Planning January 2017

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Planning January 2017

Special Issue on New York

APA is headed to New York City in May for the 2017 National Planning Conference. January's Planning gives readers a preview of action in the Big Apple with stories about parks, transit, and the tools planners are using to predict New York's future. Planning also crosses the Hudson to check out the scene on New Jersey's Gold Coast.

Featured Articles

NYC, Here We Come

New York City will play host to APA's 2017 National Planning Conference.

The Inside View

Molly Gordy interviews the Big Apple’s top planner, Carl Weisbrod.

More Than a New York Minute

Alec Appelbaum reports on the efforts to make the country’s oldest — and most used — transportation system in the U.S. better.

Zoning at 100

The city celebrates a century of zoning — and gets ready for the next one. By Lisa Chamberlain.

The Resilient City

New York is a city that survives, thrives — and plans. Alex Marshall paints a big-picture view.

The Impossible Task of Mapping the Future

Absent a crystal ball, the enormously complex region uses scenario planning tools to determine how to grow. By Robert Lane.

Central Parks for Everyone

Scott Dvorak explains how the city is reaching into all five boroughs to create great parks for every New Yorker.

On the Gold Coast

Colleen O’Dea takes us across the Hudson from Manhattan. New Jersey’s cities aren’t quite what you remember them to be.

News & Departments

Perspectives

A regular column by Chief Executive Officer James M. Drinan.

News

Habitat III, urban agriculture, election results.

Legal Lessons

Regulating wireless facilities.

Research You Can Use

Reid Ewing interprets conflicting research results.

Media

Tools, reports, blogs, videos.

Letters

Skate parks, form-based codes.

Planners Library

Detroit, Jane Jacobs, suburbs.

APA Bylaws

A series of proposed revisions to APA’s bylaws.

Viewpoint

Solutions beyond the bike lane.

Cover: Aerial of Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan. Photo by Stéphane Legrand.