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Active Living Resource Center Library
The Active Living Resource Center (ALRC) is an online resource designed to help citizens take charge in their neighborhoods and make them more physically active by making them more bicycle and pedestrian friendly. The ALRC Library provides dozens of resources that support this goal.
Affordable Housing Design Advisor
This web site is described as a tool, resource, idea bank and step-by step guide to Design in affordable housing.
Affordable Housing Resource Center
The Affordable Housing Resource Center is an online resource offered by Novogradac & Company LLP that features policy and legislation, state information, financing tools, and more.
America’s Most Livable Cities
Browse the list of this decade's Most Livable Communities, honored by Partners for Livable Communities, a national non-profit organization that has been working at the frontlines of livability for over twenty-five years.
American Farmland Trust Introduces New Website
The American Farmland Trust has redesigned its website to promote its vision for change: A vision of well-managed, protected farm and ranch land that provides open space, clean water, healthy food, wildlife habitat and a renewed connectedness between the farm community and the rest of America.
Brownfields Links
The U.S Conference of Mayors website offers a list of brownfields links on its website.
Brownfields Redevelopment -- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy offers a focus on brownfields in the Community Lots section of their website. This focus section is specifically tailored for the needs and concerns of nonprofit community-based organizations (CBOs) that want to undertake brownfield redevelopment.
BrownfieldSource.org
BrownfieldSource.org is a comprehensive online resource for brownfields news and information.
Campus Sustainability Assessment Framework
The Campus Sustainability Assessment Framework (CSAF) examines campus sustainability by looking at the interconnectedness of People and Ecosystems in maintaining the balance of life on this planet.
CDC Livability Listserv
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) facilitates a Listserv that addresses issues related to health and the built environment. An e-newsletter that includes related news articles, latest studies, and updates on conferences and events related to livability is sent to all subscribers once a month.
Center for Sustainable Communities
Center for Sustainable Communities, part of the National Association of Counties (NACo) website, provides a forum for county officials to work with other government leaders, the private sector, and communities to develop policies and programs that lead to economic enhancement, environmental stewardship and social well being -- the three pillars of sustainable communities.
Chicagoland Transportation and Air Quality Commission
Most transportation decisions are made by regional transportation planning
agencies that have little tradition or mechanism for citizen outreach
or participation. To help balance this process,
CNT convened the Chicagoland Transportation and Air
Quality Commission (CTAQC), a 150-member regional coalition that
promotes compact urban development, the integration of land
use and transportation planning, and citizen participation in
the planning process.
Citizen Planner Online Glossary
Citizen Planner offers a glossary of planning-relate terms on its website, Citizen Planner Online. This alphabetical index covers the full spectrum of planning and development topics.
City News
CityNews is an interactive website serving the greater Chicago area that allows users to obtain data about properties in their community and indicators about their community. In addition to the specific housing data, overall statistics from Chicago neighborhoods are available.
City Practice Resources
When your city is seeking solutions, avoid reinventing the wheel by using the City Practice Resources compiled by the staff of the National League of Cities. Four City Practice Resources are now available: City Practice Online Database, City Practices Briefs, Municipal Action Guides, and the Municipal Reference Service Inquiry Service.
College Sustainability Report Card 2009
GreenReportCard.org is the first website to provide in-depth sustainability profiles for hundreds of colleges in all 50 U.S. States and Canada. Its College Sustainability Report Card is the only independent evaluation of campus and endowment sustainability activities at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
Communities by Design Built Works
Built Works, from the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) Center for Communities by Design, is a web resource that demonstrates the expertise architects contribute to community design. Featured projects on Built Works serve as a community design resource and demonstrate the positive impact of thoughtful community design and civic engagement in our nation's communities.
Communities of Tomorrow Partnership
Sustainable community development affects our people, our environment, and our economy. Communities of Tomorrow will make Regina, Saskatchewan a world leader in environmental sustainability, community development and technology commercialization.
Community Lots Website
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy offers the Community Lots project, an online resource designed to help community-based organizations (CBOs) move beyond their traditional role of housing development and into the community at large.
Community Preservation in Action
Community Preservation in Action features articles about completed or planned projects that preserve and enhance quality of life in Massachusetts communities.
Compendium of Sustainability Indicators
Version two of the Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicator Initiatives is now available online. Use this searchable directory to find initiatives based on location, type, issue areas, and more. Search for topics including quality of life,housing, and transporation.
Complete the Streets
Complete streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users. Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and bus riders of all ages and abilities are able to safely move along and across a complete street. The Complete the Streets website contains information and resources that you can use to help bring complete streets to your community.
Creating Livable Places
The Creating Livable Places website is provided by the Southern California Association of Governments to promote more livable communities. The site includes ten case studies of regional communities that have made efforts to become livable communities. The site also provides information and resources related to transportation planning, transit, and growth visioning. A calendar of events and list of related links are also available at the site.
Cultures of Cities: A New Online Data Bank
This online data bank gives a panorama of present transformations in European cities. The reports focus on the main themes discussed at the 4th Biennial of Towns and Town Planners in Europe.
Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE)
The Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE) is a
comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and selected
federal incentives that promote renewable energy.
Delaware Food Exchange
The Delaware Food Exchange lets you sell, give away or trade things you don't want with people who do, like an online garage sale. There's lots of free stuff available, plus it's good for the environment. You can also post requests for items that you need.
Designing a Place-Based Plan for Stabilization
This website from StableCommunities.org will walk readers through eight steps that will lead to a plan for stabilizing a targeted neighborhood impacted by foreclosure.
The first three of the steps start the reader at the broad, citywide or regional geographic level in order to develop strategic partnerships, to understand regional and neighborhood market dynamics, and to group similar neighborhoods into a few general strategic approaches that match their current conditions and long-term market opportunities.
The remaining five steps narrow the reader’s focus to an individual neighborhood, and the process of engaging residents, defining specific outcomes for that neighborhood’s stabilization, choosing from a wide menu of individual strategies to effect change, funding the plan, and measuring progress toward stabilization outcomes.
StableCommunities.org is the centerpiece of NeighborWorks America’s Stable Communities initiative, a national response to the local challenges that arise when foreclosed homes remain vacant or abandoned.
Designing and Building Healthy Places
The Centers for Disease Control offers this website on health and the built environment. Topics include children's and elders' health, accessibility, and physical activity.
Enterprise Foundation Database
This database from the Enterprise Foundation offers searchable categories from financing and housing to child care, workforce development, and community building. Visitors can browse by keyword or category.
Enterprise MoneyNet
Enterprise MoneyNet™ helps you find public and private funding resources to support your organization and its programs. Offered by The Enterprise Foundation, this growing database of more than 900 donors is updated daily.
Enterprise Resource Database
The Enterprise Resource Database is an extensive library of community-based resources from the Enterprise Foundation. Database categories include regional and neighborhood planning, housing, community safety, finance, and community building.
Environmental Justice Geographic Assessment Tool
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offers the Environmental Justice Geographic Assessment Tool, an online searchable database that provides information for preliminary analysis of Environmental Justice areas of concern.
European Urban Knowledge Network
The European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) shares knowledge and experience on tackling urban issues. Fifteen EU Member States, EUROCITIES, the URBACT Programme and the European Commission participate in this European initiative.
Farmland Information Center
The Farmland Information Center (FIC) is a clearinghouse for information about farmland protection and stewardship. It is a partnership between the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and American Farmland Trust.
Florida Brownfields
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) maintains a website on the state's brownfield program, including information on state and federal initiatives, locations of active projects and designated brownfield areas, and more.
Florida Smart Growth Advocates
1000 Friends of Florida has compiled this list of local advocacy groups that are dealing with the impacts of growth on a daily basis. This online resource contains contact information for more than a dozen organizations.
Foreclosure Response
Foreclosure-Response.org is a website offering resources intended to help states and localities respond to the foreclosure crisis. This site is maintained by the Center for Housing Policy, KnowledgePlex, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and the Urban Institute.
Foreclosure Response: Web Resources for States and Localities
Foreclosure-Response.org is a website offering resources intended to help states and localities respond to the foreclosure crisis. The site is maintained by the Center for Housing Policy, KnowledgePlex, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and the Urban Institute.
Golf Course Environmental Principles
A group of leading golf and environmental organizations have jointly developed a set of principles that seek to produce environmental excellence in golf course planning and siting, design, construction, maintenance and facility operations.
Great Lakes Coastal Planning
The Great Lakes Coastal Communities webpages provide links to institutions addressing coastal resources planning as well as to links for general resources by topic.
Green Building Pages
Green Building Pages is a sustainable building materials web database for the environmentally and socially responsible designer, builder and client.
Green Buildings for All
The City of Portland, Oregon's Office of Sustainability has developed this ''G/Rated'' website, a depository of green building technologies, case studies, specifications, and other technical resources.
Green Infrastructure Maps
Natural Connections has produced a website offering a database of Green Infrastructure Maps that covers 14 counties extending out from the greater Chicago region, including the counties bordering the Wisconsin-Illinois and Illinois-Indiana state lines.
Green Infrastructure: A Framework for Smart Growth
This resource introduces the key elements of Green Infrastructure, the network of natural lands, open space, waterways, and smart growth design measures that form the framework for healthy and sustainable communities.
Green Infrastructure: A Strategic Approach to Conservation
Green Infrastructure is our nation's natural life support system -- an interconnected network of protected land and water that supports native species, maintains natural ecological processes, sustains air and water resources and contributes to the health and quality of life for America's communities and people.
Green Scene: Eco-Friendly Building Design for Schools
''Green Scene: Students Appreciate Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Building Design'' is a feature on the Edutopia website that looks at how students at a Texas elementary school don't just study textbooks to learn about the environment and sustainability. They're surrounded by it.
Green Squad
An interactive website that outlines steps for reviewing practices in and around schools and their effects on health and the environment. This program is suited for both youth and adults.
Healthy Transportation Network
The Healthy Transportation Network website provides walking and bicycling safety information -- doing it safely, for everyday transportation, and in supportive environments.
Historic Preservation and Sustainability
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has created a webpage that focuses on how historic preservation can help the environment, and is part of the organization's Sustainability Initiative that will demonstrate how older buildings can ''go green.''
Innovative Solutions for Creating More Affordable Housing
HUD Secretary Mel Martinez announced the
establishment of the Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse
(www.regbarriers.org), a
new website dedicated to increasing affordable housing
opportunities. This groundbreaking project is an
exciting opportunity to assist builders and developers in
overcoming state and local regulatory barriers to
providing more affordable housing.
Kids and Community
Kids and Community is a website for young people developed by America's city planners. Explore how you create communities, how you live in them, and how you change them.
KnowledgePlex
KnowledgePlex is a comprehensive interactive resource for the affordable housing and community development field. Designed for practitioners, scholars, and policy makers, the website offers practical solutions and innovative ideas, timely news and authoritative information, and collaboration with other housing leaders.
LA Brownfields Program
LA Brownfield Program, the City of Los Angeles' nationally recognized brownfields program, has a web presence that provides details for individuals and groups who would like to redevelop abandoned and underutilized urban properties.
Learning Through Landscapes
Learning through Landscapes helps schools and early years settings make the most of their outdoor spaces for play and learning.
LGEAN Coastal Communities
The Local Government Environmental Assistance Network (LGEAN) has launched a new Hot Topic addressing the issue of Coastal Communities. This new addition to the Hot Topic section will include information on current news, funding and grant opportunities, publications, and links to relevant Web sites.
Local Food Glossary
The American Farmland Trust (AFT), a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to protecting our nation's strategic agricultural resources, offers a Local Food Glossary on its website as part of its Growing Local Campaign. Learn to ''talk'' the local food talk with these helpful definitions of words commonly used to describe local and healthy food.
Local Government Environmental Assistance Network (LGEAN)
The Local Government Environmental Assistance Network (LGEAN) is a first-stop shop providing environmental management, planning, funding, and regulatory information for local government elected and appointed officials, managers and staff.
Maps in the Public Square
Maps in the Public Square: An Atlas of the Next Chicago Region is an online exhibit that highlights the creative combination of mapmaking and public policy in the Chicago region.
Michigan Brownfields Program
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) offers information on Michigan Brownfields Programs on its website.
New Jersey Brownfields Program
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has organized an array of state brownfields resources on its website. Any former or current commercial or industrial site, currently vacant or underutilized and on which there has been -- or there is suspected to have been -- a discharge of contamination, qualifies as a brownfield.
New Jersey Smart Growth Success Stories
The State of New Jersey Department of Community Affairs has produced a webpage featuring success stories from communities that employ smart growth guidelines.
New LandVote Database
The Trust For Public Land's LandVote Database is the premier source of information about these measures. The database brings together a five-year, comprehensive history for all conservation-related ballot measures that have been voted on since 1999.
New Schools Better Neighborhoods: What If
''What If,'' a website and document from New Schools Better Neighborhoods, proposes that schools be designed as the centers of their communities, and allowances made so they can be used for varied events and services.
New York City Affordable Housing
The City of New York maintains a section on its website for affordable housing. The ''New York City Affordable Housing Resource Center'' features information on all aspects of city housing, including renting an apartment, buying a home, and apartment maintenance issues.
Northeast-Midwest Institute -- Brownfields Resources
The Northeast-Midwest Institute includes a focus on brownfields on its website. The Institute has been at the forefront of brownfield policy development and information dissemination since the early 1990s, when the Institute organized the first brownfields conference in Chicago in 1991 and published the landmark New Life For Old Buildings, the first report to analyze the legal, regulatory, and financial barriers to cleaning up and reusing old industrial sites.
Pathways to Planning
The Vermont Forum on Sprawl has developed, in partnership with the Orton Family Foundation, a sophisticated new online tool that acts as an interactive ''consultant'' to citizens and local planners.
Pennsylvania Launches Website Listing Comprehensive Plans for All Counties in State
The state of Pennsylvania has launched a new website that contains the
comprehensive plans of all counties in the state.
Picture Smart Growth
This site offers examples of how communities throughout the country are trying to achieve smart growth.
Picturing Smart Growth
Cities and towns across the country are embracing smart growth as a better solution to meet the needs of their growing populations. Picturing Smart Growth from the Natural Resources Defense Council offers images of how 70 U.S. communities could apply smart growth principles that accommodate growth and development while saving open space, revitalizing neighborhoods and helping cool the planet.
Planning and Designing the Physically Active Community Resource List
Planning and Designing the Physically Active Community Resource List contains book, article, and government document citations. The list is arranged by topic, and may be considered a literature review as well as a resource list for the project.
Planum Newsletter: Special Showspace -- Province of Terni Territorial Plan
Planum offers an international window to public bodies
and professionals firms to show their plans, projects and policies.
This newsletter presents the first ''showspace:'' the Province of Terni
(Italy) Territorial Plan (PTCP).
PolicyLink Equity Blog
PolicyLink's EquityBlog is a project to help nurture and inspire the nation's equity movement. The strong and growing equity community is united in bringing greater opportunity to all Americans, especially those from low-income communities and communities of color.
Portland Brownfield Program Sites
The Portland, Oregon Brownfield Program helps the city and its residents recover neighborhood lands by providing technical and financial support to property owners, developers, and community members. The Brownfield Program has created a web page that provides details on various sites within the city that have benefited from the program.
PreserveNet, A Database for Preservationists
PreserveNet is designed to provide preservationists with a comprehensive database of regularly updated internet resources and current professional opportunities.
Rails-to-Trails Trail Link
TrailLink.com is a Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Web site dedicated to providing detailed, up-to-date information on trail access, services and activities.
Regional Smart Growth Platform
The Transportation and Land Use Coalition's (TALC's) partnership of more than 90 organizations works to maintain the San Francisco Bay Area's renowned high quality of life, achieve greater social equity, and protect our natural environment.
Regional Visioning Projects
This website features information on the latest trend happening in the state of California and nationwide -- regional visioning and development of alternative scenarios for future growth.
RegionLink
RegionLink is an interactive, online community for regional practitioners. It is hosted by the Alliance for Regional Stewardship (ARS), a national, peer-to-peer network of regional stewards who benefit by sharing experiences and working collaboratively on innovative approaches to common regional challenges.
Revitalizing Older Cities and Sustainable Development
The Northeast-Midwest Institute features a resource category on Revitalizing Older Cities on its website that includes reports, briefings and events, a focus on energy and brownfields, and more.
Safe Routes to School in Your State
The Safe Routes to School website provides a resources-by-state page where visitors can find out about Safe Routes to School (SRTS) activities in any state. Find out about your state's SRTS program, its contacts, success stories, and grant application process.
Safe Routes to School Resources
The National Center for Safe Routes to School provides a comprehensive list of resources for individuals and communities people who want to make walking and bicycling to school safe and appealing for children.
San Jose Smart Growth Housing
This resource from the City of San Jose Smart Growth website offers a map of residential development projects, totaling over 20,000 units, which have been approved or built (since 1990) in close proximity to existing or planned transit opportunities in the City of San Jose.
Smart Growth America Social Equity
The most common image of sprawl is usually the farm paved over for a subdivision, but the more insidious images are the blocks and blocks of abandoned neighborhoods scattered throughout urban America. Smart Growth America's Social Equity resources addresses equitable development by examining how divisions by income and race have allowed some areas to prosper while others languish.
Smart Growth and Schools Resource List
This resource list from the National Clearinghouse for Education Facilities (NCEF) includes web links, books, journal articles, and other documents examining schools in relation to issues of planning and community development, economic impact, conservation of open spaces, and smart growth vs. sprawl.
Smart Growth Around America
The Smart Growth Around America blog is a ''one-stop source for the latest news from Smart Growth America'' that showcases recent and developing smart growth issues from throughout the United States.
Smart Growth Illustrated
Smart Growth Illustrated, from the U.S. EPA, provides visual examples of smart growth techniques as they have been used in different places. Although every example illustrates several smart growth principles, each was chosen to illustrate one specific principle.
Smart Growth in Maryland
1000 Friends of Maryland promotes smart growth issues in the state of Maryland through its website, which includes legislative updates, action items, and news from across the state.
Smart Growth Tools
PlaceMatters.com offers a dynamic database website as a resource for communities (their professional planners, public agencies, and concerned citizens) to identify tools and processes for better community design and decision making.
Special Report: Rebuilding Gulf Coast Communities
KnowledgePlex produces this web resource that provides comprehensive information on rebuilding gulf coast communities that ere damaged or destroyed by tropical storms in 2005. This special report focuses on ongoing planning and rebuilding efforts.
Sprawl and Smart Growth
In Contrast: Smart Growth versus Sprawl uses text and photos to illustrate how alternatives to sprawl help build better communities.
State by State Stimulus Spending Tracker
The National Trust for Historic Preservation offers a ''Perfect Storm Tracker'' on its website. This tool provides state-by-state stimulus spending tracking. The ''perfect storm'' is created when a flood of new stimulus dollars intended for ''shovel-ready'' projects hits the ground at the exact same moment when state governments are responding to widespread budget deficits and dreary bottom lines by slashing (or completely turning off) funding for historic preservation programs.
Students and Sustainability
The U.S. EPA created the Students and Sustainability webpage for teachers who wish to introduce the concepts of sustainability into their classrooms and for students who need assistance and guidance in their sustainable research projects.
Sustainability and Preservation Resources
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is compiling and commissioning research to help explain the environmental benefits of preservation. Through this research, the National Trust will quantify the significant adverse impacts that occur when well-built, functional historic buildings are unnecessarily razed or abandoned in favor of new construction.
Sustainable Albuquerque
Sustainable Albuquerque, a website sponsored by the City of Albuquerque, is designed to inform and help residents make Albuquerque a sustainable city.
Sustainable Building Resource Directory
The Sustainable Building Resource Directory is a website-based information resource and searchable database of Green Building and Sustainable Development businesses, organizations, and programs for the mid-Atlantic region.
Sustainable Community Development Network
A program of Sustainable Pittsburgh, the Sustainable Community Development Network (SCDN) partnered with leading organizations to produce a new series of Sustainable Community Essentials Resource Sheets, and also maintains an interactive web wiki that facilitates continued revision and comments to continuously improve the materials.
Sustainable Community Planning
The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has created a Sustainable Community Planning section on its website that provides best practices in design and development, tools for planners and designers, and other research on sustainability.
Sustainable Schoolyards
The Friends of Smart Growth and Sustainable Communities, a coalition of national organizations, have launched the Sustainable Schoolyard website and created a demonstration display at the U.S. Botanic Garden's summer sustainability exhibit, One Planet--Ours!
SustainLane -- Government Knowledge Database
SustainLane is an open-source knowledge database that speeds discovery, research and networking with more than 75 best practice documents and a secure directory of participating government officials from over 180 cities, counties and states.
TERI Database
TERI is the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Standing Committee on Environment's central storehouse for tracking and sharing new transportation and environmental research ideas. AASHTO's Center for Environmental Excellence maintains TERI and keeps all content relevant.
The Building Opportunities Network
The Building Opportunities Network, new from the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Main Street program, is a web-based resource that offers an online information exchange to redevelop vacant historic properties in your community.
The Smart Growth Partnership of Westmoreland County
The Smart Growth Partnership of Westmoreland County is a community-based private non-profit located at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. We believe that the land we use today is being borrowed from our children and our children's children. Therefore we are guided by the principle that communities need to make good long-term decisions about where, when and how they should grow. We seek to encourage growth that improves the quality of life for our current residents and businesses, but will also insure vibrant, high quality growth for future generations in Westmoreland County.
The Walking School Bus Information Website
The Walking School Bus has become increasingly popular in the last few years. A walking school bus provides children with a safe and healthy mode of transportation to school.
Toolbox for Local Officials
The Local Government Environmental Assistance Network has provided this toolbox as a resource to assist local government officials in their efforts to protect the environment and public health.
Tools for Action: Healthy Kids
Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) offers a website focused on creating health-promoting schools that support sound nutrition and physical activity as part of a total learning environment.
Town Meets Country: Farm-City Forums on Land and Community
A new publication and website released by American Farmland Trust and The United States Conference of Mayors highlight unprecedented cooperation between rural and urban leaders on
policies that will promote smarter land use decisions affecting farms and cities. Town Meets Country: Farm-City
Forums on Land and Community reports on the results of five
meetings held around the country to explore land use issues facing urban and rural communities. The forums revealed that farmers and urbanites have a common enemy in land-wasting
sprawl development.
The site also outlines Ten Things Urban and Rural Leaders Can
Do Together to Promote Smart Growth.
Transit-Oriented Development Website -- Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) produces a website featuring links and resources for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD).
Walking Information
This site includes lists of exemplary bicycle and pedestrian plans, and guidelines for evaluating and improving pedestrian walkways and bicycle routes.
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