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• - Conservation organization dedicated to preserving a greenbelt of open space, farmlands, and parks around San Francisco, California.
  
• - A statewide network promoting policies that encourage redevelopment of Ohio's cities and towns and conservation of farmland and open space.
  
• - Publicly-editable encyclopedia entry supplies examples and arguments for and against sprawl.
  
• - A small assortment of readings for people who are concerned about the negative effects of development on their communities.
  
• - Features articles, links, a specialized search engine, and a message board.
  
• - Information and resources from an advocacy organization that wants to protect the scenic qualities of communities and roadways.
  
• - Nonprofit encouraging effective and equitable management of urban growth and change.
  
• - One of the most comprehensive and earliest sites to target sprawl, by Al Norman, "anti-sprawl guru" and consultant. Arguments and statistics to support campaigns against sprawl developments. Reading list, news, list of towns that have defeated m
  
• - Serves builders and developers in an effort to build traditional neighborhoods and town centers though smart growth principles.
  
• - Joel S. Hirschhorn's site includes commentary, news, book excerpts, consulting, and a newsletter.
  
• - The Challenge to the Sprawl Campaign works to fight poorly planned runaway development and promotes smart growth communities.
  
• - A nonprofit organization that promotes ecological design, smart growth, and transportation choices in northeastern Ohio.
  
• - Offers resources and services for local citizen groups fighting sprawl, including a growth management toolkit and the Smart Growth Hall of Fame.
  
• - Planners Web presents information and links dealing with urban sprawl and its consequences, including the loss of green space and the decay of older urban centers.
  
• - A non-profit society that works to limit sprawl in British Columbia. Includes case studies, examples and local news.
  
• - The Smart Growth Network helps create national, regional and local coalitions to support intelligent and sustainable growth.
  
• - News, information and other resources from an organization which promotes the restoration of cities and the creation of human-oriented livable communities with a sense of place.
  
• - A resource for foundations, nonprofit organizations, and other partners working to solve the problems created by suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment.
  
• - Photoessays and information about urban open space problems such as excess development, urban sprawl, urban forests, urban wildlife, work of conservation commissions, and downtown improvement via American Elm restoration.
  
• - A network of American and Canadian leaders from state, provincial and regional organizations involved in smart growth initiatives.
  
• - Volunteer organization supporting smart growth initiatives and opposing suburban sprawl in Knox County, Ohio.
  
• - Information and resources about alternatives to dehumanizing modern trends on social and environmental quality.
  
• - Addresses the issue of sprawl and its affect on rural life.
  
• - Group of 14 land trusts and advocacy groups discussing the increasing impacts of sprawl in the Midcoast Route One Corridor. News and information about issues and activities.
  
• - Includes introduction and detailed information on smart growth, plus news, publications, and policies.
  
• - A quick-study outline of sustainable development for planners and policy-makers, with extensive web references for more in-depth information on each topic. Written by Beryl Magilavy, past director of San Francisco's Department of the Environment.
  
• - Public-private partnership promoting quality growth with goals in air quality, transportation options, open space preservation, housing, infrastructure, and community-friendly taxation.
  
• - Archive of resources about design and activities that encourage livable, sustainable communities. From the Florida Design Initiative.
  
• - A statewide non-profit organization that promotes sensible alternatives to suburban sprawl and urban decay.
  
• - Summarizes the basic steps in a smart growth visioning and planning process, and reviews techniques that can be used at each step.
  
• - Skeptical commentaries and analysis about sprawl and growth planning from Reason, a libertarian journal.
  
• - Definitions, links, and information about plans for Bloomington, Indiana.
  
• - The International Council of Shopping Centers presents local solutions that balance community needs of controlling growth with the need for creating and maintaining economically vibrant communities.
  
• - Home of the Citizens Alliance for Responsible Transportation, an anti-sprawl advocacy group in the Washington, D.C. area.
  
• - National charity devoted to protecting and enhancing rural England. Encourages the sustainable use of land and other natural resources in town and country.
  
• - Links to information and resources related to sprawl issues, both in Minnesota and nationally.
  
• - Clearinghouse with news, information and resource links about land-use, community planning and preservation.
  
• - Coalition of government, civic, and business leaders in northeastern Illinois. Presents information on the campaign, news, and resources.
  
• - Nationwide coalition promoting a better way to grow; one that protects farmland and open space, revitalizes neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable, preserves scenic and historic resources, and makes communities more livable.
  
• - Covers comsumption growth and population growth and their roles in urban sprawl.
  
• - Consortium of building and highway construction interests presents arguments against limiting suburban development.