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Sponsored Content: The University of Florida Department of Urban and Regional Planning is highlighting two of our alumnae, Jennifer Krouchick and Lian Plass.
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A Q & A with two women planners who started their own businesses. Together they reflect on their personal career paths, the unique perspective women-owned businesses can bring, and their advice to the next generation of women planners.
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In Greensboro, North Carolina, three AICP-certified women discuss their personal journeys into planning and the value of AICP.
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Findings from a recent APA survey demonstrate that the urban planning profession needs to understand and evaluate the risks and benefits of AI applications.
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Uncovering JAPA: Understanding how major metropolitan areas have shifted their approach to zoning for density.
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Awareness of neurodivergence, conditions such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, are on the rise, though the needs of neurodivergent people in the workplace are still widely misunderstood. Gala Korniyenko, Ph.D. co-creator of APA's Planning for Underserved Populations Interest Group shares how to broaden your EDI efforts to include the neurodiverse.
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Last year, APA Florida’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee launched a survey to better understand the intersection of experiences and the work of planning in Florida in relation to equity, diversity, and inclusion. The survey results and a panel discussion were shared via a webinar.
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January 11, 2022
Design thinking instructor Thomas Fisher discusses how the practice is useful for planners to envision the future.
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Sponsored Content from Tyler Technologies. Learn how different approaches to digital transformation can empower constituents, connect communities, and accelerate development.
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For many planners, “smart city” is just a buzzword that does not connect with their community goals and is not part of their vision or toolkit. This is something that needs to change. The question is not whether planners should plan for smart cities, but rather how they can do so in equitable and sustainable ways.
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Uncovering JAPA: Connecting what political candidates' social media posts to plan outcomes may help signal what plans will be implemented.
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Sponsored Content from Tyler Technologies. Learn how Horry County, South Carolina put GIS at the core of government operations and made data readily accessible to residents, developers, contractors, and visitors.
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Sponsored content from Tyler Technologies. In a context of recovery and a new focus on growth, driving virtual community development is an approach that is proven to lead to success.
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Uncovering JAPA: The experiences of African American/Black and Hispanic/Latin/o/a/x planners illustrate it is necessary to increase diversity in the workplace but also create inclusive work environments.
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The City of Seattle launched ADUniverse, using ESRI's ArcGIS to help residents understand their ADU options.
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From housing to infrastructure, see what key decision makers and planners talked about during the 2021 APA Policy and Advocacy Conference.
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Los Angeles' City Planning department created Spanish Translation Style Guide, a tool to broaden support for key programs, respond to citizens’ needs, and collect input from diverse LEP voices across the city.
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Uncovering JAPA: An experiment to determine if the number of people impact the quality of a public space?
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Uncovering JAPA: Focusing on Latino Vendor Markets can help create community connections among ethic groups in a city.
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Sponsored content from enCode Plus. As communities move toward digital planning and zoning tools to mitigate these challenges, emerging technology, like enCode Plus, must help them deliver critical services.
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Equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives are about translating values into actions. During an APA Learning Circle, facilitators Elizabeth "Libby" Tyler, FAICP, and Miguel Vazquez, AICP, led a conversation with representatives from different sized offices as they shared their EDI initiatives.
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From the webinar "How Technology Is Shaping Practice and Your Career," members of APA's Technology Division continue the conversation on the technical skills and knowledge that emerging professionals need to consider to keep pace with the future of planning.
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Digitalization is the conversion of processes or roles from an analog form to a digital form? What are some of these broader societal trends in digitalization, and what are the implications for planning?
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Uncovering JAPA: Local decision makers using staff reports to ensure consistency with comprehensive plans.
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At the NPC21 closing keynote, Jack Dangermond of Esri offered seven GIS trends for planners. APA and Esri have partnered to create a step-by-step GIS learning plan to grow or build existing GIS skills for planners.
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Baltimore's GIS-based CoDeMap application connects the importance of housing and health, allowing for place-based intervention approaches.
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Uncovering JAPA: The grid system of American city streets has tangible implications for equity in mobility, public health, and environmental sustainability.
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Petra Hurtado, PhD, APA's Research Director, explores patterns and the agility and technological innovation planners need.
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Uncovering JAPA: Read some early research into whether density aggravates the COVID-19 pandemic.
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How do researchers inventory restrictive regulations and assess their relationship to the underproduction of housing?
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APA offers insight into seven trends and spotlights helpful resources to help planners prepare for 2021 and beyond.
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Despite an unusually contentious and unpredictable two-year session, the 116th Congress acted on several long-time APA legislative priorities.
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Uncovering JAPA: Curious which themes are most prominent in the urban planning literature? Check out an analysis of 30 years of articles.
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Incoming AICP President Mitchell Silver outlines upcoming changes to the AICP certification program that represent continued evolution and relevance to the needs of planners and communities.
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Meagan Booth, an APA Ambassador in Utah, has been exploring ways to continue teaching children about planning in the midst of the pandemic.
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November 12, 2020
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners use big, open data to look at transit-oriented development?
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Uncovering JAPA: How and why should planners better understand the terms Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx?
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Uncovering JAPA: How can planners make driving safer and make stronger arguments for carpooling? What if planners could also become advocates for immigrants at the same time?
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Uncovering JAPA: What do quantitative methods reveal about LGBTQ neighborhood development and historic preservation?
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Uncovering JAPA: What can planning departments do to adopt an organizational racial equity framework?
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Three ways planners can keep up the advocacy momentum for the remainder of 2020.
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Uncovering JAPA: Step one in planning for equitable outcomes: create an equitable workplace.
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With less than a month before the end of data collection for the 2020 Census, planners are making final efforts to help increase self-response rates in the hardest-to-count neighborhoods.
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Uncovering JAPA: What are the spatial and economic implications of Whiteness in the U.S.?
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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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Uncovering JAPA: Where should you have your meeting to engage the community? The Venue Creation Tool can help you decide.
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A new congressional climate action plan positions planning as one solution to tackling climate change. APA supported the creation of the plan by contributing ideas for how federal climate policy can set the context for effective local and regional plans.
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The pandemic has caused a delay in the job search processes, leaving many challenges for recent grads and job seekers. In this Guide for the Idealist post, get ideas on how to keep moving forward with optimism.
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Get six strategies that planners can use now to help ease the economic crisis for businesses in their communities.
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JAPA articles grapple with concerns of broad interest and make contributions that can transform the wider domain of knowledge.
