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    • Yakima, WA, Comprehensive Plan 2040

      Adopted June 2017
      The county’s comprehensive plan includes extensive background and policy recommendations for hazard mitigation in its Natural Hazards chapter and context on its historic preservation strategy.

    • San Diego County, CA, General Plan

      Updated January 2020
      The county’s comprehensive plan includes extensive hazard mitigation policy recommendations in its Safety Element.

    • Skagit County, WA, Comprehensive Plan

      Updated October 2018
      The county’s comprehensive plan identifies hazard mitigation as major theme.

    • Lewes, DE, Hazard Mitigation and Climate Adaptation Action Plan

      Adopted June 2011
      This functional plan details a combined hazard mitigation and climate adaptation strategy for the town.

    • Linn County, IA, Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan

      Updated July 2019
      This functional plan details a hazard mitigation strategy for the incorporated jurisdictions and unincorporated areas of the county.

    • Music Cities Resilience Handbook

      June 2020
      by: Shain Shapiro
      This guide is designed to help cities recovering from COVID-19 establish policies and programs that foster a more resilient music ecosystem.

    • Maricopa County, AZ, Floodplain Regulations

      Adopted January 2018
      The county’s floodplain regulations exceed the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s minimum requirements.

    • Lee County, FL, Code of Ordinances

      Updated February 2020
      The county’s land development code includes regulations designed to mitigate coastal storms and coastal and riverine flooding.

    • Kitsap County, WA, County Code

      Updated December 2019
      The county’s codified ordinances include regulations to mitigate flood, coastal storm, and geological hazards.

    • Lincoln City, OR, Municipal Code

      Updated October 2019
      The city’s zoning code establishes special requirements for new development in geologic and coastal storm and flood hazard areas.

    • Knox County, TN, Code of Ordinances

      Updated February 2020
      The county’s codified ordinances include flood hazard protection regulations that exceed the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s minimum requirements.

    • Sandy, OR, Municipal Code

      Updated May 2020
      The city’s development code includes hillside development regulations and flood and slope hazard development overlay districts to reduce geological and flood hazard risks.

    • Utah County, UT, Land Use Ordinance

      Updated November 2019
      The county’s land-use code includes overlay districts designed to reduce flood and geological hazard risks.

    • Weld County, CO, Code of Ordinances

      Updated March 2020
      The county’s zoning code includes regulations designed to reduce geological and flood hazard risks.

    • Racine County, WI, Code of Ordinances

      Updated February 2020
      The county's subdivision ordinance addresses solar design, encouraging solar orientation for streets, lots, and buildings, allowing for solar access easements, and encouraging tree plantings that minimize solar access impacts. The county’s zoning code also includes floodplain development regulations that exceed the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s minimum requirements.

    • Myrtle Beach, SC, Code of Ordinances

      Updated December 2019
      The city’s zoning code includes regulations to reduce flood and coastal storm hazard risks.

    • West Plains, MO, Code of Ordinances

      Updated July 2018
      The city’s codified ordinances include regulations to mitigate flood and wind hazards.

    • Malibu, CA, Local Coastal Program

      Updated June 2019
      The city’s local coastal program code includes regulations designed to reduce geological, flood, and wildfire hazard risks.

    • Coastal Resilience Center

      2020
      This website provides information about research and education projects designed to help states and communities enhance their resilience to coastal storms and flooding.

    • Hazard Mitigation Planning

      May 2020
      This web page provides links to information about the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s hazard mitigation planning program.

    • Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center

      2020
      This website provides information about research projects that analyze hazards, emergency preparedness and response, disaster recovery, and hazard mitigation.

    • Natural Hazard Mitigation Association

      2020
      This website provides information to help communities reduce natural hazard risks and adapt to climate change.

    • Reopening the Cultural Sector in U.S. Cities

      June 2020
      This guide is designed to help cities develop strategies to safely reopen museums, galleries, theaters, music venues, and other cultural gathering spaces during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

    • Best Practices for Creative Placemaking

      March/April 2017
      by: Juanita Hardy
      This article identifies ten best practices to support creative placemaking projects.

    • Building Age-Friendly Community: Notes from the Field

      Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics (SBG), 2016
      by: Rachel Filinson, Marianne Raimondo, Maureen Maigret
      This article explores Rhode Island’s efforts to become more age-friendly.

    • Age-Friendly Akita City in Action

      AARP International: The Journal, 2018
      by: Stephanie Firestone
      This article highlights efforts to create an age-friendly community in Akita City, Japan.

    • Conceptualizing Age-Friendly Communities

      Canadian Journal on Aging, 30(3): 479-493, 2011
      by: Verena Menec, Robin Means, Norah Keating
      This article investigates the age-friendly communities movement from an ecological perspective.

    • Intergenerational Cities: A Framework for Policies and Programs

      Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 9(4): 348-365, 2011
      by: Willem Van Vliet
      This article explores the benefits, challenges, and opportunities of intergenerational initiatives and proposes a framework for future work.

    • Planning for Aging in Place: Stimulating a Market and Government Response

      Journal of Planning Education and Research, 37(1): 29-42, 2016
      by: Mildred Warner, George Homsy, AICP, Lydia Morken
      This article discusses the spatial inequity of market-based services in communities with concentrated senior poverty.

    • Towards Global Age-Friendly Cities: Determining Urban Features that Promote Active Aging

      Journal of Urban Health 87(5): 733-739, 2010
      by: Louise Plouffe, Alexandre Kalache
      This article highlights the process of developing the WHO’s Checklist of Essential Features of Age-Friendly Cities.

    • Parks for an Aging Population: Needs and Preferences of Low-Income Seniors in Los Angeles

      Journal of the American Planning Association, 82(3): 236-251, 2016
      by: Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Lene Levy-Storms, Lin Chen
      This JAPA article shares the results of a literature review and focus groups with low-income, inner-city seniors, advocating for the inclusion of seniors in park design and programming.

    • Multigenerational Planning: Theory and Practice

      iQuaderni di Urbanistica Tre, 14: 17-23, 2017
      by: Mildred Warner
      This article lists the basic principles of multigenerational planning and urges planners to address the physical and social environment of a community when planning for youth and older adults.

    • The Role of the Built Environment in the Disablement Process

      American Journal of Public Health 95(11): 1933-1939, 2005
      by: Philippa Clarke, Linda George
      This article introduces the Disablement Process model and examines the relationship between the built environment and physical function in older adults.

    • Neighborhood Evaluations by City and Suburban Children

      Journal of the American Planning Association 47(4): 458-466, 2007
      by: Willem Van Vliet
      This JAPA article asks children, rather than parents, their neighborhood preferences and compares the results demographically and spatially.

    • Passing the Planning Mic to the Next Generation, Today

      Next City, October 2018
      by: Serena Daniels
      This article features a youth engagement strategy in the Warrendale-Cody Rouge area of Detroit, Michigan.

    • Toronto Releases Planning Guidelines Focused on Kids

      Next City, May 2017
      by: Rachel Dovey
      This article discusses Toronto’s Planning for Children in New Vertical Communities, an effort to make the city more age-friendly for youth.

    • Age-Friendly Sullivan: Perspectives from a Rural County

      January 2018
      by: Erin Tou, Rachel Stein
      This case study of Sullivan County, New York examines the challenges and opportunities related to senior and youth services in a rural context.

    • Livable Communities for All Ages Brochure

      2010
      by: Partners for Livable Communities
      This fact sheet introduces the benefits of age-friendly interventions in Housing, Transportation, Workforce Development, and Civic and Cultural Engagement/Lifelong Learning.

    • Traffic Calming: A Livability Fact Sheet

      2014
      by: AARP, Walkable and Livable Communities Institute
      This fact sheet aims to help communities embrace traffic calming as an age-inclusive transportation intervention.

    • Road Diets: A Livability Fact Sheet

      2014
      by: AARP, Walkable and Livable Communities Institute
      This fact sheet aims to help communities embrace road diets as an age-inclusive transportation intervention.

    • Density: A Livability Fact Sheet

      2014
      by: AARP, Walkable and Livable Communities Institute
      This fact sheet aims to help communities embrace density as an age-inclusive planning intervention.

    • Crawlable Urbanism: Cities Are for Kids, Too

      Streesblog USA, August 13, 2013
      by: Tanya Snyder
      This blog post discusses the trend of young adults staying in cities to raise children.

    • Planning for Family Friendly Communities: Village of Lombard, Illinois

      2009
      by: Kathleen Hoover, Kevin Mcavey
      This case study shares how Lombard, Illinois has worked to become more family-friendly through public art, parks and recreation, and full-day kindergarten.

    • Planning for Family Friendly Communities: City of Trenton, New Jersey

      2009
      by: Kevin Mcavey
      This case study tracks Trenton, New Jersey’s effort to promote its reputation as a family-friendly community in the context of cultural diversity and economic challenges.

    • A Framework for Assessing Aging in Place Technologies

      February 2011
      by: Amber Joplin
      This recorded webinar discusses how to assess aging in place technologies using individual, cultural, health, economic, legal, infrastructure, and environmental approaches.

    • Better Transportation for Older Adults

      2015
      by: Isabel Rovira, Renee Ray, AICP, Amy St Peter
      This recorded webinar discusses how different transportation modes can be used to address the needs of older adults, including public transportation, ride shares, and walking, and explores public and private funding opportunities.

    • Aging Friendly Communities

      2012
      by: Amanda Lehning, Jana Lynott, AICP
      This recorded webinar frames the growth of America’s older adults as an opportunity to open a dialogue about age-friendly communities.

    • Age-Friendly Communities

      2013
      by: Margaret Neal, Jana Lynott, AICP, Dorian Block
      This recorded webinar introduces the AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities and the World Health Organization’s Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities.

    • WHO/IFA Webinar 6 - Engaging Planners as Livable Communities Allies

      February 2018
      by: Stephanie Krone Firestone, Laura Keyes, AICP
      This recorded webinar shares the process of creating Livable Communities for All Ages (LCA), a fact sheet by Partners for Livable Communities.

    • Age-Friendly Municipality: Guide to Implementing the Age-Friendly Municipality Initiative

      2013
      by: Government of Quebec
      This guide is designed to help municipalities in Quebec, Canada, implement the province’s Age-Friendly Municipality Initiative.
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