Guide to Urban Farming in New York State
This new urban farming guide includes tips for advocating for urban agriculture, engaging communities, dealing with contaminated soils, intensive growing techniques, urban composting, site security, urban livestock, direct marking options, and grant and… more »
Permitting Green Infrastructure: A Guide to Improving Municipal Stormwater Permits and Protecting Water Quality
American Rivers has released this new guide to permitting approaches that encourage or require low impact development or green infrastructure. The guide combines model permit language with excerpts from comment letters that have helped to drive permit e… more »
Sustainable Communities: Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development
This new EPA publication offers strategies to low-income, minority, and tribal communities to help them shape development that responds to their needs and reflects their values. Community-based organizations, local and regional decision-makers, develope… more »
2012 Urban Mobility Report
The 2012 Urban Mobility Report from the Texas A&M Transportation Institution details the enormous costs associated with increasing traffic congestion in America’s major metro areas. The report found that U.S. commuters spent 5.5 billion hours and al… more »
Car Country—An Environmental History
The prevalence of car-dependent landscapes seems perfectly natural to us today, but it is, in fact, a relatively new historical development. In Car Country, author Christopher Wells charts the ways that transportation policies and land-use practices hav… more »
Practice of Sustainable Community Development—A Participatory Framework for Change
This book details a systemic approach to the practice of sustainable community development. It takes the reader step-by-step through a community development procedure that includes processes of community assessment, visioning, setting of goals and objec… more »
National Conversation on the Future of our Communities—Compendium
The Smart Growth Network issued a call for papers in 2012 to start a national conversation on what we want our communities to look like in 25 years, and what development issues will be faced. The Network received 95 papers in response. Twenty of the pap… more »
Improving Walkability Without Changing Streets
The Minnesota Streets website (mn.streets.com) described actions that any city can take, at little expense, to dramatically improve walkability without changing actual roadways. These simple changes include adding red light cameras at busy pedestrian in… more »
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