1st Edition
Planning and Community Equity A Component of APA's Agenda for America's Communities
This thought-provoking book exhorts planners to establish community development programs that achieve greater social and economic equity. Some of the 13 chapters urge planners to incorporate community equity concerns into traditional planning areas such as transportation and economic development. Others challenge planners to get more involved in so
1. Affordable Housing: Decent Shelter Is a Fundamental Right, 2. Transportation, Social Equity, and City-Suburban Connections, 3. Environmental LULUs: Is There an Equitable Solution?, 4. Economic Development: Partnership, Innovation, and Investment, 5. Planning for Human Services, 6. Social Impact Assessment Sensitizes Planning, 7. Urban Education: Issues, Reforms, and the Role of Planners, 8. Planning, Community Policing, and Neighbourhood Revitalization, 9. Citizen Participation: Whose Vision Is It?, 10. Governance, 11. Capital Improvements and Equity, 12. The University's Role in Community Development, 13. Rural Diversity: Challenge for a Century
Biography
American Institute of Certified Planners
