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 |  | Building Better Communities
- http://www.qualitygrowth.org/
- Consortium of building and highway construction interests presents arguments against limiting suburban development. | |
| | Campaign for Sensible Growth
- http://www.growingsensibly.org/
- Coalition of government, civic, and business leaders in northeastern Illinois. Presents information on the campaign, news, and resources. | |
| | Campaign to Protect Rural England
- http://www.cpre.org.uk/
- National charity devoted to protecting and enhancing rural England. Encourages the sustainable use of land and other natural resources in town and country. | |
| | Colorado Sprawl Action Center
- http://www.sprawlaction.org/
- Offers resources and services for local citizen groups fighting sprawl, including a growth management toolkit and the Smart Growth Hall of Fame. | |
| | Congress for the New Urbanism
- http://www.cnu.org/
- News, information and other resources from an organization which promotes the restoration of cities and the creation of human-oriented livable communities with a sense of place. | |
| | Environmental Protection Agency: Smart Growth
- http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/
- Includes introduction and detailed information on smart growth, plus news, publications, and policies. | |
| | Envision Utah
- http://www.envisionutah.org/
- Public-private partnership promoting quality growth with goals in air quality, transportation options, open space preservation, housing, infrastructure, and community-friendly taxation. | |
| | Fallsburg Smart Growth
- http://www.fallsburgsmartgrowth.com/
- New York citizens group offering smart growth news, links, documents, articles, and calendar. | |
| | Families For Responsible Development
- http://www.ffrdpocatello.org/
- Citizen group in Pocatello, Idaho offers details about their mission, events, vision, supporters, and membership. | |
| | Farmland Information Center
- http://www.farmlandinfo.org/
- A clearinghouse for information about farmland protection and stewardship. It is a partnership between the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and American Farmland Trust. | |
| | Friends of Midcoast Maine
- http://www.friendsmidcoast.org/
- Group of 14 land trusts and advocacy groups discussing the increasing impacts of sprawl in the Midcoast Route One Corridor. News and information about issues and activities. | |
| | Greater Ohio
- http://www.greaterohio.org/
- A statewide network promoting policies that encourage redevelopment of Ohio's cities and towns and conservation of farmland and open space. | |
| | Greenbelt Alliance
- http://www.greenbelt.org/
- Conservation organization dedicated to preserving a greenbelt of open space, farmlands, and parks around San Francisco, California. | |
| | Grow Smart Rhode Island
- http://www.growsmartri.com/
- A statewide non-profit organization that promotes sensible alternatives to suburban sprawl and urban decay. | |
| | Growth Management
- http://www.growthmanagement-icsc.org/
- The International Council of Shopping Centers presents local solutions that balance community needs of controlling growth with the need for creating and maintaining economically vibrant communities. | |
| | Growth Management Institute
- http://www.gmionline.org/
- Nonprofit encouraging effective and equitable management of urban growth and change. | |
| | Growth Management Leadership Alliance
- http://www.gmla.org/
- A network of American and Canadian leaders from state, provincial and regional organizations involved in smart growth initiatives. | |
| | Knox Citizens for Smart Growth
- http://www.knoxsmartgrowth.org/
- Volunteer organization supporting smart growth initiatives and opposing suburban sprawl in Knox County, Ohio. | |
| | Moving Sustainable Development from Theory to Practice in the U.S.
- http://www.sustainable-city.org/document/primer/index.html
- A quick-study outline of sustainable development for planners and policy-makers, with extensive web references for more in-depth information on each topic. Written by Beryl Magilavy, past director of San Francisco's Department of the Environment. | |
| | National Town Builders Association
- http://www.ntba.net/
- Serves builders and developers in an effort to build traditional neighborhoods and town centers though smart growth principles. | |
| | Preservation Institute
- http://www.preservenet.com/
- Information and resources about alternatives to dehumanizing modern trends on social and environmental quality. | |
| | Save Our Land, Save Our Towns Inc.
- http://www.saveourlandsaveourtowns.org/
- Charitable corporation promotes changes in attitudes and policies that promote suburban sprawl. | |
| | Save a Farm
- http://www.saveafarm.org/
- Farmland preservation campaign centered in Northeast Ohio. Site includes background and links. | |
| | Scenic America
- http://www.scenic.org/
- Information and resources from an advocacy organization that wants to protect the scenic qualities of communities and roadways. | |
| | Sierra Club: Stopping Sprawl
- http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/
- The Challenge to the Sprawl Campaign works to fight poorly planned runaway development and promotes smart growth communities. | |
| | Smart Growth America
- http://www.smartgrowthamerica.com/
- Nationwide coalition promoting a better way to grow; one that protects farmland and open space, revitalizes neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable, preserves scenic and historic resources, and makes communities more livable. | |
| | Smart Growth BC
- http://www.smartgrowth.bc.ca/
- A non-profit society that works to limit sprawl in British Columbia. Includes case studies, examples and local news. | |
| | Smart Growth Network
- http://www.smartgrowth.org/
- The Smart Growth Network helps create national, regional and local coalitions to support intelligent and sustainable growth. | |
| | Smart Growth for Tennessee Towns and Counties
- http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/smart/title.htm
- Summarizes the basic steps in a smart growth visioning and planning process, and reviews techniques that can be used at each step. | |
| | SolutionsNotSprawl.org
- http://www.solutionsnotsprawl.org/
- Home of the Citizens Alliance for Responsible Transportation, an anti-sprawl advocacy group in the Washington, D.C. area. | |
| | Sprawl City
- http://www.sprawlcity.org/
- Covers comsumption growth and population growth and their roles in urban sprawl. | |
| | Sprawl Guide
- http://www.plannersweb.com/sprawl/sprawlguide.html
- Planners Web presents information and links dealing with urban sprawl and its consequences, including the loss of green space and the decay of older urban centers. | |
| | Sprawl Information Center
- http://www.progress.org/sprawl/
- Features articles, links, a specialized search engine, and a message board. | |
| | Sprawl Kills
- http://www.sprawlkills.com/
- Joel S. Hirschhorn's site includes commentary, news, book excerpts, consulting, and a newsletter. | |
| | Sprawl Watch
- http://www.sprawlwatch.org/
- Clearinghouse with news, information and resource links about land-use, community planning and preservation. | |
| | Sprawl-Busters
- http://www.sprawl-busters.com
- One of the most comprehensive and earliest sites to target sprawl, by Al Norman, "anti-sprawl guru" and consultant. Arguments and statistics to support campaigns against sprawl developments. Reading list, news, list of towns that have defeated mega-retail proposals.
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