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 The new report Putting Smart Growth to Work in Rural Communities focuses on how to adapt smart growth strategies to rural communities. The report examines the challenges rural communities face, including rapid growth at metropolitan edges, declining rural populations, and the loss of working lands. It highlights smart growth strategies that can help guide rural growth while preserving the unique rural character of existing communities. Learn more.
 EPA’s new Sustainable Design and Green Building Toolkit for Local Governments was developed to assist local governments with identifying and removing barriers to sustainable design and green building within their permitting process. Learn more.
 Putting Schools on the Map: Linking Transit-Oriented Development, Families, and Schools in the San Francisco Bay Area examines the connections between Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), families, and schools, with a focus on expanding educational opportunities for all children.
The report was produced by the Center for Cities & Schools. Learn more.
 Trust for Public Land's full-color magazine is for anyone who loves the land. Land&People highlights conservation ideas and techniques through inspiring stories about how people and communities are creating new parks, playgrounds, and greenways and protecting the lands that they love. Learn more.
 The Center for Neighborhood Technology has developed a new tool called Abogo for individuals to find what a typical household spends on transportation in their neighborhood. Abogo is a more consumer-oriented extension of the Housing + Transportation Affordability Index, which offers the true cost of housing based on its location, by measuring the transportation costs associated with place. Learn more.
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