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Transportation for Livable Communities

TLC is an MTC program to support development plans and projects that strengthen the link between transportation investments and community needs.

- Bay Area
- Land Use
- Newsletters
- Online Resources
- Smart Growth
- Transportation Planning


Bay Area

Best and worst developments of the Bay Area : nine counties, eighteen projects, and a platform for livable communities
/ Transportation and Land Use Coalition. [Berkeley, CA] : Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition, [2003].
HT393 .C21 B231 2003
Blueprint 2001 : housing element ideas and solutions for a sustainable and affordable future : Bay Area housing
/ Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). Oakland, CA : Association of Bay Area Governments, 2001.
HD7285 .A72 2001
Contra Costa County : smart growth or sprawl?
/ Greenbelt Alliance. San Francisco : Greenbelt Alliance, 2003.
HT393 .C2,C66 2003
Draft compact for a sustainable Bay Area : economy, environment, equity
/ Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development. Oakland, Calif. : Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development, 2000.
HC110 .E5,B22 2000
Regional Leadership Forum on Smart Growth : recommended priority actions
/ Urban Land Institute. San Francisco : Urban Land Institute, 2000.
HT393 .C2 A731 2000
Regional problems, regional solutions : how the existing government tax and revenue system could be modified to achieve regional sustainability objectives
/ Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). Oakland, CA : Association of Bay Area Governments, 1999.
HJ9145 .A74 1999
Smart growth : moving from rhetoric to reality : ABAG Spring 2000 General Assembly
/ Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), co-sponsored by the San Francisco District Council of the Urban Land Institute. Oakland, CA : Association of Bay Area Governments, 2000.
HT107 .A7,S23 2000
Smart growth strategy : Regional Livability Footprint Project
/ Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). Oakland, CA : The Association, 2001.
HT393 .C2,A74 2001
State of the Bay Area : a regional report : pathways to results : measuring progress toward sustainability
/ Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities. [Oakland, Calif. ] : Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities, 2003.
HC110 .E5,B23 2003
Theory in action : smart growth case studies in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the nation
/ Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). Oakland, CA : The Association, 2000.
HT393 .C2,A73 2000
Transportation for livable communities : planning grants, capital grants, housing incentive program
/ Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Oakland, CA : The Commission, 2001.
HE206.2 .C253 2001
Transportation for Livable Communities : program overview : planning grants, capital grants, housing incentive program
/ Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC). Oakland, CA : The Commission, 2002.
HE206.2 .C253 2002

Land Use

Costs of sprawl--2000
/ Robert W. Burchell ... [et al.] Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 2002.
HT390 .T779 no. 74
How cities work : suburbs, sprawl, and the roads not taken
/ Alex Marshall. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000.
HT166 .M259 2000
Measuring sprawl and its impact
/ Reid Ewing, Rolf Pendall and Don Chen. Washington, D.C. : Smart Growth America, 2002.
HT384 .E94 2002
PPIC statewide survey : special survey on growth
/ prepared by Mark Baldassare. San Francisco : Public Policy Institute of California, 2001.
HC79 .E5,P82 2001
The regional city : planning for the end of sprawl
/ Peter Calthorpe, William Fulton. Washington, DC : Island Press, c2001.
HT392 .C34 2001
Suburban nation : the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream
/ Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. New York : North Point Press, c2000.
HT384 .U5,D83 2000
The sprawling of America : in defense of the dynamic city
/ Samuel R. Staley. Los Angeles : Reason Foundation, 1999.
HT384 .R73 no. 251

Newsletters

Coalition update
/ Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition. Berkeley, CA : The Coalition.
HE193 .C21,B23
Livable places update : emerging trends in community planning and design
/ Local Government Commission. Sacramento : The Commission.
HD111 .L62,L6

Smart Growth

American sprawl : are we turning the U.S. into an endless twirl of suburbia?
/ Neal Pollack. In: Enterprise Quarterly, pp.12-19, Spring 2000.
VF City planning
Are you ready to bet on smart growth?
/ Amalia Lorentz and Kirsten Shaw. In: Planning, pp. 5-9, January 2000.
VF Smart growth
The boys of sprawl
/ Christopher R. Conte. In: Governing, pp. 28-33, May 2000.
VF Smart growth
Designing sustainable communities : learning from Village Homes
/ Judy Corbett and Michael Corbett. Washington, D.C. Island Press, 2000.
HT169.57 .C67,D4 2000
Does sustainable development offer a new direction for planning? Challenges for the twenty-first century
/ Philip R. Berke. In : J. Planning Literature, 17(1): pp. 21-36, August 2002.
VF Sustainability
Does your growth smart?
/ Uri P. Avin and David R. Holden. In: Planning, pp. 26-29, January 2000.
VF Smart growth
Dumb growth VMT - smart growth VMT = the cost of sprawl
/ Steven Polzin. In: Urban Transportation Monitor, pp. 2-3, March 17 2000.
VF Smart growth
Failure of Scale: Smart Growth Concepts Fail to Respond to the Nature of Urban Growth
/ Don Priest. In : Urban Land, 61(3): pp. 21-24, March 2002.
VF Smart Growth
Fueling sprawl
/ Jim Miara. In: Urban Land, pp. 78-79, 109, 111, May 2000.
VF City planning
A guide to smart growth : shattering myths, providing solutions
/ edited by Jane S. Shaw and Ronald D. Utt ; preface by Malcolm Wallop. Washington, D.C. : Heritage Foundation ; Bozeman, Mont. : PERC, c2000.
HT384 .U6,G84 2000
Guide to sustainable community indicators
/ Maureen Hart. North Andover, Mass. : Hart Environmental Data, 1999.
HD111 .H3,G7 1999
Implementing sustainable urban travel policies
/ European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Letchworth, UK : OECD Turpin, 2002.
HE206.2 .E8,F56 2002
The practice of sustainable development
/ Douglas R. Porter, principal author and editor ; primary authors, Rutherford H. Platt ... [et al.] Washington, D.C. : Urban Land Institute, c2000.
HC79 .E5,P67 2000
Reflections on regionalism
/ Bruce Katz, editor. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2000.
HT392 .R38 2000
Smart growth : the future of the American metropolis?
/ Bruce Katz. London : Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, 2002.
HT393 .K27 2002
Smart growth and its effects on housing markets : the new segregation
/ National Center for Public Policy Research. Center for Environmental Justice. Washington, D.C. : National Center for Public Policy Research, 2002.
HT393 .N39 2002
Smart growth funding resource guide
/ Smart Growth Network. [Washington, D.C.] : Smart Growth Network, 2001.
VF Smart growth

Transportation Planning

Approaching the "smart growth" issue : a look at best practices used by transportation planning organizations
/ John S. Miller and Lester A. Hoel. Charlottesville, Va. : Virginia Transportation Research Council ; Springfield, VA : National Technical Information Service, 2000.
HT393 .M55 2000
The California general plan process and sustainable transportation planning
/ Richard W. Lee ... [et al.] San Jose, CA : Mineta Transportation Institute, San Jose State University, c2002.
HT167 .L44 2002
Integrating land use and transportation
/ Whit Blanton. In : Planning Commissioners Journal, pp. 9-13, Fall 2000.
VF Land Use
Making better communities by linking land use and transportation
Oakland, Calif. : Association of Bay Area Governments, 1997.
HE193 .A7 1997
Pedestrian- and transit-friendly design : a primer for smart growth
/ Reid Ewing. Washington, D.C. : Smart Growth Network; International City/County Management Association, 1999.
HE336 .P43,E8 1999
'Smart growth' : the link between transportation and land use
/ Monica Sagebiel. In : Regions (National Association of Regional Councils), 2(5): pp. 10-11, Sept/Oct 2001.
VF Smart growth
Street design guidelines for healthy neighborhoods
/ by Dan Burden et al. Sacramento, CA : Center for Livable Communities, 1999.
HE333 .L62,H4 1999
Sustainable development and sustainable transportation : strategies for economic prosperity, environmental quality, and equity
/ Elizabeth Deakin. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, [2001].
HT168 .D43 2001
Transportation funds linked to smart growth
In : New Urban News, 6(5): pp. 1, 3, July/August 2001.
VF Smart growth