Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources

Smart Growth and Urban Policy Committee

Katrina/Rita Disaster Recovery

Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program’s Katrina Index (Tracking Variables of Post-Katrina Reconstruction)
http://www.brook.edu/metro/pubs/200512_katrinaindex.htm

American Planning Association’s Planning for a Disaster-Resistant Community
http://www.planning.org/katrina/pdf/PlanDisasterResistant.pdf

General Smart Growth and Urban Planning

EPA's smart growth page, maintained by the Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation:
http://www.epa.gov/livability

Smart Growth Network, a partnership of governmental and nonprofit organizations formed by EPA:
http://www.smartgrowth.org

Smart Growth America, a coalition of smart growth advocacy groups:
http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org

Environmental and Industry NGO's

Natural Resources Defense Council smart growth page:
http://www.nrdc.org/cities/smartGrowth/default.asp

National Association of Home Builders smart growth resource page:
http://www.nahb.org/page.aspx/category/sectionID=221

The Trust for Public Land
www.tpl.org

Congress for New Urbanism
http://www.cnu.org

Research and Education Organizations

National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education:
http://www.smartgrowth.umd.edu

Urban Land Institute:
http://www.uli.org

Brookings Institute Metropolitan Policy Program:
http://www.brook.edu/metro

Individual State and Local Smart Growth Organizations

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