Volume 50 – Design in Planning and the Environment (2025)
Editor-in-Chief: Samantha Pace
Editorial Board: Joe Wilson, Candela Cerpa, Noah Ellington, Nicki Harris, Benjamin Jacobs, Mohammad Haider Kamaruzzaman, Jo (Joungwon) Kwon, Annie Oommen, Jasmine Pritchett, Aditya Roy, Josh Salzberg, Sarah Slay, Joseph Womble
Cover Photographer: Jo (Joungwon) Kwon
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This year marks a momentous occasion as the Carolina Planning Journal (CPJ), the oldest student-run planning publication in the nation, celebrates its 50th anniversary. We are excited to celebrate this milestone with you, the CPJ community, through this volume.
Volume 50 offers several featured articles investigating the theme of Design in Planning and the Environment, a collection of student work showcasing place-based planning and urban design, Reflections on 50 Years, an interview with the founders of CPJ, and concludes with highlights from the UNC Chapel Hill Department of City and Regional Planning (DCRP), the next NC-APA Conference, and the Volume 51 Call for Papers.
Authors of the featured articles explore design as a topic or framework within planning and the environment. The disciplines of design and planning are intertwined through their overlapping impacts and focus on urban form and the environment – built and natural – as well as their approaches to address challenges. The strategies we use to define, design, and plan for the challenges we face, shape the world we inhabit and ourselves. These papers demonstrate how a design amplifies the values of its designers, and how who is impacted is often not who is empowered in the design process. The design lens makes space for both critique and creativity, helping us to begin to imagine the path between what is and what could be.
Volume 50 Contents:
- Featured Articles
- “Designing Living Things” by Candela Cerpa and Dr. Renata Poulton Kamakura
- “Reimagining Paper Streets in Durham” by Andrew Holland, Lyndsay Gavin, and Erick Peña
- “The Cost of a Degree” by Samantha Niven
- “It’s (50 Years) Time to See the (In)visible” by Sylvie Guezeon
- “Principles to Design a Successful Bike Share Network in a Small or Medium City” by Joseph Womble
- “How the Sprawling Designs of Today’s Carpool Lines Make Traffic Worse” by Anna Lynch
- “El Transporte Colectivo” by Alejandro Cotté Alsina
- Place-based Planning, Urban Design and Zoning Course
- Course Overview by Tony Perez
- “Form-Based Code in Durham’s West End and the Lakewood Shopping Center” by Jackson Dille, Emily Ensminger, and Lizbeth Woodby
- “Form-Based Code for Affordability and Walkability” by Zhiyuan Chen and Aaron Sinclair
- “Redeveloping a Site in Charlotte withe Form-Based Code” by Nea Strawn, Sofia Cardamone, and Audrey Compiano
- Reflections: 50 Years of Carolina Planning
- “Evolving Perspectives in Historic Preservation: A 25 Year Reflection Overview” by Kristi Brantley and Anya Grahn-Federmack
- “What it Meant for Me, and the Planning Practice” by Roger Waldon
- An Interview with the Founders of CPJ: Nancy Grden, Jim Miller, and Lee Corum
- Student Work
- Class of 2025 Master’s Project Titles
- Best Master’s Project 2025: Grant Holub-Moorman
- Year in Review: Highlights from New East
- 2025 APA-NC and SCAPA Conference Annoucement
- Volume 51 Call for Papers