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What does "smart growth" look like, anyway? Here are some websites that allow you to take a peek.
Urban Advantage
www.urban-advantage.com/
Urban Advantage creates visions of pedestrian-friendly, socially-interactive communities by transforming photographs with photo-editing software. Their work is on display on this website.

Community Transformations
www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/community/transformations/index.asp
This Sierra Club website highlights 6 communities around the country that have undertaken smart growth and infill development projects.

Joint Venture
www.jointventure.org/resources/photosims/sim_index.html
Joint Venture, a California group working to revitalize Silicon Valley, has created a number of smart growth photo simulations displaying many different smart growth development techniques: light rail corridor, compact mixed-use business park, infill development on a strip mall site, regional traffic arterial, mixed use intersection, street-oriented residential development, infill housing, and a neighborhood light rail stop.

National Geographic, Virtual World: The New Suburb
www.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse/sprawl/index_flash.html
Browse around this "virtual suburb" to see how smart growth and new urbanism works.