Compact and Complete Communities

Contains links to resources to help plan a sustainable community. Appropriate growth in well-planned neighborhoods safeguards our health and economy, saves our time and farmland, strenghtens our communities, reduces our dependence on fossil fuel and conserves our natural areas. Poorly planned sparwling growth wastes all those things.

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Planetizen

Planetizen is a leading online forum for the urban planning, design, and development community. It includes urban planning news, commentary, interviews, event coverage, book reviews, announcements, jobs, consultant listings, training, and other resource. Content on Planetizen covers a wide number of planning, design, and development issues, from transportation to global warming, architecture, to infrastructure, housing and community development to historic preservation.

Project for Public Spaces

PPS provides technical assistance, training, research and other services to cre3ate and sustain public spaces that build communities. Since 1975 PPS has worked in over 1,500 communities in the United States, Canada and around the world, helping people turn their public spaces into vital community places.

Smart Growth America

Smart Growth America is a coalition of nearly 100 state and national advocacy organizations that have a stake in how metropolitan explansion affects the environment, quality of life and economic sustainability. The diverse coalition partners include national, state and local groups working on behalf of the environment, historic preservation, social equity, land conservation, neighborhood redevelopment, farmland protection, labor, town planning, and more.

Smart Growth Network

Smart Growth Network raises awareness, promotes best practices and develops tools for smart growth. The Network’s partners tend to work at a national level, and include environmental groups, historic preservation organizations, professional organizations, developers, real estate interests, and government entities.

Urban Land Institute (ULI)

ULI is a nonprofit research and educational institute whose mission is to provide responsible leadership in the use of land in order to enhance the total environment. Established in 1936, the institute today has some 30,000 members and associates from fifty countries representing the entire spectrum of the land use and development disciplines. As the preeminent, multidisciplinary real estate forum, ULI facilitates the open exchange of ideas, information, and experience among local, national, and international industry leaders and policy makers dedicated to creating better places.

Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO)

AMPO serves the needs and interests of metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) nationwide by providing technical assistance and training, conferences, research, and a forum for transportation policy development and coalition building.