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Age-Friendly America Database
Updated 2019This clearinghouse includes resources developed by or in partnership with Grantmakers in Aging related to building age-friendly communities. -
Denver, CO, Age Matters in Denver
Adopted 2018This functional plan uses seven of the WHO’s eight domains of livability to organize the needs, challenges, and recommendations for creating an age-friendly community. -
Sarasota County, FL, Age-Friendly Sarasota County Action Plan 2017-2020
Adopted May 2017This functional plan uses the WHO’s eight domains of livability to frame focus group data and propose age-friendly interventions. -
Age-Friendly World
Updated June 2019This clearinghouse shares information related to age-friendly community building from around the world. -
Evanston, IL, Age-Friendly Evanston Action Plan
Adopted 2016This functional plan proposes an action plan for each of the WHO’s eight domains of livability. -
Tompkins County, NY, Age Friendly Ithaca and Tompkins County Action Plan
Adopted December 2016This functional plan organizes the WHO’s eight domains of livability into the categories of Livability, Lifestyles, and Well-Being. -
Cobb County, GA, South Cobb Town Center
Adopted August 2010This subarea plan builds on the Atlanta Regional Commission’s age-friendly initiatives to create a more livable town center in Mableton, Georgia. -
Innovation for Age-Friendly Buildings, Cities, and Environments
November 2013by: José Martinez Usero, Frida Westholm, Louise TengstrandThis report compiles noteworthy practices from around Europe regarding age-friendly communities. -
Elk Grove, CA, Municipal Code
Updated May 2019The city’s zoning code includes density bonuses and other incentives for housing developments that include a childcare facility. -
Gardena, CA, Municipal Code
Updated April 2019The city’s zoning code includes incentives for housing developments that include a childcare facility. -
Planning for the Aging Population: Rural Responses to the Challenge
October 2012by: Lydia Morken, Mildred WarnerThis briefing paper highlights the differences between rural and urban responses to the survey featured in the 2011 Maturing of America report. -
Collaboration: The Key to Building Communities for All Generations
The Municipal Year Book, 2015by: Minkoung Choi, Mildred WarnerThis report emphasizes the need for collaboration among local government departments for creating age-friendly communities, especially in rural communities. -
Overview: Planning for Multigenerational Communities
April 2013by: Mildred Warner, Danielle Dunn, Xiaomeng LiThis briefing paper provides a short introduction to multigenerational planning and the series of issue briefs developed by the Planning Across Generations Project. -
Planning for Family Friendly Communities: Motivators, Barriers and Benefits
January 2013by: Mildred Warner, Joseph RukusThis briefing paper shares the results of a survey of 944 planners about their role in creating family friendly communities. -
Economic Importance of Families with Children
March 2012by: Mildred Warner, Rebecca Baran-ReesThis briefing paper explains the role of families with children in creating long-term economic stability through generational balance. -
Multigenerational Schoolyards: Capturing the Full Potential of Joint Use Agreements
April 2013by: Travis NorthThis briefing paper describes how multigenerational schoolyards can help create age inclusive communities. -
Age-Friendly NYC
Updated 2019This web page shares information about New York City’s age-friendly initiatives. -
Aging in Place
Updated 2019This web page provides an overview of the Aging in Place Initiative by Partners for Livable Communities. -
Henderson, NV, Development Code
Updated July 2019The city's development code belongs to the Group Housing, Marijuana-Related Uses, and Solar Energy collections. -
Why Parents Drive Children to School: Implications for Safe Routes to School Programs
Journal of the American Planning Association, 75(3): 331-342, 2009by: Noreen McDonald, Annette AalborgThis article belongs to the Active Transportation and Age-Friendly Communities collections. -
Transportation That Works for All Walks of Life
PlannersWeb, April 2014by: Jennifer Wallace-Brodeur, Stuart AndreasonThis article belongs to the Active Transportation and Age-Friendly Communities collections. -
Bicycling: A Livability Fact Sheet
2014by: AARP, Walkable and Livable Communities InstituteThis fact sheet belongs to the Active Transportation and Age-Friendly Communities collections. -
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. -
Cleveland Policy Planning Report
1975This report, by the Cleveland Planning Department under the direction of Norman Krumholz, establishes social equity as the primary goal for the department. -
Toward Indigenous Planning? First Nation Community Planning in Saskatchewan, Canada
Journal of Planning Education and Research 36(4): 1-11, 2015by: S. Yvonne Prusak, Ryan Walker, Robert InnesThis article studies community planning efforts in Canadian First Nation reserves to explore the ways indigenous planning principles interact with settler planning processes. -
Quantifying the Social Equity of Carbon Mitigation Strategies
Climate Policy, 12(6): 1-14, 2012by: Christian Casillas, Daniel KammenThis article exposes the absence of social equity metrics for evaluating emissions mitigation projects. -
How to Design a City for Women
CityLab, 2013by: Clare ForanThis article features an effort in Vienna, Austria, to understand the different ways men and women use public transportation, and to address some of the unique challenges that women face. -
Separate and Unequal: Residential Segregation
Communities & Banking 2016 Series, Winter 2016by: John LoganThis article looks at residential segregation in urban and suburban neighborhoods in Boston and finds that it is driven primarily by race and ethnicity, rather than income. -
Pursuing Sustainability with Social Equity Goals
PM Magazine, November 2014by: Katherine TakaiThis article shares five strategies for local governments to more explicitly address social equity. -
The White City: Race and Urban Politics
Sociology Compass, 9(12): 1049-1065, 2015by: Louise SeamsterThis article addresses the movement away from explicitly addressing race in urban politics. -
Does Placemaking Cause Gentrification? It's Complicated
Project for Public Spaces, November 2015by: Juliet KahneThis article argues that placemaking does not cause gentrification. -
The Minority-Race Planner in the Quest for a Just City
Planning Theory, 7(3): 227-247, 2008by: June Manning ThomasThis article discusses the role of the planner in working towards a just city and points out the unique role of the minority-race planner. -
Beyond "Latino New Urbanism": Advocating Ethnurbanisms
Journal of Urbanism, 5(2-3): 241-268, 2012by: Clara Irazabal-ZuritaThis article poses important questions about Latino New Urbanism (LNU) and other ethnic-based reformulations of urban practices. -
Income Inequality and Social Disfunction
Annual Review of Sociology, 35: 493-511, 2009by: Richard Wilkinson, Kate PickettThis article reviews literature on health outcomes from societies with large and small measures of income inequality and finds that places with greater inequality also have poorer health and more social problems. -
The Demise of Queer Space? Resurgent Gentrification and the Assimilation of LGBT Neighborhoods
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 31(1): 6-25, 2011by: Petra Doan, Harrison HigginsThis article details how gentrification of LGBT neighborhoods leads to the dispersal of the LGBT community, and their neighborhood institutions, in the Atlanta area. -
Deliberating Across Differences: Planning Futures in Cross-Cultural Spaces
Policy and Society, 28(3): 197-209, 2009by: Marisa ZapataThis article uses a case study from Modesto, California to describe how planning processes can account for power and cultural difference. -
Racial Formation, Environmental Racism, and the Emergency of Silicon Valley
Ethnicities 4(3): 403-424, 2004by: Lisa Sun-Hee Park, David PellowThis article challenges the environmental justice literature for its lack of engagement with theoretical frameworks of race and racism. -
Gentrification, Segregation, and Discrimination in the American Urban System
Environment and Planning A, 36: 1215-1241, 2004by: Elvin Wyly, Daniel HammelThis article analyzes the effects of 1990s housing-market and policy changes in 23 U.S. cities. -
Planning for Healthy and Sustainable Cities: National City Offers a Model
March 2016by: Julia Lave JohnstonThis case study examines National City, California’s effort to develop the Paradise Creek Affordable Housing Project, a transit-oriented infill development. -
Heritage and Sustainability: The Role of Equitable Development in Preservation
Saving Places, June 19, 2017by: Carlton EleyThis blog post considers how urban development contributes to the destruction of cultural assets, especially those of underserved populations. -
Advancing Social Equity in Clark County, Washington
Advancing Social Equity Goals to Achieve Sustainability: Case Study Series, June 2014by: Tanya WattThis case study examines how Clark County, Washington, has addressed social equity and sustainability. -
Jemez Principles for Democratic Organization
December 1996This fact sheet shares the Jemez Principles, six core values that emphasize the importance of inclusion and equity in the organizing process. -
Fair Play: Advancing Health Equity Through Shared Use
July 2015This fact sheet highlights shared use as a strategy to address health equity issues. -
Manifesto for an Intercultural Urbanism
Planetizen, July 17, 2014by: Dean SaittaThis blog post defines intercultural urbanism and shares how it can help address the lack of diversity in urban planning and design. -
Principles of Environmental Justice
1991This fact sheet shares the 17 principles of environmental justice drafted and adopted by delegates of the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in 1991.