Links
(click on the images on the left to review each of these recommended sites)


A coalition of local advocacy groups
promoting walkable communities

Promoting the environment, public transit and personal fitness through car-free and car-"lite" living
Jane Jacobs  

An interview with one of the
foremost urban planners




Information about European
cities that are car-free.



The layout of cities is one of the major value struggles
of the 20th Century.  So far the car is winning and
quality of life is losing.  "What would happen if we
designed a city without cars?" asks Car Free Cities.


Solutions to the problem of the urban automobile




This nonprofit corporation promotes,  educates
and instigates ecological city design, planning
and educational programs.


Encouraging the reconfiguration of sprawling suburbs
into communities, real neighborhoods and diverse districts,
the conservation of natural environments and the
preservation of our built legacy


Working to stop the loss of productive farmland
and promoting farm practices that lead to
a healthy environment


Promoting open spaces through education,
research and citizen action



Humane street lighting

 


Library of information about traffic calming




James Howard Kunstler, is the author of
The Geography of  Nowhere, and is concerned
with the tragic evolution of our landscape and environment.

New Architecture and New Urbanism - "On The Necessary Harmonious Integration of Architectural Scales in the Moral
and Civic, Material and Practical, Artistic and Cultural,
Reconstruction of Cities and Landscapes"


A nonprofit organization based in Sacramento, California
working to build livable communities

 


International Making Cities Livable,
Carmel, CA




An association of people building
neighborhoods and the earth



This U.S. Department of Energy project
emphasizes the principles of land use
planning

Smart Growth creates communities in
which people have increased choice and a
higher quality of life.

Sustainable Communities


Linking citizens to resources and to one another
to create healthy, vital, sustainable communities



The Townpaper - newsletter for traditional
neighborhoods



Venice, Italy is the worlds' largest car-free city




Walkable Communities, Inc.

A High Springs, Florida nonprofit
dedicated to making communities
more walkable and pedestrian friendly


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