Planning February 2010
Planning February 2010
Five-Ring Circus
Do host cities win or lose with the Olympic Games? James Krohe Jr. seeks the answer.
Sidebar: Perfect Marriage
Sidebar: A Sustainable Approach in Vancouver
Lasting Landscapes
Protected areas could offer best practices for rural planning. Elizabeth Watson reports.
Sidebar: Unique Protections
Web Only Sidebar: Programs for 'Protected Areas'
Healthy Planning in Action
Heather Wooten describes places that are linking planning and health.
Web Only Sidebar: How Can Planning Departments Support Healthy Communities?
Transmission Boost
A surge in wind power means the U.S. needs to seriously upgrade its grid. Allen Best expounds in Planning Practice.
Vive Rive Gauche
A massive redevelopment is transforming Paris, says Yonah Freemark.
Sidebar: The Grand Scheme
Diversifying the Urban Forest
Jill Mazullo confirms that monoculture is no longer the way to go.
Foreclosing the Dream
An excerpt from William Lucy's new APA Planners Press book upends some assumptions about the financial health of inner cities and their suburbs.
Regional and Sustainable
The central Ohio MPO is changing with the times, reports Ellen Marrison. A Sustainable Communities story.
News
Wildlife overpasses, Great Lakes lawsuit.
Legal News
Subdivisions, as-applied challenges
By the Numbers
Our regular feature on statistics in the news — compiled by APA's Research Department. This month: the Olympics.
Research You Can Use
Reid Ewing reviews a bonanza of high-impact articles from the Journal of the American Planning Association.
Letters
Great places, Austin incubator.
Planners Library
Handbook for regionalists, climate change.
Media
News reports, blogs, videos, etc.
Viewpoint
The transforming power of transit.
Cover: High-voltage transmission lines near Kemmerer, Wyoming. Photo by Allen Best.