Blogs

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 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 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?

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.

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.

February 27, 2020

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.

February 20, 2020

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?

December 11, 2019

Revisiting Arnstein’s Ladder: Justice as Parity of Participation

Uncovering JAPA: How can planning toward participation have a transformative effect on social equity?

November 21, 2019

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.

October 17, 2019

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?

September 26, 2019

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.

July 25, 2019

Ride-Hailing Could Boost Mobility Beyond Rich, Urban Areas

Uncovering JAPA: Ride-hail services are used by a wide range of people around Los Angeles, suggesting that they might provide increased mobility in rural, suburban, and low-income areas.