AARP and the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute have released the Imagining Livability Design Collection (PDF). The document provides photos of tranpsortation-related projects intended to help make a place more
The Center for Disease Control’s Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) 2015 is an interactive web application that produces health profiles for all 3,143 counties in the United States. Each profile
In 2010, a regional consortium led by the Region Five Development Commission (R5DC) was awarded an $825,050 Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development
In 2011, the Governor of Vermont announced that the controversial Chittenden County Circumferential Highway (“the CIRC”) would not be completed. Planning for the CIRC first began in 1953, but after
The Volpe Center conducted research for the Federal Highway Administration Office of Planning that explores the implications of Regional Planning Organizations (RPO) engaging in transportation planning partnerships and projects of
The Washington State Department of Transportation released this 2009 report exploring community transportation design policy to improve collaboration when state highways serve as local main streets. Click here to view
SEQL is an integrated environmental initiative for the 15-county metropolitan Charlotte region in North and South Carolina. The actions and examples given address livability issues, such as planning for land
The Nashua Regional Planning Commission is changing the way people think about community planning. By integrating transportation, land use, and environmental planning, iTRaC helps communities to deal with the challenges
A partnership between five regional planning commissions, one MPO, and the Vermont Agency on Transportation, this project was a collaborative effort to study growth and development in northwestern Vermont as it
The citizen-led land use and transportation study provides a framework for the next 50+ years of development in six Northwest Michigan counties. With extensive public participation (over 15,000 individuals in a scenario
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