Planning December 2015

In This Issue:

Ruth Knack explores this year's great neighborhoods, streets, and public spaces.

Two AARP initiatives help pave the way. By Shannon Guzman and Aldea Douglas. Stephanie Firestone contributes a sidebar.

Small towns are seeing results from a typically urban tool, say Janet Cornish and Lanette Windemaker in this month's Planning Practice.

What do leading solar communities have in common? It may not be what you expect, reports Megan Day.

Creative districts have become a centerpiece of economic strategy. Liang Sisi, Gary Hack, and Bian Lanchun are on the scene.

A regular column by Executive Director James M. Drinan.

Houston's new plan, wildfires.

California inclusionary zoning.

A bimonthly department aimed at planning commissioners, edited by Carolyn Torma.

Reid Ewing talks about crime and population.

Detroit responds, public-private parks.

John Nolen bio, the myth of socioeconomic mobility.

News reports, blogs, videos, etc.

A call for social justice.

Cover: "Miami - Wynwood: Mural by Eduardo Kobra" by Wally Gobetz, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

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