Sprawl and Smart Growth Links

To find out more about sprawl issues (and smart growth solutions), do some surfing at the following:

The Sierra Club Home Page

• Virginia Chapter
  
• Great Falls Group
• DC Chapter

Fairfax Coalition for Smarter Growth

The Costs and Consequences of Sprawl -- A Sierra Club Report

Smart Growth Toolkit

Transportation Action Network

The Case for Smart Growth

MD Governor's Transportation Solutions Group

The SUV Satire Page -- you gotta see this! Satirical look at the ridiculousness of SUVs and 4x4s.

CARD's Home Page (Citizens Against Roads for Developers)

The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) Home Page

Virginians Against the WTC

Inter County Connector--STOP the Outer Beltway

The Surface Transportation Policy Project -- their latest newsletter describes research that proving new roads does not relieve congestion!

Coalition for a Sensible Bridge (Woodrow Wilson Bridge)

Sustainable America

Friends of the Rappahannock

Sustainable Loudoun Network (SLN)

Friends of Mount Aventine (Chapman's Forest)

Anacostia/Rock Creek Earth First

Better Communities, Less Traffic

Edopt News -- an environmental quarterly for the DC metro area

The Chesepeake Bay Foundation.

TEA-21: Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.

CAUSE: Citizens Against Urban Sprawl Everywhere.

Sprawl Tour -- Rochester Style

The Bicycling Community Page has a link to a summary of the "Sprawl Costs Us All" report.

The Thoreau Institute's study on urban growth.

A Washingon state site on a zoning issue that would let sprawl run rampant.

Sprawl Busters.

A UK organisation that encourages citizens to fight back against further road development.

Population and its effect on sprawl.

Report from Detroit News on traffic congestion.

LookSmart — Societ & Politics - Environment - Sustainable Development

Yahoo! Society - Environment - Sustainable Development
Yahoo! Social Science - Urban Studies - Urban Sprawl

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