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Parking Spaces/Community Places

This report highlights proven approaches that balance parking with broader community goals.

Podcast: Local Foods, Local Places in Harlan, Kentucky

Podcast about a Local Foods, Local Places project in Harlan, KY, to help the town use local foods to diversify its economy, improve residents' health, and revitalize the downtown.

Framework for Creating a Smart Growth Economic Development Strategy

This step-by-step guide can help small and mid-sized cities, particularly those that have limited population growth, areas of disinvestment, and/or a struggling economy, build a place-based economic development strategy.

Local Foods, Local Places Case Study: Passaic, NJ

Case study about how the Local Foods, Local Places workshop in Passaic, NJ, helped the city plan to improve access to healthy food and support local businesses.

Así es el Desarrollo Inteligente

Spanish translation of This Is Smart Growth, giving examples of how smart growth development looks in communities of all types across the country.

Our Built and Natural Environments

Our Built and Natural Environments summarizes research that shows how development patterns affect the environment and human health, and how certain development patterns can reduce the environmental and human health impacts of development.

Putting Smart Growth to Work in Rural Communities

This publication focuses on smart growth strategies that can help guide growth in rural areas while protecting natural and working lands and preserving the rural character of existing communities.