Pub Date : 2023-07-20DOI: 10.1177/0739456x231187119
Nicholas Finio
The State of Maryland is investing in a new light rail line, the Purple Line, in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Whether or not the corridor it travels through is gentrifying is unknown, as are the impacts of both the construction and neighborhood gentrification on the local economy. In this paper, census data are used to identify neighborhood gentrification along the rail line. With a novel data source, employment, wages, and firm closures are tracked and analyzed. Even in advance of completion of the light rail line, much of the Purple Line Corridor is gentrifying, and impacts to businesses are potentially significant.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1177/0739456x231184607
A. Istrate
The presence of pedestrians is definitory for street vitality. This study employs statistical and geospatial analyses to explore how built environment factors explain changes in “pedestrian flows” and “stationary activities” on fifteen street segments in Shanghai, at a mesoscale. Detailed indicators were collected through field surveys, behavioral mappings, and counting. Changes in “pedestrian flows” are distinguished from those in “stationary activities”. Synergies reinforcing the latter emerged between small commerce, residential entrance gates, and buildings aligned to the street. Road widths show negative correlations with stationary activities, contradicting China’s modern street planning practice. Corresponding recommendations for design and planning are provided.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1177/0739456x231183353
Shauna Brail, J. Lorinc
This article examines the redevelopment of Toronto’s Regent Park, a neighborhood formerly comprised exclusively of public housing. Since 2006, it has been undergoing a transformation into a mixed income neighborhood. Through interviews and document analysis, the paper traces the complex and changing development agreements as redevelopment progresses, highlighting the state’s entrepreneurial efforts and the dynamic nature of urban planning and policy. We find that practices of financializing public land are highly fluid, and that efforts to derive public value from public housing redevelopment are tied to shifting community expectations regarding the return of benefits to residents.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1177/0739456x231156524
M. Oden, G. Sciara
We analyze rationales for inter-metropolitan collaboration and barriers to systematic planning at larger spatial scales. To understand whether multiple planning challenges are generating meaningful forms of collaboration across metro areas, we detail findings from a survey of U.S. Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs). Our results suggest that inter-MPO joint planning activities are widespread and substantive in light of potential barriers to such collaborations. A majority of MPO leaders see inter-metro planning activities as an important priority and effective in the context of their overall mission. However, the survey results suggest that transportation planning at the megaregional scale is at a nascent stage.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-29DOI: 10.1177/0739456x231180566
Adriana María Suárez Mayorga, Vasco Barbosa
The purpose of this research was to analyze the relationship between cultural heritage and land-use planning in Bogota’s Land Use Master Plans from 2000 to 2019, correlating the historical perspective with public policy. A methodological framework is proposed to comparatively examine the Planes de Ordenamiento Territorial (POTs), to understand how cultural heritage is conceived therein, how this conception was materialized in the city, and the impacts of that materialization. The main conclusion is that the POTs do not clearly define the strategies to achieve the objectives formulated regarding cultural heritage, nor do take into account the community in the decision-making process.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-29DOI: 10.1177/0739456x231182277
Kristin Agnello, Leela Viswanathan, Runa R. Das, L. King
Urban planners are often tasked with locating, assessing, and integrating multilevel policy, regulatory, administrative, and governance information. Through a recent systematic literature review (SLR) of Canadian municipal interventions targeting women’s equity, this paper answers the following research question: how can planners use an SLR methodology to increase the rigor and transparency of precedent research within practice? This article highlights the contributions and limitations of applying an SLR methodology to research within practice and demonstrates how planners can modify and apply this approach to standardize the collection and assessment of precedent to contribute to informed planning decisions.
{"title":"Transforming Precedent: A Systematic Review Methodology for Informed Planning Decisions","authors":"Kristin Agnello, Leela Viswanathan, Runa R. Das, L. King","doi":"10.1177/0739456x231182277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456x231182277","url":null,"abstract":"Urban planners are often tasked with locating, assessing, and integrating multilevel policy, regulatory, administrative, and governance information. Through a recent systematic literature review (SLR) of Canadian municipal interventions targeting women’s equity, this paper answers the following research question: how can planners use an SLR methodology to increase the rigor and transparency of precedent research within practice? This article highlights the contributions and limitations of applying an SLR methodology to research within practice and demonstrates how planners can modify and apply this approach to standardize the collection and assessment of precedent to contribute to informed planning decisions.","PeriodicalId":16793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Planning Education and Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41958878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1177/0739456x231180568
Z. Peng, Kai-Fa Lu, Yanghe Liu, Wei Zhai
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining prominence as a crucial technology to transform and reshape the field of urban planning. However, several unanswered questions persist regarding the potential impacts of AI on urban and regional planning research and practice, as well as the issues involved and the appropriate responses and plans. This paper aims to address these concerns in the AI-enabled planning process and accordingly create a typology of urban planning AI to categorize and outline the progression of AI in urban planning, ranging from AI-assisted and AI-augmented planning to AI-automated and eventually AI-autonomized planning, based on a scoping literature review.
{"title":"The Pathway of Urban Planning AI: From Planning Support to Plan-Making","authors":"Z. Peng, Kai-Fa Lu, Yanghe Liu, Wei Zhai","doi":"10.1177/0739456x231180568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456x231180568","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining prominence as a crucial technology to transform and reshape the field of urban planning. However, several unanswered questions persist regarding the potential impacts of AI on urban and regional planning research and practice, as well as the issues involved and the appropriate responses and plans. This paper aims to address these concerns in the AI-enabled planning process and accordingly create a typology of urban planning AI to categorize and outline the progression of AI in urban planning, ranging from AI-assisted and AI-augmented planning to AI-automated and eventually AI-autonomized planning, based on a scoping literature review.","PeriodicalId":16793,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Planning Education and Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42966008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1177/0739456x231181036
C. Wagner, J. du Toit
This article describes planning students’ experiences of an interdisciplinary near-peer research-mentoring program in the context of experiential learning. A group of final-year undergraduate planning students, who were required to conduct research and write a report, were mentored by master’s degree students in research psychology. Data obtained from independent focus group discussions with two cohorts of students yielded three themes. The merits and demerits of near-peer research mentoring are presented, and planning lecturers’ approach to improving students’ research skills by providing similar (especially interdisciplinary) programs is considered.
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