Land Use and Community
ADPSR – Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility - A national non-profit organization of architects, designers, planners and related professionals.
The Ahwahnee principles for smart economic development: an implementation guidebook / by Rick Cole; editing by Paul Zykofsky, Brad Norton and Dave Davis. Sacramento, CA: Local Government Commission's Center for Livable Communities, 1998. Written for local policymakers, communities, regional development ideas.
DAAP Reserves HN90.C6 A644 2001
Alameda County Waste Management Authority and Recycling Board (stopwaste.org) - Includes links to other resources. See Green Building Guidelines.
Blueprint for a sustainable Bay Area / Urban Ecology, Inc. [Oakland, CA]: Urban Ecology, c1996.
DAAP Stacks HC79.E5 B48 1996
City of Oakland - Green Building Resource Center
City of San Francisco - Sustainable City
Ecological design handbook: sustainable strategies for architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and planning / Fred A. Stitt, editor. London; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999.
DAAP Stacks SB472.7 .E36 1999
Environmental planning for site development: a manual for sustainable local planning and design / Anne R. Beer and Catherine Higgins. 2nd ed. London: New York: E & FN Spon, c2000.
DAAP Stacks NA2540.5 .B44 2000
Green Resource Center - Serves as the focal point for sustainable building environment in the San Francisco Bay Area. Funded by a grant from the California Integrated Waste Management Board with assistance from the City of Berkeley. Lots of links to a variety of resources.
King County Department of Natural Resources & Parks, Washington State –
King County Sustainable Building & Construction
SmartGrowth - Part of the Sustainable Communities Network. The Smart Growth Network encourages metropolitan development that is environmentally smart, fiscally smart, economically smart, and socially smart.
Sustainable Building Sourcebook - By the City of Austin, Texas, Green Builder Program. An online resource for green building. The general sections of the Sourcebook are Water, Energy, Building Materials, and Solid Waste. Each resource section and the appendix are hyperlinked for quick location.
Sustainable community development: studies in economic, environmental, and cultural revitalization / edited by Marie D. Hoff, Boca Raton: Lewis Pub., c1998
LANGSAM Stacks HC79.E5 S86 1998
Urban eco-villages as an alternative model to revitalizing urban neighborhoods: the eco-village approach of the Seminary Square/Price Hill eco-village of Cincinnati, Ohio / Steve Sizemore, Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati, 2004.
Urban Ecology - Links to Building Livable Cities, Planning Sustainable Regions, Bay Area Green Web, and the Urban Ecologist. Links to current Infill Projects.
Wallace Stegner Environmental Center - San Francisco Public Library. Links to environmental directories, Eco-Links, Activism, collections, and calendar.