Smart Growth America

A new resource for engaging community members in brownfield redevelopment

homepage-excerpt: Smart Growth America is happy to release a new tool designed to help communities organize for effective public outreach.

homepage-excerpt: Last month we asked advocates to speak out for the Partnership for Sustainable Communities. Hundreds of supporters sent letters to their members of Congress, and Congress listened.

homepage-excerpt: Acres of preserved farmland and prairie are making Carlisle, IA a beautiful place to live, and that’s a key economic development strategy for Carlisle Mayor Ruth Randleman.

homepage-excerpt: Tennessee taxpayers could save money by using smarter development strategies, according to new research published by Smart Growth America.

homepage-excerpt: Local governments across the country have compared development strategies to understand their impact on municipal finances.

homepage-excerpt: Why Suburban Poverty Is Less Visible and More Insidious
Atlantic Cities - May 21, 2013
We've been talking today – both at Atlantic Cities and across town with our Washington, D.C. neighbors the Brookings Institution – about the suburbanization of poverty in America, a geographic trend particularly notable for two reasons: It confounds our long-entrenched stereotypes of suburbia as the home of the American dream, and it creates a dramatic mismatch between the social services infrastructure we began building during the War on Poverty and the poor people who now live nowhere near it.

homepage-excerpt: Presidential Memorandum -- Modernizing Federal Infrastructure Review and Permitting Regulations, Policies, and Procedures
Whitehouse.gov - May 17, 2013
Reliable, safe, and resilient infrastructure is the backbone of an economy built to last.