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• What is Smart Growth? - Smart Growth Online

• “Smart growth” covers a range of development and conservation strategies that help protect our health and natural environment and make our communities more attractive, economically stronger, and more socially diverse.

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• Soulful Cities – A 501(c)(3) Non Profit Organization

• Soulful Cities is a coalition of innovators, urban designers and social equity pioneers fostering cultural development in newly urbanized areas.

• Revitalization Tools - Infill SCORE

• The first award, the Innovative Planning Tool Award, highlights the best new contribution to the development of open planning tools. This year’s winner for goes to Infill Score, a free open source tool for measuring a community’s readiness for infill. This tool provides citizens, planners, and elected officials with a self-assessment tool and action planning tools to focus public and private sector investment and accelerate the implementation of sustainable communities. Congratulations to Infill Score.

• Revitalization Tools - Infill SCORE ROADMAP

• Infill Planning Tool

• Creative Placemaking | NCCP

• Creative placemaking is a new way of making communities more livable and prosperous through the arts and making them better places for the arts. Creative placemaking is about more than public art or performing arts centers. It is about making places better for everyone. Traditional approaches to using arts as a revitalization tool tend to focus on building large institutions, districts or just ‘doing projects.’ Creative placemaking starts with building effective partnerships. Our approach to creative placemaking is based on six key elements: Building diverse and productive partnerships in communities and with local leadership to implement ideas. Enhancing quality of life for more people in communities Increasing economic opportunity for more stakeholders in communities Building healthier climates for creativity and cultural expression Engaging existing assets (both physical and human) as much as possible Promoting the best and distinct qualities of a place Our work is guided by the teachings of reflective practice, double-loop learning, asset-based community development, fifth level leadership, arts-based community development, communicative practice, environmental justice, and other current and cutting-edge philosophies of practice.  

• The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking Blog

• The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking (NCCP) was created to build capacity for sustainable and cost-effective creative placemaking. Creative placemaking is a new way of making communities more livable and prosperous through the arts and making them better places for the arts. Creative placemaking is about more than public art or performing arts centers. It is about making places better for everyone.