This publication illustrates how communities can turn their visions, values, and aspirations into reality, using smart growth techniques to improve the quality of development.

The Smart Growth Network (SGN) and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) are pleased to announce the availability of This Is Smart Growth. This new publication 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 the diverse interests of the SGN, 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.

To receive a free copy of this publication, send an e-mail to ncepimal@one.net and ask for publication number 231-K-06-002. Be sure to include name, organization, address, and telephone number with your request. Or, call the EPA National Service Center for Environmental Publications at 800.490.9198. Ask for publication number 231-K-06-002.

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More Information: www.smartgrowth.org/library/articles.asp?art=2367&res=1024

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