- Great Streets!
http://www.greatstreets.org/
Profiles of cities with thriving main streets, an examination of the details that make them successful, and a look at the fictional River City in the movie The Music Man.
- Local Government Commission
http://www.lgc.org/
A nonprofit organization working to build livable communities. Covers topics including community design, economic development, sustainable energy sources, transportation, and waste prevention.
- Metropolis
http://www.metropolis.org/
An international association of global cities working towards developing solutions to issues affecting large cities such as urban planning and development, the economy, the environment, transport, infrastructure and communications.
- New Urbanism
http://www.newurbanism.org/
The revival of our lost art of place-making, it is essentially a re-ordering of the built environment into the form of complete towns. New Urbanism promotes the creation and restoration of compact, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods, towns, and cities.
- Parole
http://parole.aporee.org/
A thesaraus of modern concepts in urban development. For each there is a definition, bibliography and its source publication.
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