APA Diversity Resources

APA offers a variety of resources related to its diversity initiative. Those resources, which include books, reports, presentations, and conference proceedings, are now permanently housed here. Be sure to visit this page regularly as new resources will be added as they become available.

Books

The selected titles are available through APA's Planners Book Service. Click here to learn more or to purchase these titles.

Comeback Cities

Developing Infill Housing in Inner-City Neighborhoods

Guide to Careers in Community Development

Leading By Stepping Back

Planning and Community Equity

Restoring America's Neighborhoods

Why Not in My Backyard?

Planning Advisory Service Reports

Published eight times a year, PAS Reports provide a thorough yet succinct knowledgebase for planning professionals. PAS Reports analyze current practice, offer practical advice, and include real-world examples you can adapt for use in your community.

Learn more about obtaining the following reports:

• Equal Opportunity: Selected Statements from Planning Publications (No. 224)
• Migratory Labor Camps in the Community (No. 93)
  Modernizing State Planning Statutes: The Growing Smart Working Papers, Vol. 2 (No. 480/481)
• Planning, Women, and Change (No. 301)
• Programs for Inner-City Communities: An Annotated Bibliography (No. 249)
• Social Planning and City Planning (No. 261)
• The Planning Agency and the Black Community: A Workshop Report (No. 274)
• Urban Indicators: Their Role in Planning (No. 281)
  Youth Participation in Community Planning (No. 486)
• Women in Planning: A Report on Their Status in Public Planning Agencies (No. 273)

Online Readers

Affordable Housing Reader

Smart Growth Reader

Diversity Summits

A variety of materials used for the Minority Planning Summit (2004) and Diversity Summit II (2005) are posted here.

Minority Planning Summit

Summit Agenda

Summit Presentation (ppt) (61KB)

Report: Lagging Behind: Ethnic Diversity in the Planning Profession in the APA New York Metro Chapter Area — Findings and Recommendations (pdf)

Report: 2004 Minority Planning Summit Topic Summaries (pdf)

Article: APA Holds Summit to Increase Diversity and Advance Social Equity

Article: Historic Minority Planning Summit a Success in D.C.

Diversity Summit II

Presentation: Diversity Summit II (Diversity Task Force) (ppt) (6.68MB)

Presentation: Diversity Summit II (APA) (ppt) (355KB)

Report: APA Diversity Task Force 2005 final report and recommendations (pdf)

Article: Diversity Summit 2005

National Planning Conference Proceedings

The annual National Planning Conference offers a host of sessions and workshops focused on issues of diversity. Session content is occasionally made available online following each conference. Specific sessions of interest are identified below and links to online content are provided.

San Antonio 2006

• Critical Planning Issues in the African American Community
• Transportation Issues Presentation
• Civic Discourse Presentation
  
  
• Eminent Domain and the Black Community
• Presentation

• Encouraging Diversity at the Chapter Level
• Overview Presentation
• California Chapter Presentation
• National Capital Area Chapter Presentation
• Virginia Chapter Presentation
• North Carolina Chapter Presentation

• Indigenous Planning 101
• Intertribal Transportation Association Presentation
• LTAP-TTAP Presentation

• Planning on the Border
• Presentation

• Planning and Design Beyond ADA Compliance
• Presentation

• Redevelopment and African American Communities
• Presentation

• Social Equity in Planning Follow-Up
• Presentation

• Welcome? Planning, Immigration, and American Communities
  • Presentation

San Francisco 2005

• AICP Community Planning Workshop

• Article
• Photos
• Housing Choice: Most Promising Strategies
• Article
• Presentation (ppt) (137KB)
• APA/LeadershipPlenty Experience
• Article
• Presentation (ppt) (67KB)
• Handout (pdf)
• Changing Demographics and Community Planning
• Presentation (ppt) (2.05MB)
• Planning in Minority Communities
• Presentation (ppt) (3.40MB)
• Social Justice and Neighborhood Revitalization
• Handout (pdf)
• Are Minority Planners an Endangered Species?
• Presentation (ppt) (149KB)
• Handout (pdf)
• Gay and Lesbian Safe Zones
• Presentation (ppt) (12.5MB)

Denver 2003

• Diversity by Intent
• Using Information for Community Change
• Planning with Your Native Neighbors

Chicago 2002

• Urban Revitalization, Black City, and White Mayor: Gary, Indiana, and Scott King 1991-2002

New Orleans 2001

• Social Equity, Gentrification, and New Urbanism
• Do Women Change the Context of Planning?
• Fair Growth Symposium:
• Introductory Remarks
• Why Care About Social Equity?
• Widening the Critique of Sprawl
• Building a Regional System to Support Livable and Competitive Communities: A Response to the Affordable Housing Crisis
• Tools Proposed Or Used In Portland Region To Maintain/Increase Affordable Housing Stock For Low-Income Residents
• Connecting Sprawl, Smart Growth, and Social Equity
• Professional Planners and Exclusionary Housing Practices
• Colonias Along the United States/Mexico Border: The Issue and Impact of Colonias in Southern New Mexico
• Cultural Protection Overlay Zoning District In Saint Helena Island, South Carolina
• Environmental Justice and the Potential impacts of Value Pricing on Low Income and Minority Populations

Seattle 1999

• The Impact of Municipal Planning Efforts on Communities of Color: Latino Community Building
• Tribal Planning as Strategic Political Action: A Case Study of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community

Boston 1998

• Women Planning for the 21st Century: Women Planners Unite
• Comprehensive Community Revitalization: Strategies for Asset Building
• Transportation Planning for Access to Jobs in Hartford, St. Louis, and Detroit
• Equity Planning in Public Facilities
• Identity, Power & Place at the Margins

San Diego 1997

• Fair Housing: The Other Civil Rights Revolution
• History APA's Planning and the Black Community Division: The Struggle for Fairness in Planning