Smart Growth America
Encyclopedia
Smart Growth America is a coalition of advocacy
organizations that have a stake in how metropolitan
expansion affects the environment
, quality of life and economic sustainability
. Partners include national, state and local groups, working on behalf of the environment, historic preservation
, social equity
, land conservation
, neighborhood redevelopment, farmland protection, and labor.
Member groups include the statewide "1000 Friends" organizations, Washington's Futurewise
, GrowSmartMaine, New Jersey Future, and the San Francisco Bay Area's Greenbelt Alliance
.
Advocacy
Advocacy is a political process by an individual or a large group which normally aims to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an...
organizations that have a stake in how metropolitan
Metropolitan area
The term metropolitan area refers to a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing. A metropolitan area usually encompasses multiple jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships,...
expansion affects the environment
Environmentalism
Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements...
, quality of life and economic sustainability
Sustainability
Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...
. Partners include national, state and local groups, working on behalf of the environment, historic preservation
Historic preservation
Historic preservation is an endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance...
, social equity
Social equality
Social equality is a social state of affairs in which all people within a specific society or isolated group have the same status in a certain respect. At the very least, social equality includes equal rights under the law, such as security, voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, and the...
, land conservation
Conservation movement
The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental and a social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal, fungus and plant species as well as their habitat for the future....
, neighborhood redevelopment, farmland protection, and labor.
Member groups include the statewide "1000 Friends" organizations, Washington's Futurewise
Futurewise
Futurewise is a book on global trends written by the futurist Patrick Dixon in 1998, with new editions in 2001, 2003 and 2007. Dr Patrick Dixon has been ranked as one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today by Thinkers 50, and is author of 11 other books including Building a...
, GrowSmartMaine, New Jersey Future, and the San Francisco Bay Area's Greenbelt Alliance
Greenbelt Alliance
Greenbelt Alliance is a non-profit land conservation and urban planning organization that has worked in California's nine-county San Francisco Bay Area since 1958....
.