Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience
This report describes how communities can approach the full scope of the 21st century’s challenges equitably and sustainably. The report draws on some of the most compelling thinking about resilience from academia, advocacy, and activism. Resilience is the ability of a system (like a community) to absorb disturbance and still retain basic function and structure.
READ MORE >December 2015
Post Carbon Institute
climate change, social justice
A Global High Shift Cycling Scenario: The Potential for Dramatically Increasing Bicycle and E-bike Use in Cities Around the World, with Estimated Energy, CO2, and Cost Impacts
This study finds that bicycles and electric bicycles could help reduce carbon emissions from urban transportation by 11 percent.
READ MORE >November 2015
Institute for Transportation & Development Policy and UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies
climate change, walking and bicycling
Hidden in Plain Sight: Why California’s Economically Challenged Cities Matter
Although California’s unemployment rate has fallen, some cities have prospered and some cities have not. As a result, California has the highest concentration of economically challenged cities in the nation according to this report. This report illustrates why it is important for elected officials and policymakers to work with the leadership in these cities to make the most of resources that can improve their economies and their residents’ quality of life.
READ MORE >November 2015
National Resource Network
economic opportunity
7 Paths to Development That Bring Neighborhoods Wealth, Not Gentrification
This article describes a framework for building community wealth, which includes seven key drivers that work together to create an inclusive, sustainable community economy where all can prosper, especially low-income families, people of color, and those with barriers to employment.
READ MORE >November 2015
Cities Building Community Wealth
community development, economic opportunity, gentrification and displacement
Does Transit-Oriented Development Need the Transit?
This research looks at how the key to less driving in transit-oriented developments may not be the presence of rail, but other factors like higher density, greater walkability, and less parking.
READ MORE >November 2015
Daniel G. Chatman
transit-oriented development, transportation
California Innovation and Meeting the Water Challenge
This report looks at California’s water usage trends and then focuses on innovation in the water industry and how it can shape the future of water management.
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water
Connecting Housing, Transportation, and Education to Expand Opportunity
This paper discusses how to create more places where low- or moderate- income families can afford a suitable home in a transit-rich neighborhood with good schools. Amy Kenyon (Ford Foundation), Judith Bell (The San Francisco Foundation) and others contributed.
READ MORE >November 2015
Center for Cities + Schools in partnership with Enterprise, Mile High Connects, the National Housing Conference, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
affordable housing, social justice, transit-oriented development
Before California’s Drought, a Century of Disparity
This story is part of a series on the future of the San Joaquin Valley’s unincorporated communities, and looks at how the San Joaquin Valley, a legacy of shortsighted land-use planning has intensified the water crisis for poor residents.
READ MORE >October 2015
CityLab
public health, social justice, water
The Transportation and Health Tool
The Transportation and Health Tool provides easy access to health practitioners on the health impacts of transportation systems including: safety, active transportation, air quality, and connectivity to destinations.
READ MORE >October 2015
US Department of Transportation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
public health, transportation, walking and bicycling
Resilience for Free: How Solar+Storage Could Protect Multifamily Affordable Housing from Power Outages at Little or No Net Cost
This report finds that solar power with battery backup storage systems can reduce operating costs in affordable housing and even generate revenue in some markets.
READ MORE >October 2015
Clean Energy Group
affordable housing, clean energy
California’s Climate Investments: 10 Case Studies Reducing Poverty & Pollution
This report examines 10 projects in underserved communities in California: nine that have been funded by and one that is eligible for funding from the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. These case studies provide an early snapshot of the Fund’s impact and suggest ways the program might be improved.
READ MORE >October 2015
Greenlining Institute
clean energy, climate change, social justice
Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn from America’s Metro Areas
This free e-book by Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor builds on research showing that greater income equality is the strongest predictor of whether a region will sustain growth over time. Drawing on lessons learned from 11 cities around the country, the authors explain how developing a shared understanding of challenges, informed by data, can help overcome political polarization, spur investments for the common good, drive growth, and increase resilience in the face of economic restructuring.
READ MORE >October 2015
University of California Press
economic opportunity, gentrification and displacement, social justice
Planning for a More Resilient Future: A Guide to Regional Approaches
This report summarizes the growing body of research on resilience from disasters (both natural and human-induced) and examines current thinking on regional resilience.
READ MORE >October 2015
National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Research Foundation
climate change, community development, economic opportunity
Land Use and Municipal Budgets: The Fiscal Connection
Municipalities across the United States are struggling with the fiscal burden of expenditures for infrastructure and services that are higher than necessary because of inefficient planning. This paper looks at the fiscal benefits that more compact development can create.
READ MORE >October 2015
Government Finance Review
economic opportunity, transit-oriented development
Grading California’s Rail Transit Station Areas
This report analyzes California’s transit stations to see which serve as hubs of thriving, walkable areas that support high levels of ridership — and which station areas need improvement.
READ MORE >October 2015
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transit-oriented development, transportation
