Organizations
Centre for Livable Communities: This American based non-profit organizations that helps local governments and community leaders be proactive in their land use and transportation planning, and adopt programs and policies that lead to more livable and resource-efficient land use patterns.
Federation of Canadian Municipalities - Centre for Sustainable Community Development: The mission of the Centre is to demonstrate municipal leadership in sustainable community development by working with partners to implement holistic decision-making, planning processes and innovative projects.
International Centre for Sustainable Cities: This mission of the Centre is to catalyze action on urban sustainability in cities around the world, through practical demonstration projects, peer learning networks and high profile events.
Project for Public Spaces (PPS): This American based nonprofit organization is dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities. PPS provides technical assistance, training and information such as:
- Ten Principles for Creating Successful Squares
- Great Squares and Plazas Give Identity to Cities
- Top 12 Public Squares in the U.S. and Canada
- Launching a New Tradition of Great Public Squares
- What Makes a Successful Place?
Smart Growth BC: This provincial non-governmental organization is devoted to fiscally, socially and environmentally responsible land use and development.
Professional Associations
British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects: Landscape architects are professionals concerned with the creative, rational planning and design of our outdoor living spaces. Â
Planning Institute of BC: The association is dedicated to the advancement of the planning profession in British Columbia and the Yukon. The association’s members work in a wide variety of fields including land use planning, environmental resource management, land development, heritage conservation, social planning, transportation planning and economic development.
University Initiatives
James Taylor Chair in Landscape & Livable Communities: This research and outreach organization demonstrates how to design and build affordable, equitable, and ecologically healthy communities.
Simon Fraser University - Centre of Sustainable Community Development: The Centre works to support and enable the sustainable development of communities through research, education, and community mobilization in B.C., Canada, and internationally.
University of British Columbia - Design Centre for Sustainability (DCS): Through interdisciplinary approaches, the DCS is capable of demonstrating to the development community, to municipalities, and to citizens how to shift community-based planning and design toward on-going consideration of sustainability as a matter of course rather than exception.
University of British Columbia - Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability: The Centre is dedicated to research, collaboration and outreach that leads to workable solutions for the challenges of urban sustainability.
University of Idaho Community Design and Planning Research Page: This site provides citizens, elected officials and students access to case study research on issues important to community revitalization and urban design for small towns and cities.