Smart Growth: Information and Resources

ORGANIZATIONS

Smart Growth Network

Smart Growth America

Environmental Protection Agency

Local Government Commission

American Planning Association

Active Living by Design

Urban Land Institute

TOPICS

Active Living

Neighborhood-Scale Planning Tools to Create Active, Livable Communities

Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing and Smart Growth: Making the Connection

Codes/Zoning

Creating a Regulatory Blueprint for Healthy Community Design

Form-Based Codes

Smart Growth Codes

Community Development

Downtown Revitalization in Urban Neighborhoods and Small Cities

Density

Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community

Economics

Ahwahnee Principles for Economic Development

Energy

Energy and the Human Environment: Toward Better Neighborhood Design

Environmental Quality

Our Built and Natural Environments, A Technical Review of the Interactions between Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Quality

Health

The Built Environment and Health: 11 Profiles of Neighborhood Transformation

Creating a Healthy Environment: The Impact of the Built Environment on Public Health

Safe Routes to School

Historic Preservation

The Returning City

Smart Growth Principles, Policies, & Tools

Ahwahnee Principles for Resource-Efficient Communities

Getting to Smart Growth: 100 Policies for Implementation

Getting to Smart Growth II: 100 More Policies for Implementation

Local Tools for Smart Growth

Ten Principles for Reinventing America’s Suburban Business Districts2004 American Community Survey

Transportation/Transit

Parking Spaces/Community Places: Finding the Balance Through Smart Growth Solutions

Pedestrian- and Transit-Friendly Design

Walkable Communities

Ten Keys to Walkable/Livable Communities

Twelve Steps Toward Walkable Communities

Water Resources

Ahwahnee Water Principles

Growing Toward More Efficient Water Use: Linking Development, Infrastructure, and Drinking Water Policies

Protecting Water Resources with Higher-Density Development

Stormwater Best Management Practices