This is Smart Growth
Posted September 13, 2006
This Is Smart Growth Showcases Development at its Best - First Issue Features Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tennessee -- Chattanooga is featured as a national model of smart growth in a new publication, This Is Smart Growth. Chattanooga was selected because its civic leaders and citizens ensured that new growth and development benefited the entire community. Working together, the community helped keep the city affordable for everyone even as it revitalized and drew new residents and businesses.
Released by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) and the Smart Growth Network, This Is Smart Growth illustrates how communities can turn their visions, values, and aspirations into reality, using smart growth techniques to improve the quality of development. Thirty-two national organizations -- representing housing, environmental, community design and development, public health, transportation, local government, and other interests -- have approved This Is Smart Growth.
This Is Smart Growth describes how, when done well, development can help create more economic opportunities, build great places where people want to live and visit, preserve the qualities people love about their communities, and protect environmental resources. Many people want to know what smart growth looks like; This Is Smart Growth illustrates and explains smart growth concepts and outcomes.
The publication features 40 places around the country, from cities to suburbs to small towns to rural communities, where good development has improved residents’ quality of life. Photos illustrate how these communities have invested taxpayer money wisely, offered people more choices in housing and transportation, protected natural and working lands, promoted healthy environments, created a lasting legacy for the community, and achieved other accomplishments.
Development and publication of This Is Smart Growth was funded through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and ICMA. Free copies are available from the EPA National Service Center for Environmental Publications at 800-490-9198 or via e-mail at ncepimal@one.net. Ask for publication number 231-K-06-002.
This is Smart Growth is available electronically at www.smartgrowth.org.
The following thirty-one Smart Growth Network partners join ICMA in releasing This Is Smart Growth:
American Farmland Trust, American Institute of Architects Center for Communities by Design, American Planning Association, Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Congress for the New Urbanism, Enterprise, Environmental Law Institute, Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, Institute of Transportation Engineers, Local Government Commission, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, NACo Center for Sustainable Communities, National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals, National Association of Realtors, National Multi-Housing Council, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Northeast-Midwest Institute, Rails to Trails Conservancy, Scenic America, Smart Growth America, State of Maryland, Surface Transportation Policy Project, Sustainable Communities Network, The Conservation Fund, Trust for Public Land, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Urban Land Institute, Virginia Tech Metropolitan Institute and Urban Affairs & Planning Program
