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September 19, 2022
7 Tips for Starting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committees
As municipal planning departments adopt a fairness and equity mindset in their work with the communities they serve it highlights the state of their own workplace practices and the work needed to elevate equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) goals within the planning firms and public agencies. Offer how to get unstuck on translating the goals into action. -
September 13, 2022
Do Your Planning Boards Reflect Your Community?
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: It's time to get serious about diversifying local planning and zoning boards. -
July 18, 2022
Housing Scarcity Is Worse Than Ever
A recent report demonstrates that the underproduction of housing units affects 47 states and Washington D.C., and its impacts are being felt in all kinds of places, from dense urban areas to small, rural towns. -
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. -
June 7, 2022
Modernize Planning and Zoning Practices to Improve Affordability and Equity
Sponsored Content from enCode Plus: A conversation with planning and zoning industry veteran Bret C. Keast, AICP, on addressing affordability and equity, two of the biggest issues in planning and zoning circles. -
April 20, 2022
Giving Back to San Diego During NPC22
As planners prepare to come together for NPC22, attendees have several opportunities to give back to our host city. -
April 14, 2022
Confronting Spatial Inequalities
Uncovering JAPA: 'Place-based' policies can help address growing interregional inequality within the U.S. -
April 7, 2022
Making Disaster Recovery More Equitable
Uncovering JAPA: The aftermath of Hurricane Dolly (2008) on the colonias of the Rio Grande Valley illustrate the need for equitable disaster recovery. -
March 3, 2022
Land-Use Characteristics Contributing to Region-Wide Housing Inequities
Uncovering JAPA: Authors examine 180 cities in Southern California to determine if changing residential land uses reduce housing inequities. -
January 27, 2022
Does Cultural Planning Deliver on Equity and Inclusion?
Uncovering JAPA: While planners have long valued diversity, equity, and inclusion, Municipal cultural plans too often treat diversity, equity, and inclusion superficially. -
January 6, 2022
Accessibility and Public Engagement For People Living With Dementia
Uncovering JAPA: Solutions for ensuring people living with dementia are included in the planning process. -
December 16, 2021
Affordable Housing Negotiations
Uncovering JAPA: How do uneven negotiating powers stymie affordable housing development? -
December 7, 2021
The Silver Linings of Asset-Based Community Development
Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) is a framework to discover and mobilize assets or resources available in a community and use them to benefit residents. -
December 2, 2021
Parents in Vancouver's Dense Family-Oriented Urbanism
Uncovering JAPA: Exploration of how policy, family-oriented design, and programming has the ability to influence parents' locational choice in where to raise their family. -
November 10, 2021
The Multiple Benefits of Dementia-Friendly Communities
The number of Americans living with dementia, which includes Alzheimer’s disease, is growing. Planners can play a key role in making sure that communities allow for the best possible quality of life for this growing population. -
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? -
September 23, 2021
Latino Vendor Markets: Community Connections and Implications for Planning Practice
Uncovering JAPA: Focusing on Latino Vendor Markets can help create community connections among ethic groups in a city. -
August 16, 2021
Basing Transportation Policies on Accessibility
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding how to assess if a planning initiative improves accessibility. -
July 23, 2021
Survey Says: Planners Share Insights on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Key takeaways from the ACSP/APA Practitioner Diversity Climate Survey. -
July 22, 2021
Linking Transportation Equity and School Choice Policy
Uncovering JAPA: The ideal of school choice has travel implications for youth/students. -
July 8, 2021
An Overview of Exclusionary Zoning Debates in the United States
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the history of exclusionary zoning practices. -
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?
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