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May 21, 2021
A Code of Ethics For Today's Planners
The AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct articulates shared values and how these should be applied in planning practice. The Code is being updated to reflect the needs of today's planners and members are invited to share their comments. -
May 17, 2021
Continuing Mel King's Legacy, Fighting Racism and Economic Inequality
Through community development work, the Mel King Institute in Boston continues to fight for causes that Mel King has championed his life. -
May 7, 2021
Get [t]here: Exploring Mobility Challenges in Gateway Cities
get [t]here explores mobility challenges and opportunities for equitable investment in Boston's gateway cities. -
April 13, 2021
Connecticut Planners Take Zoning Reform Fight to the State
Zoning reform efforts are underway in Connecticut, a state with a long history of exclusionary zoning. Several bills that aim to tackle zoning reform are in play at the legislature this session — and planners are weighing in. -
March 25, 2021
The Continued Challenges of Bias and Discrimination Within Planning Education
Uncovering JAPA: A survey of Black and Latinx planning students found that the students experienced different levels of discrimination depending on their citizenship status, race/ethnicity, nationality, and citizen status. Participants did not believe that planning education was allowing students to develop the skills to be culturally sensitive planners. -
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. -
February 18, 2021
Urban Heat Management and the Legacy of Redlining
Uncovering JAPA: Neighborhoods that were once targets of redlining now have higher land surface temperatures than other neighborhoods in the same city. Planners need to correct past policy errors to make cities more equitable, including in urban heat management. -
February 16, 2021
Chicago Sells Vacant Parcels For $1 and Nets Crime Reduction
Chicago's policy of selling vacant lots at a very low cost to adjacent landowners and other purchasers with local connections has resulted in a reduction in neighborhood crime. -
February 11, 2021
Affordable Housing Without Public Subsidies
Uncovering JAPA: Why do landlords set housing rents below market? Can planners use this to expand affordable housing without public subsidies? -
November 5, 2020
How Do Planners Understand the Terms Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx?
Uncovering JAPA: How and why should planners better understand the terms Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx? -
October 29, 2020
A Driver's License Can Equal Carpooling, Safety, and Social Justice
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? -
October 22, 2020
LGBTQ Communities and Historic Preservation
Uncovering JAPA: What do quantitative methods reveal about LGBTQ neighborhood development and historic preservation? -
October 1, 2020
Adopting Racial Equity Frameworks in Planning Organizations
Uncovering JAPA: What can planning departments do to adopt an organizational racial equity framework? -
August 20, 2020
Whiteness and Planning in America
Uncovering JAPA: What are the spatial and economic implications of Whiteness in the U.S.? -
August 18, 2020
Being an Idealist in Difficult Times
A Guide for the Idealist post: Challenging times may challenge idealist commitments but they endure with a focus on higher ideals of justice, truth, and beauty. -
August 6, 2020
Lowering Institutional Barriers for Immigrant Entrepreneurs
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? -
July 28, 2020
Six Ways Planners Can Help Communities Bridge the Racial Wealth Gap
Planners offer a big-picture, multidisciplinary lens that can play a pivotal role in increasing equity. Here are six things planners can do to advance racial wealth and economic opportunity in your community. -
July 27, 2020
Changing Planning Practices to Honor George Floyd
A Guide for the Idealist post: Planners of all types have a role to play in addressing racial injustice by connecting each decision to its effects on the whole community. -
July 23, 2020
Planning for Climate Change, Planning for Communities
Uncovering JAPA: Can large-scale climate action coexist with community-based planning? One JAPA author says they can and they must. -
June 25, 2020
Preserving the Grass Root of Urban Agriculture
Uncovering JAPA: Does digital urban agriculture mean the end of small scale growing? -
June 18, 2020
When Climate Resiliency Is More Than an Afterthought
Uncovering JAPA: Affordable housing and resiliency must coexist. How can low-income households weather the storm? -
June 8, 2020
Preparing for COVID-19 Recovery in Seattle
A Q&A with Sam Assefa, director of Seattle’s Office of Planning & Community Development, explores the planning department’s role in Seattle’s coronavirus strategy. -
March 31, 2020
A Q&A With Houston's Top Women in Planning
In celebration of Women's History Month, two women who hold top Houston planning positions discuss their work and aspirations. -
March 26, 2020
Painting a Richer Picture of Older Adults' Mobility Needs
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. -
March 5, 2020
Locating Housing Affordability Amid Foreclosures
Uncovering JAPA: Planners may create communities more resilient to housing foreclosure by addressing location affordability. -
February 27, 2020
An Urgency for Insurgency: Lifting Marginalized Voices
Uncovering JAPA: Neighborhood association insurgents successfully challenged planning in one Detroit neighborhood, and planners can support marginalized voices elsewhere. -
February 20, 2020
The Hidden Cost in Housing Affordability
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? -
November 21, 2019
Moving Beyond Citizen Control to Co-Production
Uncovering JAPA: Co-production offers what citizen control can’t — systems change — but the public sector still has a great role to play. -
October 17, 2019
The View From Arnstein’s Ladder: The Promise of Community Control
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? -
August 8, 2019
Are Bed Bugs a Planning Issue?
Uncovering JAPA: If cities want to attract new residents and planners want those residents to thrive, a coordinated response to bed bugs is necessary. -
August 1, 2019
Zoning: The Cause and the Cure for High Housing Prices
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. -
July 11, 2019
Mayors Are Addressing the Housing Crisis — And Planning Is Part of the Solution
Read about the three key housing crisis takeaways for planners in the new National League of Cities Housing Task Force report, Homeward Bound. -
June 13, 2019
Partnerships + Data: The Keys to Creating Change and Opportunity
One of APA's partners, Enterprise, describes its work in the arena of housing affordability and accessibility. -
June 10, 2019
Expanding Equity: "Stonewall Did That For Me"
APA member Michael Levine, AICP, shares his personal experience of the 1969 Stonewall uprising. -
May 21, 2019
Expanding Cottage Home: A Pioneer for Housing Affordability
Clovis, California's Cottage Home Program for affordable housing is expanding throughout the city. -
Expanding California's Leadership in Diversifying the Planning Profession
What does diversity and inclusion mean to APA, the planning profession, and planners' efforts to address diversity, inclusion, and equity in planning? Hear from two planners about the road to progress in California. -
October 15, 2018
This Year’s Big Planning Idea: Unlocking the Value of Land
Land value capture — the concept behind several mechanisms to finance infrastructure, affordable housing, and other key components of urban development — was rich food for thought at the 2018 Daniel Burnham Forum on Big Ideas. -
October 3, 2018
Inclusionary Zoning Brings Mixed-Income Housing to D.C.’s Priciest Neighborhoods
The Washington, D.C., area has one of the highest median incomes in the country, but the city is making room for affordable housing through a mandatory, district-wide inclusionary zoning program. -
July 25, 2018
Planning with Autism in Mind: A Six Feelings Framework
Ohio State University students and faculty explore ways of planning to improve the lives of individuals with autism. Learn more in the latest issue of PAS Memo. -
June 5, 2018
State-Level Housing Action Heats Up Nationwide
Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Louisiana are among the states making housing news. From inclusionary zoning to affordable housing, these states demonstrate the geographic reach and varying approaches to the housing crisis. -
May 24, 2018
House Appropriators Maintain Some Transportation, HUD Funding Gains
The House Appropriations Committee recently approved a spending bill for transportation and housing programs that maintains some of the dramatic increases to programs made by the FY 2018 omnibus. -
April 24, 2018
"We Have a Moment — Don't Lose It"
PolicyLink founder and CEO Angela Glover Blackwell wrapped up NPC18 with a call for attention to equity: "The fate of the nation rests on people like you." -
April 3, 2018
Creating a Diversity Committee: Lessons from APA's New York Metro Chapter
Cochairs of APA's New York Metro Chapter Diversity Committee explore the committee’s origins, activities, and tips for other APA chapters who may be interested in starting their own diversity committees. -
March 26, 2018
California's Urgent Search for Housing Solutions
Housing affordability challenges across the nation are some of the most pressing and controversial. Learn more about California housing legislation and the role of planners. -
January 26, 2018
Aging in Place: Housing, Supports, Safety
Planners have the ability to create housing options that enable citizens to be independent and to thrive at all ages. One of a series of blog posts on APA's Plan4Health webinar and seminar on “Planning Livable Communities for All Ages." -
January 11, 2018
HUD Extends Assessment of Fair Housing Deadline
In a controversial move, HUD issued a notice effectively suspending new fair housing planning rules until 2020. APA plans to submit comments on the action. -
December 12, 2017
Bringing Food to an Aging America
This is one in a series centered on key findings in the areas of housing, transportation, engagement, health, and food access for our rapidly aging population. -
December 12, 2017
Reimagining the Civic Commons
Reimagining the Civic Commons is a national initiative to foster engagement, equity, environmental sustainability, and economic development in our cities. APA members learned more about the initiative at the 2017 Policy and Advocacy Conference. -
November 10, 2017
Transportation Is One Key to Livable Communities for All Ages
Transportation is highlighted in the first of a series of blog posts on APA's Plan4Health webinar and seminar on “Planning Livable Communities for All Ages." -
September 26, 2017
With Technology Expanding, Inequality Rising
Ryan Avent spoke about rising inequalities in the nation in his luncheon keynote at the 2017 APA Policy and Advocacy Conference.
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