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PAS ReportsEach quarter APA's Planning Advisory Service publishes a new PAS Report providing authoritative guidance on current issues and innovative practices. Subscribing organizations automatically receive each new PAS report as it is published. Subscribers may borrow past reports and purchase them at a 50 percent discount from APAPlanningbooks.com. Latest ReportCities in Transition: A Guide for Practicing Planners
Many of America's cities are in states of uncertainty, fighting the challenges of lost population and jobs, shifting demographics, plummeting property values, and shrinking municipal budgets. For many Rust Belt cities, this has been an ongoing struggle that began decades ago with the onset of suburbanization and the loss of manufacturing jobs. For other cities, the crises have erupted more recently. In the latest PAS Report, authors Joseph Schilling and Alan Mallach, FAICP, highlight the new skills and tools planners will need to use and the new roles they will need to play in order to foster economic regeneration in cities in transition. The report provides step-by-step guidance along with case studies of planning initiatives from a wide range of cities in transition to help planners create and implement local planning strategies for urban regeneration. PAS subscribers will receive the report in April. Additional copies are available through APAPlanningBooks.com. Chronological List of ReportsWhatever issue you're working on, chances are there's a PAS Report that covers it. Since 1949, PAS has published more than 550 reports on a wide range of planning topics. Take a look at the PAS Reports list to see all the titles in this vital resource series. PAS subscribers: Is the title you want not on your department's bookshelf? Contact us for a loan copy, or purchase your own from the bookstore with your 50 percent PAS discount. Historic Reports
Information Report No. 201, August 1965 The Disposal of Junked CarsBy 1965, when Americans were junking more than 5 million cars each year and demand for auto scrap was declining, junked cars and automobile graveyards had become growing concerns for planners and officials. This month’s historic PAS Report explores the regulation of auto wreckers and processors along with the problems of vehicle abandonment. Selected Reports OnlineLooking for land use definitions? Need some examples of parking standards for a certain use? PAS Subscribers, we've provided you with digital access to the popular reports below. Jobs-Housing BalancePAS Report 516
Community IndicatorsPAS Report 517
A Planners DictionaryPAS Report 521/522
Parking StandardsPAS Report 510/511
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PAS published its first Information Report in 1949. To celebrate this history, each month we're presenting a new report from the archives. We hope you enjoy these fascinating snapshots of planning issues of yesteryear.
This report examines a controversial concept — jobs-housing balance. Some have argued that the market is the mechanism that will achieve such balance. Jerry Weitz, in his research of four types of jobs-housing imbalance, concludes that the market has failed to achieve balance in three of the four scenarios he lays out. He provides case studies to support his findings, including one from King County, Washington, showing that increases in housing costs are more gradual in areas with a jobs-housing balance. This report counters the skeptics and points to those actions planners can take to help bring appropriate housing, jobs, and workforces together, resulting in overall community improvements.
Community indicators help planners evaluate and monitor the full range of factors — social, environmental, economic, and more — that affect the well-being of a community or region. This report reviews the use of indicators in planning practice and explores their relationship to citizen participation, quality of life, and sustainability. It summarizes the types and scale of indicators and describes how to identify, select, and develop indicators that are appropriate for a particular community. Rural and urban examples show how planners have used indicators in their practice. Includes an annotated list of resources and web links.
This dictionary, a revised and updated edition of the Planning Advisory Service's best selling Glossary of Zoning, Development, and Planning Terms, contains more than 4,200 terms used by planners around the nation. This new edition contains an introduction by Harvey Moscowitz, FAICP, chief editor of The Illustrated Book of Development Definitions, and Carl Lindbloom, AICP. Contributors include many APA Research Department staff, who culled through hundreds of ordinances, plans, and planning documents to offer readers choices of definitions and commentaries that add depth and value to the dictionary.
This report, an expanded and updated version of a previous best seller, contains an exhaustive set of parking standards and an exploration of the complexities of creating practical standards. There is general agreement that when the supply of parking greatly exceeds typical demand, the results are detrimental to a range of stakeholders. Benefits may come from minimizing off-street parking, but downsizing requirements can be tricky because many communities fear the impact on overall community development. This report addresses that quandary and explores techniques such as shared parking, maximum parking standards, downtown parking standards, and more.
