Web Resources

American Highway Users Alliance The American Highway Users Alliance is a nonprofit advocacy organization that lobbies for the transportation community. The group works to shape public opinion in favor of highways and it promotes the role of the motor vehicle in the United States.

The Congress for the New Urbanism Founded in 1993, The Congress for the New Urbanism is a group of professionals from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, economics, real estate, law and government that advocates the restructuring of public policy. According to the CNU, New Urbanism is a movement that "seeks to reintegrate the components of modern life - housing, workplace, shopping and recreation - into compact, pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use neighborhoods linked by transit and set in a larger regional open space framework."

EPA AirNow The Environmental Protection Agency's AirNow Web site provides real-time air pollution data, information about the effects of air pollution, ways to protect your health and action that individuals can take to reduce air pollution.

EPA Air Trends This is a site that includes the Environmental Protection Agency's annual study evaluating the status and trend of air quality in the United States.

The Environmental Justice Resource Center The Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University is a clearinghouse and research center into a number of growth-related issues, including environmental justice, race and the environment, civil rights, land-use planning and smart growth.

The Georgia Regional Transportation Agency The Georgia Regional Transportation Agency (GRTA) was created by the state of Georgia to help deal with the Atlanta metropolitan area's problems with traffic, air quality and other growth-related issues. It is being watched closely by participants in the debate over growth-related issues.

Peter Gordon Peter Gordon is a professor at the School of Policy, Planning and Development and the Department of Economics at the University of Southern California. Currently at work on a book about the sprawl debate, Gordon is a proponent of market-based solutions to the problems of growth and criticizes ideas like New Urbanism as "pie-in-the-sky social engineering based on a false diagnosis of society's urban problems, an excessive faith in the ability to change the world, and the prescription of policies that are implementable only under very special circumstances."

Planners Web This is a site put together by Planning Commissioners Journal, a magazine aimed at non-professional citizen planners who serve on city, county or regional planning boards or who are active in local land use and community planning issues either as elected officials or citizens. The Web site is the magazine's guide to sprawl and the issues surrounding it.

Sierra Club The environmental advocacy group's Web site has background on various issues, including sprawl. Its newly published Fall 2000 Sprawl Report, available on the Web site, examines "the good, the bad and the poorly zoned, from Alabama to Wyoming."

The Smart Growth Network The Smart Growth Network is a partnership of various organizations that encourages smart growth developments. Its Web site says it serves as a "forum for information-sharing, education, tool development and application, and collaboration on smart growth issues."

The Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse The Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse is a site that says its purpose is to give access to the "tools, techniques and strategies developed to manage growth."

State of the Air The American Lung Association's State of the Air report lets readers check on the air quality in their area and see which places have the worst air quality.

The Surface Transportation Policy Project The Surface Transportation Policy Project is a lobbying group that works to change transportation policy to put the needs of people over the needs of vehicles.

Texas Transportation Institute's Urban Mobility Study This site is home to the 1999 study of urban mobility in 68 urban areas by the Texas Transportation Institute.

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