Community Development  |  Conflict Management  |  Facilitation  |  Growth Management  |  Mapping  |  Plan for Planning
Public Participation in Planning  |  Strategic Planning  |  Visioning
 

• Community Development
  • “First Impressions” Community Improvement Program
    • Brief description of the Program:  www.uwex.edu/li/andy/descrip.html
    • List of past participating communities:  www.uwex.edu/li/andy/commlist.html
    • New manual:  www.uwex.edu/li/andy/usersguide.htm 
    • Final Reports:  www.uwex.edu/li/andy/manual2.html
       
• Conflict Management
  •   "Farms,Communities and Collaboration: A Guide to Resolving Farm-Neighbor Conflict," which is available from the Community and Rural Development Center at Cornell University web site www.cdtoolbox.org/agriculture_economic_development/fcandc.pdf
  •   "Land Use Conflict: When City and Country Clash," at the Farm Foundation website, www.farmfoundation.org/pubs2/whencityandcountry.pdf
  • "Strategies for Managing Conflict Over Agricultural Land Use," proceedings from 2000 CALS Public Issues Forum.  The Program on Agricultural Technology Studies (PATS) proceedings is at their website at http://www.pats.wisc.edu/calsif2000/CALSIF2000.html
     
• Facilitation
  • Case study of the planning process for the Town of Scott in Burnett County, WI - www.1000friendsofwisconsin.com/smartgrowth/showcase_index.shtml 
     
• Growth Management
  • National Geographic:  Sprawl vs. Growth Management - NG's outstanding introduction to New Urbanism is only one part of their impressive EarthPulse website, which features a variety of conservation tutorials:  www.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse/sprawl/index_flash.html
  • Smart Growth America - A nationwide coalition promoting smart growth; the site provides a wealth of information about how to get started in smart growth advocacy:  www.smartgrowthamerica.org/
  •   Sprawl and Growth Management  (Iowa State University Extension to Communities, Feb 2001)  www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1868E.pdf
     
• Mapping
  • Arc Data
    • Downloadable Data Sets  Preview and download popular ArcData sets
    • Census TIGER 2000 Data  Download the latest TIGER data for free. 1995 data is no longer available.
    • Geography Network  Discover live maps and data to view online or through your GIS application.
    • National Geographic MapMachine  View a large collection of dynamic maps from many leading data publishers.
  • Geographic Information Systems:  www.gisportal.com
  • Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress:  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
  • Guide to Free GeoSpatial Data:  www.cast.uark.edu/local/hunt/index.html
  • National Mapping information:  mapping.usgs.gov/
  • Wisconsin Department of Administration
         Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Services - gis.wi.gov/

• Plan for Planning
  • Michael Chandler.  Developing the Comprehensive Plan, Part 1:  www.plannersweb.com/articles/work10.html
     
• Public Participation in Planning
  •   Smart Growth for Tennessee Towns and Counties: A Process Guide - This guide summarizes the basic steps in a smart growth visioning and planning process. It reviews techniques that can be used at each step; it analyzes computer-based tools to aid the process; and it discusses indicators, a popular low-tech means of assessing community change.  The guide should be useful to planners, private citizens, and officials who are looking for ideas about how to carry out a smart growth visioning and planning process. It is intended especially for communities that need to plan for change but must do so with limited staffs and budgets.  http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/smart/smgrowth.pdf (197 pages) 
    
• Strategic Planning
   
•  Visioning
  •   Building Our Future: A Guide to Community Visioning (276 pages, 1,408 KB)

Community Development  |  Conflict Management  |  Facilitation  |  Growth Management  |  Mapping  |  Plan for Planning
Public Participation in Planning  |  Strategic Planning  |  Visioning