Document Center

Download major documents, including Growing Smart materials, amicus briefs, the Planning Advisory Service Report on signs, and Fundamentos de Planificación de Sitios, a Spanish-language training manual on proper site planning.

Classic Enabling Statutes

Full text of Standard State Zoning Enabling Act and Standard City Planning Enabling Act

Planners' Communications Guide (APA member-only access)

Planners' Communications Guide: Strategies, Examples, and Tools for Everyday Practice

Planning Advisory Service Reports

Context-Sensitive Signage Design

Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook

Legislative Guidebook

Users Manual

Other Publications from APA's Growing Smart Project

Planning for Smart Growth: 2002 State of the States

Planning Communities for the 21st Century

A Critical Analysis of Planning and Land-Use Laws in Montana

A University-Level Course Syllabus on Modernizing State Planning and Zoning Laws

Smart Growth Documents (APA member-only access)

Smart Growth Reader

APA's Amicus Curiae Committee

Amicus Curiae Briefs

Central America-Caribbean Site Planning Training

Fundamentos de Planificación de Sitios is a Spanish-language training manual on proper site planning.

PREFACIO

SECCIÓN 1: Introducción al Proceso para Planificación de Sitios

SECCIÓN 2: Análisis de Características Naturales

SECCIÓN 3: Conceptos de Diseño de Sitio

SECCIÓN 4: El Proceso de Planificación de Sitios

SECCIÓN 5: Ejercicio de Planificación de Sitios

SECCIÓN 6: Construcción y Ejecución del Plan del Sitio

International Planning

International Development Assistance: Learning to Get It Right, by Charles P. Boyce, former Vice Chair, APA's International Division

Reinventing Planning: A New Governance Paradigm for Managing Human Settlements