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On the Web
- PlannersWeb: Sprawl and Growth - Articles on sprawl and smart growth from Planning Commissioners Journal.
- Colorado Sprawl Action Center - Offers resources and services for local citizen groups fighting sprawl, including a growth management toolkit and the Smart Growth Hall of Fame.
- Sprawl City - Covers comsumption growth and population growth and their roles in urban sprawl.
- Sierra Club: Stopping Sprawl - The Challenge to the Sprawl Campaign works to fight poorly planned runaway development and promotes smart growth communities.
- Sprawl-Busters - One of the most comprehensive and earliest sites to target sprawl, by Al Norman, "anti-sprawl guru" and consultant. Arguments and statistics to support campaigns against sprawl developments. Reading list, news, list of towns that have defeated mega-retail proposals.
- In Outer County Races, Growth a Common Foe - News feature from Washington Post newspaper about the emergence of sprawl and growth as regional political issue in suburban counties around Washington DC.
- Knox Citizens for Smart Growth - Volunteer organization supporting smart growth initiatives and opposing suburban sprawl in Knox County, Ohio.
- Smart Growth Network - The Smart Growth Network helps create national, regional and local coalitions to support intelligent and sustainable growth.
- Sprawl Guide - Planners Web presents information and links dealing with urban sprawl and its consequences, including the loss of green space and the decay of older urban centers.
- Paying for Sprawl - A list of the problems associated with sprawl, from the American Planning Association.
Wikipedia Articles
- Smart growth - Smart Growth is an urban planning and transportation theory that concentrates growth in the center of a city to avoid urban sprawl; and advocates compact, transit-oriented, walkable, bicycle-friendly land use, including mixed-use development with a range of housing choices.
- Central Jersey - Central Jersey is the central region of New Jersey. Because of New Jersey's rapid urbanization, sprawl, and population growth over the past half century, the always fuzzy lines between "North Jersey" and "South Jersey" blurred, as the spheres of influence of the New York metropolitan area and Philadelphia metropolitan area have both rapidly expanded.