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Portland, OR, Connecting to Our Future: Portland's Broadband Strategic Plan
Adopted September 2011This functional plan presents a strategy to enhance broadband capacity and access. -
Fitness Apps Are the New Planning Tool
Planetizen, April 3, 2015by: Jennifer Evans-Cowley, AICPThis blog post discusses how cities can use data from fitness apps in planning processes. -
Smart City 2020: Technology and Society in the Modern City
March 2012by: Jan HedlundThis report shares Microsoft’s perspective on the future of smart cities. -
Exploring the Digital Nation: Embracing the Mobile Internet
October 2014This report summarizes findings from a Census Bureau survey exploring how people use mobile devices to access the Internet. -
Exploring the Digital Nation: America's Emerging Online Experience
June 2013This report summarizes findings from a Census Bureau survey exploring how people use the Internet. -
Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan
March 2010This functional plan details a national strategy to expand broadband capacity and access. -
Smart Mobility for a 21st Century America
October 2010This report discusses how information and communication technology can improve mobility and makes a case for establishing national congestion and emissions targets to drive innovation. -
Trends in Smart City Development
2016by: Nicole DuPuis, Elias StahlThis report examines the definition of “smart cities” and highlights noteworthy smart-city practices. -
Form-Based Codes Institute
2018This web page is dedicated to advancing the understanding and use of form-based codes. -
Part 1: What Is a Form-Based Code
December 2014by: Mary Madden, AICP, Joel RussellThis article examines how throughout the 20th Century town and cities separated their uses that led to the widely used conventional zoning method -
Differences Between Miami's Form-Based Code and Traditional Zoning Code in Integrating Planning Principles
Journal of the American Planning Association, 81(1): 46-66, 2015by: Ajay Garde, Cecilia Joung Un Kim, Oscar TsaiThis article evaluates the extent to which form-based codes adopted by the City of Miami have integrated important planning and design criteria. -
Form and Substance: What New York Land Use Lawyers Need To Know About Form-Based Land Development Regulations
http://www.joelrussell.com/articles/Form-based%20Codes%20NY%20article%20(final).pdfby: Robert Sitkowski, AICP, Joel RussellThis article details the legal principles that underlie local land development regulations as it relates to form-based land development. -
Smart City Challenge: Lessons for Building Cities of the Future
June 2017This report highlights proposed and ongoing smart city initiatives from mid-sized cities that participated in the Federal Highway Administration’s Smart City Challenge. -
Cities and the Innovation Economy
2017by: Nicole DuPuis, Brooks RainwaterThis report analyzes the state of the practice regarding the sharing economy and smart city initiatives. -
Chula Vista, CA, Smart City Strategic Action Plan
Adopted September 2017This functional plan details a strategy to help the city identify, evaluate, and prioritize smart city initiative opportunities. -
Form Over Use: Form-Based Codes and the Challenge of Existing Development
Notre Dame Law Review, 88(5): 2627–2654, 2013by: Katherine WoodwardThis article details the historical development and purposes of conventional zoning along with its many problems. -
Columbus, OH, Smart Columbus
2018This website is the city’s central source of information about its smart city initiatives. -
Form-Based Codes: An Overview of the Literature
Focus: The Journal of Planning Practice and Education, 13(1): 76–83, 2016by: Evan Evangelopoulos, Cornelius Nuworsoo, AICPThis article looks at the popularity and criticism that surround form-based codes. -
Form-Based Codes for Zoning Reform to Promote Sustainable Development: Insights From Cities in Southern California
Journal of the American Planning Association, 83(4): 346-364, 2017by: Ajay Garde, Cecilia Joung Un KimThis article examines the extent to which form-based codes differ from conventional zoning when it comes to including more sustainability criteria. -
Form-Based Land Development Regulations
The Urban Lawyer, 28(1): 163-172, 2006by: Robert Sitkowski, AICP, Brian OhmThis article examines three primary legal issues that occur when local design-based land use regulations begin to be utilized. -
Part 2: The Emergence of Form-Based Codes
PlannersWeb, December 2014by: Mary Madden, AICP, Joel RussellThis article examines how cities and towns became increasingly concerned with their conventional zoning that they began using more negotiable development processes. -
Part 3: Typical Elements of a Form-Based Code
PlannersWeb, December 2014by: Mary Madden, AICP, Joel RussellThis article examines the typical elements that appear in many form-based codes. -
Part 4: How Form-Based Codes Are Written
PlannersWeb, December 2014by: Mary Madden, AICP, Joel RussellThis article describes how form-based codes are developed as well as how to determine if its right for a community. -
Place Making with Form-Based Codes
Urban Land Institute, September 2006by: Mary Madden, AICP, William Spikowski, FAICPThis article details the basic principles of form-based codes to help better inform elected officials, developers, and planning staffers. -
RMLUI Legal Corner: Checking in on Form-Based Codes in Western Communities How’s That Working for You?
The Western Planner, October 2015by: Elizabeth Garvin, AICPThis article identifies four lessons from a survey of planners and designers that help explain how to best use form-based codes. -
Top 10 Misconceptions About Form-Based Codes
Public Square, May 2016by: Tony PerezThis article examines the 10 misconceptions that surround the discussion of form-based codes. -
Through the Looking Glass: Analyzing the Potential Legal Challenges to Form-Based Codes
Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, 23(2): 395-421, 2008by: Elizabeth Garvin, AICP, Dawn JourdanThis article seeks to examine form-based codes in the history of planning as it relates to it being a reactionary force to city planning efforts that favored conventional zoning. -
Redeeming Transect Zoning
Brooklyn Law Review, 78(2): 571–588, 2013by: Nicole GarnettThis article examines the evolving interest in transect zoning and form-based coding. -
Coding for Character: Doing Away with the Zoned Out Nature of Our Cities
Placemakers, October 5, 2015by: Hazel BorysThis blog post discusses the steps it takes to implement an effective form-based code. -
A Hybrid Approach to Form-Based Codes in the Northwest
MRSC Insight, March 1, 2012by: Bob BengfordThis blog post examines the difficulty in form-based codes being applied to the Northwest region of the United States and why hybrid codes may be the solution. -
Special Districts Getting All Mixed Up
Placemakers, September 16, 2011by: Hazel BorysThis blog post discusses how special use districts that are not inheritably walkable have been undergoing a change by some municipalities to become more walkable in context. -
Henderson, NV, Smart City Strategy
February 2018This functional plan provides a vision for investing in and implementing smart city initiatives. -
Louisville, KY, Digital Inclusion Plan
May 2017This functional plan outlines strategic focus areas to help the city close its digital divide. -
Austin, TX, Digital Inclusion Strategic Plan
Adopted November 2014This functional plan identifies opportunities to build on community assets to close the city’s digital divide. -
Schenectady, NY, Schenectady Smart City
2018This web page provides links to information about the city’s smart city initiatives. -
Kansas City, MO, Digital Equity Strategic Plan
March 2017This functional plan presents a strategy to help the city close its digital divide. -
Portland, OR, Digital Equity Action Plan
Adopted April 2016This functional plan presents a strategy to increase digital inclusion and equity in Portland and Multnomah County, Oregon. -
Seattle, WA, Digital Equity Initiative Action Plan
2016This functional plan presents a strategy to help the city close its digital divide. -
From Connectivity to Community
November 2018This guide is designed to help communities use their broadband infrastructure to promote economic development, build social cohesion, and improve quality of life. -
New York, NY, Guidelines for the Internet of Things
2018This guide is designed to help city agencies and partners deploy Internet of Things (IoT) projects. -
The Digital Inclusion Coalition Guidebook
May 2018by: Bill Callahan, Tianca Crocker, Angela SieferThis guide is designed to help community stakeholders form coalitions to promote digital equity. -
Intelligent Communities Forum
2018This website provides information about a global network of cities and regions using information and communications technology to improve their economic competitiveness, promote social equity, and improve quality of life. -
Making Sense of Smart Cities: Addressing Present Short Comings
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 8: 131-136, 2014by: Rob KitchinThis article analyzes shortcomings in the academic literature on smart cities and provides suggestions for future research. -
Ways to Fail at Form-Based Codes 03: Misapply the Transect
Placemakers, May 2, 2013by: Hazel BorysThis blog post discusses a major way form-based codes can fail which is when a municipality misapplies the Transect that helps guide form-based development. -
Ways to Fail at Form-Based Codes 04: Don’t Capture the Character
Placemakers, May 16, 2013by: Hazel BorysThis blog post discusses a major way form-based codes can fail which is when a municipality fails to capture local character within the code’s basic metrics. -
A Delaware Guide to Form-Based Codes
December 2013This fact sheet discusses the four common factors all form-based codes are comprised of as well as form-based code benefits. -
Ways to Fail at Form-Based Codes 02: Make It Mandatory Citywide
Placemakers, April 22, 2013by: Hazel BorysThis blog post discusses a major way form-based codes can fail which is when a municipality adopts an all-new replacement code without having adequate local support. -
Ways to Fail at Form-Based Codes 01: Don't Articulate a Vision
Placemakers, February 21, 2013by: Hazel BorysThis blog post discusses a major way form- based codes can fail and that is the failure to establish a community vision that can then be codified. -
Current Trends in Smart City Initiatives: Some Stylised Facts
Cities, 38: 25-36, 2014by: Paolo Neirotti, Alberto De Marco, Anna CaglianThis article analyzes international trends in smart city initiatives. -
Form-Based Codes: Implementing Smart Growth
June 2005This fact sheet discusses what form-based codes are and why they are effective.