The Northeast Regional Center for Rural
Development Land Use Toolbox
Housing
topic files
Smart Growth Network
Smart growth& cultural resource planning, www.wisconsinhistory.org
Description: Planning ahead for historic preservation.
Smart Growth Network
Economic benefits of walkable communities, www.lgc.org
Description: balance of pedestrian/vehicle traffic to benefit communities.
Center for Rural PA
Socio-demographics of rural pennsylvanians, www.ruralpa.org
Description: Socio demographic trends of rural pennsylvanians.
Center for Rural PA
A rural economy reality check, www.ruralpa.org
Description: How rural economy is faring using labor force, jobs and economy data of last decade.
PA Game commission
PA game commission strategic plan 2003-08, www.pgc.state.pa.us
Description: Defines what are the agencys priorities; how that work will be carried out; and how we intend to monitor its progress..
DEP
Land Recycling Program, www.dep.state.pa.us/
Description: Explanation of Environmental Remediation Standards Act Program Enhancements .
West Virginia University Extension
Real Property: Landowners Rights & Responsibilities, www.wvu.edu
Description: Rights & Responsibilities of Landowners.
West Virginia University Extension
Best Mgmt practices-soil/water conservation, www.wvu.edu
Description: Measures to preserve soil and water quality.
West Virginia University Extension
Questions about forestry & forestland, www.wvu.edu
Description: How to manage your forest; what is its worth; where to go for information.
Penn State Extension
Economic Impact Model -CIM:PSU, cimpsu.aers.psu.edu
Description: Understanding economic structure and how changes in every facet e.g govt,educ affect each other.
Cornell Coop Extension
Statewide water resources mgmt program, www.stcplanning.org
Description: A description of the water mgmt program and the diverse projects it encompasses.
Cornell Coop Extension
Rural Design workbook - introduction, www.stcplanning.org
Description: Explains audience and goals of rural design workbook; explains each chapter & appendices.
Cornell Coop Extension
Rural Design workbook - Ch 1-, www.stcplanning.org
Description: Why do we need better design?.
Cornell Coop Extension
Rural Design Workbook - Ch 2, www.stcplanning.org
Description: Conservation Design Method - how to design site with conservation in mind.
Cornell Coop Extension
Rural Design Wkbk Ch5, www.stcplanning.org
Description: Good Design - Stuart Site 120acre hilltop site.
Cornell Coop Extension
Rural Design Wkbk Ch 10, www.stcplanning.org
Description: Good Design - Clarke site - 600 acre bicentennial farm.
Cornell Coop Extension
Intro to chapters 12-13, www.stcplanning.org
Description: Properties in Watershed areas.
Cornell Coop Extension
Rural Design Wkbk Ch 12, www.stcplanning.org
Description: Good Design - Janiak site - 273 acres in watershed area .
Cornell Coop Extension
Rural Design Wkbk Ch 13, www.stcplanning.org
Description: Good Design - Rautine site -240 acres watershed.
NYMIR
Comprehensive Planning Tutorial, www.NYMIR.org
Description: The basics of comprehensive planning and legal effectsf.
NYMIR
Comprehensive Zoning Tutorial, www.NYMIR.org
Description: The basics of zoning.
Cornell Coop Extension
Revitalizing coommunity: a comparative case study, www.cdtoolbox.org/community_planning
Description: Rept on 4 communities attempting to address needs, set goals, solve problems within their communities.
Cornell Coop Extension
Building a Balance: Housing Affordability, www.cdtoolbox.org/community_planning
Description: Discussion, opinions and options for Smart Growth in NYC.
Cornell Coop Extension
Sustaining rural landscape by building community social capital, www.cdtoolbox.org/community_planning
Description: How social capital works in communites in an urban environment.
Cornell Coop Extension
Cultural Diversity in Rural communities, www.cdtoolbox.org/community_planning
Description: Intercultural programs; oral history; racial equality.
CT Dept of Environmental Protection
Environmental Land Use Restrictions, www.dep.state.ct.us
Description: Guidelines for Environmental Land use.
CaRDI
Smart Growth -more choices-better places, www.cardi.cornell.edu
Description: Power Point presentation- Smart growth principles and trends.
American Farmland Trust
Conservation options for CT farmland, www.farmland.org
Description: A guide for landowners, land trusts and municipalities.
National Governors Assn
Integrating affordable housing w/state development policy, www.nga.org
Description: Implementing housing strategies to improve communities .
ICMA
Revitalizing Brownfields into GreenSpace/TOC, icma.org
Description: Table of Contents.
ICMA
Revitalizing Brownfields into GreenSpace -Chapter one , icma.org
Description: Making a case for the need for Greenspace.
ICMA
Revitalizing Brownfields into greenspace-Ch 2, icma.org
Description: Varieties of greenspace and benefits to the community.
ICMA
Preserving cultural/historic resources through brownfield redevelopment , icma.org
Description: Creating social and economic revitalization.
Smart Growth - governors office -MD
Smart Growth Best Practices - Parking, www.smartgrowth.state.md.us
Description: Smart growth study of parking strategies that meet BP mgmt.
Funders Network
Vacant properties & Smart Growth , www.fundersnetwork.org
Description: Reclaiming vacant properties and abandoned buildings.
Smart Growth
Transit oriented development, www.nipc.cog.il.us
Description: Creating mixed use higher density communitites.
Purdue Coop Extension Svc
Rural/Urban Conflict, www.ces.purdue.edu
Description: Why people are moving to the country; and how to co-exist .
Purdue Coop Extension Svc
How good is your comprehensive plan, www.ces.purdue.edu
Description: Short summary: how to create an effective comprehensive community plan.
Purdue Coop Extension Svc
Citizen participation in land use planning, www.ces.purdue.edu
Description: How you can be actively involved in land use decisions.
Purdue Coop Extension Svc
Private Property: Rights, responsibilities & limitations, www.ces.purdue.edu
Description: Frequently asked questions about rights of land ownership.
Purdue Coop Extension Svc
What is Planning commission-how does it work, www.ces.purdue.edu
Description: What is planning commission - what happens at a hearing.
Purdue Coop Extension Svc
Protecting our water and environmental resources, www.planningwithpower.org
Description: A model for incorporating resource protection into land use decisions.
Purdue Coop Extension Svc
Impacts of development on waterways, www.planningwithpower.org
Description: Development disrupts waterways; what can we do?.
Purdue Coop Extension Svc
How to protect your community from polluted runoff, www.planningwithpower.org
Description: Identifying the problem; considerations for dealing with it.
Purdue Coop Extension Svc
Minimizing effects of development on water quality, www.ces.purdue.edu
Description: Fact sheet with suggestions to minimize damage to water.
CRS report -Library of Congress
Wetland Issues, cnie.org
Description: What is a wetland ..policies; programs.
NRCS - USDA
Rehabilitation of aging watershed dams-overview, www.nrcs.usda.gov
Description: Fact sheet about watershed dams and what needs to be done.
NRCS - USDA
Implementation of watershed rehabilitation, www.nrcs.usda.gov
Description: Question and Answer sheet.
NRCS - USDA
Reinvesting in America's watersheds, www.nrcs.usda.gov
Description: Fact sheet about what needs to be done about watersheds.
National Watershed Coalition
A guide to watershed protection and flood prevention program, www.watershedcoalition.org
Description: How your community can organize a watershed project.
Enterprise Foundation
Healthy housing, healthy families, www.enterprisefoundation.org
Description: Trends that point to progress in improving health prospects of low income families through providing affordable housing.
Enterprise Foundation
Schools, Community and Development:Erasing the boundaries, www.enterprisefoundation.org
Description: Results of 4 neighborhoods connecting community based revitalization w/school reform.
Smart Growth Network
The Link between Land Use and Water Resources, www.epa.gov
Description: Guidelines for building communities that protect water resources.
Smart Growth Network
What is Smart Growth?, www.epa.gov
Description: Smart growth priciples and practices.
Smart Growth Network
Protecting water resources w/Smart Growth, www.epa.gov
Description: A development approach characterized by ten SG principles.
EPA
Improving air quality through land use activities, www.epa.gov
Description: Guidelines to encourage development of land use policies and projects that improve livability and air quality.
Smart Growth Network
Our built and natural environments, www.epa.gov
Description: A technical review of the interaction of land use, transportation and environmental quality.
Smart Growth Network
Parking Alternatives: Making way for urban infill and brownfield redevelopment, www.smartgrowth.org
Description: A guide to vehicular parking requirements--generic formulas that are not working and some alternatives.
Smart Growth Network
Transportation & Environmental impact of infill vs.greenfield development , www.epa.gov
Description: Comparative study of location one infill and one urban greenfield.
Smart Growth Network
Supporting environmental excellence & Smart Growth, www.epa.gov
Description: Summary of Atlantic Steel project - Environmental analysis.
EPA
Alternatives to subsidizing edge development, www.epa.gov
Description: Strategies for preserving rural landscapes.
EPA
Making the brownfield-transportation link, www.epa.gov
Description: Smart growth options for metropolitan areas.
Smart Growth Network/ICMA
Getting to Smart Growth- Vol 1, www.smartgrowth.org
Description: 100 policies for implementation.
Smart Growth Network/ICMA
Getting to Smart Growth- Vol 2, www.smartgrowth.org
Description: 100 more policies for implementation.
Smart Growth Network
Creating great neighborhoods: Density in your community, www.epa.gov
Description: All about your community and density; what is it?.
EPA
Building Green infrastructure: Land conservation as a watershed protection strategy, www.tpl.org
Description: Report: 4 cases where land conservation is preserving water quality.
Trust for Public Land
Economic benefits of parks and open space, www.tpl.org
Description: How land conservation helps communities grow smart and protect the bottom line w/intro, 7chapters and endnotes.
Trust for Public Land
Why America needs more city parks & open space, www.tpl.org
Description: All the reasons why parks and open space are critical .
Trust for Public Land
Land conservation & the future of Americas drinking water, www.tpl.org
Description: Making the case for water protection; how and case studies.
Trust for Public Land
Protecting land to safeguard CONN water , www.tpl.org
Description: All about water and protecting it, a tool box for Conn.
Trust for Public Land
Smart Growth for clean water, www.tpl.org
Description: Helping communitites address water quality impacts of sprawl.
Trust for Public Land
Protecting open space along America's highways, www.tpl.org
Description: Educate the public about link between highway construction and loss of open space.
Trust for Public Land
Preserving land in the chesapeake watershed, www.tpl.org
Description: Progress of bay state and how can rededicate to the commitment.
Trust for Public Land
Connecticut: A legacy of land, www.tpl.org
Description: Annual report on protection of open space.
Trust for Public Land
Local greenprinting for growth: Vol 1, www.tpl.org
Description: Defining a conservation vision,and funding it.
Trust for Public Land
Vol 2: How to define a conservation vision, www.tpl.org
Description: Tools and resources to create the vision,and assess open space.
Trust for Public Land
Vol 3: How to secure conservation funding, www.tpl.org
Description: Identify, define, evaluate ways to secure quality funding.
Trust for Public Land
Local tools for Smart Growth, www.naco.org
Description: Practical strategies & techniques to improve our communities.
Smart Growth Network
Pedestrian and transit friendly design, www.epa.gov
Description: A primer for smart growth in urban design.
Smart Growth Network
Why Smart Growth? A primer, www.epa.gov
Description: Smart growth recognizes the connection between development & quality of life.
Smart Growth Network
Best develoment practices: A primer for smart growth, www.epa.gov
Description: Good community development defined in operational terms.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Detection of QFHD by GIS information systems, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: How to detect QFHD's without standardized deifinition & how to create this definition.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Development subsidies and Labor Unions belong in the sprawl debate, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Incentives are a intergral part of the sprawl process.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Do Plans Matter? Effects of Light Rail on Land Values, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Plans can serve as coordinating transportation and land use investments.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Downtown living: A Deeper Look, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: 7 key findings to deeper downtown living.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Easements, Covenants and Servitudes: Traditional Limitations and Future Trends , www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Current status of nonpossessory rights in property.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Educating policymakers and communities about sprawl, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Defining sprawl and crafting working policies to respond to suburban growth ..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Effects of land and housing policies on market performance, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Growing recognition of economic/social importance of land, housing and real property.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Employment access; neighborhood quality; residential location choice, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Residential location outcomes of white and black households with variety of neighborhood attributes influencing labor markets.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Environmental amenitites, urban sprawl, and the economic landscape, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Theory of leapfrog development patterns and the associated economic landscape.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Political economoy of two rate property taxation, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: In favor of taxing land value more heavily than building values, and why the US hasn't adopted such a plan.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Estimating the external effects of subsidized housing investment on property values, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Subsidized housing investments can produce substantial sustainable external benefits.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Ethics, business,and land, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Talk on ethical practices.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Farming Inside Cities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Characteristics of entreprenurial urban agriculturel; key obstacles to it's practice.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Fortress communities: The walling and gating of American suburbs, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Gated communities and the social implications.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Habitat Conservation Plans: A new tool to resolve land conflicts, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Definition of HCP's; how they work; can they work.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Have American planners lost their values, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Types of planning tools used in the United States to minimize the adverse effects and costs of development or to maximize public benefits. .
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Homeownership: Low household mobility,volatile housing prices, high income dispersion, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: How home ownership affects local housing markets.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Housing Modes, Impediments and Opportunities , www.lincolninst.edu
Description: The need for affordable housing on US rural land for low income people .
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Housing segregation in the US: Does race matter?, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This study explores neighborhood amenities and characteristics that families seek out upon racial lines.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Identifying the real costs/benefits of sports facilities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Economic development of sports facilities and full costs and benefits.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Implementing a land value tax in urban residential communities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Potential for modern mass appraisal methods to separate values for residential properties between land and buildings.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Implications of a split rate real property tax, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Study data on property to explore redistribution of real property tax liability.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
In search of new life for smaller cities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Small cities struggling for relevance.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Inequality, segregation and housing markets, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: A theoretical framework of social theory with comparative qualitative inquiry.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Land & Biodiversity conservation: a leadership dialogue, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Discussion about land conservation challenges in the 21st century.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Land assembly, Land readjustment, and Public-private redevelopment, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: What is applicability of land re-adjustment, and case study.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Land use and design innovations in private communities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Proliferation of private communities is causing a transition from private ownership to collective governance.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Planners & economists debate land market policy, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Regulation within a market economy and the unintened consequences.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Land market understanding is the basis for smart change, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: A comprehensive study of land use policies, financial strategies that influence capital markets, conservation, smart growth etc..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Land supply and infrastructure capacity monitoring for smart urban growth , www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Urban growth processes and growth management policy.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Land value taxation and eco-taxation, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: The social and economic inter-relationship.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Managaing Urban Sprawl: Effects of land use externalities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: How neighborhood interaction, as land use externalities influence land development decisions..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Model house for the millions: The making of the american suburban landscape 1820-2000, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: An historical typology of american suburban development.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Effects of urban containment on housing prices and landowner behavior, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: To explore the implications of these two faces of urban containment as smart growth policy,.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Regional planning in America: updating earlier visions, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Discussion of concerns first raised in the 1920s that remain largely unresolved: the impacts of suburban sprawl on cities and countryside; how to reconcile the automobile and highways with the design of communities and regions; and the need for high-quali.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Promoting more equitable brownfield development, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Identifying promising approaches for improving redevelopment prospects of least marketable brownfield sites found in depressed urban neighborhoods.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Property tax reform and smart growth: connecting some of the dots, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Tax policy tools for smart growth.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Property taxation and current use assessment, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This paper discusses the relationships between property taxation and patterns of land use..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Redeveloping urban brownfields, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: The environmental and financial challenges of dealing with these sites represent serious barriers to potential urban revitalization.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Regulating subdivisions in Massachusetts, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Practices and outlooks; survey of public officials.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Resolving Land use conflicts through mediation: 8 case studies, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: 8 case studies from oregon to PA.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Revisiting the sitcom suburbs, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Short history of suburbs and their creation.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Roles of community based organizations in brownfield redevelopment, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Learning how to partner with other sectors and when to bring these partners into a brownfields project is an important aspect of successful brownfields redevelopment for CBOs ...
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
School finance litigation and property tax revolts, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: How undermining local control turns voters away from public education.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
School finance, spatial segregation and the nature of communities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: How school finance policies affect the nature of communities.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Schools and housing markets, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This paper examines the relationship between house price levels, school performance, and the racial and ethnic composition of Connecticut school districts..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Self help and self managed housing, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Comparison between self help housing in the US and less developed countries.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Smart governance, smart growth, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Regional governance and regional growth: urban sprawl.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
State planning in the Northeast, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Do'/dont's of building state planning programs and establishment of economic development program for the NE corridor.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Subdivision regulations: practices & attitudes, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Survey of public officials and developers in single family housing markets.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Taxes on buildings and land in a dynamic model of real estate markets, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Generalized perfect foresighted model of real estate markets and effects of ad valorem property tax are explored .
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Adoption and repeal of 2 rate property tax in NY, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Successes and failures of two rate property tax rate.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Case of the disappearing city: redistribution without growth, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Describing the geography of vacant land in cities especially in NY.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The changing politics of urban mega projects, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Rise of political power in land development projects.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The debate over future density of development, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Subjective debate of major positions over future density..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Economic value of open space, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Discussion of value of open space .
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The economics of the causes and benefits/costs of urban spatial segregation, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This paper shows that even with elimination of instituitional practices that hinder spaital integration, market factors would still drive some form of spatial integration..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The Ghetto and the ethnic enclave, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: There is a difference between the ghetto and the ethnic enclave.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The Ideologies of urban land use politics, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: The adaptation of local government in changing times.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The impacts of urban form on travel, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: How the built environment may or may not influence travel behavior.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The legacy of contamination and redevelopment of inner city industrial districts, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This study examines the role land contamination plays in hindering central city industrial redevelopment..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Legal requirements regarding valuation of land and improvements for property tax purposes, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Does state law determine whether land must be valued separately from improvements ...
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
New Urbanism: Hype or Hope for american communities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Policy focus report addressing the issue of new urbanism.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The new urbanism challenges conventional planning, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: promises and problems of new urbanism.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The price elasticity of the demand for residential land, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Estimation and implications of tax code related subsidies on urban form.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The tax treatment of housing and it's effect on bounded and unbounded communities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Federal tax treatment of owner occupied housing has divergent impacts on communities within metropolitan areas..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Roles of community based organizations in brownfield redevelopment and other vacant property redevelopment, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Case studies of CBO's: barriers, successes and key factors.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Ties that bind, bridge and constrain:social capital and segregation in the american metropolis, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Race, space, social connection and inequality.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Transfer of development rights for balanced development, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: TDR: obstacles and opportunities.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Transportation and land use, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: the complexity of transportation and land use.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Urban ethnic segregation and the scenarios spectrum, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Different aspects-degrees of urban segregation.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Urban spatial segregation and social differentiation, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: A typological analysis.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Valuing land and improvements: State laws and local govt practices, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Research results are positive indicators of need for land value tax reform.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Visualizing Density - phase 2, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Overview of the "density" problem .
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Visualizing Density - phase 2 - the images, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Photographs of density scenarios w/facts.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Visualizing Density - phase 2 more images, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Additional photos of density ..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
What politicians know about land taxation, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: Case for efficiency/fairness of land based tax system.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Why do we have urban density controls?, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Density controls make residents worse off, justifications and analysis.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Working across boundaries, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: A framework for regional collaboration.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Regionalism on purpose, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: The challenges facing regionalism.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Law and the production of urban illegality, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: discussion of law & legality in the context of urban development.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Urban land as common property, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: draw the line--public or private rights in land.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Communications technology and settlement patterns, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: growing technology and its impact on settlement patterns.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
New urbanism challenges conventional planning, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: redefining the american metropolis.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Effects of urban density on rail transit, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: urban density has metro cities looking at rail transportation.
US Global Change Research Info
America's water supply: prospects for the future, www.usgcrp.gov
Description: Comprehensive discussion of water, and its future.
US Global Change Research Info
Past & present land use and land cover in the US, www.usgcrp.gov
Description: Article on various types of land use, and our future.
Dept of the Interior - USGS
Water: Potential consequences of environmental changes for water resources in the US, www.gcrio.org
Description: Report of water assessment team of USGS of changes in water resources.
US Global Change Research Info
Education for sustainability, www.usgcrp.gov
Description: Public awareness & education regarding sustainable development extension networks.
Conservation in Practice
Urbanization's Aura, www.conbio.org
Description: Tracking urban sprawl with light maps.
USDA
Assessing conditions of Riparian-wetland corridors , ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov
Description: Using proper functioning condition methodology -an assessment tool.
USDA
Collaborative community conservation, ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov
Description: Local participating in recognizing resource problems and opportunities.
Smart Growth Network
Washington, DC open space in jeopardy, www.smargrowth.org
Description: Article: Developers bulldoze up to 43 sq miles daily.
Washington Post
Region's Green Space going fast, www.washingtonpost.com
Description: Article: Loss of green space continues to accelerate.
Smart Growth Network
Builders protest smart growth law: State defends process, www.sgli.org
Description: State holding fast on focus of affordable near transit options.
Smart Growth Network
EPA-NOAA partnership on coastal community growth, www.epa.gov
Description: Scope of activities of partnership.
Smart Growth Network
Smart growth audit of zoning code and subdivision regulations, www.sgli.org
Description: Final report,analysis and proposed recommendations.
Smart Growth America
Housing: a better place to live, www.smartgrowthamerica.org
Description: Article: Finding a better place to live; affordability; market.
AMPO
Metro Planning Org Conference presentations, www.ampo.org
Description: Power Point presentations: walkable communities; transportation & land use; best practices; air quality and more.
Smart Growth Network
Plan to use CPT funds for Smart Growth upsets officials , www.smartgrowthi.org
Description: Article: Gov transfer of funds cause uproar in MA.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 1, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: General provisions of these local ordinances.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 2, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: Administrative Agencies.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 3, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: General procedural requirements.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 4, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: Zoning ordinances.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 5, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: Subdivision regulations.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 6, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: Design and improvement standards.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 7, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: Supplemental use regulations.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 8, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: Non-conforming uses.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Appendix B, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: Submission Requirements.
MD Dept of Planning
Models and guidelines for Infill development, www.mdp.state.md.us
Description: Offering remedies that overcome barriers and identifying alternative approaches.
MD Dept of Planning
Smart Neighborhoods, www.mdp.state.md.us
Description: Report examines characteristics of existing traditional neighborhoods.
Center for Watershed protection
Recommended model development principles for Frederick, MD, www.cwp.org
Description: How Frederick MD adopted 22 design principles within their community.
HUD
Barriers to Rehabilitation of affordable housing, www.huduser.org
Description: In partnership w/ historic preservation trust, an examination of existing major barriers to urban rehabilitation .
HUD
A builders guide to marketable, affordable, durable entry level homes, www.huduser.org
Description: Resource manual of technologies and practices to build entry level affordable homes.
HUD
A report on the feasibility of deconstruction, www.huduser.org
Description: Report: Selective dismantling or removal of materials before or instead of demolition.
HUD
Building better homes at lower costs, www.huduser.org
Description: The industry implementation plan for residential national construction goals.
HUD
Building innovation for homeownership, www.huduser.org
Description: A collection of award winning, innovative housing projects.
HUD
Creating Defensible Space, www.huduser.org
Description: Safeguarding our communities with Defensible Space; the theory encompasses a wide range of planning and design strategies that focus attention on reassigning the perceived ownership of residential space. .
HUD
Getting building technology accepted, www.huduser.org
Description: This report explains how regulatory activities affect new building technology research, development, and deployment and how to effectively apply regulatory information to successfully develop and deploy building technologies..
HUD
Industralizing the residential construction site, www.huduser.org
Description: Examines the means and methods available for integrating and industrializing the housing construction site and the housing industry.
HUD
The practice of low impact development, www.huduser.org
Description: This publication is intended to assist these groups by 1) providing basic conventional and innovative land development technology information, and 2) encouraging the amendment of existing development codes to facilitate the use of those technologies..
HUD
Overview of retrofit strategies:Guide for multifamily units , www.huduser.org
Description: This publication describes techniques property managers may use to conserve water, with approaches requiring modest investment and minimal construction..
HUD
Life cycle assessent tools to measure environmental impacts, www.huduser.org
Description: The report presents a critique of LCAs, and offers suggestions on how they could be made more useful in the home building industry. .
HUD
Environmental assessment guide for public housing, www.huduser.org
Description: The focus of this Guide is on environmental conditions on the grounds of public housing, near the property and in the surrounding neighborhood..
HUD
Study of HUD's site contamination policies: final report, www.huduser.org
Description: Review/assess/analyze with conclusions and recommendations from 7 tasks developed for the report.
HUD
An overview of deconstruction with a focus on community development opportunities, www.huduser.org
Description: What is innovative and exciting is how communities can use this process-deconstruction-to support and complement other community objectives..
HUD
Innovative rehabilitation provisions, www.huduser.org
Description: This report shows in detail how to apply the NARRP provisions. It provides a side-by-side comparison of traditional rehabilitation provisions with the NARRP and the code from which the provisions were developed,.
HUD
Assessment of state brownfield initiatives, www.huduser.org
Description: Study: gain a better understanding of current regulatory and economic development initiatives that can help promote economic revitalization..
HUD
Valuation of metropolitan quality of life in wages and rents, www.huduser.org
Description: Analysis: value that residents place on metropolitan amenities in land and labor market.
HUD
Positive homeownership attitudes and behavior in poor urban neighborhoods, www.huduser.org
Description: this study examines the degree to which neighborhood poverty constraints, household economics, and demographic variables influence positive homeownership attitudes, homeownership behavior, and neighborhood ties..
HUD
Aging in place in multifamily housing, www.huduser.org
Description: Study: of one segment of multifamily housing (1) the extent of aging in place in multifamily housing, as measured by the number and proportion of householders age 60 or older, and (2) the level of environmental support for aging in place in these develop.
HUD
The struggle for housing equality, www.huduser.org
Description: This article considers how the Fair Housing Act and the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) structure local housing advocacy..
HUD
The effects of federal & local housing programs on transition from welfare to work, www.huduser.org
Description: This article examines two hypotheses that explain how federal and local housing programs influence the transition from welfare to work.
HUD
Homeowing: social outcomes, tenure choice and US housing policy, www.huduser.org
Description: The pupose of this paper is to look at the links between policies and outcomes.
HUD
Opening the doors to home ownership, www.huduser.org
Description: Article: examines factors contributing to recent gains in home ownership and economic status ..
HUD
Issues in evaluating neighborhood change, www.huduser.org
Description: Economic development and community building indicators.
HUD
Social experiments in housing, www.huduser.org
Description: This paper summarizes 8 evaluations undertaken by HUD of social programs.
HUD
Ideas matter: Reflections on new regionalism, www.huduser.org
Description: This article reviews recent arguments for regional cooperation, especially those that assert an interdependence between cities and suburbs.
HUD
Specialization versus diversity in local economies, www.huduser.org
Description: Urbanization is at least as relevant as localization in explaining spatial patterns of innovation and economic growth..
HUD
Comprehensive neighborhood based initiatives, www.huduser.org
Description: A new generation of comprehensive community initiatives has been launched over the past decade to address the growing concentration, isolation, and persistence of poverty in urban America.
HUD
Effects of environmental hazards and regulation on urban redevelopment, www.huduser.org
Description: Report: provides insight on basic issues confronting brownfields.
HUD
Redeveloping brownfields:How states and localities use CDBG funds, www.huduser.org
Description: Report: how states are using CDBG to tackle brownfield redevelopment.
HUD
Assessment of availability and cost of financing for small multifamily properties, www.huduser.org
Description: Study: analyze cost and availability of funding for small multifamily properties, and barriers to financing .
HUD
Affordable Housing Design Advisor: a project workbook, www.huduser.org
Description: Valuable tool for use in designing affordable housing.
HUD
Creating a local advisory commission on regulartory barriers to affordable housing, www.huduser.org
Description: A guide to assist local officials to improve housing affordability in their community.
HUD
Smart codes in your community: A guide to building rehabilitation codes, www.huduser.org
Description: Broad overview of general regulatory environment governing the use of existing buildings..
Prevention Institute
The Built environment and health, www.preventioninstitute.org
Description: Explanation of project compililng program profiles of 7-10 case studies.
Prevention Institute
The Built environment and health - 11 profiles of neighborhood transformation, www.preventioninstitute.org
Description: 11 case studies where communities mobilized resources to transform physical enviornment..
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
Preliminary transportation plan for the Delaware valley, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Comprehensive, long range blueprint for moving people and goods through the Delaware Valley.
DVRPC
Preliminary Land Use Plan: 21st century vision, www.dvrpc.org
Description: A vision of revitalization, renewal and recentralization.
DVRPC
Issues and choices: Planning the regions future, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Global and regional issues for the future ..
DVRPC
The Shape of Things to Come, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Key questions to provide a context for planning.
DVRPC
Transportation Conformity of the DVRPC FY2005 Transportation Improvement program , www.dvrpc.org
Description: Report documenting conformity of DVRPC transportation improvement program and long range transportation plan.
DVRPC
Horizons: 2025 year plan for Delaware valley, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Summary of 4 workshops presented to elicit public assessment regarding needs in DE valley ..
DVRPC
Regional Indicators: Measuring our progress to 2025, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Presenting 26 indicators which track the regioins progress toward the adopted goals.
DVRPC
Horizons: 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan for Delaware Valley, www.dvrpc.org
Description: A comprehensive vision for the DE valley region.
DVRPC
MAP: Mobility Alternatives Program, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Brochure describing MAP program .
DVRPC
Watershed guide to Gloucester County, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Comprehensive teachers guide to watershed and water in Gloucester County.
DVRPC
Horizons 2025 Implementation: Municipal tools and techniques, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Overview of tools and techinques available for local govts for implemetation of long range plans.
DVRPC
Municipal implementation tool #1: TOD, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Transit oriented development: recognize the importance of rail and bus to community,and plan to better shape development to serve these needs.
DVRPC
Municipal implementation tool #2: Main Street America, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Basic information about Main street programs and Business Improvement Districts.
DVRPC
Municipal implementation tool #5: Impact Fees, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Finding creative and equitable funding fees.
DVRPC
Municipal implementation tool #6: Parking Management strategies, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Balancing the supply and demand for parking.
DVRPC
Municipal implementation tool #7: Historic preservation, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Protection and maintenance of important & integral places from our past .
DVRPC
Municipal implementation tool #8: Transfer of Development Rights, www.dvrpc.org
Description: A tool that can be adopted to conserve land: agricultural, environmentally sensitive and necessary open space ..
DVRPC
Stream Corridor Protection Ordinance, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Riparian corridor conservation overlay- definition and use.
DVRPC
Wetlands management ordinance, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Permitted uses where water hazard soils occur.
DVRPC
Transfer of development rights , www.dvrpc.org
Description: Procedural requirements for voluntary TDR.
DVRPC
Cluster Development Ordinance, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Design standards for conditional uses.
DVRPC
Residential Clusters, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Allowance of cluster development-where and how.
DVRPC
Greenway Lands Ordinance, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Design standards for site planning and greenway lands.
DVRPC
Performance Zoning, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Planned residential development requirements.
DVRPC
Open Space Design, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Open space requirements and regulations.
DVRPC
Flexible Development Ordinance, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Flexible development options.
DVRPC
Agricultural Zoning, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Definitions, design and development of agricultrual zones.
DVRPC
Planning services to protect open space and natural resources, www.dvrpc.org
Description: DVRPC assists communities in identifying their vision, setting goals, and charting a path.
DVRPC
Transportation Improvement Plan FY 2005 Executive Summary, www.dvrpc.org
Description: General overview of TIP,what it is and what projects will be developed in the near future.
DVRPC
Recreational Open Space needs analysis, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Three different methods of needs assessment of recreational open space.
National Assn Realtors
Public Opinion Strategies Survey - Affordable housing, www.realtor.org
Description: Survey of key findings from nationwide survey .
knowledgeplex
Rural Rental Housing Preservation: FmHA Experience, www.knowledgeplex.org
Description: This paper summarizes the history of prepayment for Farmers Home Administration rural renting housing program .
Enterprise Foundation
Undertaking Comprehensive Community Initiatives, www.knowledgeplex.org
Description: Key elements for success in CCI's.
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp
Community, capital and markets: A new paradigm for community reinvestment, www.knowledgeplex.org
Description: Article: a new approach to identify and develop the undervalued assest in low income and minority communities.
Fannie Mae Foundation
Abandoned Property: Effective strategies to reclaim community assets, www.content.knowledgeplex.org
Description: Creative new ways to recycle abandoned properties etc..
Fannie Mae Foundation
Revitalizing commerce for American cities, www.content.knowledgeplex.org
Description: This publication aims to help community development practitioners successfully implement a main street revitalization program..
Harvard University
The state of the nation's housing, www.jchs.harvard.edu
Description: A comprehesive look at the nations housing trends.
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp
Manufactured Housing as a community and asset building strategy, www.jchs.harvard.edu
Description: Exploration of advantages/disadvantages of Mfg housing for those whose mission is community development and asset building..
Housing Alliance of PA
Addressing community opposition to affordable housing development, content.knowledgeplex.org
Description: 66 questions are posed, and answered about affordable housing.
Harvard University
A brief history of the open housing movement, jchs.harvard.edu
Description: A brief history of the triumphs and defeats of open housing.
JAPA
New Urbanism in the Inner City: Pittsburgh, www.knowledgeplex.org
Description: Good Urban design [historic preservation-heritage tourism] linked Urban regeneration.
Brookings Institute
Diagnosing Cities: Lessons from America, www.brookings.org
Description: Power Point: Delivering Sustainable Communities Summit.
Brookings Institute
America's First Suburbs in Transition, www.brookings.org
Description: Power Point: Suburban evolution ..finding solutions.
Brookings Institute
Space available: The realities of convention centers as economic development strategy, www.brookings.org
Description: An analysis to give local leaders reason to rethink public investments.
Brookings Institute
The City-Region of the Future, www.brookings.org
Description: Power Point: Discussion of American-British economic trends, similiarities.
Brookings Institute
Reviving Cities, www.brookings.org
Description: New coalitions are emerging to promote metropolitan solutions with a renewed federal metropolitan agenda ..
Brookings Institute
Is Washington ripe for smart growth?, www.brookings.org
Description: Power Point: Consequences of growth & development trends, and why decentralization is occuring ...
Brookings Institute
The Sprawl of the Wild:Now is the right time to revive our cities, www.brookings.org
Description: Now is the time for PA to reevaluate its wasteful-destructive growth trends ..
Brookings Institute
Back to Prosperity: A competitve agenda for renewing PA-Exec Summary, www.brookings.org
Description: Outlining the challenges for PA's revitalization .
Brookings Institute
Renewing older PA: Why it matters! Section 1, www.brookings.org
Description: It matters because of PA's history and contribution to the USA.
Brookings Institute
Development trends in the Commomwealth -Section 2, www.brookings.org
Description: PA is barely growing .and aging fast!.
Brookings Institute
The consequences of how PA is growing! Section 3, www.brookings.org
Description: Sprawl is degrading the state's natural landscape, and costing the taxpayers and local govt millions ..
Brookings Institute
Behind the trends: Historical & political influences Section 4, www.brookings.org
Description: Fragmented governance; weak planning; haphazard investments; shifting economy ..
Brookings Institute
Pulling it all together: Section 5, www.brookings.org
Description: Numerous conclusions to rebuild a new PA .
Brookings Institute
Back to Prosperity: A policy agenda - Section 6, www.brookings.org
Description: Plan for a competitive future; focus the state's investments; promote large scale reinvestment in older communities; renew state and regional governance..
Brookings Institute
Conclusion - section 7, www.brookings.org
Description: PA needs to look back in order to move forward!.
Brookings Institute
Pennsylvania's Brownfields program, www.brookings.org
Description: An overview of the brownfields challenge in PA.
Brookings Institute
Spatial allocation of PA's major economic development programs, www.brookings.org
Description: A study: fact gathering project involving collection and organizing data describing allocation of DCED funds among different types of municipalities.
Brookings Institute
Economic development subsidies: Do they fuel sprawl?, www.brookings.org
Description: The extent to which business subsidies [in PA] contribute to sprawling land use patterns and job redistribution..
Brookings Institute
Smart Growth:The future of the American metropolis?, sticerd.lse.ac.uk
Description: Essay: discussion of current state of smart growth and metropolitan thinking in the US--demographics, market and development trends, excessive decentralization ..
Brookings Institute
Reframing the opportunities and challenges for affordable housing, www.brookings.org
Description: Power Point: Meeting affordable housing challenges in high land cost communities.
Brookings Institute
American Metropolis: Divided we sprawl!, www.brookings.org
Description: Power Point: Major trends; why are they happening; what are the consequences; Change how?.
Brookings Institute
The need for regional anti-congestion policies, www.brookings.org
Description: Only the coordination of transportation improvements with land use planning on regional or metropolitan level can result in rational congestion policy change..
Brookings Institute
Rethinking local affordable housing strategies: 70 years of policy & practice, www.brookings.org
Description: Effectiveness of 7 decades of affordable housing strategies-home ownership, rental assistance and land use regulatory appraches in promoting healthy communities.
Brookings Institute
Effectiveness of housing programs by policy goals: a matrix, www.brookings.org
Description: Visual synopsis of how each of the housing approaches meets the 7 basic goals of an affordable housing policy..
Brookings Institute
Preserve and expand the supply of good quality housing units, www.brookings.org
Description: Regulatory reforms can eliminate barriers to low cost affordable housing--potential impacts?.
Brookings Institute
Highways & Transit:Leveling the Playing field in Federal Transportation Policy, www.brookings.org
Description: A comparison of new highway, and transit programs; federal funds stacked against transit and for highways..
Urban Land Institute
Washington, DC gets a "Reality Check", www.uli.org
Description: Article:Collective visioning about community growth--with LEGO's.
Urban Land Institute
Transportation woes fuel re-emergence of downtowns and transit villages, www.uli.org
Description: Article: demand for transit systems, along with housing close to transportation is increasing around the country..
Urban Land Institute