedestrian Movement
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how Hong Kong is tackling pedestrian detour ratios (PDR) to address challenges in high-traffic areas and promote safer, more walkable infrastructure. -
October 3, 2024
From Global Classroom to Home: Confronting Cultural Differences
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how haigui leverage their U.S. education to advocate for innovative planning practices in China, navigating cultural differences along the way. -
September 26, 2024
Navigating Intra-Ethnic Tensions
Uncovering JAPA: Gentrifiers of color can contribute to neighborhood revitalization, but this often results in increased displacement, underscoring the urgent need for urban planners to implement policies that support economically disadvantaged communities. -
September 20, 2024
Mapping Indigenous Food Infrastructure
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how an indigenous-led photovoice food systems approach reveals vital cultural and ecological assets, advocating for more equitable and resilient food systems. -
September 12, 2024
Reimagine Tolling With HOTTER Lanes
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how transforming metropolitan freeways into sustainable, multimodal systems can offer congestion-free travel for non-drivers and underserved populations by integrating toll revenue and incentives to reduce traffic and promote alternative transportation. -
September 5, 2024
Bridging the Gap: Planners and Stakeholders
Uncovering JAPA: See how planners can enhance transparency and collaboration to address power imbalances and prevent corruption in projects. -
August 29, 2024
Applicability and Ethics of Extended Reality (XR) in Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how extended reality (XR) is utilized for urban design and public engagement, and the rising question about whether XR will enhance planning or lead to dystopian outcomes. -
August 22, 2024
Multinational Survey: Planners' Use of New Technology
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how planners are adopting new technologies and how AI is expected to impact administrative work, while its role in community engagement remains uncertain. -
August 15, 2024
A Cold Shower is Not Heat Resilience
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how reframing urban heat as an infrastructure issue and engaging communities in planning can build resilience against rising temperatures. -
August 8, 2024
Predicting Grocery Access After a Hurricane
Uncovering JAPA: As disaster storms increase, discover how they significantly impact food access for vulnerable communities. -
August 1, 2024
Deregulating Parking
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how Champaign, Illinois, has combated onsite parking constraints by removing minimum parking requirements and improving the utilization of existing parking. -
July 25, 2024
A New Tool for Infill Policy
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how states are enhancing infill development to lower housing costs by using statistical models to support state agencies prioritize and monitor local zoning regulations. -
July 18, 2024
Can ChatGPT Analyze Public Feedback?
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how ChatGPT analyzes public feedback data, aiding urban planners with high accuracy and essential human oversight. -
July 11, 2024
How Can Carshare Help Low-Income Travelers?
Uncovering JAPA: Carshare programs can benefit low-income travelers but there remain some challenges that need to be addressed. -
June 27, 2024
Sustainable Development: Vision or Policy?
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how 20 years of sustainability emphasis has led to slow and uneven progress in implementing effective sustainability policies. -
June 20, 2024
Applying Online Community Engagement Lessons to In-Person Meetings
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the community engagement strategies and approaches planners utilized during the COVID-19 that provide valuable insights for enhancing future in-person engagement practices. -
June 13, 2024
Integrating Community Animators into Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how community animators can help municipal governments effectively engage marginalized communities in planning processes by bridging gaps between community members and urban planners. -
June 6, 2024
Property Taxes Cannot Fund Climate Adaptation in Florida
Uncovering JAPA: Explore Florida's coastal counties' fiscal vulnerability to sea level rise and the pressing need for alternative revenue sources and efforts.
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