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Integrating Gender Mainstreaming into U.S. Planning Practice
PAS Memo — November-December 2019by: Sherry RyanThe November-December 2019 PAS Memo introduces the concept of gender mainstreaming, describes how it has been used in the European context, and explores how it could — and why it should — be integrated into U.S. planning practice.List Price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Inclusive Planning Processes
PAS QuickNotes 82by: David Morley, AICPThis edition of PAS QuickNotes highlights the inequitable effects of traditional approaches to public participation lead to inequitable outcomes and summarizes how planners and local officials can change participation methods and techniques to maximize inclusivity.List price$10.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
A Framework for Promoting Equity Through Zoning
Zoning Practice — July 2019by: Elizabeth Garvin, AICP July 01, 2019This issue of Zoning Practice discusses why modern zoning has not produced equitable outcomes, identifies development outcomes that would be more equitable for local communities, and highlights broad opportunities for zoning reforms to support those outcomes.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
More and Better: Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Planning
PAS Memo — May-June 2019by: Kendra Smith May 01, 2019The May-June 2019 issue of PAS Memo discusses the opportunities and challenges of making diversity, equity, and inclusion regular and critical components of the urban planning profession.List Price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Inclusive Growth
PAS QuickNotes 78by: David Morley, AICPThis edition of PAS QuickNotes explains how public officials, planners, and community stakeholders can use their influence over land use and development to support an equitable distribution of community benefits.List price$10.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Fair Housing Is More Important Than Ever
Zoning Practice — December 2018by: Donald Elliott, FAICPThis issue of Zoning Practice reviews the basics of fair housing law, two recent developments in fair housing, and discusses practices to help close the gap between the current reality and the ideal of fair housing.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Does Cultural Planning Deliver on Equity and Inclusion?
by: Akiva BlanderUncovering JAPA: While planners have long valued diversity, equity, and inclusion, Municipal cultural plans too often treat diversity, equity, and inclusion superficially. -
Planning for Equity in Parks with Green Infrastructure
Great Urban Parks Campaign Briefing Paper 2by: David Morley, AICPThis briefing paper from the Great Urban Parks Campaign offers four key points for using green infrastructure in parks to advance social equity. -
Planning for Equitable Development: Social Equity by Design
PAS Memo — March-April 2017by: Carlton EleyThe March/April 2017 issue of PAS Memo highlights the importance of equitable development in creating strong and sustainable communities for all and provides principles and guidance to help planners implement social equity in their communities.List Price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
4 Steps to Creating Inclusive, Anti-Racist Third Spaces
Help community connections flourish.December 01, 2020Four tips for defining and designing public outdoor third places to be intentionally inclusive, community driven, and anti-racist. -
Planning and Fair Housing
PAS QuickNotes 66by: David Morley, AICPThis edition of PAS QuickNotes provides an overview of local fair housing obligations under federal law and highlights three specific strategies for expanding fair housing access through local land-use policy.List price$10.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
San Francisco, CA, Racial & Social Equity Initiative Action Plan: Phase I
Adopted December 2019This functional plan summarizes actions that will be taken by the local government to improve internal and external equity, diversity, and inclusion in the city of San Francisco. -
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. -
An Equitable Approach to Zoning Notifications
Zoning Practice — May 2024This issue of Zoning Practice looks at increasing the equity of public notice practices by expanding upon the Equity in Zoning Policy Guide’s recommendations. It examines key equitable or inequitable aspects of conventional notification practices and highlights potential new methods of notice that may enhance procedural and distributional equity. -
Equitable Zoning for Manufactured Housing
Zoning Practice — April 2024This issue of Zoning Practice examines the persistent inequitable treatment of manufactured housing in many local zoning codes and offers considerations for code updates. It begins with brief summaries of the important role manufactured housing plays in supporting housing choice and affordability and includes findings from a five-state analysis of zoning regulations for manufactured housing. -
Five Ways to Plan for More Accessible Housing
At least 25 percent of U.S. residents will experience a disability that impacts their daily life. How can we better prepare America's housing stock?November 01, 2020Here are five best practices and tools to help planners support move-in-ready accessible housing. -
Confronting Systemic Inequity With Institutional Change
New initiatives and offices are pushing for more equitable policy outcomes — and holding cities accountable for the impacts of their decisions.July 01, 2020Planning and other city departments are creating initiatives and offices to institutionalize racial and income equity and justice concerns. -
All-In Cities Toolkit
This toolkit shares strategies and policy guidance for racial inclusion and equitable growth related to good jobs, economic security, homegrown talent, healthy neighborhoods, housing/anti-displacement, and democracy and justice. -
Transformative Equitable Development for Healthy Communities
This toolkit aims to help Minnesota communities adopt transformative equitable development practices that directly address racial and economic inequities. -
Draft Municipal Public Participation Ordinance
by: Working Group on Legal Frameworks for Public ParticipationThis model ordinance provides a template to help cities encourage active public participation. -
T-RACES: Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California's Exclusionary Spaces
This web page chronicles the history of redlining and the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC). -
Implementing Cultural Competency in Urban Planning
by: Diana Jimenez, Anna Van, La Tanya Roux, Sophie Gabel-ScheinbaumIt is imperative for the planning profession to go beyond lip service and put anti-racist and culturally competent strategies into practice. Four young and emerging planners share 4 strategies we actively use in our professional career. -
Centering Equity and Climate Action in COVID-19 Recovery
In this episode of the podcast, Jo Peña sits down with Andrea Durbin, the director of the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability in Portland, Oregon, and Dr. Markisha Smith, director of Portland’s Office of Equity and Human Rights, to discuss the city's recently adopted resolution that highlights the connections between equity, climate, and COVID-19 recovery. -
People Behind the Plans: Seeking Justice and Showing Communities Love Through Planning
In this People Behind the Plans podcast episode, Courtney Kashima, AICP, talks with social justice planner Monique López, AICP, MCRP, about her work, her journey to urban planning, and her anti-racist, values-driven participatory planning and design firm, Pueblo Planning. -
People Behind the Plans: Rezoning East Harlem, Rethinking One-Size-Fits-All Public Engagement
In this podcast episode of People Behind the Plans, host Courtney Kashima, AICP, catches up with Traci Sanders about how she discovered urban planning, as well as influential projects she's worked on, such as the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan. Traci serves as the director of civic impact for WXY Studio, a multidisciplinary architecture, design, and planning firm based in New York. -
People Behind the Plans: Katanya Raby Continues Equity Work of Civil Rights Giant Al Raby
On this episode of the podcast, urban planner, artist, and activist Katanya Raby joins host Courtney Kashima, AICP, to talk about her work at the Office of the Mayor for the City of Chicago, her time at CMAP (Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning), and her post as executive director of the Al Raby Foundation. -
The Compton's Transgender Cultural District
In 2017, San Francisco designated six blocks of the Tenderloin neighborhood as the Compton’s Transgender Cultural District. In the first episode of the podcast series No Small Stories, APA visits the area to learn about how it’s fighting gentrification and displacement and creating a safe, economically productive home for the city's transgender community. -
Mind the Gender Gap
Planned mostly by and for men, transit in the U.S. has long failed its most loyal customers: women. But increasing efforts in focused data collection and gender mainstreaming are working to remedy those failures.February 01, 2020In the U.S., women account for more than half of all transit ridership, yet their travel patterns and preferences have rarely been accounted for in planning efforts — or even measured. -
Toolkit to Integrate Health and Equity Into Comprehensive Plans
by: Sagar Shah, PhD, AICP, Brittany WongThis toolkit will help planners integrate health and equity into their comprehensive plans using APA's Comprehensive Plan Standards. Fifteen comprehensive plans were reviewed to collect the model language on topics of interwoven equity, healthy communities, and authentic participation. -
Zoning to Improve Health and Promote Equity
Zoning Practice — March 2015by: Elizabeth Whitton, AICP March 01, 2015This issue of Zoning Practice discusses how communities can use zoning and other development regulations to promote healthy living environments. It highlights a number of potential regulatory changes in support of reducing health disparities by increasing affordable housing options and improving access to care.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Planning for Equity Policy Guide
by: American Planning Association June 04, 2019APA's first-ever Planning for Equity Policy Guide identifies policy recommendations for planners to advocate for equity in all aspects of planning at local, state, and federal levels. -
Fair and Healthy Land Use: Environmental Justice and Planning
PAS Report 549/550by: Craig Arnold November 08, 2007Learn to incorporate the principles of environmental justice into your planning processes. This PAS Report outlines the law and regulatory tools.List Price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
A Need for Speed
Communities must plan for high-speed broadband or risk getting left behind.October 01, 2017Broadband has become as necessary as electricity, and local planners have several roles to play in bringing the technology to their communities. -
The People's Way
Planning with Native American communities calls for looking to the past to guide the future.August 01, 2017Communication and collaboration — particularly with longstanding traditions — are critical for successful planning in Native American communities. -
Infrastructure of Opportunity
After decades of growth and investment, Chattanooga is looking to develop another critical asset — its people — by taking a hard look at education.July 01, 2017Of all the various investments and strides Chattanooga has made, there's one gaping hole: developing its human infrastructure. -
Immigrant City
Rebuilding a thriving Rust Belt for all residents.June 01, 2017American civic leaders have long viewed a steady flow of immigrants as fuel for economic development. -
Connecting the Dots
Linking bike share with transit — while considering equity issues — requires a big-picture approach.April 01, 2017Bike share is on the rise because it's an attractive option for cities looking to meet health and sustainability goals. -
Prioritizing Urban and Community Parks Can Boost Health and Social Equity
by: Kirsten HollandParks are integral to health and social equity, and public policy must support the development of urban and community parks. -
Voices of Equity in Planning
In this video series, APA presents the voices of planners who have been centering equity in their work to correct injustice, mitigate disparity, and improve the quality of life for marginalized people in all communities. -
Equity in Practice
The Equity in Practice case studies elevate how planners are applying equity to all facets of planning. The case studies highlight how planning can create more equitable and just communities. -
Equity Diversity Inclusion
APA has made a focused commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in all forms, as a means to achieving thriving communities in which everyone has equal opportunity to live a safe, healthy and prosperous life. -
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. -
AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
The full text of the AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct as revised in 2021. -
Building Better Cities for All
July 01, 2020Now, more than ever, reevaluating our urban landscapes is necessary for recovery, resilience, and more just and equitable cities. -
6 Tips for Inclusive Public Meetings
March 01, 2019Some planners and communities are trying to reshape public engagement with a focus on different approaches and more diverse participation. -
Potty Talk With a Planner
December 01, 2018Access to public toilets is an issue of equity. Along with homeless people, women, children, the elderly, and those with medical issues are impacted by public spaces planned without bathrooms. -
We Cannot Plan from Our Desks
October 01, 2018People’s lives are at the heart of planning. Planners live up to the promise of creating equitable communities when we’re out there, in the communities, doing the work. -
Car Sharing Can Drive Mobility Equity
November 01, 2017Car sharing traditionally requires a credit card, smartphone, and proximity to a sharing station, but places like Seattle, Washington, D.C., Denver, and Vancouver are working to overcome the barriers. -
Parks Are an Equity Issue
August 01, 2016In the Viewpoint from Planning's August/September 2016 issue, Kevin O'Hara looks at parks and public spaces as an equity issue. -
Planning's Role in Social Justice
December 01, 2015In the Viewpoint column from Planning magazine’s December 2015 issue, an opinion on the social role of the planner.
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