CNU New York Provides Links to Resources to Support Your Project
Smart
Growth, Livability & New Urbanist Sites
Congress for the New Urbanism Provides national leadership, resources,
and national
precedents. Their annual conference convenes planners, architects, developers
and activists from across the nation and around the world to advance best
practices in planning and development.
Center for Livable Communities The
Local Government Commission assists local
governments in establishing and nurturing the key elements of livable
communities, a healthier human and natural environment, a more sustainable
economy, an actively engaged populace, and an equitable society.
The Municipal Art Society The Municipal Art Society of New York, founded in 1893, is a non-profit membership organization that fights for intelligent urban planning, design and preservation through education, dialogue and advocacy.
National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, University of Maryland A non-partisan center for research and leadership training on Smart Growth and related land use issues nationally and internationally.”
National Charrette Institute We teach professionals and community leaders the NCI Charrette System, a design-based, accelerated, collaborative project management system that harnesses the talents and energies of all interested parties to create and support a feasible plan.
National Main Street Center A project of the National
Trust for Historic Preservation focused on the revitalization of commercial
centers.
New Urbanism: Creating Livable Sustainable Communities "Giving more people more choices about where and how they want to live."
The Prince's Foundation For the Built Environment If we can understand and apply time-tested principles, building once more in a sustainable way, we will reap improvements in public health, in livelier and safer streets and in a more affordable lifestyle for families and individuals. We also believe that neighborhoods exhibiting these sustainable characteristics will accrue higher value over time.
Regional Plan
Association: is America's oldest and most distinguished independent urban
research and advocacy group. Now in its 86th year, RPA prepares long range
plans and policies to guide the growth and development of the New York- New
Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan region. RPA also provides leadership on
national infrastructure, sustainability, and competitiveness concerns. RPA
enjoys broad support from the region's and nation's business, philanthropic,
civic, and planning communities.
The Sierra Club & Sprawl Advances Smart Growth education and policy through their informative "Challange to the Sprawl Campaign".
Smart Code Central The SmartCode is a model transect-based development code available for all scales of planning, from the region to the community to the block and building. The code is intended for local calibration to your town or neighborhood. As a form-based code, the SmartCode keeps towns compact and rural lands open, while reforming the destructive sprawl-producing patterns of separated use zoning.
Smart Growth America A coalition of nearly 100
advocacy organizations supporting community-based Smart Growth planning.
Smart Growth Online An extraordinary resource for anyone looking to
advance higher quality land use and development.
Sprawl-busters “; Sprawl-Busters Consultants help local community
coalitions on-site to design and implement successful campaigns against
megastores and other undesirable large-scale developments.”
The Street Plans Collaborative The Street Plans Collaborative is an urban planning, design, and advocacy firm. We thrive on working with our clients, partners, and other likeminded organizations to improve the quality and function of the built environment. We seek to create successful public spaces and increase the effectiveness of multi-modal transportation as a means to creating more competitive and sustainable 21st century towns and cities.
Sustainable Communities Network Considers Sprawl and Smart Growth as they pertain to the broader notion of sustainability.
U.S. Department of Energy's Smart Communities Network Promotes Smart Growth as a long-term solutions to protect the environment, conserve resources, ensure economic vitality and to improve the public's overall health and quality of life.
Urban Land Institute "Facilitates the open exchange of ideas, information and experience among local, national and international industry leaders and policy makers dedicated to creating better places.”
Vision Long Island VISION joins with others to promote more liveable,
economically sustainable, and environmentally responsible growth on Long Island
through Smart Growth. Smart Growth focuses on infill, re-development, and open
space preservation. It supports mixed-use, mixed-income communities that are
convenient, attractive, pedestrian-friendly, and that make affordable housing
and public transportation desirable and realistic. A key objective is to
strengthen communities from the start by actively involving local stakeholders
in planning.
Webzines,
Newsletters
New Urban News Geared toward design professionals and others interested in "human-scale communities.”
Katarxis Produced in Portugal, this webzine offers an
international perspective on traditional architecture, urbanism, and New
Urbanism.
Places Founded 26 years ago by architecture faculty at MIT and
Berkeley, Places
is an interdisciplinary journal of contemporary architecture, landscape, and
urbanism, with particular emphasis on the public realm as physical place and
social ideal.
Planetizen Urban planning news, editorials,
classifieds and events.
Terrain Magazine A bi-annual journal seeking the "interface—the integration—among the built and natural environments, that might be called the soul of place.”
The Town Paper Community based planning, new urbanism and traditional neighborhood design.
ULI Smart Growth News A bi-weekly review of news
and issues related to Smart Growth culled from over 1400 sources nation-wide
Issue-Specific Organizations and Websites
Affordable Housing
HUD's Regulatory
Barriers Clearinghouse Information on laws, regulations, and policies
affecting the development, maintenance, improvement, availability, and cost of
affordable housing.
Brownfields
The Brownfields Center Provides information geared toward helping citizens take an active and effective role in the clean-up and redevelopment of brownfields in their community.
Building
National Town Builders
Association
Serves builders and developers working to build traditional neighborhoods and
town centers.
Civic
Action
The Brownfields Center Provides information
geared toward helping citizens take an active and effective role in the
clean-up and redevelopment of brownfields in their community.
Joint Center for
Sustainable Communities (United States Conference of Mayors; National
Association of Counties) A forum where Cities and
counties work together to develop long-term policies and programs
Local Government Commission (LGC) A great
resource for elected officials and community leaders working to create healthy,
walkable, and resource-efficient communities.
National Civic League and the Alliance for National Renewal "The nation's oldest and most prestigious community recognition program”
National Neighborhood Coalition "A convener of people and organizations concerned about neighborhoods, a conduit of information about programs and policies, and an advocate for neighborhoods and community and neighborhood-based organizations.”
Reclaiming the Streets Helping communities tame traffic.
Environment
National Resources
Defense Council Facts, images, legislation, how-to's and how-comes of Smart
Growth from an environmental perspective.
NYS Audubon Society The Audubon Society hosts
a variety of conferences advancing Smart Growth and leads the New York State
Smart Growth Working Group.
Growth Management Institute Promotes strategies and
practices to achieve sustainable urban development and redevelopment in harmony
with conservation of environmental qualities and features.
Sierra Club Advances Smart Growth
education and policy through their informative "Challange to the Sprawl
Campaign"
US Green Building Council The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings available to everyone within a generation. USGBC produces the LEED Rating Systems.
US DOE -- Smart Communities Network "Green Development Success Stories"
Historic
Preservation
National Main Street
Center
A project of the National Trust for Historic Preservation focused on the
revitalization of commercial centers.
Townscape Institute "A non-profit, public
interest planning organization concerned with place making and place meaning
through conservation and visual enhancement of the built environments."
Planning
American Planning Association "Growing Smart
Publications"
NYS
Guide to Planning & Zoning Laws
Planetizen Urban planning news, editorials,
classifieds and events.
Planners Web City & Regional
Planning Resources.
Public
Health
Active Living by Design Establishes and evaluates
methods of promoting healthy, active lifestyles through commuinity design,
public policies, and communication strategies.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Learn more about the connection between sprawl and public health. Includes a checklist you can use to evaluate the walkability of your area.
Public
Space
Projects for Public Spaces Helping create and sustain the centerpieces of our communities.
Walkability & Transportation
Center for Transit-Oriented Development- (PDF file) "Inside the Blackbox: Making
Transportation Models Work for Livable Communities"
Florida Sustainable Communities Center Why TND Traffic Systems
Work.
Reconnecting America Working to join transportation networks to communities
Surface Transportation Policy Project Advancing safer communities and smarter
transportation choices.
The Street Plans Collaborative The Street Plans Collaborative is an urban planning, design, and advocacy firm. We thrive on working with our clients, partners, and other likeminded organizations to improve the quality and function of the built environment. We seek to create successful public spaces and increase the effectiveness of multi-modal transportation as a means to creating more competitive and sustainable 21st century towns and cities.
Transportation for America The Route to
Reform: Blueprint for a 21st Century Federal Transportation Program serves as
T4 America’s proposal for the policies and financing structures necessary to
achieve real transformational change in America’s transportation system.
Tri-State Transportation Campaign "An alliance of public interest, transit advocacy, planning and environmental organizations working to reverse deepening automobile dependence and sprawl development in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut metropolitan region."
Walkinginfo.org Pedestrian and bicycle
information center
Portals
and other Places for More Information
Cyburbia "The
Internet's oldest portal site for urban planners and others interested in
cities and the built environment" Includes an image hosting gallery,
mailing list and newsgroup information, and a very active message board.
Resource for Urban Design Information “an independent
unbiased resource which commissions, researches and creates materials, and also
re-publishes significant documents contributed by professional and government
bodies, practitioners, academics and community organisations.”
Smart
Growth Network's Smart Growth Resource Library
Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse An extensive resource for
books, websites, organizations and reports covering a broad variety of topics.
Together
Foundation's Best Practices Database Solutions database for
common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanizing and
globalizing world.
