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Known for world-class research, RPA also engages communities, businesses, elected officials, and the media each day to advance our ideas. Read our latest testimonies, statements, media hits, and blog posts.

4171 posts

Sep 06 2016

Panel: Building Affordable Housing on NYCHA Land

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Sep 06 2016

What We’re Reading: Veto for NJ Healthy Foods Bill; Planning Transportation for Tri-State Area; Pitfalls of FEMA Flood Maps

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Sep 01 2016

TBT: Robert Moses’s Brooklyn-Battery Bridge

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 31 2016

Newsweek
Uber: Let Technology and Bus Rapid Transit Help Solve the L Train Dilemma

In the Media
Aug 30 2016

What We’re Reading: Faster Amtrak Trains; Polluted Ronkonkoma Lake; Record-Level NYC Homelessness

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 30 2016

NYC Job Growth Further Proof of Economic Transformation

by Christopher Jones

RPA Lab
Aug 29 2016

Can Microunits Help Alleviate the Housing Shortage?

by Moses Gates

RPA Lab
Aug 24 2016

Calling All Urban Planning Poets

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 23 2016

Wall Street Journal
Interim Fixes Coming as La Guardia’s Terminal B Is Rebuilt

In the Media
Aug 23 2016

What We’re Reading: Rio’s Transit Riders May Be the Real Winners of the 2016 Olympics

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 22 2016

Despite Improvements, Low-level Air Pollution Continues to Damage Health in the Region

by Dustin Fry

RPA Lab
Aug 18 2016

More Than 1.8 Million Homes at Risk of Permanent Flooding

by Robert Freudenberg

RPA Lab
Aug 17 2016

The Atlantic
An Unsteady Future for New England’s Suburbs

In the Media
Aug 16 2016

From Tangier Island to Long Island: How Will Coastal Communities Adapt to Sea Level Rise?

by Ellis Calvin

RPA Lab
Aug 11 2016

Curbed NY
East Harlem’s Affordable Housing Stock May Be In Jeopardy

In the Media
Aug 11 2016

TBT: What to Do About Crowding in NYC, Circa 1932

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 10 2016

Mapping the Region’s Vanishing Wetlands

by Sarabrent McCoy

RPA Lab
Aug 10 2016

Let’s Not Waste a Golden Opportunity to Transform the L

by Richard Barone

RPA Lab
Aug 09 2016

The Verge
Train to Nowhere

In the Media
Aug 09 2016

What We’re Reading: NYC’s Beaches, Parks and Pools Attract Record Crowds

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 08 2016

Architects Newspaper
East Harlem Set to Lose 25 Percent of Affordable Housing Stock, Regional Plan Association Says

In the Media
Aug 08 2016

AM New York
MTA Bus That Will Do Everything, Except Go Faster

In the Media
Aug 08 2016

Data Geek: Comparing the Smaller Cities in the Hudson Valley

by Kate Slevin

RPA Lab
Aug 05 2016

Report: One-Fourth of East Harlem Units Could Lose Affordability Restrictions by 2040

by Pierina Ana Sanchez

RPA Lab
Aug 04 2016

Triboro and Freight Can Be Friends

by Richard Barone

RPA Lab
Aug 03 2016

Urban Planning, in Verse

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Aug 02 2016

What We’re Reading: Suburbs Like New Rochelle Betting Future on Looking More Like Cities

by Claire Mardian

RPA Lab
Aug 01 2016

Serpas: Segregation, and Its Solutions, Are Best Understood Regionally

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Jul 31 2016

AM New York
‘Brand New Subway’ Game Lets You Rebuild MTA Subway System From Scratch

In the Media
Jul 31 2016

New York Times
Short Trains. Frequent Disruptions. Once Mocked, the G Train Is Now Cool

In the Media
Jul 31 2016

City Limits
For Low-Income People of Color in NYC, Segregation Is a Regional Problem

In the Media
Jul 31 2016

City Limits
De Blasio Ferry Could Face Cost Challenges but Offer New Resiliency

In the Media
Jul 29 2016

Gothamist
Mayor De Blasio Open to Closing 14th Street During L Train Shutdown

In the Media
Jul 28 2016

Politico New York
De Blasio Sticks to Posture of L-Train Incredulity

In the Media
Jul 28 2016

Celebrating 100 Years of Zoning

by Ann Regan

RPA Lab
Jul 26 2016

CCTV
New York’s La Guardia Airport Ranked Last in On-Time Arrivals

In the Media
Jul 26 2016

What We’re Reading: De Blasio Ahead of Schedule on Housing Goals

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Jul 25 2016

City Limits
When New Moms Get Sick, Race – and Hospitals - Matter

In the Media
Jul 25 2016

Wall Street Journal
Advocates Want More From MTA During Tunnel Shutdown

In the Media
Jul 25 2016

A Lot Could Happen During the L Train Tunnel Closure

by Wendy Pollack

RPA Lab
Jul 24 2016

Berkeleyside
Downtown Berkeley Most Walkable Bay Area Neighborhood

In the Media
Jul 24 2016

Slate
The L Train Shutdown Is a Crisis New York City Can’t Afford to Waste

In the Media
Jul 22 2016

Head for the Hills

by Claire Mardian

RPA Lab
Jul 21 2016

Take a Look at NYC’s ‘Storefront Survivors’

by Kate Slevin

RPA Lab
Jul 20 2016

Queens Chronicle
Expect Better Subways Before Any New Rail Options

In the Media
Jul 20 2016

Walkability for Whom?

by Moses Gates

RPA Lab
Jul 19 2016

What We’re Reading: Growing Educational Divide in CT Post Recession

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Jul 18 2016

Wiley: ‘…We are building on top of a discriminatory infrastructure’

by Emily Thenhaus

RPA Lab
Jul 17 2016

Politico New Jersey
Cuomo Unveils New Subway Designs, Part of a 'Personal' Mission

In the Media
Jul 15 2016

Transit Center: Give Riders Regular, Fast Transit

by Kate Slevin

RPA Lab