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Planning Magazine Columns
Between November 2006 and December 2019, MRC director Reid Ewing wrote 71 Columns in Planning Magazine on "Research You Can Use." They are downloadable below. The First Published Column is "Does Growth Management Work? Program Evaluation at its Best."
2006 Columns
Does Growth Management Work? Program Evaluation at its Best
2007 Columns
Finding happiness in public-private partner-ships. The Case for Case Studies
Regional Scenario Plans and Meta-Analysis
The Perils of Causal Inference: Bicycling in Davis, California
Security of Public Spaces: New Measures Are Reliable, But Are They Valid?
When Qualitative Research Trumps Quantitative—Cultural Economy and Smart Growth
The Demand for Smart Growth: What Survey Research Tells Us
2008 Columns
Land Readjustment—Learning from International Research
Different Models of Metropolitan Economic Performance
Graduated Density Zoning—The Danger of Generalizing from a Sample of One
First Look at Climate Action Plans—So Much More to be Done
2009 Columns
When Quantitative Research Trumps Qualitative—What Makes Transfer of Development Rights Work?
Meta-Analysis of Plan Quality—More than a Literature Review
Using Safe Streets as a Research Priority
Compact Development and Good Outcomes—Environmental Determinism, Self-Selection, or Some of Both?
What Planners Need to Know About Evaluating LEED
Top Academics vs. Top Thinkers
2010 Columns
A Bonanza of Journal Articles
A ‘Natural Experiment’—Closing Broadway
Peer Review Clarifies Lots of Things, Including the Relationship of Sprawl and Air Pollution
Translational Research: The Next New Thing
Translational Research in Action
2011 Columns
Make Way for a New Theory
Traffic Generated by MXD: New Prediction Methods Ahead
Urban Design vs. Urban Planning: a Distinction with a Difference
Another bonanza
Is Anyone Listening as Climate Change Speeds Up?
2012 Columns
Experiments and Quasi-Experiments: Two Great New Studies
Great Topic (Urban Agriculture) and Good Start (to Academic Career)
Accessibility vs. Mobility: The Right Methodology
Brouhaha Over JAPA Article: Is Flawed Peer Review to Blame?
A “New” (250-Year-Old) Way of Thinking about Statistics
2013 Columns
Mixing Methods for Clearer Results
Coordinating Land Use and Transportation in Sacramento
Come Home to JAPA
Reviewing the Reviews
Costs of Sprawl Revisited
2014 Columns
Observation as a Research Method (and the Importance of Public Seating)
Not Your Grandparents’ Regression Analysis
Mapping Mobility
Hot Journal, Hotter Cities
Correlation Does Not Imply Causation (When it Comes to Childhood Obesity)
2015 Columns
Assessing BIDs Using Propensity Score Matching
Golden Age of Street Design
Toward a Grounded Theory of Sustainable Zoning
Measuring Livability
'Edgy' Planning Issues
A Physicist Tries to Solve The city
2016 Columns
Contribution of Urban Design Qualities to Pedestrian Activity
JAPA, a Year in Review
Five Academic Planners You Should Know
Active Living: A Planning Subfield Comes of Age
Fire-Resilient Community Design: A New Planning Subfield?
2017 Columns
Making Sense of Different Results: Is Meta-Regression Necessarily Best?
Lessons Learned: Denver's Rough Road to I-70 Expansion
Planning for Polycentric Regional Development
The Value of 'Vibrant Centers'
The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem
A Mixed Picture of Gentrification
2018 Columns
Growth Management Revisited, Again
Multiple Lessons from a Single Paper on Urban Sprawl
Applied Research at APA
Land-Use Planning via MPOs
Planning for Cars that Drive Themselves
2019 Columns
Rugosity as a New Planning Paradigm
The Best of the Best
A Housing Revolution in Minneapolis
Planning, Meet Technology
Tech for Scenario Planning
Qualitative Takes on Post-Disaster Recovery
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