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Designing With A Purpose
  • Designing for Mixed-use
  • Designing for Large users of space
  • Designing for Diversity
  • Designing for Density
This page is under construction...more coming soon!
In the meantime, the following websites have some good information on design:
  • NJ Department of Community Affairs, Office of Smart Growth: www.nj.gov/dca/osg/resources/design.html
  • "Designing New Jersey" handbook, by the NJ Dept. of Community Affairs: www.nj.gov/dca/osg/docs/designingnj060100.pdf
  • Mayor's Institute on City Design: www.rpa.org/pdf/mayorsinstitute.pdf The NJ Office of Smart Growth and the Regional Plan Association's community design education program to New Jersey mayors.
  • Project for Public Spaces: www.pps.org/ PPS is a nonprofit technical assistance, research and educational organization. Their mission - to create and sustain public places that build communities - is achieved through programs in parks, plazas and central squares; transportation; public buildings and architecture and public markets.
  • Scenic America's Community Design recommendations: www.scenic.org/community.htm
  • Creating Quality Places: Successful Communities By Design: www.qualityplaces.marc.org/ This is a program of the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) to encourage alternative design practices throughout the Kansas City area.


This section of the Smart Growth Gateway is possible thanks to Carlos Rodrigues and the Rutgers University Department of Landscape Architecture. Visit its website at la56.rutgers.edu/rula/.