Guides

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Planning and Designing Streets that Support Sustainable and Livable Communities.

Essential resources to understand and get updates about Smart Growth America's 'Complete Street' design framework.

Guidance on preserving, rehabilitating, and restoring historic buildings - especially useful to Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program applicants because they recommend methods and approaches for rehabilitating historic buildings that are consistent with their historic character.

The Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking documents and develops new approaches to creating economic districts within cities, towns, and regions that meet the evolving place needs of people and businesses.

This is a list of affiliated organizations and entities the APA works closely with.

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Descriptions and examples from the implementation of Complete Streets policies.

This guide provides a variety of low cost tools and strategies for small communities to remake their downtown into the hub of activity they once were.

Recommendations for creating a multi-year strategy, stakeholder engagement, and vision development

A users' guide to zoning reform.

A resource library curated by CIRD.

Good codes are the foundation upon which great communities are built.

Placemaking inspires people to collectively reimagine and reinvent public spaces as the heart of every community.

Articles, research studies, and technical bulletins on a variety of topics to help preservation commissions operate more effectively and proactively.

How to develop your digital storefront.

An installment in an article series to address the concern of not being able to find funding.

Resources available from Smart Growth America with newsletter sign-up.