Stephanie Rouse, AICP is the co-host of the Booked on Planning podcast where she interviews authors of planning and urban design literature for biweekly episodes. She is the Livable Neighborhoods manager in the Lincoln Urban Development Department, leading the rehabilitation and development of affordable housing and a lecturer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). She holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and a Master of Community and Regional Planning. She is currently serving as Past President for the American Planning Association Nebraska Chapter.
What if all buildings — and their stories — had the right to remain?
Book review: In “Preserving with Purpose,” author Amy Hetletvedt offers an alternative approach to using old buildings to benefit communities, instead of only focusing on saving only those deemed “worthy.”
The forgotten history of the southern regionalists
Book review: In "Folk Engineering: Planning Southern Regionalism," author Stephen Ramos unearths the forgotten history of the 1930s and 1940s counterpoint to Mumford’s city-region movement, led by Howard W. Odum.
The Bittersweet Path to the Housing Crisis — and how to Find our way Home
Book Review: In “Bittersweet Lane: Creating Home(s) in the American Affordable Housing Crisis,” affordable housing developer Jamie Madden blends memoir with a manifesto for a new era of affordable housing in America.
Review: Why Nothing Works
In “Why Nothing Works,” Marc Dunkelman argues that America’s political gridlock stems from an internal progressive conflict between Hamiltonian centralized efficiency and Jeffersonian individualized safeguards.
A Classic Revived, and More Important Than Ever
In “Livable Streets 2.0.” Donald Appleyard’s son, Bruce Appleyard, builds on his father’s seminal work and examines what it means today in an age of autonomous vehicles, modern policing technology, “20 is Plenty” and more.