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A Divided Neighborhood Comes Together Under an Elevated Expressway
Next City, August 2018by: Katy ReckdahlThis article tracks a group of New Orleans residents that are reclaiming a space stripped from their community decades ago. -
Creating Welcoming and Inclusive Communities
Minnesota Cities Magazine, May-Jun 2018by: Danielle CabotThis article features a city’s response to a hate crime and their efforts to create a more inclusive community. -
Active Living and Social Justice: Planning for Physical Activity in Low-income, Black, and Latino Communities
Journal of the American Planning Association, 72(1): 88-99, 2006by: Kristen DayThis article belongs to the Built Environment and Health and Social Equity collections. -
Do Strict Land Use Regulations Make Metropolitan Areas More Segregated by Income?
Journal of the American Planning Association, 82(1): 6-21, 2016by: Michael Lens, Paavo MonkkonenThis article finds that density restrictions are related to the segregation of the rich into enclaves and suggests that inclusionary housing requirements from regional and state agencies may help curb income segregation. -
Refusing to Appropriate: The Emerging Discourse on Planning and Race
Journal of the American Planning Association, 60(2): 242-243, 1994by: Teresa CordovaThis article unapologetically claims that race cannot continue to be a taboo subject in planning and urges planners to create a more equitable planning process. -
Evaluating Transportation Equity
World Transport Policy & Practice, 8(2): 50-65, 2002by: Todd LitmanThis article introduces transport equity analysis and shares how to incorporate equity into project objectives and evaluation processes. -
Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning
Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 31(4): 331-338, 1965by: Paul DavidoffThis JAPA article urges planners to engage in political processes, like advocates, and to facilitate the creation and presentation of plural plans. -
City and Metropolitan Inequality on the Rise, Driven By Declining Incomes
Brookings, January 2016by: Natalie Holmes, Alan BerubeThis article unpacks the trend of growing income inequality and its consequences. -
How the Creative Placemaking Tide Lifts All Community Boats
Next City, June 2019by: James AndersonThis article tracks the Sweet Water Foundation’s efforts to fight gentrification through placemaking on Chicago’s South Side. -
Why Racial Disparities in Asthma Are an Urban Planning Issue
Next City, May 2019by: M. Sophia NewmanThis article looks at the health disparities among African American residents in Philadelphia. -
America's Tomorrow: Race, Place, and the Equity Agenda
Open Forum: Voice and Opinions from Leaders in Policy, the Field, and Academia, 2012by: Angela Glover BlackwellThis article details why equity is not just a moral issue, but an economic one, given demographic changes. -
Equitable Development: Untangling the Web of Urban Development Through Collaborative Problem Solving
Sustain, 21: 3-12, 2010by: Carlton EleyThis article offers perspectives on smart growth and equitable development, opening a discussion on how to use these practices to improve conditions for all Americans. -
Maintaining Diversity in America's Transit-Rich Neighborhoods: Tools for Equitable Neighborhood Change
New England Community Development, Issue 1: 2010by: Stephanie Pollack, Barry Bluestone, Chase BillinghamThis article explains how public investment that aims to make neighborhoods more transit-rich can lead to gentrification and displacement of core transit users. -
The Geography of Exclusion: Race, Segregation, and Concentrated Poverty
Social Problems, 59(3): 364-388, 2012by: Daniel Lichter, Domenica Parisi, Michael TaguinoThis article analyzes demographic data to track the rise in concentrated poverty and residential segregation, especially among disadvantaged communities of color, at the place and county level. -
The Impact of Gentrification on Ethnic Neighbourhoods in Toronto: A Case Study of Little Portugal
Urban Studies, 48(1): 61-83, 2011by: Robert Murdie, Carlos TeixeiraThis article examines the Little Portugal neighborhood in west central Toronto to point out the positive and negative effects of gentrification on ethnic neighborhoods. -
Cities as Emergent Systems: Race as a Rule in Organized Complexity
Environmental Law, 40(2): 551-597, 2010by: Charles Lord, Keaton NorguistThis article challenges the assumption that cities are chaotic and unmanageable in order to push for political and legal action around environmental justice. -
Beyond Food Deserts: Measuring and Mapping Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Food Environments
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 27: 469-482, 2008by: Samina Raja, Changxing Ma, Pavan YadavThis article investigates the food environment in Erie County, New York, finding that while there are no food deserts, different racial groups have access to different food destinations. -
Understanding the Disposition of Urban Planning Students Toward Social Justice and Equity Themes
SAGE Open: 1-15, July-September 2015by: Kirk HarrisThis article considers the attitudes of students towards social justice and equity and investigates how planning instruction may influence their understanding of these issues. -
The Mountains of Houston: Environmental Justice and the Politics of Garbage
Cite 93, Winter 2014by: Robert BullardThis article highlights the environmental justice concerns of waste management in Houston, exposing the disproportionate burden placed on African American communities. -
Park Usage, Social Milieu, and Psychosocial Benefits of Park Use Reported by Older Urban Park Users from Four Ethnic Groups
Leisure Sciences, 24: 199-218, 2002by: Howard Tinsley, Diane Tinsley, Chelsey CroskeysThis article shares the results of a study that aimed to understand how different groups of older park users engage with the space through structured interviews. -
Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 90(1): 12-40, 2000by: Laura PulidoThis article challenges the environmental racism literature for its lack of engagement with the concept of racism. -
The Ghetto as a Resource for Black America
Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 40(1): 17-30, 1974by: William GoldsmithThis article exposes that current approaches to revitalization do not deal with the issue of power and proposes a new approach that focuses on solutions and community, dealing directly with power and control. -
“Race" and Sexuality: Challenging the Patriarchal Structuring of Urban Social Space
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 11: 415-432, 1993by: Linda PeakeThis article presents a framework for understanding patriarchy and applies it to analyze living arrangements among low-income women and the creation of a lesbian residential area in Grand Rapids, Michigan. -
A Retrospective View of Equity Planning Cleveland 1969–1979
Journal of the American Planning Association, 48(2): 163-174, 1982by: Norman Krumholz, FAICPThis article features Norman Krumholz speaking on his experience with equity planning in Cleveland in the 1970s. -
Planning in the Face of Power
Journal of the American Planning Association, 48(1): 67-80, 1982by: John ForesterThis article explores how information and misinformation are used to influence the planning process and proposes a new form of “progressive” planning practice. -
Addressing Urban Transportation Equity in the United States
Fordham Urban Law Journal, 31(5): 1183-1209, 2003by: Robert BullardThis article investigates the relationship between transportation and equity, framing transportation as a basic right. -
Toward Indigenous Planning? First Nation Community Planning in Saskatchewan, Canada
Journal of Planning Education and Research 36(4): 1-11, 2015by: S. Yvonne Prusak, Ryan Walker, Robert InnesThis article studies community planning efforts in Canadian First Nation reserves to explore the ways indigenous planning principles interact with settler planning processes. -
Quantifying the Social Equity of Carbon Mitigation Strategies
Climate Policy, 12(6): 1-14, 2012by: Christian Casillas, Daniel KammenThis article exposes the absence of social equity metrics for evaluating emissions mitigation projects. -
How to Design a City for Women
CityLab, 2013by: Clare ForanThis article features an effort in Vienna, Austria, to understand the different ways men and women use public transportation, and to address some of the unique challenges that women face. -
Separate and Unequal: Residential Segregation
Communities & Banking 2016 Series, Winter 2016by: John LoganThis article looks at residential segregation in urban and suburban neighborhoods in Boston and finds that it is driven primarily by race and ethnicity, rather than income. -
Pursuing Sustainability with Social Equity Goals
PM Magazine, November 2014by: Katherine TakaiThis article shares five strategies for local governments to more explicitly address social equity. -
The White City: Race and Urban Politics
Sociology Compass, 9(12): 1049-1065, 2015by: Louise SeamsterThis article addresses the movement away from explicitly addressing race in urban politics. -
Does Placemaking Cause Gentrification? It's Complicated
Project for Public Spaces, November 2015by: Juliet KahneThis article argues that placemaking does not cause gentrification. -
The Minority-Race Planner in the Quest for a Just City
Planning Theory, 7(3): 227-247, 2008by: June Manning ThomasThis article discusses the role of the planner in working towards a just city and points out the unique role of the minority-race planner. -
Beyond "Latino New Urbanism": Advocating Ethnurbanisms
Journal of Urbanism, 5(2-3): 241-268, 2012by: Clara Irazabal-ZuritaThis article poses important questions about Latino New Urbanism (LNU) and other ethnic-based reformulations of urban practices. -
Income Inequality and Social Disfunction
Annual Review of Sociology, 35: 493-511, 2009by: Richard Wilkinson, Kate PickettThis article reviews literature on health outcomes from societies with large and small measures of income inequality and finds that places with greater inequality also have poorer health and more social problems. -
The Demise of Queer Space? Resurgent Gentrification and the Assimilation of LGBT Neighborhoods
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 31(1): 6-25, 2011by: Petra Doan, Harrison HigginsThis article details how gentrification of LGBT neighborhoods leads to the dispersal of the LGBT community, and their neighborhood institutions, in the Atlanta area. -
Deliberating Across Differences: Planning Futures in Cross-Cultural Spaces
Policy and Society, 28(3): 197-209, 2009by: Marisa ZapataThis article uses a case study from Modesto, California to describe how planning processes can account for power and cultural difference. -
Racial Formation, Environmental Racism, and the Emergency of Silicon Valley
Ethnicities 4(3): 403-424, 2004by: Lisa Sun-Hee Park, David PellowThis article challenges the environmental justice literature for its lack of engagement with theoretical frameworks of race and racism. -
Gentrification, Segregation, and Discrimination in the American Urban System
Environment and Planning A, 36: 1215-1241, 2004by: Elvin Wyly, Daniel HammelThis article analyzes the effects of 1990s housing-market and policy changes in 23 U.S. cities. -
Cultural Asset Mapping
Planning Commissioners Journal, 81: Winter 2011by: Robert VoigtThis article belongs to the Historic Preservation and Social Equity collections. -
The Neighborhood That Went to War Against Gentrifiers
CityLab, March 2017by: Natalie DelgadilloThis article describes how a community in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles is resisting a form of gentrification called “artwashing”. -
Leaders as Conveners of Uncomfortable Conversations
ICMA, September 2016This article points out that leaders have a responsibility to facilitate conversations that allow people to confront their biases about race, class, and religion. -
Spatial Justice: Rasquachification, Race and the City
Creative Time Reports, September 2014by: Roberto BedoyaThis article looks at how placemaking supports social justice. -
The Back-to-the-City Movement: Neighbourhood Redevelopment and Processes of Political and Cultural Displacement
Urban Studies, 52(10): 1-21, 2014by: Derek HyraThis article examines the revitalization of the Shaw/U Street neighborhood in Washington DC to explain the consequences of the back-to-the-city movement. -
Restoring Mill Creek: Landscape Literacy, Environmental Justice and City Planning and Design
Landscape Research, 30(3): 395-413, 2005by: Anne Whiston SpirnThis article looks at the Mill Creek neighborhood in Philadelphia to examine the racial history of disinvestment and neglect and current efforts to address these injustices through planning and design. -
The Myth of Social Capital in Community Development
Housing Policy Debate, 12(4): 781-806, 2001by: James DefilippisThis article critiques Robert Putnam’s interpretation of social capital, which is foundational for much community development practice today. -
Lessons for LEED® for Neighborhood Development, Social Equity, and Affordable Housing
Journal of the American Planning Association, 82(1): 37-49, 2016by: Nicola SzibboThis article belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Green Building, and Social Equity collections. -
Planning Accessible Communities
PAS Memo 117The ADA self-evaluation and transition plan process is a vital first step in addressing the accessibility of both the built environment and municipal programs and services to create truly inclusive communities. -
More and Better: Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Planning
PAS Memo — May/June 2019Overcoming old-school institutional and structural practices used to design cities requires new approaches to urban planning with intentional approaches to seeking diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). There are many ways to approach this work, but the primary — and perhaps the most critical — is within the profession.