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January 18, 2023
APA News: Angela D. Brooks, FAICP, begins tenure as APA's first Black female president.
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January 13, 2023
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: Is your community overdue for a new development code?
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January 12, 2023
Uncovering JAPA: Restrictive vehicle ordinances do not reduce the prevalence of vehicular homelessness, but shift it to different communities.
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January 10, 2023
Congress passes a new $85 million grant program aimed at zoning reform. The funding represents a new and significant incentive and support for local zoning reform and planning for housing affordability.
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December 22, 2022
Equity in Practice: The economic and community outcomes of removing Milwaukee's Park East Freeway.
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December 20, 2022
APA's international strategy focuses on learning exchange activities.
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December 19, 2022
A reflection of the Chicano experience of understanding planning through art.
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December 15, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: New analysis of the public costs and private gains of TIF.
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December 13, 2022
Equity in Practice: Five planning firms create a joint internship to help create a diversity-oriented internship program.
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December 12, 2022
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: What does a sensible approach to zoning for drive-through services look like?
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December 9, 2022
In Memoriam: Rick Willson, FAICP, professor, consultant, mentor, and Guide for the Idealist creator.
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December 8, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: A tool kit for planners to help increase representation in our cities through the practice of "community naming."
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December 7, 2022
Municipal planning careers can be the main focus of one’s work life — or one chapter of a larger story.
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December 1, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners be more efficient in staying informed on current issues by using natural language processing (NLP).
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December 1, 2022
Sponsored content from Tyler Technologies. Learn how municipalities, after switching to an integrated permitting and licensing software, quickly discover that surprisingly small efficiency gains create enormous cost and time savings.
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November 22, 2022
Equity in Practice: Community-led planning effort builds upon Memphis 3.0 to revitalize Orange Mound neighborhood.
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November 21, 2022
In Memoriam: APA remembers the life of Constance Jordan Wilson, PhD.
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November 17, 2022
Equity in Practice: Owe'neh Bupingeh Preservation plan guides housing improvements according to cultural values.
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November 17, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: Apply three aspects of equity to make the climate action planning process more inclusive.
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November 14, 2022
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.
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November 11, 2022
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: Your zoning code probably isn't ready for modern coliving communities.
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November 10, 2022
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.
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November 9, 2022
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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November 3, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: Analysis if the edge city is transforming or encouraging sprawl.
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October 27, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: What is the potential for manufacturing to take root in strong market cities with high costs of production?
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October 26, 2022
The vision of life in a biophilic city is one where we are not separate from nature, but intimately embedded within it.
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October 21, 2022
Equity in Practice: Portland neighborhood prioritizes people over vehicles to help reduce violence.
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October 20, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: Exploring a more radical conception of urban forestry.
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October 18, 2022
Equity in Practice: GIS helps prioritize funding for neighborhood revitalization and keeps the entire process transparent.
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October 14, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: The risk of reproducing racist assumptions or narratives in planning.
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October 13, 2022
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: Your zoning code could probably be doing more to facilitate the transition to electric vehicles.
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October 6, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: How are planners grappling with immigrant needs.
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October 5, 2022
From ambitious comprehensive plans to outstanding planning educators, APA is proud to recognize this year’s award-winning planning efforts.
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October 4, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: What can transit value capture teach us about the intersection of entrenched segregation and transportation planning?
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October 4, 2022
Sponsored content from Tyler Technologies. Discover three ways you can leverage emerging technologies to better connect with your constituents.
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September 22, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: Outcome of attracting the repeated participation of participants across multiple planning engagement processes.
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September 20, 2022
The passage of the landmark Bipartisan Infrastucture Law saw the largest direct investment in community planning in a century. Here are 5+ new or expanded programs created by BIL that every planner should know about right now.
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September 19, 2022
As municipal planning departments adopt a fairness and equity mindset in their work with the communities they serve it highlights the state of their workplace practices and the work needed to elevate equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) goals within the planning firms and public agencies.
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September 15, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: A framework for how planners can be involved in infectious disease management.
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September 13, 2022
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: It's time to get serious about diversifying local planning and zoning boards.
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September 1, 2022
Sponsored content from Tyler Technologies. The move to digital solutions is often touted as more efficient and easier for both citizens and government employees. When making the switch, the City of Rancho Cordova, California found that to be true, even drawing hard data on how much time their own departments saved.
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September 1, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: The impact of community participation guiding big data use in planning.
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August 25, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: Strategies for building local support for planning climate action.
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August 23, 2022
Longtime APA member Ralph Willmer, FAICP, has been hired as the new AICP Ethics Officer following the retirement of Jim Peters, FAICP.
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August 18, 2022
Uncovering JAPA: Planning can be fraught with corruption. A study in Ghana identifies institutional and interpersonal factors that lead to corruption.
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August 16, 2022
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: It's time to rethink zoning requirements that mandate active ground-floor uses.
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August 9, 2022
Agrivoltaics — or the placement of a solar energy system on the same parcel of land as agricultural production — and wildlife-friendly solar practices can help communities capture multiple benefits from large-scale solar development.
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August 8, 2022
Sponsored content from INRIX X GM. Vision Zero is right around the corner. The data exists, the processes and tools are in place, and now it’s up to us to drive it all forward.
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August 1, 2022
Wisconsin uses GIS to survey residents on internet access and affordability to better direct needed resources to help eliminate the digital divide.
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July 29, 2022
A Guide for the Idealist: Rick Willson, FAICP, offers an original framework for decision-making in the planning process. Using reflection on choices considering types of information, and analysis tools, as well as addressing the values served and the planners interactions with the public and elected officials.
