Reviewed by Krystle Heaney, AICP. How did the American Dream — a single-family home on a privately owned lot — become an overpriced nightmare? Which new trends in housing are promising?
By Ned Thomas, AICP, and Kevin Riley, AICP, April 13, 2021. (Image: Draft Metro Plan Land Use Diagram, courtesy City of Milpitas.) Over the past decade, Milpitas converted 375 acres of older industrial and office uses around its new transit center to affordable housing and jobs.
Milpitas Metro Plan takes full advantage of transit Read More »
By Alan Hoffman, April 15, 2021. Transit is one of the few public services that actually competes for business. People who can choose won’t ride transit if it takes longer than driving, if stations/stops are inconveniently located, or if the experience is stressful.
Post-pandemic planning, Part 2: Insights from market research Read More »
By Rachael Smith, AICP, via Next City, March 26. Swiss painter Johannes Itten (1888-1967) said, “Color is life; for a world without colors appears to us as dead.” Many structures in our gray cities would look far nicer with a touch of color. Think about what you can do to liven up your community.
American cities should be more colorful Read More »
By Brynn McKiernan, AICP, April 16, 2021. Our jurors were Ozzy Arce, City of Walnut Creek; Florentina Craciun, City and County of San Francisco; Amalia Cunningham, AICP, Contra Costa County; Eri Suzuki, SiteLab; and Aaron Welch, Aaron Welch Planning. Click to see the winners.
Northern Section 2021 Awards announced Read More »
By Sandy Smith, March 10, 2021. Because of Covid-induced funding shortfalls, many public transit agencies have been facing doomsday scenarios: fare hikes, massive service cuts, and delayed projects.
Transit agencies praise Covid-19 relief bill Read More »
Interviewed by Catarina Kidd, AICP. Desai is Vice President for Diversity and Equity for APA California and serves on the Chapter’s Executive Board.
Meet a Local Planner: Miroo Desai, AICP Read More »
Takeaways from a Feb. 12 webinar by Hyojung Lee and Kristin L. Perkins, HUD USER, March 9, 2021. Gentrification affects neighborhoods in many American cities, but the particular pattern of resident outmigration is strongly influenced by the broader metropolitan context in which it occurs.
The spatial heterogeneity of gentrification Read More »
By Alan Hoffman, March 17, 2021. Planners can give the public an idea of what optimized regional transportation networks can look like and what’s possible. (A version of this article appeared in Meeting of the Minds, November 2020.)
Post-pandemic planning, Part 1: Optimizing transportation networks Read More »
By Michael Cass, Director-elect. Grow your skills and help your Northern Section APA colleagues. Join our Board as Treasurer, Marketing and Sponsorship Manager, or San Francisco Regional Activity Coordinator.
We want YOU — to join our Board Read More »
