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Your Guide to NFTs, Cryptocurrency, and the Blockchain
The blockchain could have a big impact on city services — and the environment. Here's what planners need to know.by: Patrick Sisson June 27, 2022The blockchain could have a big impact on city services — and the environment. Here's what planners need to know. -
Automated Vehicles and the Next Great Transformation of the Built Environment
by: Timothy Chapin, Lindsay Stevens, AICP, Jeremy CruteResearchers at Florida State University and the Florida Department of Transportation document how automated vehicles may transform the built environment in coming decades. -
The Commissioner — Winter 2011
In The Commissioner's Winter 2011 issue: "APA in Multiple Media"; "Nonconforming Uses: Part Two"; a profile of the Brookline, Massachusetts, planning board; "Planning Commission Absenteeism" and sample commission attendance provisions; Lady Bird Johnson's conversation efforts; and more.List price$5.00Members & subscribers$0.00 -
How to Uncover and Honor LGBTQ+ History in the Built Environment
Kentucky and Maryland are the first states to use historical context studies to highlight places influential to the LGBTQ+ community — and drive planning efforts.by: Tatiana Walk-Morris May 20, 2022Kentucky and Maryland are the first states to use historical context studies to highlight places influential to the LGBTQ+ community — and drive planning efforts. -
Using Faith-Based Land for Affordable Housing
Zoning Practice — July 2023This issue of Zoning Practice explores the growing trend of developing transitional and permanent affordable housing on underused faith-based land. It examines the relationship between land supply and the housing crisis, the reasons why religious institutions are increasingly interested in development partnerships, and the zoning standards that can limit development opportunities. -
Protecting Historically Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Neighborhoods and Business Districts
Zoning Practice — August 2023Establishing protective measures for historically disadvantaged and vulnerable neighborhoods and business districts requires a proactive, community-based approach. This issue of Zoning Practice outlines clear steps those who write, administer, and enforce zoning regulations can take to proactively protect these neighborhoods and business districts. -
Shifting Social Consequences of Climate Change
by: Laier-Rayshon SmithUncovering JAPA: Understanding the shifting social consequences of a changing climate. -
Creating Planning Documents
PAS Report 589by: Allyson Mendenhall, Claire Hempel, AICP CUD, Emily Risinger, Stephanie Grigsby, AICP November 01, 2017Planners routinely create plans, reports, and guides. This PAS Report is a guide to recommended practices, including field-tested tools and strategies to help planners manage the process of creating planning documents from concept to delivery.List price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Water: Cities' Biggest Risk?
by: Jason JordanAggressive advocacy will be needed to build public support and transform the politics of water. -
Partnerships and Federal Funding Build an Oasis in a Food Desert
Tulsa Economic Development Corporation and partners leveraged federal grant dollars and made community and equity the core of a new grocery store.by: Gary Hamer, AICP March 16, 2023Tulsa Economic Development Corporation and partners leveraged federal grant dollars and made community and equity the core of a new grocery store. -
APA Policy Guide on Historic and Cultural Resources
APA Policy Guide on Historic and Cultural Resources adopted in 1997. -
Smart City Digital Twins
PAS QuickNotes 89A smart city digital twin (SCDT) — a living digital replica of a city that is continuously updated with real-time data and analytics on interactions between humans, infrastructure, and technology — offers a holistic view of the changes that take place in a city. -
Salt Lake City, UT, City Code
Updated September 2021The city's code belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Active Transportation, Affordable Housing Programs, Food Trucks, Group Housing, Home Occupations, Housing Supply Planning, Residential Infill Development, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Solar Energy, Transit-Oriented Development, Urban Agriculture, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Computer Vision for Planning
PAS QuickNotes 111Computer vision, a form of artificial intelligence that enables computers to interpret and process visual data from images and video to extract insights about our world, has much to offer planning practitioners. -
Tech for Scenario Planning
October 01, 2019Scenario planning has grown in acceptance and impact over the past decade, fueled in part by innovations in software. -
High and Dry on the Waterfront
Zoning Practice — November 2013by: James Schwab, FAICPThis issue of Zoning Practice discusses how coastal communities, such as New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey, are reforming development regulations to maintain the attractions of the urban shoreline while adequately protecting those areas from coastal storms and flooding.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Aesthetics, Community Character, and the Law
PAS Report 489/490by: Christopher Duerksen, Matthew Goebel, AICP March 01, 1999Land-use planners and citizens will learn about the law of aesthetics and what legal tools are available to help their communities maintain their sense of place. This PAS Report was cosponsored by Scenic America.List Price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Urban Heat Management and the Legacy of Redlining
by: Laier-Rayshon SmithUncovering JAPA: Neighborhoods that were once targets of redlining now have higher land surface temperatures than other neighborhoods in the same city. Planners need to correct past policy errors to make cities more equitable, including in urban heat management. -
Creative Placemaking for Community Health
Planning Approaches to Encourage Physical Activity in Small and Rural Communitiesby: Johamary Pena, AICP, Sagar Shah, PhD, AICPThis blog post provides an overview of community events as a planning approach to increase physical activity in small and rural communities through everyday destinations. It is part of the Everyday Destinations series. -
Emerging Trends in Regional Planning
PAS Report 586by: Rocky Piro, FAICP, Robert Leiter, FAICP, Sharon Rooney, AICPToday’s planning issues don’t respect boundaries. Rising tides don’t stop at the county line. Transit systems roll from city to city. Jobs and housing are joined at the hip. This PAS Report offers real-world answers to the regional quandaries planners face.List price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Reno, NV, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2022This regulation belongs to the Grayfields Reuse and Redevelopment, Marijuana-Related Uses, Solar Energy, Transit-Oriented Development, and Urban Heat Resilience collections. -
Cottage Home Program
With the adoption of the 2016 Clovis Central Area Plan, the city now permits 400-square-foot cottage homes (i.e., ADUs) on the rear portion of single-family lots in the Old Town Clovis neighborhood. -
Albany, NY, Albany 2030
Adopted April 2012This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities, Built Environment and Health, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Food Systems, Social Equity, and Solar Energy collections. -
Raleigh, NC, 2030 Comprehensive Plan
Updated November 2019This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health, Capital Improvements Programming, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Creative Placemaking, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Historic Preservation, Neighborhood Planning, Outdoor Lighting, and Social Equity collections. -
Fairfax County, VA, Zoning Ordinance
Updated July 2021This regulations belong to the Content-Neutral Sign Regulation, Inclusionary Housing, Outdoor Lighting, Short-Term Residential Rentals, Transit-Oriented Development, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Virginia Beach, VA, Code of Ordinances
Updated June 2019This regulation belongs to the Content-Neutral Sign Regulation, Inclusionary Housing, Short-Term Residential Rentals, and Small Wireless Facilities and Wireless Facilities in the ROW collections. -
Evanston, IL, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2022This regulation belongs to the Climate Change, Food Trucks, Inclusionary Housing, Short-Term Residential Rentals, Solar Energy, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Davis, CA, Municipal Code
Updated October 2021This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Farmland Protection, Inclusionary Housing, and Solar Energy collections. -
San Jose, CA, Municipal Code
Updated September 2021This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Affordable Housing Programs, Built Environment and Health, Group Housing, Housing Supply Planning, Shared Mobility, and Solar Energy collections. -
Raleigh, NC, Unified Development Ordinance
Updated January 2020This regulation belongs to the Food Trucks, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Historic Preservation, Housing Supply Planning, Residential Infill Development, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Cognitive Assessment of Present Scenario of Urban Heritage: The Strand, Chandannagar, West Bengal, India
by: Abhishek RaoChandannagar’s heritage faces neglect and mismanagement. Key issues include building neglect, unauthorized development, and low awareness. Solutions include a Conservation Fund, incentives for owners, adaptive reuse, heritage trails, cultural events. -
Guthrie Historic District: Guthrie, Oklahoma
Rural Guthrie, Oklahoma, has the largest historic urban district in the state with more than 2,000 buildings. The town has used it as a catalyst for innovative health-focused initiatives, such as a complete streets ordinance. -
Plan4Health
Coalitions made up of APA chapters, APHA affiliate groups, and others will work to set a new paradigm for healthy planning. By leveraging complementary expertise and influence, this project seeks to expand innovative tactics to addressing tough problems. -
Benefits of Compact, Mixed Use Development
This collection catalogs synthesis and original research articles and reports that illustrate what researchers have learned to date about the costs and benefits associated with compact, mixed use development. -
Form-Based Zoning
Form-based zoning is an approach to zoning that emphasizes built form over land use. This collection catalogs resources that provide background and policy guidance on form-based zoning, as well as examples of local form-based codes. -
Grayfields Reuse and Redevelopment
Currently, many cities and counties across the U.S. have a large supply of vacant or underutilized auto-oriented commercial properties. This collection catalogs resources that provide background, policy guidance, and examples of local plan recommendations and zoning standards to facilitate the reuse or redevelopment of abandoned or underutilized commercial properties. -
Inclusionary Housing
Inclusionary housing programs link affordable housing provision to private development by requiring or incentivizing developers to construct affordable housing units as part of market-rate residential projects. This collection catalogs resources that provide background and policy guidance or demonstrate how localities are using plans and development regulations to promote inclusionary housing. -
Neighborhood Planning
A neighborhood plan presents a vision and a strategy to guide change within a discrete, contiguous, predominantly residential subarea of a city. This collection catalogs resources that provide background and policy guidance on planning for discrete, contiguous, predominantly residential subareas of cities, as well as examples of locally adopted neighborhood plans. -
Small Wireless Facilities and Wireless Facilities in the ROW
This collection catalogs resources that provide background, policy guidance, model ordinances, and examples of local development regulations for small wireless facilities and wireless facilities in public rights-of-way. -
Tree Preservation and the Urban Forest
A healthy urban forest provides environmental, social, and economic benefits. This collection catalogs resources that provide background, policy guidance, and examples of how cities and counties are using plans and regulations to protect trees and expand urban tree canopies. -
Wildland-Urban Interface
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is defined as the area where human development borders or intermingles with forests or other wildlands. This collection catalogs resources that provide background and policy guidance or demonstrate how communities are using plans, regulations, and programs to address wildfire and other challenges in the WUI. -
Community Food System Assessments
PAS Memo — November/December 2015A community food system assessment provides a clear picture of the food system resources, assets, challenges, and opportunities in a community. An assessment provides a solid grounding in the existing conditions of food access, food production and consumption, and food-related industry and employment. -
The Baltimore Planning Academy: Community Empowerment through Civic Education
PAS Memo 112The Baltimore Planning Academy is a cohort-based, six-week program designed to build community leadership around urban planning, zoning, and development topics. -
Lessons From Transportation Planners' Pivot to Virtual Engagement
Forced to innovate by the Covid-19 pandemic, experts say these public participation innovations are here to stay.by: Marisa Denker, Adrienne Zicklin Kanter, MSUP October 01, 2021Planners share their experience of shifting to virtual public engagement during the pandemic, noting that some of the changes are here to stay. -
Creating a Childcare-Friendly Community
Zoning Practice — June 2025This issue of Zoning Practice explores how zoning reforms and other complementary actions can foster a more supportive environment for childcare facilities. It begins with brief overviews of the ongoing childcare crisis and the regulatory landscape for childcare facilities before outlining the key components of a childcare-friendly approach to zoning. -
Integrating Planning and Public Health: Tools and Strategies to Create Healthy Places
PAS Report 539/540by: Marya Morris, FAICP October 01, 2006Is the form of American cities to blame for obesity and poor health? This PAS Report shows how to incorporate public health goals into comprehensive planning.List Price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Cheering on the Birds
December 01, 2018In Portland, Oregon, cat lovers and bird lovers come together to learn about enclosed cat patios and safer habitats for migrating and local birds.