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Greater Ohio is the citizens network promoting — through research, public
education and grassroots advocacy — public policy to grow our economy and
improve our quality of life through intelligent land use. To this end, Greater
Ohio will work to promote redevelopment of existing communities, strengthen
regional cooperation and protect the countryside and Ohio’s natural resources.
Smart Growth America is a coalition of nearly 100 advocacy
organizations that have a stake in how metropolitan expansion affects our
environment, quality of life and economic sustainability. Our diverse coalition
partners include national, state and local groups working on behalf of the
environment, historic preservation, social equity, land conservation,
neighborhood redevelopment, farmland protection, labor, town planning … and
we’re growing all the time.
Smart Growth BC is
a provincial non-governmental organization devoted to fiscally, socially and
environmentally responsible land use and development. Working with community
groups, businesses, municipalities and the public, we advocate for the creation
of more livable communities in British Columbia.
The
National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education is a non-partisan center
for research and leadership training on Smart Growth and related land use issues
nationally and internationally. Located at the University of Maryland in College
Park, Md., just eight miles from Washington, D.C., the National Center for Smart
Growth was founded in 2000 as a cooperative venture of four University of
Maryland schools:
Architecture, Planning and Preservation,
Public Policy,
Agriculture and Natural
Resources, and Engineering.
On Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1998, the Austin City Council
announced its kick-off of the Smart Growth Initiative. The ultimate goal of the Initiative
is to manage growth, protect the City's quality of life and assure the creation of a
healthy economy.
