Connecting Sprawl, Smart Growth, and Social Equity Norman Krumholz
	Session:Fair GrowthConnecting Sprawl, Smart Growth, and Social Equity (March 13, 2:30pm)

Things that can be done by the official planning organizations (APA and AICP), planning schools, and planning practitioners to encourage a higher level of equity along with growth. APA and AICP Continue to press for social equity by supporting such initiatives as the Agenda for America’s Communities and the publication of "Planning and Community Equity." Honor planners and planning professors who involved their staffs or students in planning for disadvantaged communities. Insist that, as a condition of continued certification, AICP planners annually contribute a set number of pro bono hours in poor communities. Make special efforts to recruit and retain minorities and add them to all appropriate boards and committees. Add more questions involving social responsibility on AICP exams. Planning Schools Identify equity planners now at work in the field and study how they get things done and survive. Collect stories and histories of equity planning as well as documents, legal changes, and changes in administrative procedures. Mount more outreach efforts that put their students in direct contact with poor neighborhoods. Create and publicize indicators of wealth, income, health, etc. that provide a baseline accounting of the state of equity in our cities. Encourage professors to write op-ed pieces that publicly challenge policies leading to the continued drift toward two societies. Planning Practitioners Become familiar with the past and present work of equity planners such as the work of Rexford Tugwell (l930s), Montgomery Co. Md.’s "Inclusionary Zoning," Cleveland Policy Plan (l975) and the Chicago Economic Development Plan (l984), and the current work of David Rusk and Myron Orfield. Work to reverse the image of central cities as centers of pathology and emphasize their function as engines of growth. Convince suburbanites and their elected officials that their interests are deeply interwoven with those of central cities. Counter the argument that public policy cannot improve the lives of the urban poor or revitalize old neighborhoods. [back to Fair Growth Symposium] Author and Copyright Information Copyright 2001 by Author Norman Krumholz, AICP, is a professor in the Levin College of Urban Affairs who earned his planning degree at Cornell. Before that, he served as a planning practitioner in Ithaca, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. He was planning director of the City of Cleveland from 1969-1979 under Mayors Carl B. Stokes, Ralph J. Perk, and Dennis Kucinich. Professor Krumholz has published in many professional journals, including the Journal of the American Planning Association, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, and the Journal of Urban Affairs. In addition, he has written chapters for many books. His book (with John Forester) Making Equity Planning Work won the Paul Davidoff Book of the Year Award of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. His most recent book, Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods (with Dennis Keating), was published by Sage in 1999. His research has been supported by the Cleveland Foundation, the George Gund Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. He served as the president of the American Planning Association (1986-1987), received the APA Award for Distinguished Leadership in 1990, and in 1999 was the president of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He was awarded the Prize of Rome in 1987 by the American Academy in Rome.