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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. -
Adopting Racial Equity Frameworks in Planning Organizations
Uncovering JAPA: What can planning departments do to adopt an organizational racial equity framework? -
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. -
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. -
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? -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Preserving the Grass Root of Urban Agriculture
Uncovering JAPA: Does digital urban agriculture mean the end of small scale growing? -
When Climate Resiliency Is More Than an Afterthought
Uncovering JAPA: Affordable housing and resiliency must coexist. How can low-income households weather the storm? -
Sustainability Plans Can Be More Than Just Talk
Uncovering JAPA: Investing in a sustainability plan means investing in the future. -
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. -
May 21, 2020
Challenges to Ambitious Planning in a Shrinking City
Uncovering JAPA: Can planners overcome cultural, political, legal, and economic barriers to “smart shrinkage” strategies in shrinking cities? -
May 14, 2020
Is Single-Family Zoning on the Way Out?
Uncovering JAPA: Is it time to give the ax to single-family residential zoning? Nine JAPA viewpoints argue the question from both sides. -
May 7, 2020
A "Wheely" Good Way to Save Commercial Corridors
Uncovering JAPA: How do we bring back the commercial corridor? In Toronto, the answer might be more bikes and fewer cars. -
April 30, 2020
Coping With Ethical Dissonance in Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Learn what research shows about the ways planners are responding to ethical dilemmas. -
April 23, 2020
The Generalist Journal and Its Value for Planning
JAPA articles grapple with concerns of broad interest and make contributions that can transform the wider domain of knowledge. -
Simplifying Coastal Planning for Small Cities
Uncovering JAPA: How can small coastal cities plan for climate uncertainty? -
April 9, 2020
Building a Participation Ladder With Youth
Uncovering JAPA: What possibilities would we have if youth could participate more fully in planning? Read about three new rungs of youth participation. -
Changing Climate Calls for Changing the Built Environment
Uncovering JAPA: Building water-efficient cities might let us stick to the rivers and lakes that we’re used to. -
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. -
Regional Planning Can Help With Environmental Impacts of Warehouses
Uncovering JAPA: How can planning help regulate the disproportionate concentration of e-commerce-related warehouse facilities in greenfield sites? -
March 12, 2020
More Than Articles: Review Essays in JAPA (Nerd Alert:Technical Details)
Get tips on writing a great review essay for the Journal of the American Planning Association. -
Locating Housing Affordability Amid Foreclosures
Uncovering JAPA: Planners may create communities more resilient to housing foreclosure by addressing location affordability. -
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. -
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? -
January 16, 2020
JAPA in the Information Age (Nerd Alert: Technical Details)
What is the role of the Journal of the American Planning Association in the information age? Editor Ann Forsyth looks at the new information landscape. -
A Ladder to More Meaningful Community Participation
Uncovering JAPA: Arnstein's Ladder of Citizen Participation can't fix community participation, but it surely provides a space from which to start. -
Revisiting Arnstein’s Ladder: Justice as Parity of Participation
Uncovering JAPA: How can planning toward participation have a transformative effect on social equity? -
Noncitizens, Nonprofits, and Methods of Engagement
Uncovering JAPA: Three lessons from nonprofits in Los Angeles County can help planners build trust and representation for noncitizens. -
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. -
Missing Rungs in the Ladder of Citizen Participation
Uncovering JAPA: What happens when public participation is used to finesse existing plans and policies rather than provide opportunities to challenge them? -
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? -
Research That Retrieves Lost Memories of Place
Uncovering JAPA: Engaging community members in storytelling can reveal forgotten heritage and draw new maps of the past. -
Building That Well-Known Ladder of Citizen Participation
Uncovering JAPA: Sherry Arnstein's influential Ladder of Citizen Participation grew from her frustration with government ideas about power in the 1950s and 1960s. -
Who Cares? Reimagining Planning as Caring
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners acknowledge and make use of all of their emotions in a productive way when engaging with the public? -
September 5, 2019
Changing California's Way of Measuring Traffic Could Equal More Housing
Uncovering JAPA: Switching from Level of Service (LOS) measurement to Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) could streamline the development process in California. -
Planners as Partners in Building Healthy Communities
Uncovering JAPA: What does it look like for planners to not simply involve communities but ensure they have agency and can lead?
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