Category: Reports
Strategic Lessons in Sustainable Community Building
This report by Groundwork USA highlights ten case studies from communities that are working to become more equitable and sustainable through community engagement in reclaiming brownfields, urban rivers, and vacant spaces.
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Reset: Assessing Future Housing Markets in the Northern Rockies
This new report from the Sonoran Institute looks at the future housing market of the American West, focusing on market trends in six communities in Montana, Idaho and Colorado. The report concludes that compact, walkable communities are in demand and ca… more »
A New Alignment - Strengthening America's Commitment to Passenger Rail
This report by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program provides Amtrak ridership levels for each of the largest 100 metropolitan areas. The authors find that American passenger rail is in the midst of a renaissance—reinventing itself through short hau… more »
Creating Clean Water Cash Flows
This report provides guidance on key strategies that cities can deploy to attract private capital to green infrastructure development. Local municipalities and state government can potentially drive billions of dollars of private investment to modernize… more »
Neighborhood Infrastructure, Community Dynamics, Physical Activity, and Health Outcomes
A neighborhood's quality of life is correlated with improved physical and mental health, states this new report from the Local Initiatives Support Corporation. The study found that residents in revitalized low-income neighborhoods of Kansas City had mor… more »
Triple Harvest: Farmland Conservation for Climate Protection, Smart Growth and Food Security in California
This new report by the California Climate and Agriculture Network describes the many essential services provided by California farmland and current development threats. As California aims to reach its mandate of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020… more »
Travel Behavior and Mobility of Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Evidence from the National Household Travel Survey
The Small Urban and Rural Transit Center at North Dakota State University's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute recently released this report, which examines travel behavior and mobility of older adults, people with disabilities, individuals in… 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 »
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