Growth and Sprawl
Growth and Sprawl
Growth and Sprawl Links
- Regional Planning News from MunicipalTrends.com A daily source of information on trends in state "smart growth" legislation, regional planning programs, and local comprehensive plans.
- Scenic America Information and resources from advocacy organization to protect scenic qualities of communities and roadways
- Urban Futures A project of Reason Public Policy Institute. the Urban Futures Program promotes voluntary, private-sector and market-oriented solutions to sprawl and urban issues.
- Sprawl-Busters Updated and opinionated news items about disputes regarding commercial development from organization opposed to proliferation of Wal-Mart and other aspects of commercial strips and malls.
- Sprawl Brawl Commentaries and analysis about sprawl and growth-planning from Reason. A conservative journal, but page includes links to information sources on both sides of issue.
- Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse with news, information and resource links about land-use, community planning and preservation
- The National Trust Main Street Center A historic preservation based downtown revitalization resource for Main Street Programs, historic preservationists, urban planners, community revitalizationists, part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
- National Sprawl News Index A periodically updated directory of articles about suburban sprawl, downtown and city abandonment
- Congress for the New Urbanism News, information and other resources from organization advocating for restoration of cities and human-oriented livable communities with a sense of place.
- Edesign News, information, directory and other resources about design and activities that encourage livable, sustainable communities, from Florida Design Initiative.
- The Road to Sprawl Multi-part article discussing the problems associated with sprawl and efforts being made to fix them, from Friends of the Earth.
- The Planning Report A newsletter reporting on managed growth in Southern California.
- Preservation Institute Information and resources about alternatives to dehumanizing modern trends on social and environmental quality
- New Urbanism Package of features about efforts to revive traditional community design and sustainable alternatives to sprawl, from Conscious Choice magazine, Apr. 2001.
- Smart Growth Network The Smart Growth Network helps create national, regional and local coalitions to support intelligent and sustainable growth.
- Auto Free Times Magazine News and opinion about transportation and road development issues from Alliance for a Paving Morotorium, an activist organization opposed to new road construction
- The Cost and Consequences of Suburban Sprawl "The Dark Side of the American Dream" a 1998 report on urban sprawl by the Sierra Club.
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