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Atlanta City Design Housing
December 2020This report explores how Atlanta's historical land-use policies for housing have effected the design of the city. -
Long-Range Planning for Health, Equity & Prosperity: A Primer for Local Governments
December 2019by: Erik CallowayThis guide is designed to help planners promote health equity through long-range planning processes. -
Ethics, Equity and Social Justice Roles and Implications of Planners
Planning Webcast Series, September 2014by: Victor Rubin, Anita Hairston, AICPThis recorded webinar examines the responsibility of planners to work towards economic and social equity as outlined in the AICP Code of Ethics. -
Equitable Development
2018by: Sunny Widmann, Adam KentThis video features a conversation with Senior Program Officer Adam Kent from the D.C. office of Local Initiatives Support Corporation on equitable development. -
Introducing the National Equity Atlas
December 2014by: Sarah Treuhaft, Justin ScogginsThis recorded webinar tours the National Equity Atlas, a data and policy resource developed by PolicyLink and the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at University of Southern California. -
Historian Says Don't "Sanitize" How Our Government Created Ghettos
2015by: Richard RothsteinThis audio recording with Richard Rothstein addresses the legacy of government-sponsored segregation in America’s cities. -
Food Access Research Atlas
2019by: Michele Ver PloegThis interactive map uses supermarket accessibility data to show which census tracts are low access at different distances. -
11th Street Bridge Park - Equitable Development Task Force
2015by: 11th Street Bridge ParkThis video highlights the work of the Equitable Development Task Force, part of the 11th Street Bridge Park project in Washington D.C. -
SEEDoc New Mexico: Interview Highlights, Jamie Blosser and Tomasita Duran
2012by: Jamie Blosser, Tomasita DuranThis video discusses the process of rehabilitating the pueblo in Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico. -
PolicyMap
2019This interactive map allows users to visualize demographic, income, housing, lending, quality of life, economic, education, health, and other variables nationally. -
Infrastructure Morality | Social Equity
September 2016This video discusses the relationship between infrastructure and social equity. -
Equitable Development Guidelines
March 2018by: Jocelyn Drummond, Victoria Lawson, Elizabeth DeWolfThis guide aims to make equitable development the industry standard by sharing strategies for the planning process, employment and procurement, designed space, housing, and design standards. -
Municipal Action Guide: Responding to Racial Tension in Your City
2019by: Rita Soler Ossolinski, Ariel Guerrero, Leon AndrewsThis guide outlines how public officials can prepare to respond to incidents of racial tension. -
The California Healthy Places Index
2018This interactive map visualizes a Healthy Places Index score, which combines 25 community characteristics, for the state of California. -
The CARE Roadmap: 10-Step Plan to Improve Community Environment and Health
2018This guide was developed by the EPA to facilitate community engagement in environment and health planning. -
Environmental Justice Atlas
2019by: Leah Temper, Joan Martinez Alier, Daniel Del BeneThis interactive map records global environmental justice conflicts. -
EJSCREEN
2018This interactive map includes 11 environmental indicators, 6 demographic indicators, and 11 environmental justice (EJ) indexes. -
Concentrated Poverty and Regional Equity: Findings From the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership’s Shared Indicators Initiative
April 2013by: G. Thomas Kingsley, Rob PitingoloThis report introduces concentrated poverty and regional equity and calculates ratios for measuring both. -
Equity and Efficiency Considerations in Use Value Taxation
2005by: David Soule, Barry BluestoneThis report presents the opportunities and challenges of use value taxes as a land use strategy, including concerns with equity and efficiency, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. -
Development Without Displacement: Resisting Gentrification in the Bay Area
November 2015by: Dawn Phillips, Luis Flores, Jamila HendersonThis report studies the grassroots efforts to resist gentrification in San Francisco and Oakland, California and shares policy recommendations. -
Unintended Impacts of Redevelopment and Revitalization Efforts in Five Environmental Justice Communities
August 2006by: National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyThis report centers the issues of gentrification and displacement in the conversation of environmental justice. -
Immigrants and Local Governance: The View from City Hall
2005by: S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Paul LewisThis report considers how involved immigrants are in local civic life in California’s immigrant destination cities. -
Dealing with Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices
April 2001by: Maureen Kennedy, Paul LeonardThis report studies the issue of gentrification and considers how to pursue equitable development. -
Strained Suburbs: The Social Service Challenges of Rising Suburban Poverty
October 2010by: Scott Allard, Benjamin RothThis report investigates social service infrastructure in the suburbs of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington DC. -
A Tale of Three Cities: The State of Racial Justice in Chicago Report
May 2017by: Kasey Hendricks, Amanda LewisThis report provides a comprehensive picture of the changing conditions of racial and ethnic groups in Chicago during the last half century. -
In Pursuit of Health Equity: Comparing U.S. and E.U. Approaches to Eliminating Disparities
June 2014by: Elizabeth Docteur, Robert BerensonThis report compares U.S. and E.U. policy approaches to addressing health inequities. It discusses the use of action plans, the identification of disadvantaged populations, the role of the health care system, the involvement of multiple sectors, the role of wealth, and the use of data. -
Democracy in Action?: NIMBY as Impediment to Equitable Affordable Housing Siting
Housing Studies, 30(5): 749-769, 2015by: Corianne Scally, J. Rosie TigheThis article investigates the impact of NIMBYism on affordable housing development, exposing the tension between democracy and equity. -
“The White Space”
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 1(1): 10-21, 2015by: Eiljah AndersonThis article discusses the fact that white people are able to avoid what is conceived as “the black space” while black people are forced to interact with “the white space.” -
Cities Connect: How Urbanity Helps Achieve Social Inclusion Objectives
June 2006by: Todd LitmanThis briefing paper highlights the benefits of improving accessibility and opportunity for social inclusion. -
Cohousing's Diversity Problem
CityLab, August 2017by: Amanda AbramsThis article challenges the cohousing movement for its lack of diversity. -
This Tactical Urbanist Is Pasting Narratives of Enslaved People All Over Richmond
Next City, August 2018by: Gregory Scruggs, AICPThis article highlights one woman’s efforts to share history in the former capital of the Confederacy using tactical urbanism. -
As Disaster Costs Rise, So Does Inequality
Socius, 4: 1-3, 2018by: Junia Howell, James Elliott, AICPThis article examines how inequalities are reinforced in the aftermath of natural hazards. -
Planning for Social Equity
Land Lines, Winter 2017by: Kathleen McCormickThis article tracks what Dallas and Baltimore are doing to center social equity in their planning efforts. -
Leisure Spaces as Potential Sites for Interracial Interaction: Community Gardens in Urban Areas
Journal of Leisure Research, 36(3): 336-355, 2004by: Kimberly Shinew, Troy Glover, Diana ParryThis article examines community gardens in St. Louis to answer whether leisure spaces are perceived as an ideal environment for interracial interaction. -
Paul Davidoff and Advocacy Planning in Retrospect
Journal of the American Planning Association, 60(2): 139-143, 1994by: Barry CheckowayThis article shares how Paul Davidoff attempted to translate APA's ethical mandate into institutional and individual accountability. -
Walking in Another's Shoes: Epistemological Challenges in Participatory Planning
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 21(1): 17-31, 2001by: Karen UmemotoThis article lays out five challenges that planners can have when working with communities that are culturally different from one’s own. -
Is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Assessment Pilot Program Environmentally Just?
Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(2): 249-257, 2002by: Laura Solitare, Michael GreenbergThis article assesses the EPA’s brownfields assessment pilot program to determine whether the program is environmentally just. -
Cities and Diversity: Should We Want It? Can We Plan For It?
Urban Affairs Review, 41(1): 3-19, 2005by: Susan FainsteinThis article critiques planning’s focus on diversity and advocates instead for the model of the just city. -
The Geography of Despair: Environmental Racism and the Making of South Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Human Ecology Review, 12(2): 156-168, 2005by: Bob Bolin, Sara Grineski, Timothy CollinsThis article shares the story of residential and economic segregation by race and class in the development of the city of Phoenix, and its legacy of environmental injustice. -
Promoting Equitable Development
Indiana Law Review, 34: 1273-1290, 2001by: Angela Glover BlackwellThis article tracks how social and economic changes have created new challenges and opportunities for addressing inequity. -
Breaking Through to Regional Equity
Race, Poverty & the Environment, Fall 2008by: M. Paloma PavelThis article urges planners to take a regional approach to equity planning, given that spatial racism is most visible at this scale. -
Some Observations on Race in Planning
Journal of the American Planning Association, 60(2): 235-240, 1994by: Robert MierThis article includes anecdotes about working with Mayor Harold Washington of Chicago, demonstrating the importance of equity as a clearly stated political priority. -
Equity and Urban Planning – Engage Those Most Directly Affected by Inequities
November 13, 2015by: Cynthia Silva ParkerThis blog post shares the second lesson from the Interaction Institute for Social Change and Horsley Witten Group’s effort to weave social equity into the RhodeMap RI regional planning process. -
A Ladder of Citizen Participation
Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 35(4): 216-224, 1969by: Sherry ArnsteinThis article is a classic text that proposes a typology of citizen participation visualized on the rungs of a ladder, leading from manipulation to citizen control. -
Equity and Urban Planning – Lead Boldly, Collaboratively, Authentically
November 19, 2015by: Cynthia Silva ParkerThis blog post shares the fourth lesson from the Interaction Institute for Social Change and Horsley Witten Group’s effort to weave social equity into the RhodeMap RI regional planning process. -
Equity and Urban Planning – Build Institutional Capacity and Culture
November 16, 2015by: Cynthia Silva ParkerThis blog post shares the third lesson from the Interaction Institute for Social Change and Horsley Witten Group’s effort to weave social equity into the RhodeMap RI regional planning process. -
Equity and Urban Planning – Weave Equity Into Process and Content
November 9, 2015by: Cynthia Silva ParkerThis blog post shares the first lesson from the Interaction Institute for Social Change and Horsley Witten Group’s effort to weave social equity into the RhodeMap RI regional planning process. -
Environmental Justice: A New Model for Planning in Underserved Communities
November 2014by: Charles Lee, Marva King, Mildred McClainThis recorded webinar explains how to incorporate environmental justice into municipal planning processes. -
Pursuing Inclusive Growth | Daniel Burnham Forum on Big Ideas
September 2015by: Paul Jorgowsky, Renee Lewis Glover, Shelley PotichaThis recorded session considers how to achieve inclusive growth that addresses social equity and economic mobility. -
The Just City: Equality, Social Justice and Growth | The New School
February 2011by: Susan Fainstein, Chung-Wha Hong, Kenneth KnucklesThis recorded session features a lecture by Susan Fainstein, author of The Just City, followed by a panel discussion with policy and planning leaders from New York City.