This resource collection was compiled to support the presentation made by Tim Pringle, Executive Director of the Real Estate Foundation, at the National Executive Forum on Public Property conference, held in Vancouver on May 9 and 10, 2003.

The theme of the conference was "Sustainable Development Opportunities and Implications". Mr. Pringle's presentation focused on how the concepts of sustainable land use and smart growth can provide useful frameworks for addressing communities' social, economic, and environmental well-being.

Community Energy Association - Case Studies

Detailed discussions of specific initiatives, programs or issues related to community energy planning in British Columbia, with points of interest for planners, engineers, local officials and developers throughout.

Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy

Growth in the Heartland: Challenges and Opportunities for Missouri is a research publication that examines metropolitan growth in terms of population, economic, social, and land development trends.

Canadian Institute of Planners

The Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) has been dedicated to the advancement of responsible planning throughout Canada since 1919. It is the national professional institute and certification body for the planning profession in Canada.

Common Good Planning Center

The website contains resources on issues related to its name: planning for the common good. Aging and smart growth is one of the issues addressed.

Congress for the New Urbanism

New Urbanism is an urban design movement that burst onto the scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. New Urbanists aim to reform all aspects of real estate development. Their work affects regional and local plans. They are involved in new development, urban retrofits, and suburban infill. In all cases, New Urbanist neighborhoods are walkable, and contain a diverse range of housing and jobs.

Energy Foundation

The Energy Foundation is a partnership of major U.S. foundations interested in sustainable energy. The website includes special reports and links to a variety of organizations promoting standards, practices, and codes in support of sustainable energy use.

Federation of Ontario Naturalists

A Smart Future for Ontario: How to Protect Nature and Curb Urban Sprawl in Your Community is a community guide that provides "information, ideas, tools and strategies". While Ontario-specific, the publication contains current information that could be of interest to other jurisdictions.

Funders for Smart Growth

Resource and focal point for foundations, nonprofit organizations and other partners working to solve the environmental, social, and economic problems created by suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment. The U.S.-based website includes working papers, projects, and other resources.

Issaquah Highlands

This article in the King County Journal (Washington State) is entitled, "Issaquah's Highlands fling: So far, giant development has home buyers pleased, Microsoft waiting in wings".

James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments

Research and outreach organization that demonstrates how to design and build affordable, equitable, and ecologically healthy communities. The Chair works with citizens and public officials to incorporate new and emerging policies for sustainable development into community plans. The Headwaters Project (Surrey, BC) and the Damascus Area Community Design Workshop (Oregon) are two of many available online resources.

National Conference of State Legislatures - Growth Management & Land Use

The Environment, Energy and Transportation Program's focus on land use legislation has been on growth management and the relationship of land use to related environmental and economic development policies. The State Incentive-Based Growth Management Laws database is searchable by state and topic (e.g. purchase of development rights, growth management, rural land).

National Governors Association - Center for Best Practices

"Governors have enormous opportunities to improve statewide planning to enhance and shape economic development, protect natural resources, and preserve each community's quality of life." The online Center includes examples of how U.S. states are tackling issues such as brownfield development, transportation, and greenhouse gas emissions.

The Neptis Foundation

Neptis is an independent, privately funded organization that conducts nonpartisan research, education and publication on urban regions. Neptis aims to gather reliable information on regional urban growth, and to make it accessible to wide audiences. It seeks to provide, through scholarship, credible bases for public discussion and decisions on regional urban issues, particularly where they have been absent or inadequate. In so doing, Neptis contributes to more prudent, productive and exhilarating urban development.

Ontario Smart Growth

Smart growth is the government's vision for promoting and managing growth in Ontario. It is a vision based on three principles: a strong economy, strong communities and a clean, healthy environment. Information is available for five geographic zones in the province.

Smart Growth America

Smart Growth America is a coalition of 80+ organizations. The website contains many resources, including policy solutions, tools for advocates, SGA initiatives, and research and publications.

Smart Growth Online

This is a service of the U.S.-based Smart Growth Network. Resources include Placemaking: Tools for Community Action, Getting to Smart Growth: 100 Policies for Implementation, and Affordable Housing and Smart Growth: Making the Connection.

Sustainable Development Research Initiative

SDRI is an interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of British Columbia. Research is relevant to decision-makers and policy makers and based on the involvement of non-academic partners in the research process. Community outreach, research, and publications information is available on the website.

The Town Paper

The Town Paper is a quarterly publication of news and features about traditional neighborhood development (TND). The website has links to discussion papers, and information about TND's in North America and around the world.

Urban Land Institute - Case Studies

The ULI website's "other sites" item includes a separate SmartGrowth.net site. Case study abstracts are available. The "research" item includes these, and other (development) case studies. Policy papers and special reports are also available under "information services".