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PLACES TO GROW RESEARCH & TECHNICAL PAPERS
The Growth Outlook for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, January 2005
Application of Land-Use Intensification Target for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, Winter 2005
The Premier's Leaders Forum on Strategic Growth, Conference Board of Canada, September 2005.
The Health Impacts of Sprawl, Ontario College of Family Physicians, October 2005.
Report on Public Health and Urban Sprawl in Ontario, Ontario College of Family Physicians, January 2005.
Travel and Housing Costs in the Greater Toronto Area: 1986-1996, Eric Miller et al., 2004.
Toronto Related Region Futures Study: Sketch Modelling of Four Alternative Development Concepts, IBI Group, 2003, Neptis Foundation.
Toronto Related Region Futures Study: Implications of Business as Usual Development, IBI Group, 2002, Neptis Foundation.
Neptis Foundation Summaries Of Smart Growth Issue Papers, 2002/3.
Agriculture
Air, Water and Soil Quality
Energy and Smart Growth
Greenlands
The Growth Opportunity
The Regional Economy
Smart Development for Smart Growth
Social Change in the Central Ontario Region
Travel Demand and Urban Form
Gridlock in Central Ontario, Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, August 2002.
TD Economics Greater Toronto Area: Canada's Primary Economic Locomotive in Need of Repairs, TD Bank Financial Group, May 2002.
Municipal Finance and the Pattern of Urban Growth, Enid Slack, 2002, C.D. Howe Institute.
A Strategy for Rail-Based Transit in the GTA, Toronto Board of Trade, July 2001.
Municipal Financial Tools for Planning and Development, Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, 2000.
A Guide to Brownfields Financial Tax Incentive Program, Ontario Ministry of Finance, 2004.
Canadian
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) is the nation’s housing agency. CMHC has developed a number of smart design principles to help guide more sustainable development, including on brownfields. The site includes a number of interesting case studies.
http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca
Canadian Urban Institute
The Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of urban life. CUI has organized a series of conferences on Smart Growth. The site has relevant publications for sale.
http://www.canurb.com/home.php
James Taylor Chair in Landscape & Livable Environments
A research, design and outreach organization based out of British Columbia, that aims to demonstrate how to build affordable, ecologically sustainable, and healthy communities.
http://www.sustainable-communities.agsci.ubc.ca
Neptis Foundation
The Neptis Foundation is a privately-funded, non-partisan organization, based in Toronto, that supports interdisciplinary research on the past, present and future of urban regions.
http://www.neptis.org
Pembina Institute
The Pembina Institute is a non-profit environmental and research foundation, established in Alberta, with offices in cities across Canada. It has published a number of smart growth and planning related reports.
http://www.pembina.org
West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation
The West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation provides free legal advice, advocacy, research and law reform services to empower citizens to participate in forming policy to protect the environment. It co-published The Smart Growth Guide to Local Government Law and Advocacy.
http://www.wcel.org
United States
Brookings Institute: Centre on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
The Brookings Institute’s site provides resources on urban policy issues, including specific research on Cities and Suburbs.
http://www.brookings.edu
The Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech
The Metropolitan Institute conducts research on transforming development patterns and the forces that help to shape these changes, such as demographics, environment, technology, design, transportation and governance.
http://www.mi.vt.edu
Northeast-Midwest Institute
The Northeast-Midwest Institute is a research organization dedicated to economic vitality, environmental quality, and regional equity. It works closely with the Senate Smart Growth Task Force to identify ways the federal government could assist states and localities in addressing growth management issues.
http://www.nemw.org/smartgrowth.htm
Texas Transportation Institute
The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) works closely with state and federal agencies and the private sector to improve the safety and efficiency of the transportation system. It has conducted widely referenced research into the costs of congestion.
http://tti.tamu.edu
Transportation Research Board
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is a unit of the National Research Council. Its mission is to promote innovation and progress in transportation by stimulating and conducting research, facilitating the dissemination of information, and encouraging the implementation of results.
http://trb.org
University of California Transportation Center
The Center is sponsored by the US Department of Transportation and the California Department of Transportation. It publishes the results of research in the form of working papers, reprints of journal articles, and in its official magazine, ACCESS.
http://www.uctc.net
Urban Futures
Urban Futures is a program of the Reason Public Policy Institute, a conservative American policy think tank. Its mission is to change the climate and terms of the debate over urban policy by developing and promoting voluntary, private-sector, and market-oriented solutions to urban problems.
http://www.urbanfutures.org
