Resiliency Efforts and Planning Without Zoning in Houston, Gender Mainstreaming Preview, and More | Cover to Cover

Welcome to Cover to Cover, a new series giving planners an insider
look into the stories in APA’s Planning magazine. Each month editor
Meghan Stromberg and associate editors Mary Hammon and Lindsay
Nieman dive deeper into the topics covered in Planning. They
introduce listeners to some of the contributors and other voices in
its pages, talk about how it all came together, and otherwise give
us the story behind the story. This month’s episode focuses on all
things planning in Houston: increased resiliency efforts following
Hurricane Harvey, a major transit bond measure, a new innovation
corridor, and more. Planning writer Bill Fulton, director of the
Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University in Houston,
weighs in on H-Town’s famous lack of zoning — he argues that the
city still uses important planning tools in guiding development.
The editors also provide a preview of the upcoming February issue,
including articles on gender mainstreaming and the rise of “night
mayors.”