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St. Paul, MN, Saint Paul for All
Approved March 2019This comprehensive plan belongs to the Historic Preservation and Social Equity collections. -
Cities in the Time of COVID-19: How Do We Respond to Anti-Black Racism in Urbanist Practices and Conversations?
June 2020This video contains a conversation between five Black urbanists discussing their experience with anti-Blackness, racism, and other issues in the field of urbanism. -
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. -
Local Governments, Social Equity, and Sustainable Communities: Advancing Social Equity Goals to Achieve Sustainability
2014by: James Svara, Tanya Watt, Katherine TakaiThis report uses data from a national survey to assess whether local governments are incorporating social equity into their sustainability efforts. -
Resources for Creating Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Communities
Updated 2019This clearinghouse lists environmental justice resources by topic, including technical assistance and funding opportunities. -
Program for Environmental and Regional Equity: Publications
Updated 2019This clearinghouse organizes resources by research area, including Environmental Justice and Climate Equity, Inclusive Economics and Regional Equity, and Governing Power and Social Movement Building. -
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. -
Community Commons: Equity
Updated 2019This clearinghouse shares tools and resources related to health equity from local, regional, and federal sources. -
The Expanding Transportation Network Company 'Equity Gap': Adverse Impacts on Passengers with Disabilities, Underserved Communities, the Environment & the On-Demand Workforce
2016by: Matthew DausThis report lays out the equity concerns of transportation network companies, like Uber and Lyft. -
Out of Reach 2016: No Refuge for Low Income Renters
2016by: Diane Yentel, Andrew Aurand, Dan EmmanuelThis report investigates the housing affordability crisis and shares data, including housing wage, housing costs, area median income, and renter households, for each state. -
The Racial Origins of Zoning in American Cities
1997by: Christopher Silver, FAICPThis book chapter points out zoning’s early social function as a legal mechanism for separating immigrant and African American populations, serving to preserve property values or enforce racial segregation. -
Doing Democracy Up-Close: Culture, Power, and Communication in Community Planning
2006by: Xavier De Souza BriggsThis book chapter examines the process of community planning to better understand the communication codes and power relations that drive face-to-face interaction. -
Structural Racism and Efforts to Radically Reconstruct the Inner-City Built Environment
November 2001by: Henry Taylor, Sam ColeThis briefing paper argues that community revitalization efforts must address race, class, and power in order to bring about real change. -
How Neighborhoods Affect the Social and Economic Mobility of Their Residents
August 2017by: Margery Austin Turner, Ruth GourevitchThis briefing paper discusses quality services, crime, social networks, and employment as four causal mechanisms in which communities can undermine long-term life chances for residents. -
Wealth Inequality Is a Barrier to Education and Social Mobility
April 2017by: Breno Braga, Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline RatcliffeThis report tracks the effect of a family’s wealth on a child’s education and upward mobility. -
A New Social Equity Agenda for Sustainable Transportation
March 2012by: Todd Litman, Marc BrenmanThis briefing paper highlights the importance of social equity and environmental justice to transportation policy. -
Regional Planning for Health Equity
2015by: Victor RubinThis briefing paper considers the social determinants health from a regional perspective. -
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. -
Time for Trash Equity in New York City
NRDC, October 14, 2014by: Eric GoldsteinThis blog post discusses the inequitable siting of trash processing centers in New York City. -
Live Stream: Towards an Equitable Data-Driven Urbanism: Transforming Practice Via Data Science
February 2019by: Karen ChappleThis recorded session explores the opportunities and challenges of new technologies for understanding neighborhood change. -
Building Better Futures: Innovations in Equitable Development
February 2019by: Oscar Perry, Chase Cantrell, Sam ButlerThis recorded conference features over 15 speakers examining the topic of equitable development in presentations and panel discussions. -
Community Benefits Agreements and Organizing for Equitable Development
October 2018by: Julian Gross, Jennifer Martinez, Jackie Paul SimsThis recorded webinar introduces community benefits agreements (CBAs) as a mechanism for ensuring equitable development. -
Equitable Development: Back to Basics (Equitable Development Training Part 1)
April 2019by: Adam Kent, Irfana Jetha Noorani, Vaughn PerryThis recorded webinar is the first in a series by America Walks and the 11th Street Bridge Park Project that discusses the practice of equitable development. -
Introducing the National Equity Atlas Data and Policy Tool
June 2016by: Carla Thompson, Sarah Treuhaft, Angel RossThis recorded webinar introduces the National Equity Atlas, a tool developed by Policy Link and the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity. -
Webinar - Creating Equitable Food Systems With the Healthy Food Financing Initiative
June 2015by: Liberty Canzater, John Flory, Dave JohnsonThis recorded webinar considers the opportunities and challenges of the Healthy Food Financing Initiative. -
What's in the 2019 Planning for Equity Policy Guide
June 2019by: Lynn Ross, AICP, Susan WoodThis video introduces the equity-in-all-policies approach included in the APA’s Planning for Equity Policy Guide. -
Race & Social Equity: A Nervous Area of Government
October 2016by: Susan GoodenThis recorded lecture challenges public officials to change the way they approach racial equity. -
Moving to Action: How Do We Respond to Anti-Black Racism in Urbanist Practices and Conversations?
June 2020This video and online training is part two of an ongoing series of conversations between five Black urbanists discussing their experience with anti-Black racism and other issues in the field of urbanism. -
Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy: Recommendations and Research
2009by: Shireen MalakafzaliThis report belongs to the Active Transportation, Built Environment and Health, and Social Equity collections. -
Addressing Community Concerns: How Environmental Justice Relates to Land Use Planning and Zoning
July 2003by: Philip Rutledge, James Barnes Jr, Teodoro BenavidesThis report discusses the relationship between land use planning and zoning and environmental justice. -
Environmental Justice, Urban Revitalization, and Brownfields: The Search for Authentic Signs of Hope
December 1996by: National Environmental Justice Advisory CouncilThis report analyzes findings from public dialogues on urban revitalization and brownfields. -
All Aboard! Making Equity and Inclusion Central to Federal Transportation Policy
January 2009by: Victor RubinThis report establishes core principles for achieving transportation equity and provides recommendations for federal policy. -
Community Benefits Agreements: Making Development Projects Accountable
2002by: Julian Gross, Greg LeRoy, Madeline Janis-AparicioThis report introduces Community Benefits Agreements as a tool to ensure that new development benefits the community.