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This Is Smart Growth
Illustrates how communities can turn their values, visions, and aspirations into reality, using smart growth techniques to improve development. Features 40 places around the country, from cities to suburbs to small towns to rural areas, that have found success by implementing smart growth principles.
Additional information, please visit EPA's Smart Growth site.
Getting to Smart Growth: 100 Policies for Implementation
Front cover of PDF Getting to Smart Growth: 100 Policies for Implementation
This popular, 100-page primer from the ongoing series by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) and the Smart Growth Network describes concrete techniques of putting the ten smart growth principles into practice. The policies and guidelines presented in this primer have proven successful in communities across the United States, and range from formal legislative or regulatory efforts to informal approaches, plans, and programs. This attractive publication has an easy-to-read format, including photographs illustrating elements of smart growth and a matrix to identify policies that support multiple principles.
Download Getting to Smart Growth, Volume I (PDF) at EPA's Smart Growth site.
Getting to Smart Growth II: 100 More Policies for Implementation
Front cover of PDF Getting to Smart Growth II: 100 More Policies for Implementation
EPA supported ICMA and the Smart Growth Network to produce Getting to Smart Growth II: 100 More Policies for Implementation. This primer provides states and communities with policy options that can be mixed and matched to fit local circumstances, visions, and values, and highlights steps that the private sector can take to encourage more livable communities. This document follows the format of the first volume, but with an entirely new set of 100 policies and more examples and case studies. Getting to Smart Growth II has an easy-to-read format that includes photographs illustrating elements of smart growth, and a matrix to identify policies that support multiple principles. Along with the first volume of Getting to Smart Growth, this publication will be the cornerstone of any policymaker or smart growth practitioner's reference library.
Download Getting to Smart Growth, Volume II (PDF) at EPA's Smart Growth site.
