American Planning Association
http://www.planning.org/
The need for planners to shape a community vision has never been greater. The American Planning Association brings together thousands of people — practicing planners, citizens, elected officials — committed to making great communities happen.
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Community Planning and Land Use Management
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/es/science/landuse/smart_growth/index.htm
Wisconsin's 1999-2001 State Budget included significant changes to Wisconsin's planning laws. Frequently, these changes are referred to as Wisconsin's "Smart Growth" legislation. The legislation defines what a "comprehensive plan" is, outlines procedures for adopting these plans, and requires that certain actions, beginning in 2010, be consistent with an adopted plan.
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Ecological Landscape Planning
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/landuse/luecldsc.shtml
Ecological Landscape Planning advocates the study of the biophysical and sociocultural systems of a place to determine optimal land use patterns. The approach strives for an understanding of the many and complex relationships that influence communities within the context of a bioregion.
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Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1566704065/
The solution to the urban sprawl is not to be found in more legislation, rules, and regulation, says Honachefsky, but in local communities and how they develop their municipal master plans. His strategies include restoring the municipal master plan as the dominant planning document, incorporating recent scientific research studies, applying geographic information systems, and designating the protection of the community's ecological infrastructure as the premier priority
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Forest Fragmentation Index Map Of North America
http://nationalatlas.gov/forestm.html
This map layer data set is a grid map of North America including the Caribbean and most of Mexico. The data set is an excerpt from a global assessment of forest fragmentation.
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Land Planner's Environmental Handbook
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0815512678/
Technical reference manual brings together technical information from published texts, reports, and manuals as well as hindsight dramatization of many of the negative impacts of the nation's past and present land use planning efforts. Most of the nation's pressing environmental issues are covered, including landfilling, incineration, composting, leaking underground tanks, AIDS, radon, Lyme disease, medical waste, ocean pollution, and wildlife protection.
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Land Trust Alliance
http://www.lta.org/index.shtml
The Land Trust Alliance provides an array of programs, including direct grants to land trusts, training programs, answers to more than 3,000 inquiries for technical assistance each year, and one-on-one mentoring to help land trusts build organizations that are equipped to protect open space.
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Planners Web
http://www.plannersweb.com
Planning Commissioners Journal: Planners Web - City and Regional Planning Resources
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research: Urban Sprawl
http://resac.uconn.edu/research/urban_sprawl/
In addition to better estimates of impervious cover, we need methods with which to relate both the temporal growth of sprawl and the relative position of the percent impervious surface within local landscapes or watersheds, i.e., an index (or indices) of sprawl.
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Smart Growth
http://www.smartgrowth.org
Smart growth--anti-sprawl development that is environmentally, fiscally, and economically smart and includes land-use planning, mixed use development, and transportation efficiency --in the U.S. is supported by the Smart Growth Network's 23 national partner organizations.
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