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Building Inclusive and Equitable Cities: Strategies for Urban Development
A plain-language guide to what makes a city equitable in housing, services and decision making, and how the main inclusion topics fit together.
Planning and People
Inclusive Cities
Equity, diversity and renewal without displacement.
Beyond Gentrification: Inclusive Urban Renewal for a Sustainable Future
An honest look at tools that aim to renew neighborhoods without pushing out residents, and why their results are contested and uneven.
Creating Inclusive Cities: Strategies for Urban Development and Social Equity
Social equity as a planning goal: who benefits from public investment, how fairness can be measured, and why measurement should not be overclaimed.
Creating Inclusive Cities: Urban Planning for Diversity
How planners can account for different languages, cultures and household types in neighborhoods, shops and public services, and where it gets difficult.
Designing Cities for Social Cohesion: Urban Renewal Strategies for Inclusive Communities
How trust, shared spaces and everyday contact between neighbors are built, or weakened, by renewal projects, and what is uncertain about the evidence.
Designing for Diversity: Urban Development Strategies for Inclusive Communities
How cities try to mix housing types and incomes within a neighborhood, how it is done in practice, and what remains contested about mixed-income housing.
Designing Inclusive Cities: Strategies for Urban Development
A practical overview of design decisions across housing, streets and services that aim to include residents who are often left out of city planning.
Innovative Urban Housing Solutions: Affordable and Sustainable Options
A broad menu of housing approaches aimed at affordability, including small units, shared housing, nonprofit models and public land, with their strengths and limits.
Innovative Urban Housing: Affordable and Sustainable Options
Housing that pairs low running costs with a modest price or rent: how efficiency, materials and location combine, and where the trade-offs sit.
Revitalizing Neighborhoods through Community Engagement
Methods for involving residents in renewal decisions, from meetings and surveys to workshops, and how to avoid consultation that is only for show.
Revitalizing Neighborhoods through Community-Led Development
Projects owned and run by residents, such as land trusts and cooperatives, plus the skills, money and time such community-led development requires.
The Importance of Inclusive Urban Development for a Diverse City
How city plans can serve residents of different ages, incomes, cultures and abilities at once, and where the needs of different groups collide.
The Importance of Urban Planning in Addressing Homelessness
How land use, housing supply and services planning relate to homelessness, with a note that causes are complex and the best solutions remain debated.
The Importance of Urban Planning in Promoting Social Equity
How planning decisions on zoning, services and investment distribute benefits across a city, and how equity goals can be written into official plans.
The Intersection of Urban Planning and Social Justice
How planning history and present choices affect fairness between neighborhoods, including past harms and the debates over efforts at repair.
The Role of Urban Design in Promoting Social Justice
Who design choices serve and who they exclude, and how design can reduce or reinforce unequal access to good streets, parks and public places.
The Role of Urban Planning in Promoting Social Equity
Zoning, the siting of services and investment priorities as planning tools that affect equity, with their strengths, side effects and open debates.
The Role of Urban Renewal in Addressing Homelessness and Affordable Housing
How renewal connects to homelessness through supportive housing and rehousing, and the risk that renewal itself displaces vulnerable people.
The Role of Urban Renewal in Addressing Social and Economic Inequality
How renewal can narrow or widen gaps in income, services and opportunity, and the trade-offs such as rising costs that complicate any claim of success.
Urban Development and Social Equity: A Guide to Inclusive Planning
A process-focused guide to building equity into plans from the start: who is at the table, what gets measured and who ends up benefiting.
Urban Development and Social Justice: A Guide to Inclusive Planning
The history and ideas behind justice-oriented planning, including past exclusionary practices and the ongoing debates over redress and responsibility.
Urban Planning for a Diverse and Inclusive City
How planners support mixed-background neighborhoods through housing variety, language access, local services and shared spaces that many groups can use.
Urban Planning for a More Equitable City
The specific tools planners use to move toward a fairer city, including maps, impact reviews and budgeting rules, with notes on what each can miss.
Urban Planning for Social Equity: Addressing Disparities in City Development
How uneven services, investment and environmental burdens across neighborhoods arise from planning decisions, and how those planning disparities are measured.
Urban Renewal and Environmental Justice: Addressing Disparities
How pollution, heat and green space burdens fall unevenly across neighborhoods, and how renewal projects can either reduce or worsen those patterns.
Urban Renewal and Social Equity: Addressing Disparities in Urban Development
Where gaps in services, investment and outcomes between neighborhoods come from, and how renewal projects can narrow or widen them in practice.
Urban Renewal and Social Justice: A Critical Analysis
A critical reading of renewal history and its critics, covering displacement, power and the question of whose city is being improved.
Urban Renewal and Social Justice: How Cities Can Address Inequality and Poverty
How concentrated poverty interacts with place-based renewal, and what place-based versus people-based approaches can and cannot accomplish.
Urban Renewal and Social Justice: Strategies for Addressing Inequality
Practical strategies such as anti-displacement tools, community benefits and shared governance, with an honest look at their trade-offs and limits.
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Renewal and Planning Planning basics, heritage reuse, downtowns and cultural districts. Vacant Property Reuse Bringing abandoned buildings and lots back into use. Blight and Regeneration What blight means and how neighborhoods are redeveloped. Historic Districts Renewing older neighborhoods while respecting their heritage. Neighborhood Revitalization Renewing whole neighborhoods with residents, housing and local services. Housing and Equity Housing costs, markets and fairness in renewal and development. Community Impact of Renewal Effects of renewal on culture, services, health, politics and daily life. Community Engagement How residents take part in shaping development and renewal. Governance and Policy How government, planning and design carry public policy into the city. Project Delivery The practical steps between a renewal idea and a finished project. Maps, Surveys and Evidence Simple methods planners use to see what is happening in a place.