Planning and Community Health Research Center: Resources

Planning and Community Health Research Center

Resources

From policy guides, reports and publications, to online courses and podcasts, APA has a variety of resources to assist planners and public health professionals in the integration of health into planning practice.

General Health & Planning

APA Library

Materials available at the APA Library

Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Products (PAS Subscribers Only)

  • Planning, Public Health & Physical Activity (PAS Essential Info Packet EIP-14)
  • Assessing the Health Impacts of Policies, Plans and Projects (PAS Memo September/October 2006)
  • Incorporating Health into Comprehensive Planning (PAS Memo September/October 2008)
  • Planning and Public Health Reunited: New Opportunities for Collaboration (PAS Memo July/August 2004)

Books and Products available at APAPlanningBooks.com

  • Health and Community Design: The Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity by Peter Engelke, Lawrence Frank, and Thomas Schmid (Island Press 2003)
  • Integrating Planning and Public Health: Tools and Strategies to Create Healthy Places (PAS Report 539/540)
  • Planning Active Communities (PAS Report 543-544)
  • Planning the Physically Active Community (APA Education and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy CD-ROM Training Package)
  • Planning and Public Health (APA Education and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy CD-ROM Training Package)
  • Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning and Building for Healthy Communities by Lawrence Frank, Howard Frumkin, and Richard Jackson (Island Press 2004)

APA Research Projects

  • Planning and Designing the Physically Active Community
  • Healthy Communities through Collaboration

Other APA Publications

Other Resources


Climate Change

APA Research Projects

  • Planning for a New Energy and Climate Future

APA Policy Guides

  • APA Policy Guide on Climate Change

Transportation & Physical Activity

APA Research Projects

  • Complete Streets
  • Planning and Designing the Physically Active Community

Books and Products available at APAPlanningBooks.com

  • Context Sensitive Street Design (APA Education CD-ROM)
  • Planning Active Communities (PAS Report 543-544)
  • Planning the Physically Active Community (APA Education and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy CD-ROM Training Package)
  • Planning for Street Connectivity (PAS 515)
  • The Transportation/Land Use Connection (PAS Report 546)

Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Products (PAS Subscribers Only)

  • Complete Streets (PAS QuickNotes No. 5)
  • Incorporating Health into Comprehensive Planning (PAS Memo, September 2008)
  • Planning, Public Health & Physical Activity (PAS Essential Info Packet EIP-14)
  • Transit-Oriented Development (PAS Essential Info Packet EIP-19)
  • Transit-Oriented Development Resources (Planning Advisory Service: You Asked. We Answered, March 2008)

APA Policy Guides

  • Policy Guide on Surface Transportation

Zoning Practice (Subscribers Only)

  • Zoning to Promote Health and Physical Activity (June 2004)

Parks and Recreation

APA Research Projects

  • City Parks Forum

Books and Products available at APAPlanningBooks.com

  • From Recreation to Re-creation: New Directions in Parks and Open Space System Planning (PAS Report 551)
  • Integrating Planning and Public Health: Tools and Strategies to Create Healthy Places (PAS Report 539/540)
  • Planning Active Communities (PAS Report 543-544)
  • Planning the Urban Forest: Ecology, Economy, and Community Development (PAS Report 555)

Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Products (PAS Subscribers Only)

  • Incorporating Health into Comprehensive Planning (PAS Memo, September 2008)

Mixed-Use Development

APA Policy Guides

  • Policy Guide on Smart Growth

Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Products (PAS Subscribers Only)

  • Incorporating Health into Comprehensive Planning (PAS Memo, September 2008)
  • Zoning for Mixed Uses (PAS QuickNotes No. 6)

Food Systems

APA Policy Guides

  • Policy Guide on Agricultural Land Preservation
  • Policy Guide on Community and Regional Food Planning
  • Policy Guide on Smart Growth

Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Products (PAS Subscribers Only)

  • Agricultural Businesses (You Asked. We Answered, December 2006)
  • Community and Regional Food Planning (PAS Memo, September 2007)
  • Formula Businesses (You Asked. We Answered, May 2007)
  • Incorporating Health into Comprehensive Planning (PAS Memo, September 2008)
  • Urban Chickens (You Asked. We Answered, October 2009)
  • Food Systems Planning (PAS QuickNotes, February 2010)
  • Local Agricultural Preservation: Making the Food System Connection (PAS Memo, March 2011)
  • Community Gardens (You Asked. We Answered, April 2011)

Tuesdays at APA

  • Food Systems Planning (Tuesdays at APA)

Books and Products available at APAPlanningBooks.com

  • Farmland Preservation (APA Education CD-ROM)
  • Old Cities Green Cities: Communities Transform Unmanaged Land (PAS Report 506/507)
  • A Planners Guide to Community and Regional Food Planning (PAS Report 554)
  • Regulating Temporary Summer Uses (PAS Essential Info Packet 9)
  • Enhancing Urban Food Systems (PAS Essential Info Packet 16)
  • Urban Agriculture: Growing Healthy, Sustainable Places (PAS Report 563)

Other APA Publications


Housing Choice and Affordability

APA Policy Guides

  • Policy Guide on Housing

Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Products (PAS Subscribers Only)

  • Housing an Aging Population (PAS Essential Info Packet EIP-21)
  • Inclusionary Housing (PAS QuickNotes No. 7)
  • Inclusionary Housing Resources (You Asked. We Answered. October 2006)
  • Jobs-Housing Balance (PAS Report 516) (Full online access for subscribers)
  • Racial Disparities in Housing and Health (PAS Memo January/February 2005)

Books and Products available at APAPlanningBooks.com

  • Regional Approaches to Affordable Housing (PAS 513/514)
  • Zoning as a Barrier to Multifamily Housing Development (PAS 548)

Accessory Dwelling Units

Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Products (PAS Subscribers Only)

  • Accessory Dwelling Units (PAS QuickNotes No. 19)

Universal Design

Books and Products available at APAPlanningBooks.com

  • Integrating Planning and Public Health: Tools and Strategies to Create Healthy Places (PAS Report 539/540)

Schools

Books and Products available at APAPlanningBooks.com

  • Planning Active Communities (PAS Report 543-544)
  • A Planners Guide to Community and Regional Food Planning (PAS Report 554)

Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Products (PAS Subscribers Only)

  • Planning for Family Friendly Communities (PAS Memo, November/December 2008)

Clean Water and Air

Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Products (PAS Subscribers Only)

  • Incorporating Health into Comprehensive Planning (PAS Memo, September 2008)

Books and Products available at APAPlanningBooks.com

  • Ecological Riverfront Design (PAS Report 518/519)
  • Planning Issues for On-Site and Decentralized Wastewater Treatment (PAS Report 542)
  • Nonpoint Source Pollution (PAS Report 476)

Environmental Justice

Books and Products available at APAPlanningBooks.com

  • Fair and Healthy Land Use: Environmental Justice and Planning (PAS Report 549/550)

Health Impact Assessments

Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Products (PAS Subscribers Only)

  • Assessing the Health Impacts of Policies, Plans and Projects (PAS Memo, September/October 2006)
  • Incorporating Health into Comprehensive Planning (PAS Memo, September 2008)
  • Planning and Public Health Reunited (PAS Memo, July 2004)

Books and Products available at APAPlanningBooks.com

  • Integrating Planning and Public Health: Tools and Strategies to Create Healthy Places (PAS Report 539/540)
  • Planning and Public Health (APA Education CD-ROM)

Other Resources


Brownfield Remediation and Reuse

APA Research Projects

  • Creating Community-Based Brownfields Redevelopment Strategies

Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Products (PAS Subscribers Only)

  • Community Based Brownfield Redevelopment (PAS Memo, January 2008)