Growth Management Web Links

Local Sites

• The Regional Development Choices Project (Triangle J Council of Govts)
• Regional Planning for Transit (Triangle Transit Authority)
• Adding It Up: Growth Trends and Policies in North Carolina

Smart Growth, Sustainable Communities, Sprawl, New Urbanism

• Smart Growth in the Southeast: New Approaches for Guiding Development
• Guiding Growth in Virginia: Local Incentives for Revitalization and Preservation
• Smart Growth Network
• APA: Growing Smart Project
• Twin Cities Metropolitan Council: Smart Growth
• Planners Web Sprawl Guide
• Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse
• Sierra Club's Sprawl Site
• Natural Resources Defense Council: Smart Growth/Sprawl
• Smart Growth in Maryland
• Congress for the New Urbanism
• Partners for Livable Communities
• Center for Livable Communities
• Smart Communities Network (formerly Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development)
• National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)
• Sustainable Communities Project
• Florida Sustainable Communities Center
• Sustainable Communities Network
• Living Room
• Florida Center for Community Design and Research
• Tools for a Sustainable Community: One-Stop Guide for U.S. Local Governments
• Linking Tax Law and Sustainable Urban Development
• Plumbing the Future: Sewage Infrastructure and Sustainability in Western Pennsylvania
• Colorado Heritage Reports
• Community-Based Environmental Protection
• Revisiting Carrying Capacity: Area-Based Indicators of Sustainability

Organizations Related to Growth Management

• American Planning Association (APA)
• North Carolina Planners
• 1000 Friends of Oregon
• Alternatives to Growth Oregon (AGO)
• American Farmland Trust (AFT)
• North Carolina League of Municipalities (NCLM)
• North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC)
• International City/County Management Association (ICMA)
• National League of Cities (NLC)
• National Association of Counties (NACo)
• Sierra Club, NC Chapter
• Triangle Land Conservancy
• Environmental Law Institute
• National Trust for Historic Preservation

Land Use/Transportation

• Victoria Transport Policy Institute
• Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP)
• National Transportation Library
• Transportation & Livable Communities

General Growth Management Information Resources

• Planners Web
• California Land Use Planning Information Network (LUPIN)
• UNC Center for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS)
• Cyburbia Planning Resource Directory

Miscellaneous

• Planning & Markets
• Reason Public Policy Institute (RPPI)'s Urban Futures Program
• Urban Growth Seen from Space
• Innovative Housing Institute
• Land Use and Community Alliance Service (LUCAS)
• Legal Information Institute: Land Use Law