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August 6, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How can local planning and policy efforts better support immigrant entrepreneurs? What could cities do to lower barriers for immigrant businesses to thrive?
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July 30, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Where should you have your meeting to engage the community? The Venue Creation Tool can help you decide.
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July 23, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Can large-scale climate action coexist with community-based planning? One JAPA author says they can and they must.
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July 16, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: The future of transportation remains uncertain, but scenario planning may help. Explore where planners might be headed.
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July 9, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Current climate action plans are insufficient for the mounting climate crisis. Get seven principles to help bolster and fill the gaps in these plans.
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June 25, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Does digital urban agriculture mean the end of small scale growing?
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June 18, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Affordable housing and resiliency must coexist. How can low-income households weather the storm?
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June 11, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Investing in a sustainability plan means investing in the future.
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June 4, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Shared autonomous vehicles will be part of the future, but do we need them to achieve sustainable transportation?
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May 28, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the language of covenants, codes, and restrictions to learn the role homeowner associations play in regulating the aesthetic and ecological functions of yards.
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May 21, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Can planners overcome cultural, political, legal, and economic barriers to “smart shrinkage” strategies in shrinking cities?
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May 14, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Is it time to give the ax to single-family residential zoning? Nine JAPA viewpoints argue the question from both sides.
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April 30, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Learn what research shows about the ways planners are responding to ethical dilemmas.
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April 23, 2020
JAPA articles grapple with concerns of broad interest and make contributions that can transform the wider domain of knowledge.
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April 16, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How can small coastal cities plan for climate uncertainty?
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April 9, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: What possibilities would we have if youth could participate more fully in planning? Read about three new rungs of youth participation.
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April 2, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Building water-efficient cities might let us stick to the rivers and lakes that we’re used to.
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March 26, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Interviews, focus groups, and walking audits can be added to statistics to help create a full picture of the mobility needs of older adults.
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March 19, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How can planning help regulate the disproportionate concentration of e-commerce-related warehouse facilities in greenfield sites?
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March 12, 2020
Get tips on writing a great review essay for the Journal of the American Planning Association.
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March 5, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Planners may create communities more resilient to housing foreclosure by addressing location affordability.
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February 27, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: Neighborhood association insurgents successfully challenged planning in one Detroit neighborhood, and planners can support marginalized voices elsewhere.
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February 20, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: There is more to housing affordability than finding a place with a reasonable rent. What can planners do to promote energy efficiency and, more importantly, energy justice?
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January 16, 2020
What is the role of the Journal of the American Planning Association in the information age? Editor Ann Forsyth looks at the new information landscape.
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December 19, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Arnstein's Ladder of Citizen Participation can't fix community participation, but it surely provides a space from which to start.
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December 11, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: How can planning toward participation have a transformative effect on social equity?
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December 5, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Three lessons from nonprofits in Los Angeles County can help planners build trust and representation for noncitizens.
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November 21, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Co-production offers what citizen control can’t — systems change — but the public sector still has a great role to play.
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October 31, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: What happens when public participation is used to finesse existing plans and policies rather than provide opportunities to challenge them?
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October 17, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Is community control — a shift of power from the government to the majority of the community — the way to address injustice faced by marginalized members of the community?
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September 26, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Engaging community members in storytelling can reveal forgotten heritage and draw new maps of the past.
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September 19, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Sherry Arnstein's influential Ladder of Citizen Participation grew from her frustration with government ideas about power in the 1950s and 1960s.
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September 12, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners acknowledge and make use of all of their emotions in a productive way when engaging with the public?
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September 5, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Switching from Level of Service (LOS) measurement to Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) could streamline the development process in California.
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August 29, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: What does it look like for planners to not simply involve communities but ensure they have agency and can lead?
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August 22, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Cities have only dipped their toes in the water when it comes to regulating autonomous vehicles and their technology.
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August 8, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: If cities want to attract new residents and planners want those residents to thrive, a coordinated response to bed bugs is necessary.
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August 1, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Single-family restrictions, lot sizes restrictions, and parking requirements limit developers’ ability to build affordable housing. However, in this quandary, we may also find the solution.
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July 25, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Ride-hail services are used by a wide range of people around Los Angeles, suggesting that they might provide increased mobility in rural, suburban, and low-income areas.
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July 18, 2019
Does JAPA publish methods papers? The short answer is yes, but not all types.
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July 11, 2019
International topics have a substantial presence in the Journal of the American Planning Association — a role likely to increase in a globalizing world.
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June 27, 2019
The Journal of the American Planning Association adheres to scholarly practices in choosing, editing, and publishing articles that address critical issues in planning practice.
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June 20, 2019
What does it take to get an article accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Planning Association?
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June 13, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: The latest edition of the Journal of the American Planning Association commemorates the life of professor, planner, architect, and JAPA editor David Godschalk, FAICP.
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June 6, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: The Journal of the American Planning Association continues to highlight Kevin Lynch’s legacy and the ideas in his book The Image of the City. Learn more about his imprint on Los Angeles.
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May 30, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: Revisit Kevin Lynch's 1960 book The Image of the City and find relevance and new insights in his ideas about cognitive mapping.
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May 23, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: In 1979, Neil Smith reconsidered the foundations of gentrification, pinpointing the flow of capital that continues to reshape city centers today.
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May 21, 2019
Clovis, California's Cottage Home Program for affordable housing is expanding throughout the city.
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April 17, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: In 1969, architect Denise Scott Brown wrote in JAPA about the difficult balance between the urban designer's professional expertise and the public's desires. That discussion continues today.
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April 10, 2019
Uncovering JAPA: A special issue of JAPA honors planner and academic Kevin Lynch and explores why his work still matters.
