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July 25, 2024
A New Tool for Infill Policy
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how states are enhancing infill development to lower housing costs by using statistical models to support state agencies prioritize and monitor local zoning regulations. -
July 18, 2024
Can ChatGPT Analyze Public Feedback?
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how ChatGPT analyzes public feedback data, aiding urban planners with high accuracy and essential human oversight. -
July 11, 2024
How Can Carshare Help Low-Income Travelers?
Uncovering JAPA: Carshare programs can benefit low-income travelers but there remain some challenges that need to be addressed. -
June 27, 2024
Sustainable Development: Vision or Policy?
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how 20 years of sustainability emphasis has led to slow and uneven progress in implementing effective sustainability policies. -
June 20, 2024
Applying Online Community Engagement Lessons to In-Person Meetings
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the community engagement strategies and approaches planners utilized during the COVID-19 that provide valuable insights for enhancing future in-person engagement practices. -
June 13, 2024
Integrating Community Animators into Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how community animators can help municipal governments effectively engage marginalized communities in planning processes by bridging gaps between community members and urban planners. -
June 6, 2024
Property Taxes Cannot Fund Climate Adaptation in Florida
Uncovering JAPA: Explore Florida's coastal counties' fiscal vulnerability to sea level rise and the pressing need for alternative revenue sources and efforts. -
May 30, 2024
Can We Measure Land Use Policies’ Role In Fair Housing?
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the Fair Housing Land Use Score and how it measures whether local governments' land use policies promote neighborhood inclusion. -
May 23, 2024
What Is a Complete Community?
Uncovering JAPA: Explore 'Complete Communities' and how it evolved to emphasize positive attributes like sustainability and livability. -
May 9, 2024
Can Transit-Oriented Developments Include Affordable Development?
Uncovering JAPA: Explore hurdles to affordable housing in Southern California's transit-oriented developments, and the importance of legislative and local government support for inclusivity in transit communities. -
May 2, 2024
Will We Zone For Transit?
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how transit-oriented development (TOD) emerged as a crucial strategy in curbing urban sprawl with the 2023 Montreal light rail project. -
April 23, 2024
Hardening the American Landscape
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the diverse policy options for local leaders to curb hardscape expansion during rapid infill, emphasizing the importance of modeling local factors and utilizing machine learning techniques to mitigate environmental risks. -
April 18, 2024
Navigating Quayside: Lessons in Smart City Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the challenges faced in public-private partnerships using Toronto's Quayside project. -
April 11, 2024
Planning for Dollar Stores
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the challenges and opportunities posed by the rapid expansion of dollar stores, addressing the issues related to food access and community vitality. -
April 4, 2024
Learning from Ad Hoc Mixed-Use Partnerships in Toronto
Uncovering JAPA: Explore the evolution of Creative Mixed-Use (CMU) development in Toronto, emphasizing the critical role of cross-sectoral partnerships and the challenges faced during this transformative process. -
March 29, 2024
Planners Can Integrate Climate Migrants
Uncovering JAPA: Explore climate migration, as researchers discuss depictions of "climate havens" and "welcoming cities," and offer insights for planning inclusive communities. -
March 14, 2024
Residents’ Changing Perspectives on Disaster Resettlement
Uncovering JAPA: In Tacloban City, Philippines, holistic restoration, community empowerment, site development, transparent communication, and flexible participation are emphasized in post-disaster relocation efforts. -
February 15, 2024
Long Beach’s Approach to Youth Advocacy in Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Long Beach invests in Youth, establishing a Global Model with the Office of Youth Development. -
February 1, 2024
Considering Flood Risk in Development Decision Making
Uncovering JAPA: North Carolina sees rapid new flood risk development, revealing complex socioeconomic factors in risk management. -
January 25, 2024
Refocus Heat Action Plans To Mitigate Indoor Heat Risks
Uncovering JAPA: Study finds the importance of prioritizing building improvements over tree planting strategies for mitigating the risk of indoor extreme heat. -
January 19, 2024
60 Years of Racial Equity in Urban Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Insightful analysis about racial equity planning to inform planning practitioners' efforts to advance racial and social justice. -
January 11, 2024
Mitigating Flood Risk Through Smart Land Use Practice
Uncovering JAPA: A 20-year study on North Carolina floodplain development underscores the need for evidence-based policies and robust flood mitigation plans. -
January 4, 2024
Are Traffic Impact Studies Still "Junk Science"?
Uncovering JAPA: How Traffic Impact Assessments (TIAs) often fail to meet the substantial evidence standard due to flawed, unsubstantial methods. -
December 21, 2023
Prioritizing Environmental Justice in Comprehensive Planning
Uncovering JAPA: California plans are analyzed for environmental justice (EJ) incorporation, revealing advancements in BIPOC communities while underscoring the absence of an explicit racial focus. -
December 14, 2023
Restorative Pathways: Navigating Healing and Justice in Communities Affected by Spatial Trauma
Uncovering JAPA: Addressing spatial trauma in Black and brown communities, urging today's planners to embrace equitable spatial development through healing approaches. -
December 7, 2023
Motorbike Contributions: Enhancing Street Life and the Local Economy
Uncovering JAPA: Slow-moving motorbikes allow for "productive frictions" enhancing interactions between people and the streetscape. -
November 30, 2023
The Lasting Legacy of Harmful Land-Use Regulations
Uncovering JAPA: Early land-use regulations shaped the concepts of race, which challenge today's planners to create equitable spaces. -
November 17, 2023
Improving Inclusivity of Urban Governance
Uncovering JAPA: Nurturing the culture of a governing body can make it more inclusive for everyone. -
November 9, 2023
The Impact of Prejudice Data on Advancing Equitable Planning Practices
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the impact of the Mapping Prejudice project on advancing more equitable planning policies and practices. -
November 2, 2023
Impact of Low-Cost Housing Interventions
Uncovering JAPA: The positive impact of low-cost housing remediations led to reduced blight and crime in Philadelphia. -
October 27, 2023
Strategies for Creating More Just and Equitable Societies
Uncovering JAPA: This viewpoint explores three aforementioned strategies that can be used to start dismantling the existing system in favor of a more just system that that works for everyone. -
October 20, 2023
Dissecting 30 Years of Black Urbanist Thought in Urban Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Analysis confirms planning journals and practitioners have not focused on Black voices and Black urbanism for nearly three decades. -
October 12, 2023
A New Tool for Assessing Equity in Health Impact Assessments
Uncovering JAPA: A new approach to ensuring racial and ethnic equity are advanced in health impact assessments (HIAs). -
October 6, 2023
Mural Festival Advances Creative Placemaking
Uncovering JAPA: Explore a successful model of creative placemaking using murals to engage the community from Springfield, Massachusetts. -
September 28, 2023
Planning for Care - A Necessary Element of Equitable, Livable and Healthy Communities
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how care work depends on the urban environment and how planning can enhance the social and material conditions for caregiving in cities. -
September 21, 2023
A New Way to Identify Bargain Areas for Child Economic Mobility
Uncovering JAPA: Explore a new way to identify neighborhoods with a more reasonable cost of living that can increase children's economic mobility. -
August 31, 2023
Addressing Racial Harms Through Reparative Planning
Uncovering JAPA: A framework that provides theory and practice for planners working toward urban justice. -
August 10, 2023
Using Reparative Planning to Address Infrastructural Systems
Uncovering JAPA: ACT-LA aims to apply a divest-invest approach to stopping systems and practices that have caused harm. -
August 3, 2023
Black Counternarratives in Planning History
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding planning history from the perspective of those oppressed by traditional planning ensures the oppressed are no longer dismissed as passive victims but active players in their lives and communities. -
July 13, 2023
SHELTER: A Redistributive Affordable Housing Policy
Uncovering JAPA: Plan to reuse existing revenues to fund innovative housing policy reforms. -
July 6, 2023
Understanding Opportunities and Challenges in Publicly Traded Planning Firms
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding how to balance the opportunities and challenges of working in a publicly traded planning firm. -
June 29, 2023
Discretionary vs. By-Right Approval: Which is Faster?
Uncovering JAPA: Is by-right or discretionary approval faster? -
June 22, 2023
Transit Oriented Development and Crime in Chicago
Uncovering JAPA: Is there a connection between transit oriented development (TOD) in Chicago's public transit system. -
June 15, 2023
Increasing Sharing Options in Housing to Improve Mental Health
Uncovering JAPA: Planners can promote sharing capabilities to create a flexible backdrop for people to live within to meet the social needs of Americans today. -
June 8, 2023
A Framework for Systematizing Rigor in Planning Research
Uncovering JAPA: Incorporating empirical rigor into planning research to improve review articles and thus improve recommendations and collaboartion. -
June 1, 2023
Designing Age-Friendly Connectivity in Melbourne, Australia
Uncovering JAPA: Study finds it necessary for planners to take action to ensure the built environment becomes more age-friendly. -
May 26, 2023
Building Business Resilience for Minority-Owned Businesses
Uncovering JAPA: Three critical aspects for understanding business resilience in underserved communities. -
May 18, 2023
Do Municipalities Use Cost-Benefit Analysis for Incentive Zoning?
Uncovering JAPA: Exploring the use of cost-benefit to develop incentive zoning programs. -
May 12, 2023
Opening the Policy Window for Bike Lanes in Sydney
Uncovering JAPA: Learning to leverage policy windows by committing to evidence-based solutions and political coalition-building. -
May 4, 2023
Examining Food Systems and Sovereignty In Conflict Cities
Uncovering JAPA: Future planners should be prepared for the politics of planning, especially the challenging role of planning in conflict cities aiming to protect food systems.
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