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  • JAPA comes to UCLA

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    Urban Planning Professor Randy Crane has been selected as the Editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA). The journal will be housed at UCLA for five years beginning October 1, 2010. As the flagship scholarly journal in urban studies it is the principal gatekeeper for advancing theoretical and empirical work in planning. For more than…

  • Rosenfield Forum Navigates L.A.’s Traffic Problem

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    By Robin Heffler Urban planning and public policy experts, transportation leaders, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gathered downtown at the Japanese American National Museum on Friday, March 19, to share research, observations, proposals, and recommendations at a conference on “Changing Lanes: Bold Ideas to Solve L.A.’s Traffic Problem.”  The event was the second of the…

  • Shoup Receives his Second Rapkin Award for Best Article in JPER

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    The Chester Rapkin Award for the best article to appear in this year’s Journal of Planning Education and Research goes to Professor Donald Shoup for “Graduated Density Zoning.” A shorter version of the article has also been published in Zoning Practice. According to the awards committee the article “presents a potentially very important innovation in zoning, which could…