Communities Implementing Smart Growth
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has recognized these cities for implementing smart growth principles:
- Arlington, Virginia
- Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Davidson, North Carolina
- Denver, Colorado
The Smart Growth Network has recognized these U.S. cities for implementing smart growth principles:
- The Kentlands; Gaithersburg, Marylandc(for live-work units)
- East Liberty; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (establishing downtown retail)
- Moore Square Museums Magnet Middle School; Raleigh, North Carolina (for being located downtown)
- Garfield Park; Chicago, Illinois(retaining transit options)
- Pine Barrens; Southern New Jersey (for transfer of development rights away from undeveloped land)
- Chesterfield Township, New Jersey (for township wide transfer of development rights away from forest and farmland and development of the several hundred acre New Urbanism community of Old York Village.
In July 2011, The Atlantic magazine called the BeltLine, a series of housing, trail, and transit projects along a 22-mile (35-km) long disused rail corridor surrounding the core of Atlanta, the United States' "most ambitious smart growth project".
In Savannah, Georgia (US) the historic Oglethorpe Plan has been shown to contain most of the elements of Smart Growth in its network of wards, each of which has a central civic square. The plan has demonstrated its resilience to changing conditions, and the city is using the plan as a model for growth in newer areas.
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