Smart Communities: Curbing Sprawl at Its Core
Date Published: 11/01/2002
Author: Tony Proscio
Publisher: LISC
Can community development and smart growth find common cause, share a common agenda, and serve mutual interests? Recent experience in a wide variety of metropolitan areas suggests that community developers have, in fact, increasingly found themselves at smart growth tables, and metropolitanists have more and more come to regard community development projects as helpful, even necessary, for their own success.
This report explores the relationship between community development and Smart Growth, and examines the ways in which these two movements -- community development and smart growth -- are components of the very same effort to promote comprehensive planning for efficient and equitable development. It also highlights concrete examples from cities around the country of how neighborhood revitalization efforts are helping to reverse sprawl.
Topics: --Smart Growth, Housing, --Smart Growth, Land Use & Planning, --Smart Growth
Type: Topical report