Downtown Toolkit - Links
Urban Design / Placemaking
Community Viz - Community Viz provides technology that allows people to envision land use alternatives and understand their potential impacts.
Congress for the New Urbanism - The principles of the New Urbanism include coherent regional planning, walkable neighborhoods, and attractive, accommodating civic spaces.
Form-Based Codes Institute - An emerging approach that recognizes that a community’s physical form is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic.
International Downtown Association - A world leader and champion for vital and livable urban centers.
National Center for Recreation & Conservation - National Park Service programs that assist community-led efforts to restore rivers, establish trails, save open spaces, rebuild parks, and preserve other special places.
Project for Public Spaces - PPS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities.
Town Greens - Be it a tree-shaded park, a busy city square or a quiet churchyard, the town green is a familiar New England icon and a cherished tradition that does more to embody Connecticut's strong self sense of history and civic pride than any other feature of the landscape.
UCONN College of Agriculture & Natural Resources - Advancing a philosophy and process for guiding the creation and preservation of meaningful and sustainable environments intended to improve the human experience.
Yale Urban Design Workshop - Engaging in the study of issues, ideas and practical problems in the realm of contemporary urbanism and public landscape.
Walkable Neighborhoods - walkable neighborhoods are good for your health and good for the environment.
Downtown Research & Development Center - a forum for exchanging news, information and ideas about rebuilding city centers.