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Smart Growth, Transit-Oriented Development, Neo-Traditional Development, Traditional Neighborhood Design, New Urbanism II Land Use and Transportation Planning Web Sites I. Smart Growth, Transit-Oriented Development, Neo-Traditional Development, Traditional Neighborhood Design, New Urbanism II. Model Codes, Code Handbooks, Design Guidelines, Local Codes, Plans, Policies III. Sustainable/Green Development IV. Transportation V. Housing VI. Commercial and Industrial Development, Economic Development VII. Infill, Redevelopment, Brownfields VIII. Schools IX. Miscellaneous I. Smart Growth Transit-Oriented Development Neotraditional Development Traditional Neighborhood Design New Urbanism 180 Degree Design Studio www.180deg.com Afton Village (North Carolina) www.aftonvillage.com Albuquerque, NM downtown mixed-use plan www.nmdowntown.com Aldea de Santa Fe (New Mexico) www.frijolesvillage.com Arcadia Land Co. (Philadelphia, PA) www.arcadialand.com/projectsframe.html • Woodmont, Lower Moreland, PA www.arcadialand.com/urbanismframe.html Association for New Urbanism in Pennsylvania www.anupa.org Austin, Texas • Smart Growth Initiative www.ci.austin.tx.us/smartgrowth/ www.review.ci.austin.tx.us/tnd/defaulttnd.html • Traditional Neighborhood District Authentic Historical Designs LLC (TND house www.historicaldesigns.com plans, Jackson, Miss.) Bay Meadows Specific Plan (San Mateo, Cal.) www.calthorpe.com/projects Blacksburg Downtown Master Plan (Virginia) www.blacksburg.gov/economic_development/dmp/ Bungalow Company, The (house plans) www.bungalowco.com California Smart Growth Initiative www.smartgrowthcalifornia.uli.org/ Calthorpe Associates www.calthorpe.com Celebration (Osceola County, Florida) www.celebrationfl.com Center for Livable Communities (Local www.lgc.org/ Government Commission) Center for Neighborhood Technology www.cnt.org Center for Transit-Oriented Development www.reconnectingamerica.org/html/TOD/index.htm The National Charette Center www.charettecenter.com 1 Chesire, Village of (Black Mountain, NC) www.chesire-tnd.com Chrin Commerce Centre (Tatamy, www.chrin.org Pennsylvania) Churchill Neighborhood Revitalization Plan www.calthorpe.com/projects (Holyoke, Massachusetts) City Heights Urban Village (San Diego, Cal.) www.sannet.gov/redevelopment- agency/cityhts.shmtl www.pricecharities.com/CHI_overview.shmtl http://gothere.com/sandiego/Cityheights/urban_villa ge.htm Civano (Tucson, Arizona) www.civano.com Clarksburg Town Center (Clarksburg, MD) www.clarksburgmaryland.com Coffee Creek Center (Chesterton, Indiana) www.coffeecrekcenter.com Colorado Smart Growth Initiative www.state.co.us/smartgrowth Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) www.cnu.org • New Urbanism Powerpoint tour Conservation Law Foundation www.clf.org/pubs • The Smart Growth – Climate Change Connection Cottage Company, The www.cottagecompany.com • Greenwood Avenue Cottages (Seattle, WA) Courtside Village (Santa Rosa, California) www.sonic.net/abcaia/New_Urban.html Crandall Arambula (Portland, Oregon) www.ca-city.com Creating Quality Places (Mid-America www.qualityplaces.macr.org Regional Council, Kansas City, MO) • Case studies www.qualityplaces.marc.org/4_studies.cfm • Tools (plans, ordinances, design manuals, www.qualityplaces.marc.org/tools.cfm guidelines) • Quality Principles PowerPoint www.qualityplaces.marc.org/3_Powerpt.htm Design Workshop (State Line, Nevada) www.designworkshop.com/Markets/Urban/urban.ht • Denver Commons (Denver, Colorado) ml • Newhall (Broomfield, Colorado) Doe Mill (Chico, California) www.doemillneighborhood.com Dover, Kohl & Partners (Miami, Florida) • Eastgate Mall re-do (Chattanooga, TN) www.doverkohl.com/redevelop/html • New Neighborhood (Old Davidson, NC) www.doverkohl.com/towns.html • I'On (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina) Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Architects www.dpz.com and Town Planners • Chesire (Black Mountain, North Carolina) 2 • Harmony (Georgetown, South Carolina) • Mt. Laurel (Birmingham, Alabama) East Clayton Neighborhood Concept Plan www.sustainablecommunities.agsci.ubc.ca (Vancouver, BC, Canada) East Sunnyside Village Plan www.calthorpe.com/projects (Clackamas County, Oregon) Elitch Gardens Neighborhood Re-Use Plan www.calthorpe.com/projects (Denver, Colorado) Empire, Michigan New Neighborhood Plan www.timbersmart.com/do/empirebottom.html Englewood Town Center (Englewood, CO) www.calthrope.com/projects Environmental Law Institute • Smart Links: Turning Conservation Dollars www.eli.org/pdf/d12.04.pdf into Smart Growth Opportunities Fairview Village (Fairview, Oregon) www.fairviewvillage.com Florida Sustainable Communities Network http://sustainable.state.fl.us:/fdi/fscc/res/tnd1.htm • Why TND Traffic Systems Work http://sustainable.state.fl.us:/fdi/fscc/news/world/tnd. htm Form-based zoning codes www.realtor.org/sg3.nsf/pages/formbasedcodes?ope ndocument Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable www.fundersnetwork.org Communities • Energy and Smart Growth: It’s About How www.fundersnetwork.org/usr_doc/Energy_and_Sma and Where We Build rt_Growth.pdf Garden Houses of the 1920s (house plans) www.gardenhousesofthe1920s.com Gibbs Planning Group (Birmingham, http://gibbsplanning.com/ Michigan) Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart www.glatting.com (Orlando, Florida) Good Jobs First (Institute on Taxation and www.goodjobsfirst.org Economic Policy) • Work Force Development and Smart Growth www.goodjobsfirst.org/pdf/workforce.pdf • Talking to Union Leaders about Smart www.goodjobsfirst.org/pdf/talking.pdf Growth • Labor Leaders as Smart Growth Advocates www.goodjobsfirst.org/pdf/clcsurvey.pdf (8-03 report) • The Jobs Are Back in Town: Urban Smart www.goodjobsfirst.org/pdf/backintown.pdf Growth and Construction Employment Habersham (Beaufort, South Carolina) www.habershamsc.com Haile Village Center and Haile Plantation www.hailevillagecenter.com (Gainesville, Florida) Har-Ber Meadows (Spring Dale, Arkansas) www.har-bermeadows.com Harmony (Osceola County, Florida) www.harmonyfl.com 3 Hidden Springs (Boise, Idaho) www.hiddensprings.com Howell Town Commons (Howell, Michigan) www.towncommonsllc.com Highlands’ Garden Village (Denver, CO) www.rose-network.com/projects I’On (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) www.ionvillage.com Issaquah Highlands (Issaquah, Washington) www.issaquahhighlands.com Joint Center for Sustainable Communities www.ci.gresham.or.us/departments/cedd/nca/pleasan (NACO and Conference of Mayors) tvalley/pdf/pv-tea21-sm.pdf • Metro-Regional Transportation Solutions for (Go to page 25) st the 21 Century: City-County Innovation Through TEA-21 o Urban Reserve Planning in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Region: Lessons for How to Plan a New Community Jonathan Rose & Companies www.rose-network.com Journal of Markets and Morality (Action Inst.) www.acton.org/ • To What Extent and In What Ways Should Governmental Bodies Regulate Urban www.acton.org/publicat/m_and_m/2003_spring/bohl Planning? (Introduction to New Urbanism) 1.html Kentlands and Lakelands (Gaithersburg, MD) www.kentlandsusa.com www.lakelandsusa.com Ken Kay Associates (San Francisco, California) www.kenkaysf.com/index2.html King Farm (Rockville, Maryland) www.kingfarm.com Kinnelon Commons (Kinnelon, New Jersey) www.kincom.com/ Laguna West (Sacramento, California) www.calthorpe.com/projects Land Development Regulations database www.smartgrowth.org/library/ldrlist.asp (Smart Growth Network) LCA Architects & Town Planners (Portland, Or) www.lcaarchitects.com Liberty Harbor North (Jersey City, NJ) www.liebmanmelting.com/projects/h_liberty.htm Lincoln Land Institute www.lincolninst.edu • Overcoming Obstacles to Smart www.lincolninst.edu/landline/1996/july/smartrev.ht Development ml Looney Ricks Kiss Architects (Tenn., NJ, Fla.) www.lrk.com Madison Park Real Estate Trust (San Fran, CA) www.madisonparkreit.com Maryland Smart Growth Program www.op.state.md.us/smartgrowth 4 Mashpee Commons (Mashpee, Massachusetts) www.mashpeecommons.com Michigan Land Use Institute www.mlui.org/growthmanagement/fullarticle.asp?fil • Smart Growth Can Deliver Affordable eid=16484 Housing • In Smart Growth’s Widening Wake, A Stream www.mlui.org/growthmanagement/fullarticle.asp?fil of Venom eid=16595 Middleton Hills (Madison, Wisconsin) www.erdman.com/mhills Mill Creek Village Center (Geneva, Illinois) www.lannert.com/projects/residential/millcreek/vlcnt r.htm www.nsn.org/wrkhome/omcreek/pt9vctr.html Mogavero Notestine Associates (Southern Cal.) www.mognot.com Montana Smart Growth Coalition www.mtsmartgrowth.org • Smart Growth Model Plans and Regulations www.mtsmartgrowth.org/smartplans.htm Moule & Polyzoides (Pasadena, California) www.mparchitects.com National Association of Realtors / Local www.realtor.org Government Commission / USEPA www.realtor.org/sg3.nsf/files/DensityManual.pdf/$F • Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in ILE/DensityManual.pdf Your Community www.lgc.org www.epa.gov • On Common Ground magazine www.realtor.org/SG3.nsf/pages/oncommon?OpenDo Summer 2004: cument o Measuring Today’s Smart Growth www.realtor.org/SG3.nsf/Pages/summer2004?Open Success Document o The Long Road to Smart Growth o Smart Codes Smart Places o Smart Growth in the States o How Do You Know If It’s Smart Growth? o Housing vs. Transportation o Smart Growth Fuels Vibrant Urban Villages o Light Rail: A Solid Option In the Transportation Debate National Center for Smart Growth (Univ. of www.smartgrowthumd.edu Md.) • Measuring the Health Effect of Sprawl: A National Analysis of Physical Activity, Obesity and Chronic Disease National Geographic www.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse/sprawl • Sprawl vs. New Urbanist suburban images National Neighborhood Coalition and Smart www.neighborhoodcoalition.org/smartgrowth/defaul
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