Resources

This section useful links to web sites and documents relating to the importance of green infrastructure, best practices in planning for parks, open space, and more.

City of Atlanta

• City of Atlanta - Department of Planning and Community Development
  Guiding the development of the city through effective measures of planning, design review, construction plan approval, code compliance, and housing assistance.
• City of Atlanta - Bureau of Planning
  Overseeing the city's development plans and studies, zoning, neighborhood planning units (NPUs) and more.
• City of Atlanta - Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs
  Providing city residents and visitors with the parks, facilities, recreational programs and cultural experiences.
• City of Atlanta - Department of Public Works
  Transporation and solid waste services.
• City of Atlanta - Department of Watershed Management
  Dedicated to providing the highest quality drinking water and wastewater services to residential, businesses and wholesale customers

Greenspace, Open Space and Green Infrastructure

• Community Open Space Partnership
  Broad-based network working towards improved green infrastructure.
• Green Infrastructure
  Comprehensive reference site sponsored by The Conservation Fund and USDA Forest Service.
• Green Infrastructure: Smart Conservation for the 21st Century
  Report by SprawlWatch Clearinghouse
• "Urban green space linked to walking, cycling levels"
  2005 article from Medical News Today.

Best Practices

• Parks, People, and Places: Making Parks Accessible to the Community (PDF)
  Report by the Urban Land Institute.
• Principles of Smart Growth: Preserve Open Space, Farmland, Natural Beauty and Critical Environmental Areas
  Detailed information from the Smart Growth Network.
• Shade: Trees Make Dollars and Sense
  A magazine published by the Georgia Urban Forest Council.
• What Makes Open Space Work?
  Quick verview from the GreenPlan Philadelphia web site.

Economics

• Economic Benefits of Park & Open Space
  Report by the Trust for Public Land.
• The Economics of Parks and Open Spaces: Harnessing the Proximity Effect for Smart Growth
  Analysis by the Community Open Space Partnership.

Affiliated Sites

• Atlanta Regional Commission: Green Space
  Information, links and tools related to greenspace in metro Atlanta.
• Georgia Conservancy
  Statewide environmental organization.
• Metro Atlanta Greenspace Interactive Map
  Atlanta Regional Commission
  Extraordinary online interactive GIS tool provides detailed data on the region's greenspace, presented by the Atlanta Regional Commission
• Park Pride
  Atlanta nonprofit group that leads and inspires action for parks and greenspace.