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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. -
July 14, 2022
Online Dissent: Fostering a Necessary Component to Planning
Uncovering JAPA: How can planners preserve dissent in online public engagement opportunities? -
June 30, 2022
Professional Inequality Within Urban Planning
Uncovering JAPA: Planner Eun Jin Shin investigates representation and wage gaps within the planning profession. -
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. -
May 13, 2022
Going Beyond "Use" Zoning to Promote Housing Equity
Spotlight on Zoning Practice: How can deregulation expand housing supply and support housing equity? -
April 14, 2022
Confronting Spatial Inequalities
Uncovering JAPA: 'Place-based' policies can help address growing interregional inequality within the U.S. -
April 13, 2022
University of Florida Department of Urban and Regional Planning Celebrates Women in Planning
Sponsored Content: The University of Florida Department of Urban and Regional Planning is highlighting two of our alumnae, Jennifer Krouchick and Lian Plass. -
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 31, 2022
A Potential Solution to the Problem of Vacant Land in U.S. Cities
Uncovering JAPA: Analysis of Chicago's Large Lot Program to make neighborhoods more aesthetically pleasing and more equitable. -
March 24, 2022
Do Light Rail Stations Spur Gentrification?
Uncovering JAPA: Researchers explore the gentrification impacts of light rail stations. -
March 23, 2022
Leading the Firm: Advice from Women Business-Owners
A Q & A with two women planners who started their own businesses. Together they reflect on their personal career paths, the unique perspective women-owned businesses can bring, and their advice to the next generation of women planners. -
March 8, 2022
Understanding Redlining and Its Impacts
Documentary explores the long-lasting impacts of redlining on communities. -
March 8, 2022
Leading Women in Planning
In Greensboro, North Carolina, three AICP-certified women discuss their personal journeys into planning and the value of AICP. -
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. -
February 17, 2022
Examining the Impact of London's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing
Uncovering JAPA: Understanding the impact of mandatory inclusionary housing on the affordable housing stock in London, England. -
February 15, 2022
What Will the Third Stage of Your Planning Career Look Like?
APA member Eunice Roxann Read shares her personal career journey and gives insight into the resilience needed to continually adapt and thrive in the course of your work life. -
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 25, 2022
Hiring Neurodiverse People to Enhance Planning Teams
Awareness of neurodivergence, conditions such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, are on the rise, though the needs of neurodivergent people in the workplace are still widely misunderstood. Gala Korniyenko, Ph.D. co-creator of APA's Planning for Underserved Populations Interest Group shares how to broaden your EDI efforts to include the neurodiverse. -
January 24, 2022
Welcoming the Voices of Planning: Advancing Equity
Last year, APA Florida’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee launched a survey to better understand the intersection of experiences and the work of planning in Florida in relation to equity, diversity, and inclusion. The survey results and a panel discussion were shared via a webinar. -
November 4, 2021
Need for Diversity and Inclusivity in the Workplace
Uncovering JAPA: The experiences of African American/Black and Hispanic/Latin/o/a/x planners illustrate it is necessary to increase diversity in the workplace but also create inclusive work environments. -
October 11, 2021
Three Ways to Attract Diverse Talent
Continuing to expand on the topics raised during an APA Learning Circle on equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives in planning offices Chloé Greene and Monica G. Tibbits-Nutt, weigh in on how the Black Lives Matter movement has provided the opportunity for planning organizations to reaffirm a commitment to the value and importance of diversity and in creating inclusive and equitable spaces. -
October 5, 2021
Language Access: Inclusive Planning in Los Angeles
Los Angeles' City Planning department created Spanish Translation Style Guide, a tool to broaden support for key programs, respond to citizens’ needs, and collect input from diverse LEP voices across the city. -
September 29, 2021
Planning Directors Issue Racial Equity Statement and Call to Action
Planning directors from 20 U.S. cities release a statement and commitment to advancing racial equity. Planning directors are invited to sign the commitment. -
August 17, 2021
Getting Started With EDI in Your Office
Equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives are about translating values into actions. During an APA Learning Circle, facilitators Elizabeth "Libby" Tyler, FAICP, and Miguel Vazquez, AICP, led a conversation with representatives from different sized offices as they shared their EDI initiatives. -
August 5, 2021
Food For the People: Planning For Equitable Regional Food Systems
Uncovering JAPA: Understand the work that remains in regional food systems planning to make them more equitable. -
July 23, 2021
Survey Says: Planners Share Insights on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Key takeaways from the ACSP/APA Practitioner Diversity Climate Survey. -
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 12, 2021
Equity, Technology, and Infrastructure: What Got Planners Talking at NPC21
Read about the planning issues that got NPC21 attendees buzzing online. From micro-mobility to advancing equity to the impact of the built environment on mental and physical well-being, NPC21 covered the issues planners are addressing in today's communities. -
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? -
September 24, 2020
Concerned About Planning Equity? Start With Your Office
Uncovering JAPA: Step one in planning for equitable outcomes: create an equitable workplace. -
August 20, 2020
Whiteness and Planning in America
Uncovering JAPA: What are the spatial and economic implications of Whiteness in the U.S.? -
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 8, 2020
Congress Looks to Planning as a Climate Crisis Solution
A new congressional climate action plan positions planning as one solution to tackling climate change. APA supported the creation of the plan by contributing ideas for how federal climate policy can set the context for effective local and regional plans. -
June 29, 2020
Strengthening a Sense of Community Through Arts and Culture
APA’s Arts and Planning Interest Group is working to establish a more formal partnership between planners and artists with the help of Sue Mobley, a new visiting fellow. -
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? -
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. -
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.
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