Directory of Growth and Sprawl Resources

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• Campaign for Sensible Growth

  http://www.growingsensibly.org/
  Coalition of government, civic, and business leaders in northeastern Illinois. Presents information on the campaign, news, and resources.

• Campaign to Protect Rural England

  http://www.cpre.org.uk/
  National charity devoted to protecting and enhancing rural England. Encourages the sustainable use of land and other natural resources in town and country.

• Congress for the New Urbanism

  http://www.cnu.org/
  News, information and other resources from an organization which promotes the restoration of cities and the creation of human-oriented livable communities with a sense of place.

• Environmental Protection Agency: Smart Growth

  http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/
  Includes introduction and detailed information on smart growth, plus news, publications, and policies.

• Envision Utah

  http://www.envisionutah.org/
  Public-private partnership promoting quality growth with goals in air quality, transportation options, open space preservation, housing, infrastructure, and community-friendly taxation.

• Farmland Information Center

  http://www.farmlandinfo.org/
  A clearinghouse for information about farmland protection and stewardship. It is a partnership between the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and American Farmland Trust.

• Greater Ohio

  http://www.greaterohio.org/
  A statewide network promoting policies that encourage redevelopment of Ohio's cities and towns and conservation of farmland and open space.

• Greenbelt Alliance

  http://www.greenbelt.org/
  Conservation and smart growth organization dedicated to protecting the region’s open spaces and ensuring cities grow in a way that creates great neighborhoods for everyone in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

• Grow Smart Rhode Island

  http://www.growsmartri.org/
  A statewide non-profit organization that promotes sensible alternatives to suburban sprawl and urban decay.

• Moving Sustainable Development from Theory to Practice in the U.S.

  http://www.sustainable-city.org/document/primer/index.html
  A quick-study outline of sustainable development for planners and policy-makers, with extensive web references for more in-depth information on each topic. Written by Beryl Magilavy, past director of San Francisco's Department of the Environment.

• National Town Builders Association

  http://www.ntba.net/
  Serves builders and developers in an effort to build traditional neighborhoods and town centers though smart growth principles.

• Preservation Institute

  http://www.preservenet.com/
  Information and resources about alternatives to dehumanizing modern trends on social and environmental quality.

• Save Our Land, Save Our Towns Inc.

  http://www.saveourlandsaveourtowns.org/
  Charitable corporation promotes changes in attitudes and policies that promote suburban sprawl.

• Scenic America

  http://www.scenic.org/
  Information and resources from an advocacy organization that wants to protect the scenic qualities of communities and roadways.

• Sierra Club: Stopping Sprawl

  http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/
  The Challenge to the Sprawl Campaign works to fight poorly planned runaway development and promotes smart growth communities.

• Smart Growth America

  http://smartgrowthamerica.org/
  Nationwide coalition promoting a better way to grow; one that protects farmland and open space, revitalizes neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable, preserves scenic and historic resources, and makes communities more livable.

• Smart Growth BC

  http://www.smartgrowth.bc.ca/
  A non-profit society that works to limit sprawl in British Columbia. Includes case studies, examples and local news.

• Smart Growth Network

  http://www.smartgrowth.org/
  The Smart Growth Network helps create national, regional and local coalitions to support intelligent and sustainable growth.

• Sprawl Watch

  http://www.sprawlwatch.org/
  Clearinghouse with news, information and resource links about land-use, community planning and preservation.

• Sprawl-Busters

  http://www.sprawl-busters.com/
  One of the most comprehensive and earliest sites to target sprawl, by Al Norman, "anti-sprawl guru" and consultant. Arguments and statistics to support campaigns against sprawl developments. Reading list, news, list of towns that have defeated mega-retail proposals.

• The Funders' Network

  http://www.fundersnetwork.org/
  A resource for foundations, nonprofit organizations, and other partners working to solve the problems created by suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment.

• Wikipedia: Urban Sprawl

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_sprawl
  Publicly-editable encyclopedia entry supplies examples and arguments for and against sprawl.

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