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 | Brookings Institute - Center for Urban and Metropolitan Study
The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy seeks to shape a new generation of urban policies that will help build strong neighb...
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 | Center for Neighborhood Technology
"...unique mission: To invent and implement new tools and methods that create livable urban communities for everyone..."
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 | Center for Livable Communities
...part of the Local Government Commission
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 | Center for Urban and Regional Affairs - [CURA] - (University of Minnesota)
An applied research and technology center that connects faculty and students with nonprofit organizations, ethnic and racial minority groups, business...
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 | Knight Program in Community Building - (U of Miami School of Architecture)
The Knight Program was designed to specifically address the complex problems associated with suburban sprawl and inner-city disinvestment.
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 | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a nonprofit and tax-exempt educational institution established in 1974. Its mission as a school is to study and teach land policy, including land economics and land taxation.
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 | Manhattan Institute
The Manhattan Institute is a think tank whose mission is to develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual respo...
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National Charrette Institute
| "...a new non-profit ... researching and teaching the art and science of the Charrette, and by facilitating public Charrettes for those with limited financial resources..." |
Date: May 2003
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 | Rocky Mountain Institute
An entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to create a more secure, prosperous, and life-s...
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 | Seaside Institute
Using the Seaside community as a living laboratory in order to ensure its residents a full community life.
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 | Sustainablity Institute
"A think-do tank dedicated to sustainable resource use, sustainable economics, and sustainable community."
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 | Thoreau Institute
The Thoreau Institute is both environmentalist and fiscally conservative, straddling two movements that tend to be suspicious of one another.
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 | Urban Institute
a nonpartisan economic and social policy organization
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 | American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials - [AASHTO]
AASHTO is a nonprofit, nonpartisan association representing highway and transportation departments in the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. It represents all five transportation modes: air, highways, public transportation, rail and water. Its primary goal is to foster the development, operation and maintenance of an integrated national transportation system.
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 | American Institute of Architects - [AIA]
AIA serves architects and their clients by promoting ethical, educational, and practice standards for the profession and by advocating excellence in d...
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 | American Planning Association - [APA]
The APA was organized to advance the art and science of planning and to foster the activity of planning -- physical, economic, and social -- at the lo...
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 | American Society of Civil Engineers - [ASCE]
Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) represents more than 123,000 members of the civil engineering profession worldwide, an...
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 | American Society of Landscape Architects - [ASLA]
Founded in 1899, the (ASLA) currently represents more than 12,000 members and has 47 chapters across the country with headquarters in Washington, DC. ...
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 | Association for Community Design - [ACD]
The ACD is a national membership organization composed of people who have formed centers dedicated to a development practice with the capacity to comb...
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 | Congress for the New Urbanism - [CNU]
CNU is a membership organization advocating the restructuring of public policy and development practices to support the restoration of existing urban ...
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 | Institute of Transportation Engineers - [ITE]
An international individual member educational and scientific association, is one of the largest and fastest-growing multimodal professional transportation organizations in the world.
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| Local Government Commission
A nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization, the Local Government Commission (LGC) is composed of forward-thinking elected officials, city and county staff, and other interested individuals. Commission members are committed to developing and implementing local solutions to problems of state and national significance.
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 | National Association of Home Builders - [NAHB]
NAHB is a trade association that helps promote the policies that make housing a national priority.
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 | National Association of Realtors - [NAR]
The core purpose of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® is to help its members become more profitable and successful.
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 | National Town Builders Association
"The Voice for Those Developing Work-Live Balanced Towns and City Neighborhoods"
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New Urban Guild
| The New Urban Guild acts as a talent agent for some of the most recognized traditional design talent available today. Its members include architects, landscape architects, designers and urbanists. Involving a number of designers will bring an authenticity to a place that simply cannot be achieved when all buildings are designed by a single hand, no matter how talented that hand may be. |
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 | Urban Ecology
A professional association working to build cities that are ecologically thriving and socially just.
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 | Urban Land Institute - [ULI]
ULI—the Urban Land Institute is a community of practice for those engaged in the entrepreneurial and collaborative process of real estate development and land use policy-making.
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 | US Green Building Council
The U.S. Green Building Council is the nation’s foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work.
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 | Cyburbia
The Urban Planning Portal: the Internet's oldest portal site for urban planners and others interested in cities and the built environment, contains a selective directory of Internet resources relevant to planning and urbanism.
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 | The Mayors' Institute on City Design
The Mayors' Institute on City Design is a program dedicated to improving the design and livability of America's cities through the efforts of their chief elected leaders, their mayors.
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 | National Trust for Historic Preservation - [NTHP]
For more than 50 years, the National Trust has been helping people protect the irreplaceable. A private nonprofit organization with more than a quarter million members, the National Trust is the leader of the vigorous preservation movement that is saving the best of our past for the future.
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 | NewUrbanism.org
This website contains an ever-expanding wealth of information about New Urbanism, smart growth, & smart transportation - attracting a wide range of viewers across many disciplines.
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 | Project for Public Spaces - [PPS]
Project for Public Spaces' is a nonprofit technical assistance, research and educational organization. PPS' mission - to create and sustain public places that build communities - is achieved through programs in parks, plazas and central squares; transportation; public buildings and architecture and public markets.
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Urban Squares
| The initial objective of this collection was to explore a visual and artistic aspects of urban squares. soon after it turned out to be a research initiative about language of the city or town squares as a nucleus and a hearth of any neighbouhood. |
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 | Walkable Communities, Inc.
Walkable Communities, Inc. is a non-profit corporation, established in the state of Florida to help whole communities become more walkable and pedestrian friendly.
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 | American City & County
American City & County has been the voice of local government since 1909. The magazine serves a powerful audience of city and county officials who are charged with developing and implementing local government policy, programs and projects.
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 | Citistates Group
The Citistates Group is a network of journalists, speakers and civic leaders focused on building competitive, equitable and sustainable 21st century metropolitan regions.
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 | Metropolis
Not neccessarily a "Trade Mag", Metropolis examines contemporary life through design--architecture, interior design, product design, graphic de...
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 | New Urban News
"...The professional newsletter covering the New Urbanism, Smart Growth and Traditional Neighborhood Design"
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 | New Village
The journal of enlightened leadership in community planning, development, and revitalization. New Village is published by the national organization Architects/ Designers/ Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) and is written for practitioners and citizen activists, alike.
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 | Planetizen
Planning & Development News, Jobs, & Events: articles amassed from numerous news sources with some original articles.
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 | Smart City Radio
Smart City™ is a weekly, hour-long public radio talk show that takes an in-depth look at urban life, the people, places, ideas and trends shaping cities. Listen Online!
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 | Terrain
Terrain: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments is a quarterly online journal...
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 | The Town Paper
"...a 16-page bimonthly publication for readers interested in new traditional neighborhoods."
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 | Urban Transportation Monitor
For 16 years, the Urban Transportation Monitor has been the trusted source for transportation industry news.
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 | American Farmland Trust
AFT works to stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming practices that lead to a healthy environment.
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 | Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development
A project of the US Department of Energy that offers a host of useful information to help you understand the concept of sustainable development
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 | City Farmer - Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture
Non-profit society promotes urban food production and environmental conservation from a small office in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia and from ...
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 | Eco-Cities
An ecologically friendly urban planning movement is growing organically out of communities world-wide. The Eco-City movement is active on all levels o...
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 | Sierra Club - Sprawl Guide
Information from one of the world's largest and most public environmental policy organizations.
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 | US Green Building Council
The U.S. Green Building Council is the nation’s foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work.
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 | Automated People Movers - APMs
An Automated People Mover is a passenger transport system with high levels of electronic intelligence so that vehicles are operated by computers over exclusive guideways without need for attendants. This link directs you to "Airfront.21" and their pages about APMs. www.airfront.us
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 | Carfree Cities
Carfree.com - the web site that goes with the book. Carfree Cities proposes a delightful solution to the vexing problem of urban automobiles.
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 | International Bicycle Fund
A non-governmental, nonprofit, advocacy organization, promoting sustainable transport and international understanding. Major areas of activity are non-motorized urban planning, economic development, bike safety education, responsible travel and cycle tourism, and cross-cultural, educational programs.
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 | International Road Federation - [IRF]
The International Road Federation is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization with public and private sector members in some 70 countries.
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 | NewTrains.org
Promoting a new national train system across America. Trains help curb sprawl while encouraging walkable communities, smart growth, and economic sust...
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 | National Center for Biking and Walking - [NCBW]
Great for information about pros & cons of ped & bike design - also has CENTERLINES online magazine
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 | PublicTransportation.org
This Web site is designed to better inform about the importance of public transportation to Americans from every walk of life and how transit provides opportunity, access, choice and mobility.
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 | Rails to Trails Conservancy
The goal of the Trail Conservancy is to rescue exceptional tracts of railroad corridor before they are broken up and lost permanently to the public.
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 | TransitOptions.com
Urban Transit Systems of the World is a service of LivableHouston
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 | Transportation Research Board - [TRB]
The mission of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) is to promote innovation and progress in transportation through research. TRB is a division of the National Research Council, which serves as an independent adviser to the federal government and others on scientific and technical questions of national importance.
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 | US Department of Transportation - [US DoT]
Serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future.
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 | walkinginfo.org - Engineering Treatments
Read the details of 47 engineering treatments for pedestrians as they relate to pedestrian facility design, roadway design, intersection design, traffic calming, traffic management and signals and signs.
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 | Affordable Housing Design Advisor
The Affordable Housing Design Advisor brings together experience and ideas from successful affordable housing projects all ov er the country, and the people who developed, designed and built them.
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 | American Seniors Housing Association
The American Seniors Housing Association was formed in 1991 to address the unique challenges of housing the nation's growing population of older adults.
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 | Fannie Mae
The Fannie Mae Foundation creates affordable homeownership and housing opportunities through innovative partnerships and initiatives that build healthy, vibrant communities across the United States.
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 | Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian housing organization. We welcome all people to join us as we build simple, decent, affordable, houses in partnership with those in need of adequate shelter.
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 | Housing Finance.com
Website of Alexander & Edwards and home of Affordable Housing Finance Magazine and Apartment Finance Today.
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 | Housing Research Foundation - [HRF]
The Housing Research Foundation is the nation's only nonprofit institution dedicated exclusively to the study of public housing and its residents.
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 | National Housing Institute - [NHI]
The National Housing Institute is a 27-year old independent nonprofit organization that examines the issues causing the crisis in housing and community in America.
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 | National Low Income Housing Coalition - [NLIHC]
The National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated solely to ending America’s affordable housing crisis.
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 | Department of Housing and Urban Development - [HUD]
True: HUD was almost named the Department of Urban Developemnt - "DUD", the word "Housing" was added later.
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| Department of Transportation - [US DoT]
Serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future.
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 | Environmental Protection Agency - [EPA] - Smart Growth
EPA Smart Growth web page
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 | National Capital Planning Commission - [NCPC]
As the central planning agency for the federal government, the Commission is responsible for preserving the unique beauty and historic urban design that have made Washington one of the most admired capital cities in the world.
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 | Smart Growth Network
In 1996, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency joined with several non-profit and government organizations to form the Smart Growth Network (SGN).
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 | Stanford University - Quick Links page for Urbanism
Urban Planning links page
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 | Yahoo! Search - Listing of University Urban Planning Programs
A list of websites that Yahoo! finds when the query "University Urban Planning Programs" is entered.
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 | Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management - [Hong Kong]
Links Page
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