Links Continued:
10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania leads the statewide effort to preserve and enhance the Commonwealth's cities, towns and countryside.
www.10000friends.org
The Congress for the New Urbanism is an alliance of architects, planners, builders and others who want to rediscover, rebuild and create new neighborhoods that house people of all ages, races, incomes within walking distance of each other.
www.cnu.org
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is committed to saving America's historic towns and neighborhoods, including older schools. Its Main Street program is working with hundreds of traditional towns across the country on redevelopment projects.
www.nthp.org
The American Farmland Trust is the nation's leading organization for preserving farmland in America. Its website includes information on farmland preservation programs across the nation, including the total acreage of farms permanently preserved from development.
www.farmland.org
The Sierra Club has one of the nation's most comprehensive websites on sprawl, including reports, publications, and links to more than 150 websites relating to some aspect of sprawl, including:
Transportation
Bicycling and Walking
Livable Communities
Traffic calming
Sprawl, land use and conservation
www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/resources
“It's difficult to imagine a long-lasting, cohesive neighborhood without a school. In fact, the location of schools often serves to define neighborhoods.”
http://www.designcoalition.org/features/schenk/S-A_TND.htm
The Relationship Between Residential Property Sale Price and Distance from Public Schools in the Oshkosh Region http://www.betabiostat.com/OASD_HV.pdf
Neighborhood School Characteristics: What Signals Quality to Homebuyers? “Not surprisingly, home prices tend to be lower in communities with high property taxes and higher in communities with low crime rates.
Home prices fall as the commute to the central business district increases and rise as the amount of air pollution decreases. Locations near a city park command a premium while locations near the city dump sell at a discount. Popular wisdom and economic research suggest that the quality of the neighborhood school should also be an important locational characteristic. The current VCS proposal violates every one of these principles.
http://www.dallasfed.org/research/er/1996/er9604a.pdf