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November 14, 2025
Four JAPA Award Winners Honored in Minneapolis
At the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s annual conference in Minneapolis in October, the American Planning Association (APA) recognized two scholars and two papers that appeared in the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA). -
November 11, 2025
Advancing Equitable Planning Practices
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how a 2024 survey finds planners value equity but face funding, knowledge, and support gaps that hinder implementation. -
October 23, 2025
How COVID-19 Redefined Urban Public Space
Uncovering JAPA: Recently adopted street policies helped shape emergency responses as cities transformed streets into cafés and social spaces during COVID-19. Explore if these programs represented an adaptation of existing policies or a dramatic change, and needed actions for maintaining viable street cafe programs. -
October 9, 2025
Rethinking Transportation for Aging Communities
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how older adults without cars face mobility challenges, and why flexible, affordable transportation options and walkable communities are essential to keeping them connected. -
October 2, 2025
How Cities Can Plan For Persistent Remote Work
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift to home-based activities, cutting out-of-home travel and office use while boosting remote work and housing demand. -
September 25, 2025
San Antonio's Infill District Zoning
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how San Antonio’s Infill Development Zone uses flexible, parcel-specific zoning to promote walkable, mixed-use infill while preserving neighborhood character and aligning with city planning goals. -
September 19, 2025
Emotions in Emails Matter: Communication Dynamics Between Planners and Politicians
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how planners are most effective at shaping political decisions when their emails are positive, consistent, and come from multiple voices—not just by sending more messages. -
September 11, 2025
Historic Districts and Housing Goals: A Case Study of Two L.A. Neighborhoods
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how a Los Angeles case study shows historic preservation districts extend beyond architecture, driving debates over zoning, property rights, development, and housing affordability. -
September 4, 2025
Lessons in Managing Public Opinion During E-Scooter Pilot Program in Eugene, Oregon
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how Eugene, Oregon’s e-scooter pilot reveals how planners navigated shifting public opinion, built trust, corrected misconceptions, and helped officials interpret feedback to guide the program’s success. -
July 31, 2025
State-Mandated Climate Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Discover a study of California’s Senate Bill 379 found that flexible, state-mandated climate adaptation planning modestly improved local efforts but revealed persistent challenges in coordination, engagement, and local capacity. -
July 18, 2025
How Geography Shapes Small Island Developing States
Global Perspectives: Discover how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) use global ties and niche strategies to navigate geographic and economic challenges. -
June 26, 2025
France’s Model for Smarter Cities Through Urban Data Standardization
Global Perspectives: Learn how France improved urban data comparability while preserving local context through standardization, a centralized platform, and public-private collaboration. -
June 12, 2025
Understanding Why Residents Remain in Japan's Flood Zones
Global Perspectives: Discover how deep cultural ties, economic constraints, and policy gaps influence why residents in Japan’s flood-prone areas choose to stay, offering planners valuable insights for community-informed resilience strategies. -
June 5, 2025
How Three European Countries Are Modernizing Land Records
Global Perspectives: See how three European countries are modernizing cadastral systems through 3D mapping, public-private collaboration, and AI to deliver more accurate, accessible, and future-ready land data for planners. -
May 22, 2025
Land Management in Vienna and Hungary
Global Perspectives: Learn how Vienna and Hungary use effective land management strategies to equip planners with powerful tools for improving affordable housing access and shaping equitable urban futures. -
May 15, 2025
Japan's Approach to Aging Urban Housing
Global Perspectives: Learn how Japan’s approach to aging condominiums offers planners a flexible model for keeping older housing viable amid shifting demographics worldwide. -
May 8, 2025
Coastal Planning Lessons from Brazil and Spain
Global Perspectives: Learn how coastal planning balances growth and sustainability through Brazil’s tourism-driven model and Spain’s ecological restoration approach. -
May 1, 2025
London's Housing Reforms: Lessons on Deregulation for Global Planners
Global Perspectives: London’s housing reforms reveal the trade-offs of deregulation, highlighting the need for planners to balance accelerated development with livability and affordability. -
April 17, 2025
Eliminating Owner-Occupied Restrictions for Missing Middle Housing
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how allowing private developers to build middle housing is key to making single-family zoning reform effective and expanding affordable housing options. -
April 10, 2025
Rethinking the First-Mile/Last-Mile Fix
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how a Milwaukee pilot program challenges the effectiveness of first-mile/last-mile services and reveals the need to center rider input and regional coordination in transit planning. -
March 27, 2025
Educational Needs for Disaster Recovery Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how planners can strengthen disaster recovery efforts by embracing proactive roles, utilizing planning tools, and leading recovery initiatives to build more resilient communities. -
March 20, 2025
The Case for Rental Registries: Uncovering Ownership
Uncovering JAPA: Learn about rental registries and their role in improving housing transparency while addressing legal and privacy concerns. -
March 13, 2025
When's the Right Time to Rezone Abandoned Strip Malls?
Uncovering JAPA: Learn more about how the rise of e-commerce and how remote work has led to an oversupply of retail space, revealing a zoning mismatch that urges planners to rethink and repurpose vacant retail areas for more sustainable uses. -
March 6, 2025
Transportation Workers’ Perspectives on ADA
Uncovering JAPA: Despite ongoing ADA compliance challenges, especially in transportation infrastructure, emphasize the need for a system-wide approach, greater support, and expanded education to enhance accessibility for people with disabilities. -
February 20, 2025
A Community-Created Rubric for Heat Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how the 'HeatReady Neighborhoods' rubric helps planners address extreme heat with an equity-focused framework, optimizing local assets and involving residents in climate adaptation strategies. -
February 13, 2025
Planning is Not Project Management
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how planners can go beyond project management with negotiation, persuasion, and creativity to navigate digital media, advocacy, and development. -
February 6, 2025
How Libraries Became Community Resilience Hubs
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how local public libraries act as resilience hubs in the face of economic stressors and extreme weather events — and how planners can support their role in building community resilience. -
January 31, 2025
The Connection Between Unpermitted ADUs in San José and the Need for Zoning Reform
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how policymakers are using computer vision to identify unpermitted ADUs in San José — shedding light on informal housing and the barriers to legal construction. -
January 23, 2025
Last-Mile Impacts on Deliveries
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how cities are tackling emissions from last-mile deliveries to reshape urban freight and reduce climate impacts. -
January 16, 2025
Basic Income Trials
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how basic income trials use unconditional cash to address inequities and guide equity planners toward scalable solutions and policy reforms. -
January 2, 2025
Transforming Atlanta's Transit
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how an On-Demand Multimodal Transit System (ODMTS) in Atlanta tackled transit challenges by addressing the first/last mile problem. -
December 19, 2024
Choosing the Road Less Valued
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how reducing urban roadways by 10 percent, which currently occupy 20-25 percent of urban land, could generate $27.8 billion in annual net benefits and unlock land for alternative uses. -
December 12, 2024
These U.S. States Are Planning for Salinization
Uncovering JAPA: Climate change is driving salinization of U.S. coastal water supplies, but inconsistent state-level planning and limited resources for small systems highlight the need for stronger governance and adaptive strategies. -
November 21, 2024
Three Takeaways for Climate Adaptation Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how the Climate Navigators program shows how local knowledge, mental health support, and trust-building improve climate adaptation planning. -
November 14, 2024
Informal Transportation Testing
Uncovering JAPA: A pilot project in Kampala, Uganda, reveals how targeted subsidies can create profitable and equitable informal transport routes, enhancing mobility for underserved communities. -
November 7, 2024
How Practitioners Define Sustainability
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how city sustainability leaders define their work, focusing on aspiration, collaboration, and resource sharing to drive local initiatives. -
November 4, 2024
Understanding Housing Instability
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how city planners, urban practitioners, and policymakers to better understand the vulnerabilities of urban residents and the multidimensional manifestation of housing precarity. -
October 24, 2024
How Nonprofits Are Shaping Community Organizing
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how subcontracting community organizing to nonprofits can enhance resident participation but risks perpetuating power inequities without addressing systemic racial and class-based disparities. -
October 17, 2024
Holding Landlords Accountable
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how OpenRefine is being used to track landlords' property ownership, enabling planners to target code enforcement and improve housing policy efforts. -
October 10, 2024
Rethinking Walkability: Prioritizing Pedestrian Movement
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how Hong Kong is tackling pedestrian detour ratios (PDR) to address challenges in high-traffic areas and promote safer, more walkable infrastructure. -
October 3, 2024
From Global Classroom to Home: Confronting Cultural Differences
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how haigui leverage their U.S. education to advocate for innovative planning practices in China, navigating cultural differences along the way. -
September 26, 2024
Navigating Intra-Ethnic Tensions
Uncovering JAPA: Gentrifiers of color can contribute to neighborhood revitalization, but this often results in increased displacement, underscoring the urgent need for urban planners to implement policies that support economically disadvantaged communities. -
September 20, 2024
Mapping Indigenous Food Infrastructure
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how an indigenous-led photovoice food systems approach reveals vital cultural and ecological assets, advocating for more equitable and resilient food systems. -
September 12, 2024
Reimagine Tolling With HOTTER Lanes
Uncovering JAPA: Discover how transforming metropolitan freeways into sustainable, multimodal systems can offer congestion-free travel for non-drivers and underserved populations by integrating toll revenue and incentives to reduce traffic and promote alternative transportation. -
September 5, 2024
Bridging the Gap: Planners and Stakeholders
Uncovering JAPA: See how planners can enhance transparency and collaboration to address power imbalances and prevent corruption in projects. -
August 29, 2024
Applicability and Ethics of Extended Reality (XR) in Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Explore how extended reality (XR) is utilized for urban design and public engagement, and the rising question about whether XR will enhance planning or lead to dystopian outcomes. -
August 22, 2024
Multinational Survey: Planners' Use of New Technology
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how planners are adopting new technologies and how AI is expected to impact administrative work, while its role in community engagement remains uncertain. -
August 15, 2024
A Cold Shower is Not Heat Resilience
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how reframing urban heat as an infrastructure issue and engaging communities in planning can build resilience against rising temperatures. -
August 8, 2024
Predicting Grocery Access After a Hurricane
Uncovering JAPA: As disaster storms increase, discover how they significantly impact food access for vulnerable communities. -
August 1, 2024
Deregulating Parking
Uncovering JAPA: Learn how Champaign, Illinois, has combated onsite parking constraints by removing minimum parking requirements and improving the utilization of existing parking.
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