Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, ...

Mayor Abraham Beame (foreground) with President Carter in the South Bronx in 1977. It was in 1975, during Beame’s tenure as mayor, that the city’s Uniform Land Use Procedure, or ULURP, was created.

Citywide planning doesn’t always address the needs of every neighborhood, so Colorado Springs intends to create a dozen community plans to get viewpoints from people all over town. The process is an ...

A report documenting the extensive community involvement that UCSF facilitated in 2009-2010 to develop forest management goals for the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve and how the University will ...

The Charter Review Commission appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, though initially focused on term limits and non-partisan elections, recently invited comments about the city's Uniform Land Use ...

The view down Knickerbocker Avenue. The plan calls for new commercial overlays and makes room for residential, commercial, transit and manufacturing corridors, including Knickerbocker Avenue west of ...

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defined child-friendly cities as those that prioritize children’s access to safe environments, healthcare, education, green spaces, and the ...

Mayor Alan Arakawa has directed the Department of Planning to suspend work on upcoming Maui island community plans and focus instead on revamping the county’s long-range planning process. “Let’s face ...

The planning process included three sequential phases—Understand, Explore, and Realize. This rigorous process identified pressing campus and urban issues, analyzed facility assets, and conducted ...