Articles and Commentaries
Atlantic Monthly, Cool Climates, Hot Suburbs, Mixed Blessings, Growing Pains, In Outer County Races, Growth a Common Foe, Las Vegas Sprawl Expands Ring Around the Valley, Municipal Trends, National Geographic - Kangaroo Attacks in Australi, New Urbanism, Paying for Our Growth in Oregon, Paying for Sprawl
Building Better Communities
Consortium of building and highway construction interests presents arguments against limiting suburban development.
Campaign for Sensible Growth
Coalition of government, civic, and business leaders in northeastern Illinois. Presents information on the campaign, news, and resources.
Campaign to Protect Rural England
National charity devoted to protecting and enhancing rural England. Encourages the sustainable use of land and other natural resources in town and country.
Colorado Sprawl Action Center
Offers resources and services for local citizen groups fighting sprawl, including a growth management toolkit and the Smart Growth Hall of Fame.
Congress for the New Urbanism
News, information and other resources from an organization which promotes the restoration of cities and the creation of human-oriented livable communities with a sense of place.
E Design
Archive of resources about design and activities that encourage livable, sustainable communities. From the Florida Design Initiative.
EcoCity Cleveland
A nonprofit organization that promotes ecological design, smart growth, and transportation choices in northeastern Ohio.
Environmental Protection Agency: Smart Growth
Includes introduction and detailed information on smart growth, plus news, publications, and policies.
Envision Utah
Public-private partnership promoting quality growth with goals in air quality, transportation options, open space preservation, housing, infrastructure, and community-friendly taxation.
Friends of Midcoast Maine
Group of 14 land trusts and advocacy groups discussing the increasing impacts of sprawl in the Midcoast Route One Corridor. News and information about issues and activities.
Greater Ohio
A statewide network promoting policies that encourage redevelopment of Ohio's cities and towns and conservation of farmland and open space.
Greenbelt Alliance
Conservation organization dedicated to preserving a greenbelt of open space, farmlands, and parks around San Francisco, California.
Grow Smart Rhode Island
A statewide non-profit organization that promotes sensible alternatives to suburban sprawl and urban decay.
Growth Management
The International Council of Shopping Centers presents local solutions that balance community needs of controlling growth with the need for creating and maintaining economically vibrant communities.
Growth Management Institute
Nonprofit encouraging effective and equitable management of urban growth and change.
Growth Management Leadership Alliance
A network of American and Canadian leaders from state, provincial and regional organizations involved in smart growth initiatives.
International Bulldozer Blockade
A small assortment of readings for people who are concerned about the negative effects of development on their communities.
Knox Citizens for Smart Growth
Volunteer organization supporting smart growth initiatives and opposing suburban sprawl in Knox County, Ohio.
Moving Sustainable Development from Theory to Prac
A quick-study outline of sustainable development for planners and policy-makers, with extensive web references for more in-depth information on each topic. Written by Beryl Magilavy, past director of San Francisco's Department of the Environment.
National Town Builders Association
Serves builders and developers in an effort to build traditional neighborhoods and town centers though smart growth principles.
Preservation Institute
Information and resources about alternatives to dehumanizing modern trends on social and environmental quality.
Scenic America
Information and resources from an advocacy organization that wants to protect the scenic qualities of communities and roadways.
Sierra Club: Stopping Sprawl
The Challenge to the Sprawl Campaign works to fight poorly planned runaway development and promotes smart growth communities.
Smart Growth America
Nationwide coalition promoting a better way to grow; one that protects farmland and open space, revitalizes neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable, preserves scenic and historic resources, and makes communities more livable.
Smart Growth BC
A non-profit society that works to limit sprawl in British Columbia. Includes case studies, examples and local news.
Smart Growth for Tennessee Towns and Counties
Summarizes the basic steps in a smart growth visioning and planning process, and reviews techniques that can be used at each step.
Smart Growth Network
The Smart Growth Network helps create national, regional and local coalitions to support intelligent and sustainable growth.
SmartGrowthInfo.com
Definitions, links, and information about plans for Bloomington, Indiana.
SolutionsNotSprawl.org
Home of the Citizens Alliance for Responsible Transportation, an anti-sprawl advocacy group in the Washington, D.C. area.
Sprawl Brawl
Skeptical commentaries and analysis about sprawl and growth planning from Reason, a libertarian journal.
Sprawl City
Covers comsumption growth and population growth and their roles in urban sprawl.
Sprawl Guide
Planners Web presents information and links dealing with urban sprawl and its consequences, including the loss of green space and the decay of older urban centers.
Sprawl Information Center
Features articles, links, a specialized search engine, and a message board.
Sprawl Kills
Joel S. Hirschhorn's site includes commentary, news, book excerpts, consulting, and a newsletter.
Sprawl Watch
Clearinghouse with news, information and resource links about land-use, community planning and preservation.
Sprawl-Busters
One of the most comprehensive and earliest sites to target sprawl, by Al Norman, "anti-sprawl guru" and consultant. Arguments and statistics to support campaigns against sprawl developments. Reading list, news, list of towns that have defeated mega-retail proposals.
Sustainable Minnesota's Sprawl Resources
Links to information and resources related to sprawl issues, both in Minnesota and nationally.
The Funders' Network
A resource for foundations, nonprofit organizations, and other partners working to solve the problems created by suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment.
The Manchester, NH Urban Open Space Web Site
Photoessays and information about urban open space problems such as excess development, urban sprawl, urban forests, urban wildlife, work of conservation commissions, and downtown improvement via American Elm restoration.
Vermont Forum on Sprawl
Addresses the issue of sprawl and its affect on rural life.
Wikipedia: Urban Sprawl
Publicly-editable encyclopedia entry supplies examples and arguments for and against sprawl.