- Biodiversity Partnership: Habitat and Sprawl
- Center for Policy Alternatives: Urban Sprawl
- Community and Environmental Defense Services - Group dedicated to help people defend their community and environment from the impact of sprawl and other poorly planned land development activities.
- Defenders Of Wildlife Report: Integrating Land-Use Planning and Biodiversity
- Friends of the Earth has information on the environmental dimension of sprawl.
- Database Portland Metro: Does Planning Matter? - A team of university faculty and students investigating the logic and effects of urban development planning.
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy - Improving the quality of debate and disseminating knowledge of critical issues in land-use and tax policy through professional development courses, research and publications.
- Visit the Maryland Department of Planning Smart Growth website for more information on their legislative package to curb sprawl.
- Natural Resources Defense Council: Cities and Green Living: Smart
Growth/Sprawl
- Policy Papers: Smart Growth: Weathering the Storm
- Policy Papers: Smart Growth: Unwelcome (Human) Neighbors: The Impacts of Sprawl on Wildlife
- Northeast Midwest Institute: Reports: Smart Growth
- PlannersWeb: Sprawl
Guide
- Stopping Sprawl by Growing Smarter gives good information on some of the myths that exist about smart growth.
- “Open Space” Zoning - What It Is and Why It Works gives detailed information on the ways that zoning can influence sprawl.
- Smart Growth America
- Smart Growth Online has more information on innovative ideas to contain sprawl. This website also has great links to get in-depth information on the problems sprawl creates.
- Surface Transportation Policy Project has information on ways in which public transportation can help contain sprawl.
- State Environmental Resource Center:
- stop sprawl: Sierra Club Challenge to Sprawl Campaign
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Department of Urban and Regional Planning
State Environmental Resource Center
106 East Doty Street, Suite 200 § Madison, Wisconsin 53703
Phone: 608-252-9800 § Fax: 608-252-9828
Email: info@serconline.org
106 East Doty Street, Suite 200 § Madison, Wisconsin 53703
Phone: 608-252-9800 § Fax: 608-252-9828
Email: info@serconline.org