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Active Living Resource Center Experts Directory
The Active Living Resource Center website provide answers and resources to help you make walking and bicycling part of your community's healthier lifestyle.
Active Living Resource Center Library
The Active Living Resource Center (ALRC) is an online resource designed to help citizens take charge in their neighborhoods and make them more physically active by making them more bicycle and pedestrian friendly. The ALRC Library provides dozens of resources that support this goal.
Active Living Storybank Database
The Active Living Network -- a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- has recently launched its new Storybank database, archiving more than 100 searchable projects, programs and initiatives around the country promoting health through changes in the built environment, public policy and education.
Affordable Housing Design Advisor
This web site is described as a tool, resource, idea bank and step-by step guide to Design in affordable housing.
CDC Livability Listserv
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) facilitates a Listserv that addresses issues related to health and the built environment. An e-newsletter that includes related news articles, latest studies, and updates on conferences and events related to livability is sent to all subscribers once a month.
Center for Sustainable Communities
Center for Sustainable Communities, part of the National Association of Counties (NACo) website, provides a forum for county officials to work with other government leaders, the private sector, and communities to develop policies and programs that lead to economic enhancement, environmental stewardship and social well being -- the three pillars of sustainable communities.
City Practice Resources
When your city is seeking solutions, avoid reinventing the wheel by using the City Practice Resources compiled by the staff of the National League of Cities. Four City Practice Resources are now available: City Practice Online Database, City Practices Briefs, Municipal Action Guides, and the Municipal Reference Service Inquiry Service.
College Sustainability Report Card 2009
GreenReportCard.org is the first website to provide in-depth sustainability profiles for hundreds of colleges in all 50 U.S. States and Canada. Its College Sustainability Report Card is the only independent evaluation of campus and endowment sustainability activities at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
Communities by Design Built Works
Built Works, from the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) Center for Communities by Design, is a web resource that demonstrates the expertise architects contribute to community design. Featured projects on Built Works serve as a community design resource and demonstrate the positive impact of thoughtful community design and civic engagement in our nation's communities.
Communities of Tomorrow Partnership
Sustainable community development affects our people, our environment, and our economy. Communities of Tomorrow will make Regina, Saskatchewan a world leader in environmental sustainability, community development and technology commercialization.
Compendium of Sustainability Indicators
Version two of the Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicator Initiatives is now available online. Use this searchable directory to find initiatives based on location, type, issue areas, and more. Search for topics including quality of life,housing, and transporation.
Complete the Streets
Complete streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users. Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and bus riders of all ages and abilities are able to safely move along and across a complete street. The Complete the Streets website contains information and resources that you can use to help bring complete streets to your community.
Creating Livable Places
The Creating Livable Places website is provided by the Southern California Association of Governments to promote more livable communities. The site includes ten case studies of regional communities that have made efforts to become livable communities. The site also provides information and resources related to transportation planning, transit, and growth visioning. A calendar of events and list of related links are also available at the site.
Design and Engineering Image Library
The Design and Engineering Image Library, part of the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center's (PBIC's) Image Library, provides a wealth of images grouped by category that illustrate a broad range of walking and bicycling environments.
Designing and Building Healthy Places
The Centers for Disease Control offers this website on health and the built environment. Topics include children's and elders' health, accessibility, and physical activity.
Designing and Building Healthy Places
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has organized a section of its website to focus on ''Designing and Building Healthy Places.''
Enterprise Foundation Database
This database from the Enterprise Foundation offers searchable categories from financing and housing to child care, workforce development, and community building. Visitors can browse by keyword or category.
Enterprise Resource Database
The Enterprise Resource Database is an extensive library of community-based resources from the Enterprise Foundation. Database categories include regional and neighborhood planning, housing, community safety, finance, and community building.
European Urban Knowledge Network
The European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) shares knowledge and experience on tackling urban issues. Fifteen EU Member States, EUROCITIES, the URBACT Programme and the European Commission participate in this European initiative.
FHWA Safe Routes to School
The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Office of Safety offers a web site dedicated to the new Safe Routes to School Program (SR2S). The web site provides preliminary information about the program passed by Congress in 2005.
Florida Smart Growth Advocates
1000 Friends of Florida has compiled this list of local advocacy groups that are dealing with the impacts of growth on a daily basis. This online resource contains contact information for more than a dozen organizations.
Free Transit, Transportation Images for Educational, Noncommercial Use
Transportation Planet seeks to educate viewers about the importance of balanced transportation in reducing car dependency and improving quality of life by using images of balanced transportation-oriented places.
Great Streets Facilities Plan
This resource from 1000 Friends of New Mexico supports the Albuquerque, New Mexico's Great Streets Facilities Plan as it moves through the current planning phase to adoption by the City Council.
Green Buildings for All
The City of Portland, Oregon's Office of Sustainability has developed this ''G/Rated'' website, a depository of green building technologies, case studies, specifications, and other technical resources.
Green Infrastructure: A Framework for Smart Growth
This resource introduces the key elements of Green Infrastructure, the network of natural lands, open space, waterways, and smart growth design measures that form the framework for healthy and sustainable communities.
Healthy Transportation Network
The Healthy Transportation Network website provides walking and bicycling safety information -- doing it safely, for everyday transportation, and in supportive environments.
Innovative Solutions for Creating More Affordable Housing
HUD Secretary Mel Martinez announced the
establishment of the Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse
(www.regbarriers.org), a
new website dedicated to increasing affordable housing
opportunities. This groundbreaking project is an
exciting opportunity to assist builders and developers in
overcoming state and local regulatory barriers to
providing more affordable housing.
KnowledgePlex
KnowledgePlex is a comprehensive interactive resource for the affordable housing and community development field. Designed for practitioners, scholars, and policy makers, the website offers practical solutions and innovative ideas, timely news and authoritative information, and collaboration with other housing leaders.
myurbanist blog
The Seattle blog myurbanist provides insight into the city's next steps to encourage placemaking and pedestrian life, with seven principles derived from the author’s examples from Australia, Italy and Malta.
The blog’s author is Chuck Wolfe, Principal of Charles R. Wolfe, Attorney at Law, who practices in Seattle and also teaches at the University of Washington.
New Jersey Smart Growth Success Stories
The State of New Jersey Department of Community Affairs has produced a webpage featuring success stories from communities that employ smart growth guidelines.
New Schools Better Neighborhoods: What If
''What If,'' a website and document from New Schools Better Neighborhoods, proposes that schools be designed as the centers of their communities, and allowances made so they can be used for varied events and services.
Nonmotorized Pilot Program
SmartMobility is a website that reports on the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program (NTPP), which introduced a network of nonmotorized transportation infrastructure facilities in four selected communities that connect directly with transit stations, schools, residences, businesses, recreation areas, and other community activity centers.
Pathways to Planning
The Vermont Forum on Sprawl has developed, in partnership with the Orton Family Foundation, a sophisticated new online tool that acts as an interactive ''consultant'' to citizens and local planners.
PBIC's Image Library
The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
offers a searchable collection of more than 1600 images.
Categories include Walking, Bicycling, Design and Engineering,
and Traffic Calming and Management.
Pedestrian Facilities Reference Guide
Prepared by the National Center for Bicycling and Walking, this resource guide offers online documents to help design and implement pedestrian facilities.
PedNet
PedNet, the internet mailing list on pedestrian issues, is a joint project of Ottawalk and the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition. Participants include pedestrian advocates, planners and professionals from around the world.
Picture Smart Growth
This site offers examples of how communities throughout the country are trying to achieve smart growth.
Picturing Smart Growth
Cities and towns across the country are embracing smart growth as a better solution to meet the needs of their growing populations. Picturing Smart Growth from the Natural Resources Defense Council offers images of how 70 U.S. communities could apply smart growth principles that accommodate growth and development while saving open space, revitalizing neighborhoods and helping cool the planet.
Public Health and the Built Environment
The American Planning Association (APA) has created a talking points webpage on Public Health and the Built Environment. Part of the AIA's Communities by Design program, these talking points provide facts and figures that support the argument for including public health concerns in decisions affecting the built environment.
Rails-to-Trails Trail Link
TrailLink.com is a Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Web site dedicated to providing detailed, up-to-date information on trail access, services and activities.
Regional Smart Growth Platform
The Transportation and Land Use Coalition's (TALC's) partnership of more than 90 organizations works to maintain the San Francisco Bay Area's renowned high quality of life, achieve greater social equity, and protect our natural environment.
Safe Routes to School in Your State
The Safe Routes to School website provides a resources-by-state page where visitors can find out about Safe Routes to School (SRTS) activities in any state. Find out about your state's SRTS program, its contacts, success stories, and grant application process.
Safe Routes to School Resources
The National Center for Safe Routes to School provides a comprehensive list of resources for individuals and communities people who want to make walking and bicycling to school safe and appealing for children.
Smart Growth and Schools Resource List
This resource list from the National Clearinghouse for Education Facilities (NCEF) includes web links, books, journal articles, and other documents examining schools in relation to issues of planning and community development, economic impact, conservation of open spaces, and smart growth vs. sprawl.
Smart Growth Around America
The Smart Growth Around America blog is a ''one-stop source for the latest news from Smart Growth America'' that showcases recent and developing smart growth issues from throughout the United States.
Smart Growth Illustrated
Smart Growth Illustrated, from the U.S. EPA, provides visual examples of smart growth techniques as they have been used in different places. Although every example illustrates several smart growth principles, each was chosen to illustrate one specific principle.
Smart Growth in Maryland
1000 Friends of Maryland promotes smart growth issues in the state of Maryland through its website, which includes legislative updates, action items, and news from across the state.
Smart Growth Tools
PlaceMatters.com offers a dynamic database website as a resource for communities (their professional planners, public agencies, and concerned citizens) to identify tools and processes for better community design and decision making.
Sprawl and Smart Growth
In Contrast: Smart Growth versus Sprawl uses text and photos to illustrate how alternatives to sprawl help build better communities.
Sustainable Albuquerque
Sustainable Albuquerque, a website sponsored by the City of Albuquerque, is designed to inform and help residents make Albuquerque a sustainable city.
Sustainable Building Resource Directory
The Sustainable Building Resource Directory is a website-based information resource and searchable database of Green Building and Sustainable Development businesses, organizations, and programs for the mid-Atlantic region.
Sustainable Community Development Network
A program of Sustainable Pittsburgh, the Sustainable Community Development Network (SCDN) partnered with leading organizations to produce a new series of Sustainable Community Essentials Resource Sheets, and also maintains an interactive web wiki that facilitates continued revision and comments to continuously improve the materials.
Sustainable Community Planning
The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has created a Sustainable Community Planning section on its website that provides best practices in design and development, tools for planners and designers, and other research on sustainability.
SustainLane -- Government Knowledge Database
SustainLane is an open-source knowledge database that speeds discovery, research and networking with more than 75 best practice documents and a secure directory of participating government officials from over 180 cities, counties and states.
TERI Database
TERI is the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Standing Committee on Environment's central storehouse for tracking and sharing new transportation and environmental research ideas. AASHTO's Center for Environmental Excellence maintains TERI and keeps all content relevant.
The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
PBIC provides communities information and resources to create safe places for bicycling and walking and to promote healthy lifestyles and neighborhoods through increased bicycling and walking.
The Walking School Bus Information Website
The Walking School Bus has become increasingly popular in the last few years. A walking school bus provides children with a safe and healthy mode of transportation to school.
Toolbox for Local Officials
The Local Government Environmental Assistance Network has provided this toolbox as a resource to assist local government officials in their efforts to protect the environment and public health.
Tools for Action: Healthy Kids
Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) offers a website focused on creating health-promoting schools that support sound nutrition and physical activity as part of a total learning environment.
Traffic Calming Resources
The Traffic Calming Library from Institute of Transportation Engineers is a searchable database of reports, articles and other documents related to traffic calming.
Transition Towns Wiki
The Transition Towns Wiki was created for use by all the communities that have adopted the Transition Model for responding positively and creatively to the twin challenges of Peak Oil and Climate Change. This site provides a focal point for all of these towns, villages, cities and localities around the world as they implement their own Transition Initiative.
Transit-Oriented Development Website -- Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) produces a website featuring links and resources for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD).
Transportation Facts for Your State
The Surface Transportation Policy Project (STTP) analyzes federal transportation data and how it affects our quality of life. STTP has created a web page based on its library of statistics that presents transportation facts organized by state.
Walk Score
Walk Score keeps getting better, and it was already very good. With assistance from the Rockefeller Foundation, the locational rating system has now incorporated transit service data from 40 metro regions into its service, so that its maps reflect this key measure of urbanity. In the past, this had been one of the few large deficiencies in the system, which rates the ''walkability'' of any given address in the country, as measured by its proximity to a range of neighborhood assets like parks, schools, and shops.
The service is working on incorporating the transit data into its scoring system, so that locations with better transit access will receive higher scores
It is extremely encouraging that Walk Score is fast becoming a staple of the real estate industry, with the system helpfully supplying a ''real estate tile'' that can be incorporated into sellers' websites. Read more at switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/walk_score_is_helping_homebuye.html.
Walkable Urbanism Series
The Brookings Institution's Walkable Urbanism topic offers views from around the country on creating pedestrian-friendly communities, and how the desire for more walkable urban spaces is changing the housing market in America's cities as people seek alternatives to driving.
Walking Images -- Levels of Quality
Walkable Communities offers posters that provide photo examples and ratings for a variety of pedestrian access designs. These images are available online and address several types of pedestrian crossings.
Walking Information
This site includes lists of exemplary bicycle and pedestrian plans, and guidelines for evaluating and improving pedestrian walkways and bicycle routes.
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