Is your Smart Growth Alliance looking for a speaker for an upcoming
event?
If so, consult the following databases:
New Partners for Smart Growth Conference
This conference, organized by the Local Government Coalition, is
considered to be one of the premier smart growth conferences held each
year respected for its variety of participants and speakers. For
information on past speakers and their presentations, visit the web
site for past conferences and the Smart Growth Network summary.
Smart Growth Speaker Series
Sponsored by the Smart Growth Network, U.S. EPA, and National
Building Museum, the Smart Growth Speaker Series hosts speakers on a
monthly basis to describe this new development paradigm, explore
specific approaches, to foster dialog, and identify opportunities for
positive change in growth and development patterns. Past presentations
are available in an audio archive with this link.
ULI Speaker Database
This live searchable database may help you find speakers
and/or moderators. It includes speakers from: DC Meetings, Fall
meetings, Spring Council Forums, policy forums, symposiums, book and
Urban Land authors, etc.
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Resources
General Smart Growth
Affordable/Workforce Housing
Community Support
Compact Communities
Economic Development
Environmental Infrastructure
Open Space Conservation
Placemaking
Public/Private Partnerships
Regional Cooperation & Visioning
Sustainable Design
Toolkits and Model Codes
Transit Oriented Development
Transportation & Infrastructure
Urban Revitalization
General Smart Growth
Smart
Growth Implementation Toolkit (SG Leadership
Institute & U.S. EPA).
Getting to Smart Growth: 100 Policies for
Implementation (ICMA & SG Network)
Getting to Smart Growth II: 100 More Policies for
Implementation (ICMA & SG Network)
Greetings from Smart Growth America (Smart
Growth America)
Growing by Choice or Chance: State Strategies for
Quality Growth in South Carolina (ULI)
National
Award for Smart Growth Achievement (U.S. EPA)
Putting the Pieces Together: State Actions to Encourage
Smart Growth Practices in California (ULI)
Selected Smart Growth Publications for the Smart Growth
Network (U.S. EPA)
Smart
Growth and Schools (U.S. EPA)
Smart Growth InfoPacket (ULI)
Smart Growth: Myth and Fact (ULI)
A Smart
Growth Reader (APA)
Smart Growth Shareware CD (Smart Growth
America)
This is Smart Growth (SG Network)
Sustainable Development InfoPacket (ULI)
What is Smart Growth? Fact Sheet (SG
Network)
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Affordable/Workforce
Housing
Affordable Housing and Smart Growth (SG Network
& National Neighborhood Coalition)
Affordable Housing Reader (American Planning
Association)
The Affordability Index (Brookings)
Best Practices in the Production of Affordable
Housing (ULI Community Catalyst Report)
The Case for Multifamily Housing (ULI)
Challenges to Developing workforce
Housing (ULI)
Encouraging Workforce Housing in the Chicago Region,
Atlanta, and the District of Columbia (ULI Land Use Policy
Report)
Mixed-Income Housing: Myth and Fact (ULI)
Housing & Transportation Cost Trade-Offs and
Burdens (Center for Neighborhood Technology & Virginia
Tech)
Urban Infill Housing: Myth and Fact (ULI)
Workforce Housing: Barriers, Solutions, and Model
Practices (ULI)
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Community Support
Breaking the Development Logjam (ULI with
support from U.S. EPA)
Choosing Our Community's Future (Smart Growth
America)
Community Image Survey CD
Involving the Community in Neighborhood
Planning (ULI Community Catalyst Report)
Smart Growth
Illustrated (U.S. EPA)
Smart
Growth Scorecards (U.S. EPA)
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Compact Communities
Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in your
Community (LGC, U.S. EPA & NAR)
Greenfield Development without Sprawl: The Role of
Planned Communities (ULI)
Higher-Density Development: Myth and Fact (ULI,
National Multi Housing Council, Sierra Club, and American Institute of
Architects)
Higher Density Presentation, Suburban
Script (ULI, National Multi Housing Council, and Sierra
Club)
Higher Density Presentation, Urban Script (ULI,
National Multi Housing Council, and Sierra Club)
Pedestrian and Transit-Friendly Design (Reid
Ewing & ICMA)
Smart
Growth at the Frontier: Strategies and Resources for Rural
Communities (Northeast-Midwest Institute)
ULI/NMHC/AIA Joint Forum on Housing Density (ULI
Land Use Policy Report)
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Economic Development
Corporate Location and Smart Growth (ULI)
Economical Benefits of Walkable
Communities (LGC)
Economic Development and Smart
Growth (IEDC)
Investing in a Better Future: A Review of the Fiscal and
Competitive Advantages of Smarter Growth Development
Patterns (Brookings)
Profiles of Business Leadership on Smart
Growth (NALGEP)
Smart Growth is Smart Business (NALGEP &
SGLI)
Sustainable Business Development (NACo)
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Environmental
Infrastructure
Ahwahnee Water Principles
Growing Toward More Efficient Water Use (U.S.
EPA)
Protecting Water Resources with Higher-Density
Development (U.S. EPA)
Protecting Water Resources with Smart
Growth (U.S. EPA)
Using Smart Growth Techniques as Stormwater Best
Management Practices (U.S. EPA)
Water and the Future of Land
Development (ULI)
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Open Space Conservation
The Economic Benefits of Parks and Open
Space (Trust for Public Land)
Environment and Development: Myth and
Fact (ULI) (Spanish version)
Market Mechanisms for Protecting Open
Space (ULI and National Recreation Foundation)
The Practice of Conservation Development: Lessons in
Success (ULI and The Conservation Fund)
Transfer of Development Rights
InfoPacket (ULI)
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Placemaking
Greyfields into Goldfields, Executive
Summary (Congress for the New Urbanism)
New Urbanism/Neotraditional Planning
InfoPacket (ULI)
Parks, Places, and People: Making Parks Accessible to
the Community (ULI Community Catalyst Report)
Ten Principles for Reinventing America's Suburban
Business Districts (ULI)
Ten Principles for Reinventing America's Suburban
Strips (ULI)
Ten Principles for Smart Growth on the Suburban
Fringe (ULI)
Turning Bases into Great Places (U.S. EPA)
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Public/Private
Partnerships
Tax Increment Financing InfoPacket (ULI)
Ten Principles for Successful Public/Private
Partnerships (ULI)
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Regional Cooperation &
Visioning
The Benefits of Growth (ULI Working Paper on
Land Use Policy)
Building Florida's Future: State Strategies for Regional
Cooperation (ULI)
Promoting Regional Equity (PolicyLink)
Reality Check: A Guide for District
Councils (ULI)
Translating a Regional Vision into Plan (ULI
Community Catalyst Report)
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Sustainable Design
Developing Green: The Case for High-Performance
Buildings and Sustainable Development (ULI Conference with US
Green Building Council, June 28-29, 2005)
Green Buildings and Sustainable Development: Making the
Business Case (ULI)
A Report on the Green Building
Movement (Building Design & Construction)
Sustainable Development and Green
Building (ULI)
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Toolkits and Model Codes
Columbia Pike Form Based Code (Arlington
County, VA)
Community Toolbox for Quality Growth (Envision
Utah)
Developing Smart Growth Zoning Codes (LGC)
Green Development Codes/Ordinances (Smart
Communities Network)
Growth and Quality of Life Toolkit (NGA)
Local Tools for Smart Growth (NACO, Joint
Center for Sustainable Communities & SG Network)
Louisville Land Development Code (Louisville,
KY)
Massachusetts Smart Growth Toolkit and Model Bylaws (MA Dept of Housing and Community
Development)
Model Codes for Quality Growth (Envision
Utah)
Model Ordinances (Envision Utah)
Overcoming Obstacles to Smart Growth Through Model
Codes (LGC)
Land Use Codes/Ordinances (Smart Communities
Network)
Updating the Zoning Code - Issues and
Considerations (Congress for the New Urbanism)
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Transit Oriented Development
Developing Around Transit (ULI)
The New Transit Town (Reconnecting America)
A Policymaker's Guide to Transit Oriented
Development (LGC)
Preserving and Promoting Diverse Transit-Oriented
Neighborhoods (various)
Ten Principles for Successful Development Around
Transit (ULI)
TOD in the USA (Reconnecting America)
Transit Oriented Development
InfoPacket (ULI)
Transit Oriented Development Webcast (LISC)
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Transportation
& Infrastructure
Federal Highway Administration: Influence of
Transportation Infrastructure on Land Use (ULI Advisory
Services Report)
Financing Urban Infrastructure (ULI)
Fixing It First (NGA)
Housing & Transportation Cost Trade-Offs and
Burdens (Center for Neighborhood Technology & Virginia
Tech)
Infrastructure Financing (ULI)
Linking Transporation and Land Use (ULI)
Parking Spaces/Community Places (U.S. EPA)
Smart Growth Transportation for Suburban
Greenfields (ULI)
ULI Infrastructure Initiative (ULI)
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Urban Revitalization
Barriers and Solutions to Land Assemby for Infill
Development (ULI Land Use Policy Forum Report)
Brownfield Redevelopment Solutions (Envision
Utah)
Capitalizing on the New Markets Tax
Credit (ULI)
Combating Problems of Vacant and Abandoned
Properties (The United States Conference of Mayors)
Downtown Revitalization in Urban Neighborhoods and Small
Cities (Northeast-Midwest Institute)
Making Deals in Urban Markets (Chicago/LISC and
ULI Chicago)
Mayor's Resource Guide on Vacant and Abandoned
Properties (Alan Mallach, National Housing Institute)
Smart Growth for Brownfields
Redevelopment (City of Chicago)
Strategies
for Successful Infill Development (Northeast-Midwest
Institute)
Sustaining Urban Mixed-Income Communities: The Role of
Community Facilities (ULI)
Ten Principles for Rebuilding Neighborhood
Retail (ULI)
Turning Around Downtown: Twelve Steps for
Revitalization (Chris Leinberger, Brookings)
Vacant Properties: The True Cost to
Communities (National Vacant Properties Campaign)
**For more Information, see Smart
Growth Network Links
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