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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-04-23

  National Zoning Atlas Founder Sara Bronin is Empowering Communities to Transform Land Use

Zoning reform has become a topic of national interest, not just among planners and local decision makers, but also in the national media and in everyday conversations. While the national housing crisis is well-documented, information on the role of loc...
  American Planning Association author
2024-02-06

  Megan Oliver on How to Plan for Happiness in Cities

Planners can design places for many purposes: to promote commerce, to protect us from natural disasters, to uplift historical significance. As mental health and social relationships become increasingly significant, new questions rise to the top: What a...
  American Planning Association author
2023-12-19

  Anaid Yerena and Rashad Williams on Building an Equitable Future of Planning

The history of planning includes racist policies and practices that have resulted in entrenched inequity and enduring systemic barriers. Understanding the complexities and impacts of those barriers is necessary to dismantling ingrained inequalities and...
  American Planning Association author
2023-12-14

  Rediscovering Roots: Planner Jewell Littles Walton Uncovers Family Ties to Tulsa's Black Wall Street

Jewell Littles Walton is an urban planning and real estate professional with a career spanning multiple decades. She joins Dina Walters, a member of APA's Prioritize Equity team, for this special episode to share the story of uncovering her family’s co...
  American Planning Association author
2023-10-19

  Shain Shapiro on Taylor Swift and the Benefits of a Music Policy for Your City

When it comes to essential services and the stakeholders of a city, music and the people who make up a music ecosystem may not always be mentioned in the same breath as utilities and schools or residents and businesses. But music can enhance quality of...
  American Planning Association author
2023-08-29

  Taiwo Jaiyeoba on How Planners Can Lead Through Zoning Reform and by Crafting Equitable Comprehensive Plans

Addressing systemic racism and entrenched inequity has become an imperative for many institutions. Planners are in a unique position to make a big course correction on equity through comprehensive planning — if they embrace the opportunity to lead. On...
  American Planning Association author
2023-07-18

  Robert Goodspeed on How Exploratory Scenario Planning Helps Imagine Uncertain Futures

It seems the word “unprecedented” has been used so often to describe everything from the weather to public health in recent years that the only certainty is uncertainty. This makes the job of urban planners especially difficult as they try to anticipat...
  American Planning Association author
2023-06-20

  YouTuber and Planner Dave Amos on Teaching a Crash Course in Urban Planning, One Video at a Time

The average person on the street may not know what a planning professional does, but they probably have opinions on traffic, housing, and the many other elements of daily life that planners influence. Planner Dave Amos bet on that natural curiosity whe...
  American Planning Association author
2023-06-01

  Planning to Ensure Longevity for Small Minority-Owned Businesses

In this APA podcast - part of the Planning for Equity series - Bobby Boone, founder and chief strategist of &Access, discusses economic development strategies for combatting displacement of small minority-owned businesses. Boone shares how planners...
  American Planning Association author
2023-05-25

  Embracing Heritage: How Culture Influences Your Planning Work

In this APA podcast - part of the Planning for Equity series - Daniel Besinaiz, senior comprehensive planner at the City of Colorado Springs, shares his somewhat unexpected and personal journey on learning to celebrate and embrace his Latino heritage. ...
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