Links

This page provides links to documents and websites that illustrate the principles and various technical approaches The Village Project uses in creating plans for urban development. Items with The Village Project logo denote resources produced by The Village Project. External links will open in a new window.

Publications

  • Villages and Countryside: Land Use Alternatives for Orange County written by members of The Village Project, this 60-page report documents the case for more compact, walkable, transit-supportive urban forms, and illustrates how this form might occur, over time, at specific sites in Orange County.
  • Shaping Orange County’s Future: adopted by Carrboro in 2001. Among the recommendations were: focus two-thirds of future growth into Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, Mebane, and transition areas; promote compact mixed-use development in areas of town targeted for growth.
  • New Vision for Downtown Carrboro: Among the policies were: build up, not out; locate new high-density development along transit routes; encourage variety of residential development in downtown.
  • Carrboro Vision 2020: Some key themes were: build new mixed-use buildings; design public spaces, especially streets, for people first; strengthen downtown identity through streetscaping, pedestrian links, sidewalks, and crosswalks.

Websites, Organized By Topic

General Urban Growth

  • Carfree Cities: Website of author J.H. Crawford. Illustrations and information of how modern cities can be built with as little need for automobiles as possible.
  • Arcosanti: an experimental car-free town of 5000 people in the high desert of Arizona.

Environmental Quality

  • Southern Environmental Law Center: Leads several broad-based, regional conservation initiatives to strengthen environmental protection laws and policies in the southeastern United States.
  • North Carolina Conservation Network: The North Carolina Conservation Network is a statewide network of over 120 environmental, community and environmental justice organizations focused on protecting North Carolina’s environment and public health.

Land Conservation

  • Land For Tomorrow – growing partnership of North Carolina organizations and citizens committed to building awareness of why streams, farms, forests, parks, gamelands and historic places are critical to the future of North Carolina
  • Campaign to Protect Rural England

Transportation