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Selected Links
for Family and Community
Roundtable #5
Well designed neighborhoods with clean air and water, green spaces, play spaces, and vibrant arts and sports and recreation for all ages
Boundless Playgrounds
Website of this non-profit organization dedicated to helping communities
create universally accessible playgrounds for children of all abilities.
Boundless Playgrounds was represented at Family Re-Union #8 by a junior
ambassador for the program who served on the youth experts' panel.
Encouraging
Smart Growth
This site is part of the U.S. government's "Livable Communities" website."
Contains links related to strategies that accommodate community growth
yet maintain a high quality of life and sense of community.
Center for
Livable Communities
The American Association of Architect's Center for Livable Communities
brings together the many activities the Institute has undertaken related
to urban design and quality of life. This site provides numerous links
to programs, activities, and resources that further define and promote
livable communities.
President's Council
on Sustainable Development
The site contains task force reports to the President on sustainable development
including reports related to eco-efficiency, energy and transportation,
population and consumption, sustainable agriculture, and sustainable communities.
SUNetwork; Sustainable USA Network
Sponsored by the National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America, this
site provides links to upcoming national events related to sustainable
communities, model programs, and news related to sustainability in the
USA. Note the link Detroit's Place in a Sustainable America. This
site contains a comprehensive outline (PowerPoint slideshow available)
of "building blocks" used by the city of Detroit as it takes steps toward
sustainability. Includes a section of "Brownfields and Re-development."
Smart Growth
Home page to the Smart Growth Network. Contains links to multiple sites
and inititatives including Smart Growth Federal initiatives, speaker's
series, community livability initiatives, case studies, funding opportunities,
and conference highlights. Updated frequently. Deserves a bookmark!
Sustainable Communities Network
Contains numerous links related to sustainable communities including categories
of creating community, Smart Growth, growing a sustainable economy, protecting
natural resources, governance and living sustainably.
Gore speech:
Livable Communities Agenda
Full text of the Vice President's speech to the American Institute of
Architects delivered on January 11, 1999.
Neighborhood Transformation/Family
Development
An initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation that mixes incentives,
investments and opportunities to change community conditions in ways that
support families and bolster children's chances of beating the odds.
Rebuilding Communities
An initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation that funds a group of low-income
distressed communities to establish comprehensive community-building,
family-centered initiatives.
Neighborhoods Online
This is an undertaking by several foundations and organizations that support
civic idealism and neighborhood empowerment in America. Based in Philadelphia,
the site contains links to neighborhood programs and organizations that
are working to make Philadelphia's neighborhoods clean, safe, economically
viable, and decent places for raising children. The site also includes
links to federal agencies and national organizations that address neighborhood
concerns.
Urban Environmental Management
A resource initiative through the grouping of urban planning researchers
from around the world. The Initiative looks at urban areas as the intersection
of national, built and socio-economic environments. Contains links to
articles on issues such as urban communities and civic participation,
urban economy, urban health, water, information, and environmental management.
Association for Community Design
Home page to an organization of architects and community planners dedicated
to combating policies that contribute to the persistence of poverty.
Pratt Institute Center for Community
and Environmental Development
A university-based advocacy planning organization, PICCED’s mission
is to empower low and moderate-income communities to develop solutions
to their physical, social, and economic challenges.
University of Miami School of Architecture
Link to information on Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk’s distinctive
work on the architectural movement known as New Urbanism. New Urbanism
represents a growing awareness that architects have a civic responsibility
as "community builders." New Urbanism also espouses that neighborhood
is a vital component of urban ecology in which human, natural and build
environments interact.
The
National Trust’s Main Street Center
This
web site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation provides information
and resources on the Main Street Program of downtown revitalization through
historic preservation and economic development. Includes listings of consultants
specializing in downtown revitalization, news on award-winning "Main
Street" communities, and a link to national reinvestment statistics.
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