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June 23, 2022
Ensuring "Open Streets" Plans Advance Social Equity
Uncovering JAPA: Pandemic-created open streets can be a lifeline, but also exacerbate inequities without careful implementation. -
February 3, 2022
Recent Trends Around Zoning for Density
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding how major metropolitan areas have shifted their approach to zoning for density. -
November 8, 2021
UPDATE: SCOTUS Case Doesn't Upend Sign Regulations
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the City of Austin, Texas' off-premises sign regulations were permissible under the First Amendment. -
September 30, 2021
Exploring Increased Density in Residential Neighborhoods
Uncovering JAPA: An experiment to determine if the number of people impact the quality of a public space? -
April 19, 2021
Shaping the Future of Municipalities Through Investment in Shared Spaces
Massachusetts' Shared Streets and Spaces grant program offers a look at improving quality of life by investing in public spaces. -
March 11, 2021
Car Ownership Levels in America Follow Trends of Urban Street Griddedness
Uncovering JAPA: The grid system of American city streets has tangible implications for equity in mobility, public health, and environmental sustainability. -
January 28, 2021
Early Research on the COVID-19 Pandemic and Density
Uncovering JAPA: Read some early research into whether density aggravates the COVID-19 pandemic. -
May 27, 2020
A Necessary Paradigm Shift in How We Use Urban Space
What planning changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic will be interim fixes, and which will stay permanently? -
April 17, 2019
50 Years of Denise Scott Brown’s Vision for Socially Responsible Design
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. -
October 11, 2018
Plan4Health Success Story: Missouri Uses Pop-up Traffic Calming Demonstrations
The Planners4Health initiative in Missouri addressed safety concerns by implementing traffic calming demonstration projects in sites across the state. -
June 28, 2018
Plan4Health Success Story: Creating a Sidewalk Without Building a Sidewalk in Maine
The Planners4Health project in Northern New England implemented a traffic calming demonstration in Gray, Maine, to engage planners and public health professionals in healthy design strategies. -
May 17, 2018
Complete Streets + Green Infrastructure = Vital Streets
The City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, revolutionized its approach to designing, maintaining, and using its streets over the past five years. A program called Vital Streets has been central to improvement and evolution of transportation in the city. -
September 19, 2017
2017 Design Matters Conference Champions Inclusion and Education
Co-sponsored by APA, the 2017 Design Matters Conference focused on inclusive approaches to educating all ages and interest levels about the built environment. -
September 27, 2016
The First Principles of Urbanism: Part II
Digital technology can be good or bad for cities. Which way it goes depends on how well technologists and urbanists work together. -
Change the Street, Change the World
Julián Castro and Janette Sadik-Khan explored the theme of ingenuity in communities at APA's 2016 Policy and Advocacy Conference. -
September 15, 2016
Slow Your Street: A St. Louis Traffic Calming Success Story
Less than a year after pop-up traffic calming demonstrations in the city of St. Louis, permanent infrastructure changes have been installed on neighborhood streets. -
September 12, 2016
The First Principles of Urbanism: Part I
Before we can predict how technology might shape cities, we have to identify the essential efficiencies — and costs — of urban environments. -
August 22, 2016
Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Street Graphics Law
The fourth edition of "Street Graphics and the Law" explores the impact of U.S. Supreme Court decisions on free speech as it applies to sign regulation. -
May 16, 2016
Box City @FSU – Engaging and Inspiring Local Children in Florida
Students at Havana Magnet School in Leon County, Florida, participate in a Florida State University and APA Ambassadors Pilot Program to plan and build their own city.
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