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Restoring Prosperity: The Smart Growth Connection

Learn about smart growth, a development approach that revitalizes neighborhoods, protects farmland, and provides affordable housing and transportation choices. Explore examples of how smart growth can address industrial contamination, vacancies, inadequate transportation, and urban sprawl. Discover how cities can transform their physical landscape, promote downtown development, and create connections within and between cities. Get involved with Smart Growth America and Restoring Prosperity initiatives.

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Restoring Prosperity: The Smart Growth Connection

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  1. Restoring Prosperity to Older Industrial States: The Smart Growth Connection Kate RubeMarch 13, 2009

  2. What is Smart Growth, anyway? Smart growth is development that revitalizes neighborhoods, protects farmland and open space, keeps housing affordable, and provides more transportation choices. It is development that is good for the environment, community, and economy.

  3. Industrial Contamination Vacancies Inadequate transportation Sprawl at the edge

  4. Source: Brookings Institution

  5. Providence Build on physical strengths & assets

  6. Promote downtown development Baltimore Hyannis, MA

  7. Chattanooga, TN Atlantic Station, GA Transform the physical landscape

  8. Create connections within & between cities

  9. Work with Us! www.smartgrowthamerica.org www.vacantproperties.org/ www.restoringprosperity.org Contact Kate Rube (krube@smartgrowthamerica.org) with questions or to get more involved

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