Above and Beyond: Visualizing Change in Small Towns and Rural Areas
Campoli, Julie, Humstone, Elizabeth, MacLean, Alex, Planners Press, American Planning Association, Chicago, IL, 2001

"The Economics of Sprawl"
Black, J. Thomas, Urban Land, Urban Land Institute, Washington, D. C. 1996

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Kunstler, James Howard, Simon and Schuster, New York 1993

Land Use in America
Diamond, Henry L., and Patrick Noonan, Island Press, Washington, D. C. 1996

Solving Sprawl: Models of Smart Growth in Communities Across America
Benfield, Kaid F., Terris, Jutka, Vorsanger, Nancy, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, NY, 2001

"Suburban Sprawl: America's Most Important Environmental Issue"
Schneider, Keith, Nieman Reports, Winter, v50 n4 P9(7).1996

When City and Country Collide
Daniels, Tom, Island Press, Washington, D.C. 1999

Who Pays For Sprawl? The Economic, Social and Environmental Impacts of Sprawl Development
Redman/Johnston Associates, Ltd. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the Chesapeake Bay Program, April, 1998

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Conservation

National

Conservation Fund – www.conservationfund.org

Conservation International – www.conservation.org

Ecology and Society – www.ecologyandsociety.org

The Greenbelt Alliance – www.greenbelt.org

The Land Trust Alliance – www.lta.org

Natural Resources Conservation Service – www.nrcs.usda.gov

The Nature Conservancy – www.nature.org

The Sierra Club – www.sierraclub.org

The Trust for Public Land – www.tpl.org

The World Conservation Union – www.lucn.org

Vermont

Association of Vermont Conservation Commissions – www.avccvt.org

Conservation Law Foundation – www.clf.org

Efficiency Vermont – www.efficiencyvermont.org

The Green Mountain Club – www.greenmountainclub.org

Lake Champlain Basin Program – www.lcbp.org

Lake Champlain Land Trust – www.lclt.org

Middlebury Area Land Trust – www.maltvt.org

Nature Conservancy of Vermont – www.nature.org

South Hero Land Trust – www.shlt.org

Stowe Land Trust – www.stowelandtrust.org

Upper Valley Land Trust – www.uvlt.ort

Vermont Agency of Natural Resources – www.anr.state.vt.us

Vermont Alliance of Conservation Voters – www.vacv.org

Vermont Housing and Conservation Board – www.vhcb.org

Vermont Land Trust – www.vlt.org

Vermont Natural Resources Council – www.vnrc.org

Vermont Public Interest Research Group – www.vpirg.org

Books and Articles

Growing Greener: Putting Conservation into Local Codes
Arendt, Randall G., Media, PA; Natural Lands Trust; Inc.; November 1997

How to Include Fish and Wildlife Resources in Town and Regional Planning
Waterbury, VT; Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department

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Data and Information

National

National Vacant Properties Campaign – www.vacantproperties.org

Vermont

University of Vermont, Center for Rural Studies – http://crs.uvm.edu

Vermont Housing Data – www.housingdata.org

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Downtown Revitalization

National

National Main Street Center – www.mainstreet.org

Urban Ecology – www.urbanecology.org

Vermont

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation – Downtown Program – www.historicvermont.org/programs/downtown.html

Preservation Trust of Vermont – http://www.ptvermont.org/

Books and Articles

Cities Back From the Edge New Life for Downtown
Gratz, Roberta Brandes with Mintz, Norman, New York; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
1998, ISBN - 0-471-14417-7

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Economic Development

National

Good Jobs First – www.goodjobsfirst.org

Center on Policy Initiatives – www.onlineecpi.org

Vermont

Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund – www.vsjf.org

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Housing

National

Vermont

Addison County Community Trust - http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/tools/ace/
OPGuide/AddisonCountyCommunityTrustNEW.htm

Brattleboro Area Community Land Trust – www.baclt.org

Central Vermont Community Land Trust – www.cvclt.org

Champlain Housing Trust – www.champlainhousingtrust.org

Community on Temporary Shelter – www.cotsonline.org

Get a Home – www.getahome.org

Housing Vermont – www.hvt.org

Upper Valley Housing Coalition – www.uvhc.org

Vermont Housing Awareness Campaign – www.housingawreness.org

Vermont Housing and Conservation Board – www.vhcb.org

Vermont Housing Data – www.housingdata.org

Vermont Department of Housing and Community Affairs – www.dhca.state.vt.us

Vermont Housing Finance Agency – www.vhfa.org

Vermont State Housing Agency – www.vsha.org

Books and Articles

Conservation Design for Subdivisions: A Practical Guide for Creating Open Space Networks
Arendt, Randall, Island Press, Washington, D. C.1996

The NIMBY Report
Smart Growth & Affordable Housing, National Low Income Housing Coalition/LIHIS
Spring 2001

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Large-Scale Retail/Big Box Stores

National

Sprawl Busters – www.sprawl-busters.com

Wal Mart Watch – www.walmartwatch.com

Books and Articles

How Superstore Sprawl Can Harm Communities -- And What Citizens Can Do About It
Beaumont, Constance E., National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D. C. 1994.

How Superstore Sprawl Can Harm Communities -- And What Citizens Can Do About It
Beaumont, Constance E. National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D. C. 1994.

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Population Growth

National

Sprawl City – www.sprawlcity.org

http://www.sprawlcity.org/

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Preservation

National

National Trust for Historic Preservation – www.nationaltrust.org

Preservation Online – www.nationaltrust.org/magazine

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation – www.achp.gov

Vermont

Preservation Trust of Vermont – www.ptvermont.org

Vermont Department of housing and Community Affairs – www.dhea.state.vt.us

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation – www.historicvermont.org

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation – Downtown Program – www.historicvermont.org/programs/downtown.html

Books and Articles

Be a Global Force of One! In your hometown
202 Common Sense, Human & Portable Ways to Restore Our Communities, Our Schools & Ourselves
Boal, John T., Burbank, CA; PacRim Publishing; March 1998, ISBN - 0-9626617-2-4 (paperback)

Growing Smarter: Fighting Sprawl and Restoring Community in America
Moe, Richard, National Trust for Historic Preservation. 1997

Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators
Hart, Maureen, Ipswich, MA; QLF/Atlantic Center for the Environment; May 1995

Identifying and Caring for Places of the Heart
An Idea Book of Activities & Resources
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's Sense of Place Project

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Rural Countryside

National

American Farmland Trust – www.farmland.org

Northern Forest Alliance – www.northernforestalliance.org

Vermont

The Intervale Center – www.intervale.org

Vermont Council on Rural Development – www.vtrural.org

Vermont Housing & Conservation Board – www.vhcb.org

Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund – www.vsjf.org

Books and Article

Communities and the Land, Smart Growth Vermont
Provides examples and stories of what other individuals and towns are doing to strengthen the connections with the working landscape.

Rural by Design: Maintaining Small Town Character
Arendt, Randall, et al., Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Environmental Law Foundation, Center for Rural Massachusetts; Planners Press / APA, Chicago 1994

Farming on the Edge: A New Look at the Importance and Vulnerability of Agriculture near Cities
American Farmland Trust, Washington, D. C.1994

Farming on the Edge II
American Farmland Trust, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 1997

Kicking Stones Down A Dirt Road
Rural Resource Protection in Vermont's Mad River Valley
Farley, Virginia & Whitcomb, Joanna, prepared for the Mad River Valley Rural Resource Commission

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