Rendering of Fairfax Crest, a 279-unit affordable housing complex on public land in Fairfax County, Virginia, which will have 15,000 square feet of retail including a daycare.

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Current Issue: Spring/Summer 2026

This issue explores the redevelopment of public land for affordable housing, highlights the promising use of agrivoltaics, and spotlights a mayor from Alaska who is leading in a land of extremes.

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Rendering of Fairfax Crest, a 279-unit affordable housing complex on public land in Fairfax County, Virginia, which will have 15,000 square feet of retail including a daycare.

Spring/Summer 2026

This issue explores the redevelopment of public land for affordable housing, highlights the promising use of agrivoltaics, and spotlights a mayor from Alaska who is leading in a land of extremes.

Land Lines Magazine cover Fall/Winter issue 2025

Fall/Winter 2025

This issue explores how to make cities more sustainable without causing displacement, introduces a Colorado artist who draws inspiration from watershed health, and investigates how planners can use augmented reality to increase public engagement.

Spring/Summer 2025

The composition of US households is changing, and housing design should change along with it—so argues a feature article in this issue, which also includes an exploration of how communities are preparing to handle climate migration and a look at the land conservation legacy of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Fall/Winter 2024

This issue includes an exploration of the historic federal investment in clean energy manufacturing in legacy cities, a photographic guide to density, and conversations with researchers who are past recipients of Lincoln Institute fellowships.

Land Lines magazine cover image showing houses along stormy waters in Seattle.

Spring/Summer 2024

This issue explores cities rethinking street surfaces in response to climate change, factors influencing home buyers to consider climate risk, the work of Seattle’s Black Home Initiative to address affordability and inequity, and more.

Fall/Winter 2023

In this issue, planners discuss the steps they’re taking to address the profession’s legacy of inequity; local residents and leaders in Burlington, Vermont, reflect on an ambitious effort to preserve affordable housing in the Old North End neighborhood; and we spotlight surprising natural climate solutions, from coastal salt marshes to caribou herds.