Meet a Local Planner: Miroo Desai, AICP
Interviewed by Catarina Kidd, AICP. Desai is Vice President for Diversity and Equity for APA California and serves on the Chapter’s Executive Board.
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News
The spatial heterogeneity of gentrification
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.
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Post-pandemic planning, Part 1: Optimizing transportation networks
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.)
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11 women whose work can inspire post-pandemic planning
By Lindsay Neiman, Planning Magazine, Winter 2021. This roundup selects just four of the eleven described in the article.
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In some cities, the pandemic’s economic pain may continue for a decade
By Mark Muro and Yang You, Brookings, March 11, 2021. New forecasts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics offer a useful caution.
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Proposed legislation would give cities fewer excuses for blocking housing
By Josh Stephens, CP&DR, March 8, 2021. Hundreds of proposed bills would provide tools for the state and cities to increase housing production.
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Study finds wildfire smoke more harmful to humans than pollution from cars
By Nathan Rott, NPR, March 5, 2021. Mitigation for exposure relies on people and households and communities knowing when to avoid smoke exposure.
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Bay Area’s migration is real, but Postal Service data shows California exodus isn’t
By Roland Li, Susie Nielson, San Francisco Chronicle, March 2, 2021. Housing costs are often cited as the main reason to move.
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Petaluma becomes first in the US to ban new gas stations
By Andrew Chamings, SFGate, March 2, 2021. Existing gas stations will only be allowed to add infrastructure for electric vehicles.
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Where the ‘15-minute city’ falls short
By Feargus O’Sullivan, Bloomberg CityLab, March 2, 2021. Toronto-based urban designer and thinker Jay Pitter argues it risks entrenching social divisions.
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