Info on Smart Growth:
Learn more about Smart Growth as a guide to solving complicated challenges facing the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, and the nation.
WHAT IS SMART GROWTH?
This is Smart Growth (PDF)
Smart Growth: Myth and Fact (PDF)
Visualizing Density - Interactive Visual Tool from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Measuring Sprawl and Its Impact
"Smart Growth" in the Lehigh Valley (PDF)
SMART GROWTH & TRANSPORTATION
Driven to the Brink: How the Gas Price Spike Popped the Housing Bubble and Devalued the Suburbs (CEOs for Cities - PDF)
Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit (PDF)
Survey Shows Americans Prefer to Spend More on Mass Transit and Highway Maintenance, Less on New Roads
Longer Commutes are Driving the Growing Demand for Walkable Neighborhoods Near Cities
SMART GROWTH & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Blueprint for America - An Economic Agenda for the Nation that Builds on the Assets and Centrality of American's Metropolitan Areas (PDF)
Infrastructure 2008: A Competitive Advantage
The Economic Benefits of Land Conservation
Smart Growth is Smart Business: Boosting the Bottom Line and Community Prosperity
Higher Density Development: Myth and Fact (PDF)
SMART GROWTH & THE ENVIRONMENT
Development and Environment: Myth and Fact (PDF)
Protecting Water Resources with Higher-Density Development (US EPA - PDF)
Smart Growth for Clean Water (PDF)
Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change (PDF)
Measuring Air Quality and Transportation Impacts of Infill Development (US EPA - PDF)
SMART GROWTH & PUBLIC HEALTH
Special Report: Measuring the Health Effects of Sprawl
SMART GROWTH & EDUCATION
Building Smart Schools
Useful Links:
LEHIGH VALLEY
Allentown Good News
Forks Action Committee - Website and Blog
Lehigh Valley Network of Young Professionals - Website and The After Work Chronicles Blog
Lehigh Valley Political Blog
Lehigh Valley Ramblings
News Over Coffee: Nazareth News
Our West End Neighborhood
Seventh Street Now
NATIONAL ADVOCACY AND RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS
American Institute of Architects
American Planning Association
Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
Congress for New Urbanism
National Civic League
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Northeast (U.S.) Center for Rural Development
Reconnecting America
Smart Growth America
The Smart Growth Network
Sustainable Communities Network
The Urban Land Institute
U.S. Green Builder's Council
PENNSYLVANIA ADVOCACY AND RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS
10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania
Allegheny Conference on Community Development
Center for Rural Pennsylvania
Keystone Research Center
PennFUTURE
Pennsylvania Audubon Society
Pennsylvania Business Council
Pennsylvania Downtown Center
Pennsylvania Economy League - IssuesPA.net
Pennsylvania Economic Development Association
Pennsylvania Environmental Council
Pennsylvania Low Income Housing Coalition
Pennsylvania Planning Association
Pennsylvania Public Transportation Association
Preservation Pennsylvania
Smart Growth Partnership of Westmoreland County
South Central Assembly for Effective Governance
Sustainable Pittsburgh
Team Pennsylvania Foundation
York Counts
PA STATE GOVERNMENT
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
Department of Labor and Industry
Department of Community and Economic Development
PA MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATIONS
Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs
Pennsylvania League of Cities and Municipalities
Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors
County Commissioners Assocation of Pennsylvania
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