smart growth

Location: South Louisiana region, Louisiana, USANarrative & program: In 2005 Hurricane Katrina and Rita left 80% of New Orleans flooded, damaging 200,000 homes, 81,000 businesses, and 870 schools, and displacing 1.3 million people. In the aftermath of the hurricanes, the project's lead pla... read more »

Location: Saucier, MSNarrative & program: With funding from a regional planning and development district, the local county zoning office obtained the services of the design team to prepare a town plan and SmartCode overlay district for Saucier, Mississippi, a small rural unincorporated com... read more »

Location: Fayetteville, ARNarrative & program: Nestled in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville is a rapidly growing city of about 70,000. Home to University of Arkansas, Fayetteville has been cited as one of the most livable cities in America due to its job growth, arts scene, ... read more »

Location: Concord, NH, USANarrative & program: Concord, NH, and the surrounding Merrimack region have faced unprecedented growth in the last 20 years. An earlier attempt at an urban growth broundary allowed development on farm fields, river valley parcels, and undevelopment land outside c... read more »

Location: Annapolis, MD, USANarrative & program: The Maryland Department of the Environment's (MDE's) Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Implementation Plan is a significant first step toward realizing the vision of a state environmental management system designed to meet the needs... read more »

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USANarrative & program: A collaborative planning team formed by four community development corporations created a vision for new, urban villages on vacant, underutilized and brownfield sites along Boston’s most underused commuter rail line -- a 10-mile tr... read more »