Civano—Tucson, Arizona
Details a model traditional neighborhood development designed to promote economic growth while maintaining important social values and ecological harmony. Civano combines Traditional Neighborhood Development with sustainable design, energy and water efficiency. Production homebuilder Pulte Homes is constructing homes in the development that conform to Civano building standards.

Dewees Island—Dewees Island, South Carolina
Profiles a private residential community dedicated to integrating principles of sustainable development in all phases of land-use planning, site design, building design, and project management. The Island Preservation Partnership, the consortium of developers building on the island, has designed a model that ensures minimum environmental impact while maximizing economic value.

Eagle Lake—Orcas Island, Washington
Explains a 300-acre environmentally-sensitive residential development in which homes must follow the carefully created design guidelines focusing on traditional bungalow and craftsman styles. The guidelines are meant to promote aesthetic harmony within the community and also blend with the natural environment.

Enviro Home—Palo Alto, California
Clarum Homes, a California builder, offers among its products The Enviro Home™, an energy-efficient single-family home that has attained Energy Star certification, and has been designated a Zero Energy Home by DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In addition to saving energy, the homes conserve water and contain recycled materials.

Highlands' Garden Village—Denver, Colorado
Profiles the redevelopment of the former Elitch’s Gardens amusement park into a mixed-use urban village. The development includes a village of single and multi-family homes, live-work housing, senior housing, co-housing, parks, gardens, a revitalized community theater, retail and offices, all based on the principles of diversity and environmental responsibility.

Jackson Meadow—Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota
Details this new 64-home residential development focusing on ecological land use. Jackson Meadow has a "commitment to create a sustainable environment that respects the unique nature of this special place." The development is combined with more than 100 acres of open space for people and wildlife, and includes a communally constructed wetlands, and natural ponding for water filtration and runoff.

Jordan Commons—Metro-Dade County, Florida
Explains a 200-home model community developed for residents left homeless by Hurricane Andrew. Features of the project include energy efficiency, water efficiency, recycling, composting, and appropriate landscaping, as well as educational programs that will emphasize to the community’s residents the importance of conservation. 

Orenco Station - Hillsboro, Oregon
A new transit-oriented community of 1,800 homes, a town center, office, retail and nearby employment on 209 acres in the town of Hillsboro, west of Portland, Oregon. Extending out from the light rail and town center is a grid of walkable, tree-lined streets and parks, featuring cottages, condominiums and rowhomes in a broad range of sizes and prices.

Paraiso Tucan—Riviera Maya, Mexico
Described an ecologically-friendly subdivision that integrates a number of strategies including alternative design and construction methods, alternative energy and environmentally-sensitive site development.

Prairie Crossing—Grayslake, Illinois
Details a conservation dedicated to preserving the distinctive open landscape of central Lake County and encouraging daily living in harmony with the environment. The community is the western anchor of the Liberty Prairie Reserve, a 2,500-acre preserve of forest, marshes, prairies, and farmland.

RiverPlace - Portland, Oregon
RiverPlace represents a reintegration with Portland's urban and riparian fabric, a 25-year turnaround from four-lane freeway to thriving downtown neighborhood. Developed around the strong guidelines and timeless vision of Portland's Central City Plan, a public-private partnership finding increased success with every phase, and access to the Willamette River, RiverPlace is a vital riverfront community and an integral part of a thriving city.

Third Street Cottages—Langley, Washington
Profiles a trend-setting 'pocket neighborhood' consisting of eight detached cottages grouped around a garden courtyard. The project incorporates sustainability in many aspects of design, construction and materials and demonstrates how individual homes can be designed strategically to create a sense of community.

Tryon Farm—La Porte County, Indiana
A 170-acre community of new simple houses and lofts, ranging in size from 400 to 3,500 square feet, grouped in seven settlements. Three-quarters of the area is preserved as rolling pasture, meadows, woods and ponds. An active original farm provides a center for community activities.

Village Homes—Davis California
Describes a 68-acre development of single-family homes, apartments, a community center and an office building that features solar construction, natural cooling systems, communal agricultural areas, a natural drainage system and a pedestrian- and bike-friendly layout. The project serves as a model for environmentally sustainable development and community planning.

The Woodlands - Houston, Texas
Officially opened in 1974, The Woodlands is a forested community made up of six residential villages (with a seventh in development), three corporate and commercial centers, a resort and conference center, medical facilities, and a full range of shopping, dining, entertainment, and recreational amenities. This project pioneered the blending of nature with large-scale development, creating a benchmark in balance and quality of community planning.

I'On—Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Describes a traditional walking neighborhood inspired by the planning and beauty of historic Lowcountry towns and neighborhoods

Liberty on the Lake—Stillwater, Minnesota
This 350-home development was designed as a return to the type of friendly, walkable, more livable communities of the past. Sidewalks, porches, public squares and village greens encourage neighbors to congregate. A town square features a playground, baseball and football areas and enough land for concerts. A small retail development will create Liberty's own "main street."

Magnolia Square—Austin Ranch, Texas
Explains a 300-acre development, the first phase of a 1200-acre master plan for a walkable community. The plan for Magnolia Square seeks to foster an active, diverse, and pedestrian-oriented neighborhood with a mix of densities, scales and uses that are carefully designed to blend in with the existing community and natural features. A mixed-use town center at the heart of the community includes the highest density housing on the site, as well as ground floor retail within walking distance of all residents.

Mashpee Commons—Mashpee, Massachusetts
This development transformed an existing strip shopping center into a traditional New England town center with six interrelated neighborhoods including 380 housing units and 462,000 square feet of retail, restaurants and offices. Approximately 65% of the land will be protected as open space.

McKenzie Towne—Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Details Canada's first neo-traditional community, which, upon completion, will consist of numerous small neighborhoods known as villages, each with a central park and many other smaller parks. The first completed neighborhood, Inverness, is home to more than 1,000 people.

Middleton Hills—Middleton, Wisconsin
Showcases a 400-home mixed-use neighborhood designed and master planned by Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, featuring greenspace, community scale, narrow streets, live/work units and short setbacks.

Northwest Landing—Dupont, Washington
Provides an overview of a 2,800-acre development that incorporates a mix of residential, commercial, and office uses into a single cohesive development based on New Urbanism principles. The project consists of five mixed-use villages situated on a expanse of land overlooking the Puget Sound and adjacent to the old company town of Dupont.

Riverside—Atlanta, Georgia
Profiles a new urbanist, mixed-use neighborhood said to be a "living laboratory."

Seaside—Seaside, Florida
Explains an 80-acre resort community along the Florida Coast heralded as the first and best known example of what has come to be known as New Urbanism. The development is designed on a neighborhood scale and is designed to foster a sense of community.

Stapleton—Denver, Colorado
Explains a new, mixed-use urban community on the former Stapleton airport property. The Stapleton Plan envisions a traditionally urban, pedestrian-scale community served by mass transit, neighborhood retail, employment centers, and particular emphasis on energy efficient affordable housing, natural resource conservation, and other environmentally sound policies.

WaterColor—Gulf Coast Florida
This 449-acre resort and residential community master planned in new urbanist style has half the community dedicated to green space, strict architectural guidelines, and requirements for water conservation.

Baxter Village, South Carolina
One of six communities being created by Clear Springs Development, Baxter Village includes a mixed-use town center, single-family homes and townhomes, and 400 acres of open space in parks and trails. It is located near the 2,300-acre Anne Springs Close Greenway. The development was recognized by the Sierra Club for its preservation of open space and sprawl prevention.

Coffee Creek Center—Coffee Creek, Indiana
Describes an innovative project that combines the concepts of New Urbanism to create a pedestrian-oriented community with principles of sustainable design. The more than 640 acres that encompass Coffee Creek Center will include a mix of residential, commercial and retail areas set within distinct neighborhoods, together with a significant portion of land that will remain natural green belt.

Gaviotas, Colombia
Describes a town of 200 occupants situated in Colombia's barren eastern plains originally started as a 1971 scientific experiment of self-sufficiency. It continues to thrive utilizing renewable energies such as wind and solar and has developed its own technologies in water purification and hydroponic agriculture.

Hidden Springs, Idaho
A conservation community on 1,844 acres near Boise, Idaho, featuring an 810-acre conservation area with a 100-acre working produce farm, a town center with post office and general store, and 1,000 traditional-style homes planned by 2009.

Pattonsburg, Missouri
Discusses the efforts of Pattonsburg to redevelop sustainably following the Great Flood of 1993.

Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Developed beginning in 1960 according to a master plan that promoted dense development, today this community is a model of smart growth.

East Lake Commons—Atlanta, Georgia
Explains a co-housing community that replaces the conventional development approach with a "conservation community" approach that strives to protect land, create open and green space for its residents, and allow easy pedestrian access.

Eco-Village—Louden County, Virginia
Explains a cohousing community located on 180 acres of countyside in northern Virginia that incorporates many principles of sustainability in the project concept, master plan, and guidelines for home design. The project also will also be used as a demonstration of environmentally sustainable development where participation in the design process will be documented to assist designers and planners of similar communities.

Hundredfold Farm—Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
This 15-household rural cohousing community will utilize sustainable building practices and cluster development to preserve existing farmland and a tree farm. Sustainable farming will be used to grow community food and operate an organic garden on the CSA model.

Marsh Commons CoHousing—Arcata, California
Describes a cohousing community employing appropriate technology to reduce resource consumption and dependence on cars. The development is built on a reused industrial site adjoining a wildlife refuge on a marsh. Buildings feature salvaged wood, certified lumber and recycled paint.

Pine-Street Cohousing—Amherst, Massachusetts
Profiles an eight-home, intergenerational community that emphasizes resource efficiency, environmental preservation and a deep sense of community.  The homes are built as duplexes, in a configuration that maximizes open land and concentrates living quarters near community areas. The size, shape, orientation and construction of the homes emphasize energy and resource efficiency while the community design favors pedestrians over automobiles.

Takoma Village—Washington, D.C.
An affordable cohousing project that focuses on incorporating a mix of energy-efficient, green, and cost-effective building materials and systems.

Winslow Cohousing—Bainbridge Island, Washington
Profiles a cohousing project with a mix of households, of varied backgrounds, ages and views, yet a shared desire to live near known neighbors in a small community.

Passive Solar Rowhouses—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Explains how developers helped revitalize a community in North Philadelphia with passive solar rowhouses.

Four Times Square Building -- New York City, New York
Comprising 1.6 million square feet of environmentally responsible design, Four Times Square is the first project of its size to adopt standards for energy efficiency, indoor ecology, sustainable materials, and responsible construction, operations, and maintenance procedures.

Inn of the Anasazi—Santa Fe, New Mexico
Describes a hotel known for its excellence in design as well as its integration of sustainability concepts into the overall concept and management of the hotel.

Thoreau Center for Sustainability—San Francisco, California
The Thoreau Center for Sustainability manages an environmentally and financially sustainable facility in the Presidio of San Francisco. It houses a vibrant community of primarily not-for-profit organizations working for a healthy environment and a just society.

AFCEE Sustainable Development Case Studies
The U.S. Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence Sustainable Development web page offers case studies of sustainable federal development including an EPA campus, squadron facility, and family housing.

"New Uses for Army Surplus Buildings"—New York, New York
A June 2001 continuing education feature in Architectural Record chronicles the redevelopment of waterfront Fort Totten into a training and administration center for the fire department and parks department, as well as community open space. The project included adaptive reuse of existing buildings.

GSA Center for Urban Development
Profiles success stories of government building revitalizations in communities across the country.

Green Developments 2.0 CD-ROM
A premier collection of over 200 case studies of residential and commercial green development projects around the world, from Rocky Mountain Institute.

Commonwealth Design Awards 2003
Awards presented by 10000 Friends of Pennsylvania in recognition of development projects that successfully demonstrate sound land use principles.

Florida Green Building Coalition
Offers a list of development projects applying for green development certification.

HOK—Sustainable Design Case Studies
Provides several case studies from a leading architecture firm.

National Town Builders Association Neighborhood Locator
Provides links to examples of developments designed on new urbanism principles and concepts in many U.S. states.

PATH Site Demonstrations
Chronicles progress in PATH program participating developments across the country that feature energy-efficient construction, innovative building technologies, and affordable homes.

Professional Builder's Smart Growth Award-Winning Developments
Honors developments that made a special effort to build communities that exemplify principles of "smart growth." Entries were judged on the following principles: protect and provide access to the natural environment; incorporate a mix of land uses; use land in an efficient and innovative manner; encourage multiple transportation options; are pedestrian scaled and pedestrian friendly; provide housing choices; respect local traditions; take advantage of infill opportunities; and deliver a genuine experience of place.