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Planning for an Aging Population
February 2011by: Leonard Heumann, Jacques Gourguechon, AICP, Elizabeth Tyler, FAICPThis recorded webinar explores a range of issues related to age-friendly communities, including ageism, mobility, and neighborhood and hosing models to optimize service delivery to older adults. -
San Diego, CA, Age Well San Diego
2018This functional plan integrates the age-friendly and dementia-friendly frameworks to propose a series of recommendations related to health and community support, housing, social participation, transportation, and becoming dementia-friendly. -
Cities Alive: Designing for Ageing Communities
June 2019by: Michael Amabile, AICP, Greyson Clark, AICP, Jonelle SimunichThis report presents a framework for planning for, and with, older residents to foster age-friendly communities. -
What Makes a Community Age-Friendly: A Review of International Literature
Australian Journal on Ageing, 28(3): 116-121, 2009by: Chi-Wai Lui, Jo-Anne Everingham, Jeni WarburtonThis article provides a comprehensive literature review of the international research on age-friendly communities and discusses the impact this has had on Australian planning efforts. -
Young People and Placemaking: Engaging Youth to Create Community Places
Placemaking, June 1, 2015by: Cheryl MillardThis blog post lists successful placemaking projects from around the world that meaningfully engaged youth. -
Cities and Their Mayors Can Change the Future of Aging in America
CitiesSpeak, November 9, 2016by: Paul IrvingThis blog post argues that the local government is the best scale for implementing innovative change when it comes to building age-friendly communities. -
Street Trees: A Livability Fact Sheet
2014by: AARP, Walkable and Livable Communities InstituteThis fact sheet aims to help communities embrace street trees as an age-inclusive livability intervention. -
How Families Can Benefit the Planning and Design of Cities
Planetizen, September 2, 2014by: Bradley Calvert, AICPThis blog post pushes back against the assumption that families are expensive for cities. -
Planning for Family Friendly Communities: City of Burlington, Vermont
2009by: Jinwoo KwonThis case study shares how Burlington, Vermont has worked to improve quality of life through housing, recreation, transportation, and engagement initiatives. -
Planning for Family Friendly Communities: City of Frederick, Maryland
2009by: Brianna OlsonThis case study shares how Frederick, Maryland has worked to become more family-friendly through affordable housing initiatives. -
Addressing the Needs of LGBT Seniors
August 2013by: Britta Larson, Serena Worthington, Joy SilverThis recorded webinar centers LGBT seniors in the age-friendly communities conversation. -
Finding the Best Lead Agency to Make Your Community Age-Friendly
July 2015by: Cathy Boyer-Shesol, Stephanie Krone Firestone, Alan DeLaTorreThis recorded webinar shares the opportunities and challenges of involving different types of organizations in an age-friendly community initiative. -
Intergenerational Community Building: Resource Guide
September 2012by: Corita Brown, Nancy HenkinThis guide presents the Community for All Ages framework, an intergenerational approach to community building. -
Measuring the Age-Friendliness of Cities: A Guide to Using Core Indicators
2015by: World Health OrganizationThis guide proposes a framework and set of indicators that can help local leaders create an evaluation process to assess a city’s age-friendliness. -
Guide for Developing Accessible & Age Friendly Zoning Code
April 2016by: Elizabeth DeckerThis guide is designed to help cities in Oregon update their zoning codes to address accessibility, aging, and affordability. -
Creating An Age-Advantaged Community: A Toolkit for Building Intergenerational Communities that Recognize, Engage, and Support All Ages
2016by:This guide highlights the benefits of intergenerational planning and discusses the key components of an intergenerational community. -
Guiding Principles for the Sustainability of Age-Friendly Community Efforts
October 2015by: Grantmakers in AgingThis guide provides a framework for sustaining age-friendly initiatives based on five principles. -
Roadmap to Livability Collection
2018by: AARPThis guide includes a series of six workbooks that cover a range of topics related to age-friendly communities. -
Shaping Urbanization for Children
May 2018by: Jens AertsThis guide highlights strategies for practicing child-responsive urban planning. -
Creating Parks and Public Spaces for People of All Ages
2018by: AARP, 8 80 Cities, The Trust for Public LandThis guide describes how to create age-friendly parks and public spaces. -
Allegheny County, PA, Age-Friendly Greater Pittsburgh Action Plan
Adopted 2017This functional plan aims to make communities more inclusive and respectful through 30 action items. -
East Lansing, MI, Master Plan
Updated June 2018The city’s comprehensive plan identifies the housing needs of an aging population as a key theme in the Human Dignity, Community Education, and Civic Participation chapter. -
Georgetown, ME, 2019 Comprehensive Plan
Adopted April 2019The town’s comprehensive plan was drafted with support from the Age-Friendly Georgetown sub-committee. -
Grayson County, VA, Comprehensive Plan 2018
Adopted 2018The county’s comprehensive plan includes a 5-Year Plan aimed directly at the older adult population. -
Cleveland, OH, Age-Friendly Cleveland
Adopted 2017This functional plan organizes its recommended projects and programs into a timeline, listing them in Year One, Two, Three, or Ongoing Strategies. -
Aging in Place, Stuck Without Options: Fixing the Mobility Crisis Threatening the Baby Boom Generation
2011by: Kevin DeGoodThis report urges the federal government to take charge of expanding mobility options for older adults. -
Larimer County, CO, Livable Larimer County
Adopted August 2017This functional plan has four age-friendly priority areas: Housing, Health and Wellness, Mobility and Access, and Culture of Aging. -
Henderson, NV, Age-Friendly Action Plan
Adopted January 2018This functional plan identifies community opportunities and challenges and lists priorities and strategies using the WHO’s eight domains of livability as a guide. -
Age-Friendly Tool Kit
Updated 2019This clearinghouse is designed to foster age-friendly communities in Massachusetts. -
The Age-Friendly Built Environment
2016by: University of SheffieldThis interactive map allows users to explore various aspects of a fictional age-friendly community. -
Concord, CA, Municipal Code
Updated April 2019The city’s zoning code establishes the Concord Child Care Program, which supports the development and maintenance of childcare facilities with public resources. -
Palm Desert, CA, Municipal Code
Updated February 2019This regulation belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities and Short-Term Residential Rentals collections. -
The Maturing of America: Getting Communities on Track for an Aging Population
June 2011by: National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, MetLife Foundation, International City/County Management AssociationThis report shares the results of a national survey of local governments regarding their readiness for accommodating the needs of a growing population of older adults. -
Comprehensive Planning for Family-Friendly Communities
April 2009by: Brianna OlsonThis briefing paper highlights the importance of incorporating the voices of families with children into the comprehensive planning process. -
Reconnecting Planning to Health: The Multigenerational Approach
April 2013by: Xiaomeng LiThis briefing paper features multigenerational planning as an effective way to address public health concerns. -
The AdvantAge Initiative
2019This web page shares how the AdvantAge Initiative is helping communities assess their age-friendliness. -
Urban World: Meeting the Demographic Challenge
Urban World, October 2016by: Jonathan Woetzel, Jaana Remes, Jonathan LawThis report introduces the emerging urban demographic challenge. -
Age-Friendly World
Updated 2019This web page includes information about the World Health Organization’s Age-Friendly World initiative. -
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.