JAPA Best Paper Awards
2023 Article of the Year Award
"Shifts Toward the Extremes: Zoning Change in Major U.S. Metropolitan Areas From 2003 to 2019" Vol. 88. No. 1, Rolf Pendall, Lydia Lo, and Jake Wegmann
2023 Best Article by an Emerging Scholar Award
"Procedural Vulnerability and Its Effects on Equitable Post-Disaster Recovery in Low-Income Communities" Vol. 88 No. 2, Danielle Zoe Rivera, Bradleigh Jenkins, and Rebecca Randolph
2022 Article of the Year Award
Evelyn Blumenberg & Hannah King (2021) Jobs–Housing Balance Re-Re-Visited, Journal of the American Planning Association, 87:4, 484-496
Emerging Scholar:
Julia Gabriele Harten (2021) Housing Single Women, Journal of the American Planning Association, 87:1, 85-100
2021 Article of the Year
Constantine E. Kontokosta, Vincent J. Reina & Bartosz Bonczak (2020) Energy Cost Burdens for Low-Income and Minority Households, Journal of the American Planning Association, 86:1, 89-105
Best Article by an Emerging Scholar:
Xiaoxia Dong (2020) Trade Uber for the Bus?, Journal of the American Planning Association, 86:2, 222-235
2020 JAPA Article of the Year
"Who Cares? Arnstein’s Ladder, the Emotional Paradox of Public Engagement, and (Re)imagining Planning as Caring" By Ward Lyles and Stacey Swearingen White (Vol. 85, No. 3)
Best Article by an Emerging Scholar:
"Redefining Car Access: Ride-Hail Travel and Use in Los Angeles" by Anne Brown; JAPA Vol. 85, No. 2.
2019 Best Article
"Estimates of Transaction Costs in Transfer of Development Rights Programs" Volume 84, No. 1, 2018. Peter Clinch, Eoin O'Neill, Sina Shahab
Best Article by an Early Career Scholar
"Planning for mixed use: Affordable for whom?" Volume 84, No. 1, 2018, Markus Moos
2018 Best Article 2018
"Measuring Informal Housing Production in California Cities" Volume 83, No. 4, 2017. Jake Wegmann, Sarah Mawhorter
Best Article by an Early Career Scholar 2018
"Achieving Regional Housing Planning Objectives; Directing Affordable Housing to Jobs-Rich Neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area" Volume 83, No. 2, 2017. Matthew Palm