Blogs

June 17, 2021

Big Little Towns: The Growing Reality of Western Gateway Communities

Uncovering JAPA: The changing realities of Western gateway communities.

June 10, 2021

Human Rights and the City

Uncovering JAPA: What are the implications of human rights for planning in Canadian cities, and beyond?

June 3, 2021

Gender Equity and Shanghai's Shared Rental Market

Uncovering JAPA: Discover the emerging trends in shared rental housing in Shanghai, specifically that of bed space rentals, and their implications for gender equity.

May 13, 2021

Prioritizing the Public in Public Utilities

Uncovering JAPA: Performance benchmarking in public water and sanitation services may only feign efficiency and efficacy in many low- and middle-income countries.

May 6, 2021

Ridership Forecasts Should Do More Than Go With the Flow

Ridership forecasts predict the future, but this Uncovering JAPA post explains their past.

April 29, 2021

New Towns and the Struggle for Work-Life Balance

Uncovering JAPA: In Hong Kong, building new towns requires strategic spatial planning to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

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 18, 2021

Move Aside and Let Communities Decide

Uncovering JAPA: Duke University seeks community input when deciding how to invest in its surrounding neighborhoods in Durham, North Carolina.

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.

March 4, 2021

Making Room For the River

Uncovering JAPA: Using the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard (PIRS), researchers studied the Dutch city of Nijmegen to determine how integrated planning can reduce flooding vulnerability.

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?

February 4, 2021

Does Industrial Preservation Promote Industrial Activity?

Uncovering JAPA: How effective are industrial preservation policies in promoting industrial activity, and can planners use them as an economic development tool?

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.

January 21, 2021

Surveying Restrictive Regulations: What Do Planners Know?

How do researchers inventory restrictive regulations and assess their relationship to the underproduction of housing?

January 14, 2021

Greenspace Resilience in the Wake of Disasters

Get recommendations for integrating proactive and resilient greenspace improvements into disaster recovery planning.

January 7, 2021

A Framework to Strengthen Transportation Planning

Uncovering JAPA: Tackle uncertainty using a robust decision-making framework for transportation planning.

December 17, 2020

Tracking the Major Themes in Urban Planning Literature

Uncovering JAPA: Curious which themes are most prominent in the urban planning literature? Check out an analysis of 30 years of articles.

December 10, 2020

Exploratory Scenario Planning for Uncertain Futures

Uncovering JAPA: How can planners best use exploratory planning scenarios?

November 19, 2020

How APA Members Can Understand JAPA's Value

How can we measure success for the Journal of the American Planning Association?

November 12, 2020

Big, Open Data Offers New Tools for Transit-Oriented Development

Uncovering JAPA: How can planners use big, open data to look at transit-oriented development?

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 15, 2020

Changing Spaces Won’t Change Your Weight

Uncovering JAPA: Can making spaces more compact reduce obesity among young adults? It's not that simple.

October 8, 2020

When It’s Right to Rightsize

Uncovering JAPA: The Flint water crisis shows when it's right to rightsize.

October 1, 2020

Adopting Racial Equity Frameworks in Planning Organizations

Uncovering JAPA: What can planning departments do to adopt an organizational racial equity framework?

September 24, 2020

Concerned About Planning Equity? Start With Your Office

Uncovering JAPA: Step one in planning for equitable outcomes: create an equitable workplace.

September 17, 2020

Demographics Key to Transit versus Ride-Hail Choice

Uncovering JAPA: Ride-hailing is overturning the transport industry, but what are the factors leading people to choose it over public transit?

September 10, 2020

Techniques for Securing Public Benefits from Development

Uncovering JAPA: What's the best approach for securing more public benefits from development: negotiation or exaction?

August 27, 2020

Life Satisfaction and Your Neighborhood Built Environment

Uncovering JAPA: Do walkability, transit, and parks improve life satisfaction? It depends.

August 20, 2020

Whiteness and Planning in America

Uncovering JAPA: What are the spatial and economic implications of Whiteness in the U.S.?

August 13, 2020

Polycentric Development and the Future of Regions

Uncovering JAPA: If employed correctly, polycentric development can promote sustainable growth — allowing regions to thrive economically while preserving the environment.

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 30, 2020

A Guide to Choosing the Best Meeting Venues

Uncovering JAPA: Where should you have your meeting to engage the community? The Venue Creation Tool can help you decide.

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.

July 16, 2020

Where the Future of Transportation Is Leading Planners

Uncovering JAPA: The future of transportation remains uncertain, but scenario planning may help. Explore where planners might be headed.

July 9, 2020

7 Ways to Plan a Stronger Climate Change Response

Uncovering JAPA: Current climate action plans are insufficient for the mounting climate crisis. Get seven principles to help bolster and fill the gaps in these plans.

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 11, 2020

Sustainability Plans Can Be More Than Just Talk

Uncovering JAPA: Investing in a sustainability plan means investing in the future.

June 4, 2020

A Simple Path to Sustainable Transportation

Uncovering JAPA: Shared autonomous vehicles will be part of the future, but do we need them to achieve sustainable transportation?

May 28, 2020

Covenants, Codes, Restrictions, and Your Own Backyard

Uncovering JAPA: Explore the language of covenants, codes, and restrictions to learn the role homeowner associations play in regulating the aesthetic and ecological functions of yards.