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Smart growth shareware : presentations and resources loaded with facts, messages, photos and charts to help you make your case / a project of Smart Growth America and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Author/creator Smart Growth America (Organization)
Other author/creatorUnited States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Format Software, Book, and Electronic
EditionVersion 2, updated.
Publication InfoWashington, DC : Smart Growth America, [2005]
Description1 CD-ROM : color ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject(s)
Contents Active living fact sheet -- Active living for older adults -- Affordable housing and smart growth: making the connections -- Aging Americans: stranded without options -- Aging in place and smart growth -- A plan for tomorrow: creating stronger and healthier communities -- Best development practices: a primer for smart growth -- Brownfields redevelopment: a guidebook for local governments and communities -- Building green infrastructure -- Changing direction: transportation choices for 2030 -- Charrettes: a community planning tool that improves public participation -- Coastal sprawl: the effects of urban design on aquatic ecosystems in the US -- Community involvement in brownfield redevelopment -- Community mapping: using geographic data for neighborhood revitalization -- Compact development for more livable communities -- Costs of alternative development patterns: a selected bibliography -- Costs of community services -- Costs of sprawl, 1999 and 2004 -- Creating a health environment: the impact of the built environment on public health -- Creating great neighborhoods: density in your community -- Decentralization is costly -- Designing for active transportation -- Designing for security in the nation's capital -- Designing safe streets and neighborhoods -- Developments and dollars: an introduction to fiscal impact analysis in land use -- Does smart growth mean healthy children? -- Driven to spend: the impact of sprawl on transportation expenses -- Driven to spend: pumping dollars out of our households and communities -- Economic costs at a glance -- Efficient vehicles versus efficient transportation -- Endangered by sprawl: how runaway development threatens America's wildlife -- Energy and smart growth: it's how about how and when we build -- Enforcing the Clean Water Act: a tool for smarter growth -- Environmental characteristics of smart growth neighborhoods: 2 Nashville neighborhoods.
Contents EPA guidance: improving air quality through land use activities -- EPA smart growth presentation -- Farming on the edge -- Form-based codes: implementing smart growth -- From brownfields to housing: opportunities, issues, and answers -- From greyfields to goldfields: from failing shopping centers to great neighborhoods -- Fundamentals of transit-oriented development -- Geographic information systems: a tool for improving community livability -- Getting to smart growth I: 100 policies for implementation -- Getting to smart growth ii: 100 policies for implementation -- Greetings from smart growth America -- Growth and water resources -- Habitat loss at a glance -- Health and smart growth -- Historic preservation and affordable housing: the missing connection -- Improving conditions for bicycling and walking -- Inside the black box: making transportation models work for livable communities -- Investing in a better future: a review of the fiscal and competitive advantages of smarter growth development patterns -- Land bank authorities: a guide for the creation and operation of local land banks -- Land use and water quality -- Land use planning for safe crime-free neighborhoods -- Land vote 2004 -- Livable communities and urban forests -- Livability 101: what makes a community livable? -- Local greenprinting for growth -- Local tools for smart growth: practical strategies and techniques to improve our local communities -- Making the case for mixed income and mixed use communities: an executive summary -- Mean streets 2004: how far have we come -- Measuring sprawl and its impact -- Measuring the health effects of sprawl -- Motor vehicle air pollution and public health: asthma and other respiratory effects -- National vacant properties campaign -- Neighborhood-scale planning tools to create active, livable communities -- New thinking for a new transportation age -- Our built and natural environments -- Overcoming obstacles to smart growth through code reform.
Contents Parking alternatives: making way for urban infill and brownfields redevelopment -- Parking cash out -- Paving our way to water shortages -- Pedestrian and transit friendly design: a primer for smart growth -- Placemaking tools for community action -- Planning for smart growth: 2002 state of the states -- Planning tools for your community -- Protecting the source: land conservation and the future of America's drinking water -- Protecting water resources with smart growth -- Public health in land use planning and community design -- Safe Growth America checklist -- Schools for successful communities: an element of smart growth -- Seizing city assets: ten steps to urban land reform -- Selected smart growth publications -- Sensible tools for healthy communities -- SmartCode: a comprehensive form based planning ordinance -- Smart communities: curbing sprawl at its core -- Smart growth 101: introduction to smart growth -- Smart growth and community development: the necessary connection -- Smart growth at the frontier: strategies and resources for rural communities -- Smart growth for clean water -- Smart growth is smart business -- Smart growth myth and fact -- Smart growth schools: a fact sheet -- Smart growth toolkit -- Smart infill -- Smart moves: transportation strategies for smart growth -- Sprawl is... -- Strategies for successful infill development -- Street design and emergency response -- Street design guidelines for healthy neighborhoods -- Taking charge of our water density -- Ten principles for rebuilding neighborhood retail -- Ten principles for successful development around transit -- The coming demand -- Economic benefits of walkable communities -- Jobs are back in town: urban smart growth and construction employment -- Mobility needs of older Americans: implications for transportation -- National capital urban design and security plan -- New entrepreneurial agriculture -- Revitalization of vacant properties: where broken windows meed smart growth.
Contents Traffic calming and emergency response -- Transit-oriented development and joint development in the US: a literature review -- Transit-oriented development: moving from rhetoric to reality -- Transportation: the backbone of sprawl and smart growth -- Urban sprawl and public health -- Vacant properties: the true costs to communities -- What is smart growth? -- Why Johnny can't walk to school -- Why save farmland? -- Why smart growth: a primer -- Zoning to promote health and physical activity..
General noteTitle from disc label.
General noteShipping list no.: 2006-0021-E.
General note"September 2005."
General noteUpdates to the CD can be found at: www.smartgrowthamerica.org.
Technical detailsSystem requirements: Windows 98 or higher or Mac OS9.
GPO item number0431-R
Govt. docs number EP 1.104:GR 91/CD

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