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Environmental Justice and Zoning Reform
PAS Report 608by: Christine Quattro, AICP September 01, 2024Zoning that places residential uses next to high-intensity land uses has environmental justice implications for the health, safety, and welfare of individuals, families, and communities.Nonmembers$25.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
2023 Trend Report for Planners
by: Petra Hurtado, PhD, Sagar Shah, PhD, AICP, Joseph DeAngelis, AICP, Alexsandra Gomez January 24, 2023The 2023 Trend Report for Planners features more than 100 existing, emerging, and potential future trends that APA identified as relevant to planning. The trends are structured within three timeframes (Act Now, Prepare, Learn and Watch), which indicate the urgency of planners’ action. -
2022 Trend Report for Planners
by: Petra Hurtado, PhD, Sagar Shah, PhD, AICP, Joseph DeAngelis, AICP, Alexsandra Gomez January 18, 2022The 2022 Trend Report for Planners features nearly 100 existing, emerging, and potential future trends that APA identified as relevant to planning. The trends are structured within three timeframes (Act Now, Prepare, Learn and Watch), which indicate the urgency of planners’ action. -
Planning With Diverse Communities
PAS Report 593by: Ivis Garcia, AICP, Andrea Garfinkel-Castro, Deirdre Pfeiffer, AICP January 01, 2019The U.S. will become a “majority-minority” country by the mid-2040s. More than before, planners must serve diverse publics and build inclusive communities. This PAS Report offers the tools planners need to engage people of color and improve quality of life for all in ethnically and racially diverse communities.List price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
The Atlanta City Design: Aspiring to the Beloved Community
2017This report acknowledges racist and exclusionary planning practices from Atlanta's past and outlines a vision for realigning plans, projects, policies, and priorities to guide change in alignment with the city's shared values. -
Atlanta City Design Housing
December 2020This report explores how Atlanta's historical land-use policies for housing have effected the design of the city. -
Concentrated Poverty and Regional Equity: Findings From the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership’s Shared Indicators Initiative
April 2013by: G. Thomas Kingsley, Rob PitingoloThis report introduces concentrated poverty and regional equity and calculates ratios for measuring both. -
Equity and Efficiency Considerations in Use Value Taxation
2005by: David Soule, Barry BluestoneThis report presents the opportunities and challenges of use value taxes as a land use strategy, including concerns with equity and efficiency, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. -
Development Without Displacement: Resisting Gentrification in the Bay Area
November 2015by: Dawn Phillips, Luis Flores, Jamila HendersonThis report studies the grassroots efforts to resist gentrification in San Francisco and Oakland, California and shares policy recommendations. -
Unintended Impacts of Redevelopment and Revitalization Efforts in Five Environmental Justice Communities
August 2006by: National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyThis report centers the issues of gentrification and displacement in the conversation of environmental justice. -
Immigrants and Local Governance: The View from City Hall
2005by: S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Paul LewisThis report considers how involved immigrants are in local civic life in California’s immigrant destination cities. -
Dealing with Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices
April 2001by: Maureen Kennedy, Paul LeonardThis report studies the issue of gentrification and considers how to pursue equitable development. -
Strained Suburbs: The Social Service Challenges of Rising Suburban Poverty
October 2010by: Scott Allard, Benjamin RothThis report investigates social service infrastructure in the suburbs of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington DC. -
A Tale of Three Cities: The State of Racial Justice in Chicago Report
May 2017by: Kasey Hendricks, Amanda LewisThis report provides a comprehensive picture of the changing conditions of racial and ethnic groups in Chicago during the last half century. -
History of Racist Planning in Portland
September 2019by: City of Portland Bureau of Planning and SustainabilityThis report summarizes and reflects on the city of Portland's use of racist and exclusionary planning practices, as a way of actively addressing and preventing further harm to affected communities. -
What Does "Equity" Look Like? A Synthesis of Equity Policy, Administration and Planning in the Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan Area
April 2014by: Diane BesserThis report shares the results from a literature review and series of interviews with regional equity experts which explores the opportunities and challenges of achieving social equity in Portland, Oregon. -
America’s Tomorrow: Equity is the Superior Growth Model
2011by: Angela Glover Blackwell, Manuel PastorThis report lays out a framework for equity-driven growth that is responsive to economic and demographic changes. -
The Ingredients of Equitable Development Planning: A Cross-Case Analysis of Equitable Development Planning and CDFIs
2019by: Alexander Von HoffmanThis report introduces the practice of equitable development and shares three case studies from Washington DC, Detroit, and Phoenix. -
Equitable Development and Urban Park Space: Results and Insights from the First Two Years of Implementation of the Equitable Development Plan of DC’s 11th Street Bridge Park Project
March 2019by: Mary Bogle, Somala Diby, Mychal CohenThis report assesses whether the ongoing Bridge Park project in Washington DC has been a driver of inclusive growth. -
Municipal Innovations in Immigrant Integration: 20 Cities, 20 Good Practices
September 2010by: Ricardo Gambetta, Zivile GedrimaiteThis report shares what local governments are doing to address immigration in the absence of a national immigrant integration policy. -
America's Racially Diverse Suburbs: Opportunities and Challenges
July 2012by: Myron Orfield, Thomas LuceThis report studies the largest 50 metropolitan areas in the U.S. to create a typology of the racial diversity of suburbs. -
The Business Case for Racial Equity
2018by: Ani TurnerThe report details the economic impact of racial inequity and the benefits of advancing racial equity as a strategy for economic growth. -
Local Governments, Social Equity, and Sustainable Communities: Advancing Social Equity Goals to Achieve Sustainability
2014by: James Svara, Tanya Watt, Katherine TakaiThis report uses data from a national survey to assess whether local governments are incorporating social equity into their sustainability efforts. -
The Expanding Transportation Network Company 'Equity Gap': Adverse Impacts on Passengers with Disabilities, Underserved Communities, the Environment & the On-Demand Workforce
2016by: Matthew DausThis report lays out the equity concerns of transportation network companies, like Uber and Lyft. -
Out of Reach 2016: No Refuge for Low Income Renters
2016by: Diane Yentel, Andrew Aurand, Dan EmmanuelThis report investigates the housing affordability crisis and shares data, including housing wage, housing costs, area median income, and renter households, for each state. -
Structural Racism and Efforts to Radically Reconstruct the Inner-City Built Environment
November 2001by: Henry Taylor, Sam ColeThis briefing paper argues that community revitalization efforts must address race, class, and power in order to bring about real change. -
Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy: Recommendations and Research
2009by: Shireen MalakafzaliThis report belongs to the Active Transportation, Built Environment and Health, and Social Equity collections. -
Addressing Community Concerns: How Environmental Justice Relates to Land Use Planning and Zoning
July 2003by: Philip Rutledge, James Barnes Jr, Teodoro BenavidesThis report discusses the relationship between land use planning and zoning and environmental justice. -
Environmental Justice, Urban Revitalization, and Brownfields: The Search for Authentic Signs of Hope
December 1996by: National Environmental Justice Advisory CouncilThis report analyzes findings from public dialogues on urban revitalization and brownfields. -
All Aboard! Making Equity and Inclusion Central to Federal Transportation Policy
January 2009by: Victor RubinThis report establishes core principles for achieving transportation equity and provides recommendations for federal policy. -
Community Benefits Agreements: Making Development Projects Accountable
2002by: Julian Gross, Greg LeRoy, Madeline Janis-AparicioThis report introduces Community Benefits Agreements as a tool to ensure that new development benefits the community. -
Cleveland Policy Planning Report
1975This report, by the Cleveland Planning Department under the direction of Norman Krumholz, establishes social equity as the primary goal for the department. -
Local Policies for Environmental Justice: A National Scan
February 2019by: Ana Isabel Baptista, Amanda Sachs, Claudia RotThis report details zoning, land use, and other policy reforms designed to address environmental justice issues from a national scan. -
Building Inclusive Communities: Cross-Canada Perspectives and Strategies
April 2003by: Peter Clutterbuck, Marvyn NovickThis report shares the results of focus groups hosted across Canada on the topic of creating more inclusive urban communities. -
Ending American Apartheid: How Cities Achieve and Maintain Racial Diversity
2021by: Daniel Lauber, AICPThis report highlights the forces that contribute to resegregation and the collective costs of resegregation and discusses what planners and other community leaders need to do to promote and maintain racial diversity. -
The Future of Equity in Cities
2017by: Nicole DuPuis, Elias Stahl, Brooks RainwaterThis resource belongs to the Autonomous Vehicles and Social Equity collections. -
Gentrification, Displacement and the Role of Public Investment: A Literature Review
Working Paper Series, 2015-05by: Miriam Zuk, Ariel Bierbaum, Karen ChappleThis report investigates the public sector role in promoting gentrification and displacement. -
Divided by Design
Transportation for America; July 2023This report details how low income communities and communities of color have historically and continue to be disproportionately affected by transportation design and implementation. -
Housing as an Asset Class: Opportunities for Systems Change to Enhance Social Equity an Inclusion
September 2017by: Maya Brennan, Pam Blumenthal, Laurie GoodmanThis report belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs and Social Equity collections. -
The Role of Community Land Trusts in Fostering Equitable, Transit-Oriented Development: Case Studies from Atlanta, Denver, and the Twin Cities
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Paper, 2013by: Robert HickeyThis report belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Social Equity, and Transit-Oriented Development collections. -
Fair and Healthy Land Use: Environmental Justice and Planning
PAS Report 549/550by: Craig Arnold November 08, 2007Learn to incorporate the principles of environmental justice into your planning processes. This PAS Report outlines the law and regulatory tools.List Price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00
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