Resources

Use these valuable weblinks to help in planning your community.

Brookings Institution
Is Home Rule the Answer?

Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
Paying for Prosperity: Impact Fees and Job Growth

Center for Advanced Public Safety Research
A New Look at Urban Safety & Crime Prevention

Cyburbia
A planning-focused website with online discussion forums

Defenders of Wildlife
Integrating Land Use Planning and Biodiversity

Enterprise Foundation
Building Solutions for America's Communities

Fannie Mae Foundation
KnowledgePlex

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• FEMA Mitigation Documents Related to APA Effort
• Planning for a Sustainable Future: The Link Between Hazard Mitigation and Livability
• Flood Map Modernization

Housing Assistance Council
Guide to Federal Housing and Community Development Programs for Small Towns and Rural Areas

Institute for Business & Home Safety
Avoiding Natural Disasters

Institute of Brownfield Professionals
www.brownfieldpros.org

International City/County Management Association (ICMA)
BrownfieldSource.org

John F. Kennedy School of Government
The Government Innovators Network

Knowledge Exchange Resources
Useful planning resources on the APA website

Legislation and Policy Resources
Compiled by APA's Legislation and Policy staff

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Smart Communities: Curbing Sprawl at Its Core

Metropolitan Capacity Building Program
Centralized Information for Metropolitan Transportation Planning

Mineta Transportation Institute
Making Growth Work for California's Communities

Mixed Use Cores Website
Why Cores?

National Building Museum
Building America online exhibit

National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices
Growing with Less Greenhouse Gases

Pew Partnership for Civic Change
New Survey Dispels Myths on Citizen Engagement

PlaceMatters.com
Placemaking: Tools for Community Action

Reconnecting America
Reconnecting America is a new national organization formed to link transportation networks and the communities they serve

Smart City
Weekly Radio Show on Urban Issues

Smart Growth America
Smart Growth Coalition

Smart Growth Network
• Land Development Regulations
• New Primer on Implementing Smart Growth

The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH)
Promoting understanding of the history of people's efforts to shape the landscapes of cities and metropolitan regions.

Surface Transportation Policy Project and the Center for Neighborhood Technology
Family Transportation Costs Highest in Sprawling Cities

Sustainable Communities for all Ages: A Viable Futures Toolkit
http://www.viablefuturestoolkit.org/

Tompkins County Planning Department
Vital Communities Toolbox

U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM)
A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• American Housing Survey
• Planning to Meet Local Housing Needs
• Demographic Trends Important to Housing
• Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse

U.S. Department of Transportation
2001 National Household Travel Survey

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Community Culture and the Environment: A Guide to Understanding a Sense of Place
• Four Free Smart Growth Publications

White Cloud Council
Parks to Peaks Initiative