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Smart City Tales: In Search of the Inclusive City
2018by: Herman van den BoschThis report presents a collection of 24 essays that focus on Smart City development. -
Tracking Human Mobility Using WiFi Signals
PLOS One, 10(7): 1-11, 2015by: Piotr Sapiezynski, Arkadiusz Stopczynsk, Radu GatejThis article presents a method for tracking mobility patterns using GPS and WiFi data. -
Creative Placemaking Case Studies for Community Developers
2018This recording presents examples of how community placemaking can help build equitable communities. -
Comprehensive Planning and Citizen Participation
2010by: Steven Grabow, Mark Hilliker, Joseph MoskalThis guide belongs to the Comprehensive Planning and Introducing Planning Concepts to Nonplanners collections. -
Wasatch Choice Form-Based Code Template
March 2015This model form-based code provides a template to help cities and counties in Utah draft form-based zoning regulations, using place and building types. -
SGRC, GA, Model Ordinance for the Development of Tiny Houses in a Cottage Development
February 2020This model ordinance provides a template to help cities and counties in southern Georgia to draft zoning regulations for tiny house clusters. -
A Primer on Community Food Systems: Linking Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
n.d.This short briefing paper defines and explores community food systems. -
Master Plans and Capital Improvement Planning
February 2008This guide is designed to help cities and counties establish explicit connections between their comprehensive plan and capital improvements program. -
Montana Capital Improvements Planning Manual: A Strategic Tool for Planning and Financing Public Infrastructure
February 2020This guide is designed to help local governments in Montana develop a capital improvement program. -
Zoning Analysis and Framework for Community Residences for People With Disabilities and for Recovery Communities in Palm Beach County, Florida
July 2020by: Daniel Lauber, AICPThis report presents a recommended framework for zoning for group housing in Palm Beach County, Florida. -
GroupHomes.Law
n.d.by: Daniel Lauber, AICPThis website for a planning/legal firm offers links to several resources on local zoning for protected group homes. -
A Real LULU: Zoning for Group Homes and Halfway Houses Under the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988
John Marshall Law Review, 29(2): 369-407, 1996by: Daniel Lauber, AICPThis article provides an analysis of a legally defensible rationale for zoning for group homes. -
Palm Beach County, FL, Unified Land Development Code
Updated March 2021by:These regulations belong to the Group Housing and Transfer of Development Rights collections. -
Pompano Beach, FL, Municipal Code
Updated July 2021The city's zoning code defines and regulates family and transitional community residences, using length of stay as the distinguishing characteristic. -
Oakland Park, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated August 2021The city's land development code defines and regulates family community residences and transitional community residences, with length of stay, rather than the number of residents, as the distinguishing characteristic. -
Cave Creek, AZ, Zoning Ordinance
Updated September 2021The town's zoning code defines and regulates community residences as a residential use permissible in all residential districts. -
Prescott, AZ, City Code
Updated October 2021These regulations belong to the Group Housing and Content-Neutral Sign Regulation collections. -
Delray Beach, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated November 2021These regulations belong to the Form-Based Zoning and Group Housing collections. -
Waco, TX, Code of Ordinances
Updated July 2021The city's zoning code belongs to the Downtown Revitalization and Shared Mobility collections -
Leaning Toward Live-Work
Public Square, March 2016by: Marina KhouryThis article presents a typology of live-work arrangements. -
Spatial Equity Data Tool
November 2021This web page contains links to a tool that allows users to upload national-, state-, county-, and city-scale data sets to identify spatial and demographic disparities. -
Ending American Apartheid: How Cities Achieve and Maintain Racial Diversity
2021by: Daniel Lauber, AICPThis report highlights the forces that contribute to resegregation and the collective costs of resegregation and discusses what planners and other community leaders need to do to promote and maintain racial diversity. -
Planning & Zoning for Solar Energy Systems: A Guide for Michigan Local Governments
October 2021by: Wayne Beyea, AICP, Harmony Fierke-Gmazel, AICP, Sarah MillsThis guide is designed to help municipalities in Michigan plan for and regulate solar energy use at different scales and in different land-use contexts. -
Preservation of Scenic Areas and Viewsheds
Technical Bulletin 10, 1993This guide provides information on scenic view protection, including planning processes and options for protection. -
Regulating Backyard Wind Turbines
Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, 10(2008-2009): 292-313, 2009by: Dwight Merriam, FAICPThis article summarizes local planning and regulatory considerations for small wind energy conversion systems (WECs) and includes a model ordinance. -
In the Public Interest: How and Why to Permit for Small Wind Systems: A Guide for State and Local Governments
September 2008by: Ron Stimmel, Erica Heller, AICP, Mick SagrilloThis guide is designed to help state and local governments adopt regulations for small-scale wind energy systems, and it includes a model zoning ordinance. -
Green Roof and Wall Policy in North America
2019by: Maya Stern, Steven Peck, Jeff JoslinThis guide surveys policies and programs supporting green roofs and walls to identify lessons learned and common approaches. -
Evaluating the Impact of Nature-Based Solutions
May 2021by: Adina Dumitru, Laura WendlingThis report explains methods for assessing the impact of nature-based solutions based on 12 societal challenge areas. -
Bird-Friendly Building Design
2014by: Christine Sheppard, Glenn PhilipsThis report explains the threat that glass poses to birds and how that threat can be mitigated via bird-friendly design. -
14 Patterns of Biophilic Design
2016by: William Browning, Catherine Ryan, Joseph ClancyThis report defines the relationship between nature, the built environment, and humans in order to aid in adding biophilia into design applications. -
Natural Asset and Biodiversity Valuation in Cities
June 2019by: Global Platform for Sustainable CitiesThis report provides information on how urban communities can use policies to manage the natural assets in the city. -
Nature in the Urban Century
2018by: Robert McDonald, M'Lisa Colbert, Maike HamannThis report discusses the impact the current urban growth rate could have on biodiversity, along with quantifying the importance of natural areas for climate mitigation. -
Nature In and Across Cities: Metropolitan Approaches for Biodiversity Conservation
October 2021by: Ariana Dickey, Cathy Oke, Judy BushThis report provides case studies on actions for improving biodiversity as cities recover from COVID-19. -
The Nature Gap: Confronting Racial and Economic Disparities in the Destruction and Protection of Nature in America
July 2020by: Jenny Rowland-Shea, Shanna Edberg, Sahir DoshiThis report explores the unequal distribution of nature in America, especially in urban areas. -
BiodiverCities by 2030: Transforming Cities’ Relationship with Nature
January 2022by: Akanksha Khatri, Diego Bustamante, Marina RutaThis report illustrates the cities of the future that are biodiverCities and have nature as a key principle in decision-making and infrastructure projects. -
Making Nature’s City: A Science-based Framework for Building Urban Biodiversity
July 2019by: Erica Spotswood, Robin Grossinger, Steve HagertyThis report provides a framework to increase the biodiversity in urban areas. -
The Economics of Biophilia
2012by: Bill Browning, Chris Garvin, Catie RyanThis report highlights several examples of small biophilic investments that created healthy returns. -
BiodiverCities: A Primer on Nature in Cities
2014by: Michael Dean, Nicole Marzok, Meaghan EastwoodThis report provides examples of urban areas that have integrated biodiversity into services and programs. -
Urban Nature Based Solutions
2021by: Canddie MagdelenatThis report shows eight different nature-based solutions that are being implemented in cities across the world. -
The Practice of Biophilic Design
2015by: Stephen Kellert, Elizabeth CalabreseThis report provides an overview on biophilia and the principals and benefits of biophilic design. -
Planning for Cities that Love Nature: The Emerging Global Movement of Biophilic Cities
2016by: Timothy BeatleyThis report explains biophilia and how a city can become more biophilic, along with biophilic metrics that can be used. -
Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Cities: The Power of Nature-Based Solutions
July 2021by: Oli BrownThis report explores research on how nature-based solutions can help build smart, sustainable, and resilient cities. -
Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and Best Practice Guidelines
Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 22, 2014by: Joseph Edmiston, FAICP, Ted Trzyna, Glen HymanThis report provides offers guidelines and examples of the management of urban protected areas. -
Arlington County, VA, Pentagon City Sector Plan
Adopted February 2022This subarea plan for the Pentagon City neighborhood incorporates biophilic design into the public space section. -
Portland, OR, Central City 2035
Adopted July 2018This subarea plan for the Central City neighborhood includes many biophilic elements, especially in the Health & Environment section of the plan. -
Community First Toolkit
2022by: Asima Jansveld, Ana Traverso-KrejcarekThis toolkit aims to help cities and park organizations address the inequities that impact public spaces. -
The Imperative of Racial Equity in the Nature Connection Movement
Nature of Place Symposium, February 2020by: Kim Moore BaileyThis video discusses biophilia in terms of racial equity and creating antiracist policies and practices when implementing biophilia into communities. -
Toronto, ON, Ravine Strategy
Adopted 2016This functional plan supports the ravine system in Toronto through five guiding principles and 20 actions. -
Washington DC, Sustainable DC 2.0 Plan
Adopted 2019This functional plan aims to make DC a healthy, green, and livable city for all residents by developing goals to address the environmental, economic, and social needs of the city. -
Pittsburgh, PA, Citywide Green First Plan
Adopted 2016This functional plan has a goal of reducing flooding instances occurring due to large storms by utilizing green infrastructure to better manage stormwater.