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Smart Growth America is a coalition of national, state
and local organizations working to improve the ways we plan and build
the towns, cities and metro areas we call home. The coalition includes
many of the best-known national organizations advocating on behalf of
historic preservation, the environment, farmland and open space preservation,
neighborhood revitalization and more. Our state- and regional-level members
are community-based organizations working to save treasured landscapes
while making our towns and cities ever more livable and lovable.
We
believe that the American people deserve healthy cities, towns and suburbs;
homes that are both affordable and close to jobs and activities; fewer
hours in traffic and more opportunities to enjoy recreation and natural
areas; air and water of the highest quality; and a landscape our children
can be proud to inherit. We believe that ordinary citizens deserve a much
greater say, and better options, in choosing their communities’
future.
To
that end, our members work with citizens across the country to preserve
our built and natural heritage, promote fairness for people of all backgrounds,
fight for high-quality neighborhoods, expand choices in housing and transportation
and improve poorly conceived development projects.
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“The public is repelled by ugly urban sprawl.
They don't like it, and they don't quite know what to do about it. Organizations like ...
Smart Growth America ... help people understand how they can change the things they don't
like.”
– John Norquist, former mayor of Milwaukee, WI, and executive
director of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Metropolis magazine
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Coalition Members