Project for Public Spaces
- PPS is a non-profit organization that has helped over 1000 communities to
improve the comfort, attractiveness, social and economic use and vitality of their public
spaces.
Carfree.com - "Carfree
cities past, present and future: solutions to the problem of the urban automobile."
The Village
Project - An ad-hoc group of citizens
campaigning for land-use and transportation reform in North Carolina.
Transit Station
Communities - Transit-Oriented development in the central Puget Sound region
of Washington State.
TOD
Advocates - Personal Website of Henry Markus, who has been working on
Transit-Oriented Development for the last ten years in Portland, OR and Seattle, WA.
King
County TOD Program - A section of the King County, Washington, Department of
Transportation which has been carrying out Transit-Oriented development since 1998.
Sierra Club - America's
most influential environmental organization, with over 700,000 members. Sierra Club's Stop Sprawl section provides
some excellent resources and many links.
Walkable Communities
- Helping communities become more walkable and pedestrian friendly.
National
Corridors Initiative - The National Corridors Initiative exists to further
the rapid development of practical, attainable High-Speed Rail transportation.
Planning Utopia - An
independent and unaffiliated clearing house for information, websites, pubications and
essays on land use planning, growth management, smart growth and new urbanism.
James Howard Kunstler
- Author of The Geography of Nowhere, an excellent book about just what
a mess we have made of our built environment, and the sequel Home from Nowhere,
about the growing movement to build places we can care about.
New Trains
- a national organization that promotes and implements new train systems across America.
New Urbanism - "...the
most important planning movement this century..."
Transportation
Alternatives - A member-supported NYC-area non-profit citizens' group working
for better bicycling, walking and public transit, and fewer cars.
Auto-Free New York-
Fewer Cars - A more livable city. A four-year transportation plan for New York City
