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- Auto Free Times Magazine - News and opinion about transportation and road development issues from Alliance for a Paving Morotorium, an activist organization opposed to new road construction
www.tidepool.com/alliance/autofreetimes.html
- Congress for the New Urbanism - News, information and other resources from organization advocating for restoration of cities and human-oriented livable communities with a sense of place.
www.cnu.org
- Edesign - News, information, directory and other resources about design and activities that encourage livable, sustainable communities, from Florida Design Initiative.
sustainable.state.fl.us/fdi/edesign/index.html
- National Resources Defense Council - Resources on Sprawl and Smart Growth practices from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
www.nrdc.org/cities/smartGrowth/default.asp
- National Sprawl News Index - A periodically updated directory of articles about suburban sprawl, downtown and city abandonment
www.interaxs.net/pub/mikemonett/natl.htm#TWO
- New Urbanism - Package of features about efforts to revive traditional community design and sustainable alternatives to sprawl, from Conscious Choice magazine, Apr. 2001.
www.consciouschoice.com/issues/cc1404/index.html
- Preservation Institute - Information and resources about alternatives to dehumanizing modern trends on social and environmental quality
www.preservenet.com/index.html
- Regional Planning News from MunicipalTrends.com - A daily source of information on trends in state "smart growth" legislation, regional planning programs, and local comprehensive plans.
www.municipaltrends.com
- Scenic America - Information and resources from advocacy organization to protect scenic qualities of communities and roadways
www.scenic.org
- Smart Growth Network - The Smart Growth Network helps create national, regional and local coalitions to support intelligent and sustainable growth.
www.smartgrowth.org
- Sprawl Brawl - Commentaries and analysis about sprawl and growth-planning from Reason. A conservative journal, but page includes links to information sources on both sides of issue.
www.reason.com/bisprawl.html
- Sprawl Watch - Clearinghouse with news, information and resource links about land-use, community planning and preservation
www.sprawlwatch.org
- Sprawl-Busters - Updated and opinionated news items about disputes regarding commercial development from organization opposed to proliferation of Wal-Mart and other aspects of commercial strips and malls.
www.sprawl-busters.com/newsflash.html
- Sustainable Development Primer - 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.
www.sustainable-city.org/document/primer/index.html
- Termonfeckin Village Rural Preservation Action Group - TRPAG is a group of locally elected representatives, seeking the sensitive development of Termonfeckin and the preservation of its village character, its agricutural roots and its heritage.
www.geocities.com/trpag
- The Cost and Consequences of Suburban Sprawl - "The Dark Side of the American Dream" a 1998 report on urban sprawl by the Sierra Club.
www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/report98
- The National Trust Main Street Center - A historic preservation based downtown revitalization resource for Main Street Programs, historic preservationists, urban planners, community revitalizationists, part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
www.mainst.org
- The Planning Report - A newsletter reporting on managed growth in Southern California.
ablinc.net/tpr
- The Road to Sprawl - Multi-part article discussing the problems associated with sprawl and efforts being made to fix them, from Friends of the Earth.
www.foe.org/ptp/sprawl/roadtosprawl/intro.html
- Urban Futures - A project of Reason Public Policy Institute. the Urban Futures Program promotes voluntary, private-sector and market-oriented solutions to sprawl and urban issues.
www.urbanfutures.org
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