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San Mateo County Sustainable Green Streets and Parking Lots Design Guidebook
January 2009This guide examines the use of green streets and green parking lots as features of sustainable stormwater design. -
Standard for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings
December 2009This model standard provides a template to help cities and counties regulate the siting, design, construction, and planning of high-performance green building. -
Unearthing The Political: Differences, Conflicts And Power In Participatory Urban Design
Journal of Urban Design, Vol. 25, Issue 1, October 2019by: Camilo CalderonThis article covers how and why the ideas of participation and participatory methods and processes in urban design. -
Biophilic Streets: A Design Framework for Creating Multiple Urban Benefits
Sustainable Earth, 3(7), 2020by: Maria Zingoni, Peter Newman, Agata CabanekThis article demonstrates how biophilic streets can be an integral part of biophilic urbanism but incorporating nature into a new street design. -
Yakima River Basin, WA, Integrated Water Resource Management Plan
Adopted 2012The Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Management Plan is a forward-thinking plan that addresses current and anticipated future threats to the Basin’s water security, especially during drought years. -
Seven American TODs: Good Practices for Urban Design in TOD Projects
Journal of Transport and Land Use, 1(2): 51–88, 2008by: Justin Jacobsen, Ann ForsythThis article analyzes seven transit-oriented development (TOD) projects and presents 12 urban design principles for future projects. -
Improving the Lives of People With Dementia Through Urban Design
Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health, 1: 2016by: Barbara PaniThis article describes how changing demographics are increasing dementia rates and considers how urban design can help improve the lives of people with dementia. -
The Conservation Subdivision Design Project: Booklet for Developing a Local Bylaw
2000by: Evan Belansky, Stacey JustusThis guide reviews the use of conservation subdivision design, focusing on why this method has been historically underused in Massachusetts. -
Baltimore County, MD, Design Review Panel: Residential and Commercial (Non-Residential) Review Packages
February 2022The county offers two design review guidebooks, one for residential projects and one for commercial (nonresidential) projects. -
A Guide on Equitable Clean Energy Program Design for Local Governments and Partners
September 2018by: Julie Curti, Kathryn Wright, Farrah AndersonThis guide is designed to help local governments promote equity through clean energy program design. -
Brookfield, CT, Design Guidelines and Standards Manual: Incentive Housing Zone and Town Center District
2014These design guidelines apply within the town's Town Center District and overlay Incentive Housing Zone. -
West Sacramento, CA, Bridge District Specific Plan: Volume 2, Urban Streetscape and Design Standards
The design guidelines for this specific plan promote designing for solar access. -
Sustainable by Design?: Insights From U.S. LEED-ND Pilot Projects
Journal of the American Planning Association, 75(4): 424-440, 2009by: Ajay GardeThis article analyzes the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) certification system’s role in supporting local sustainable development. -
Cape Cod Commission, MA, Development of Regional Impact Guidance for Exterior Lighting Design
Technical Bulletin 95-001. October 31, 1995; revised February 21, 2002, and June 11, 2009.This guide clarifies outdoor lighting design requirements for Developments of Regional Impact in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. -
Region of Peel, ON, Affordable Housing Active Design: Guidelines and Standards
2014This guide outlines how to incorporate active design when constructing new or retrofitting existing affordable housing in the Region of Peel. -
Expanding Implementation of Universal Design and Visitability Features in the Housing Stock
Insight on the Issues 121, 2017by: Emily Salomon, Shannon Guzman, Janet ViveirosThis briefing paper discusses universal design and visitability features as important aspects of an age-friendly community. -
A Workbook of Design Options for Sustainable Development: Atkins Corner Plan
This plan provides a "development guide" for this village center site that emphasizes sustainable building development and design principles, including passive and active solar. -
Design Review: Guiding Better Development
PAS Report 591by: Mark Hinshaw, Marya Morris, FAICP July 01, 2018Get an update on the time-tested tool of design review and guidance on creating effective design review processes, standards, and guidelines to improve development in local communities.List price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
The Relationship of Urban Design to Human Health and Condition
Landscape and Urban Planning, 64: 191-200, 2003by: Laura JacksonThis article uses academic literature to argue that certain urban design elements have positive impacts on general, undefined concepts like physical and mental well-being, environmental quality, and quality of life. -
Gilroy, CA, Architecture and Site Design Standards for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities in Public Right-of-Way
Approved December 10, 2012This city policy addresses the site and architectural design of DAS network facilities in the public right-of-way. -
Restoring Mill Creek: Landscape Literacy, Environmental Justice and City Planning and Design
Landscape Research, 30(3): 395-413, 2005by: Anne Whiston SpirnThis article looks at the Mill Creek neighborhood in Philadelphia to examine the racial history of disinvestment and neglect and current efforts to address these injustices through planning and design. -
British Columbia Healthy Built Environment Linkages Toolkit: Making the Links Between Design, Planning & Health
May 2018This guide lays out a framework for a healthy built environment that includes neighborhood design, transportation networks, natural environments, food systems, and housing. -
Creating a Regulatory Blueprint for Healthy Community Design: A Local Government Guide to Reforming Zoning and Land Development Codes
August 2005by: Joseph Schilling, Nadejda MishkovskyThis guide discusses how to reform zoning and development codes to encourage design that promotes community health. -
Urban Street Design Guide
October 2013This guide belongs to the Complete Streets and Tactical Urbanism collections. -
Design for Affordability
November 2018by: Sarah Butler, Atticus LeBlancThis guide identifies four housing solutions that can improve affordability in Atlanta. -
How to Design Your Scenario Planning Process
PAS Memo — July-August 2019by: Janae Futrell, AICP July 01, 2019The July-August 2019 PAS Memo guides planners through the steps of scenario planning process design and includes a workbook to help create a roadmap for a scenario planning effort.List Price$0.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Small-Lot Subdivision Design
PAS QuickNotes 71by: Anna Read, AICP December 01, 2017This edition of PAS QuickNotes provides a primer how site and building design can help residential development on small lots fit in with its surroundings.List price$10.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Edmonton, AB, Residential Infill Guidelines: A Manual of Planning and Design Guidelines for Residential Infill in Mature Neighborhoods
This guide for property owners and developers presents illustrated design principles for small, medium, and large-scale, as well as large-site, residential infill development in established neighborhoods. -
New York, NY, Active Design Guidelines: Promoting Physical Activity and Health in Design
2010This guide shares cost-effective ways that architects and designers can promote daily physical activity. -
Dangerous By Design 2019
January 2019by: Heather ZaccaroThis report ranks the pedestrian safety of states and metropolitan areas across the country. -
Gilbert, AZ, Industrial/Employment Design Guidelines
2005These guidelines apply to all new industrial and employment developments and substantial alternations. -
Preserving Whose Neighborhood?: The Effects of Adaptive Reuse by the Savannah College of Art & Design on Property Value and Community Change in Savannah, Georgia
December 2007by: Kimberly Winson-Geideman, Dawn Jourdan, Shan GaoThis report tracks neighborhood change caused by the adaptive reuse of historic buildings by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). -
How to Design a Great Street
May 2020This video describes some of the characteristics that contribute to a great city street, which differs based on local climate, culture, architecture, and activities. -
New Jersey Complete Streets Design Guide
2017This guide is designed to help public agencies and private developers implement complete streets projects in New Jersey. -
Improving Public Health Through Community Design
November 2017by: Gary GastonThis video explores the relationship between civic engagement, the built environment, and public health. -
Design Lights Consortium Outdoor Lighting Ordinances
April 2024This interactive map details which cities in all 50 states have enacted outdoor lighting ordinances. -
The Skyscraper, Green Design, and the LEED Green Building Rating System: The Creation of Uniform Sustainable Standards for the 21st Century or the Perpetuation of an Architectural Fiction?
Environs, 28(1): 117-154, 2004by: Stephen Del PerciThis article examines the environmental and economic benefits of green building and buildings with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. -
New York, NY, Climate Resiliency Design Guidelines
September 2020This guide belongs to the Hazard Mitigation and Urban Heat Resilience collections. -
Farmland Solar Policy Design Toolkit
May 2020by: Genevieve ByrneThis guide is designed to help state and local officials understand how different state and local policy options affect opportunities to site solar projects on farmland. -
Design for Health Comprehensive Plan Review Checklists
September 2007This guide is a series of checklists that can help planners incorporate health into comprehensive plans. -
Alexandria, VA, Complete Streets Design Guidelines
April 2016This guide is designed to help public agencies and private developers implement complete street projects. -
Boston, MA, Coastal Flood Resilience Design Guidelines
This guide is designed to help property owners and developers in Boston incorporate flood-resilient designs into their projects. -
Green Building Construction and Sustainable Design
November 2015This video includes an interview that discusses the challenges and benefits to constructing prefabricated green homes. -
Sustainable Design and Green Building Toolkit
June 2013This toolkit addresses how local governments can identify and remove barriers to green building within their permitting process. -
Equitable Development: Social Equity by Design
May 2018by: Carlton EleyThis recorded lecture looks at how to incorporate environmental justice into the planning process to practice more equitable development. -
Neighborhood Planning as Collaborative Democratic Design
Journal of the American Planning Association, 73(4): 373-387, 2007by: Carmen SirianniThis article discusses how local governments can function as civic enablers and capacity builders in neighborhood planning processes. -
Street Design: Part 1—Complete Streets
Public Roads, July/August 2010by: Robin Smith, Sharlene Reed, Shana BakerThis article introduces the complete streets concept. -
Durango, CO, Design Guidelines for Established Neighborhoods
2006This guide for property owners and developers was developed as a companion piece to the community’s updated development standards. -
Arvada, CO, Design Guidelines for Olde Town Arvada
Adopted November 2012This guide addresses appropriate solar installations for historic buildings as well as new and infill construction in this district. -
Fircrest, WA, Municipal Code
2017The city's land development code establishes an administrative design review process and provides design guidelines.