- GSA Center for Urban Development and Livability
- Endeavors to leverage federal real estate actions in ways that bolster community efforts to encourage smart growth, economic vitality, and cultural vibrancy. - NRDC: Smart Growth and Sprawl
- Facts, reports, and resources on urban sprawl and smart growth practices. - PlannersWeb Sprawl Resource Guide
- Looks at the roots of sprawl, its problems, and strategies for dealing with it. - PreserveNet: Stopping Suburban Sprawl
- Lists groups working to stop sprawl. - Scenic America
- Nonprofit organisation dedicated to preserving and enhancing the scenic character of America's communities and countryside. - Sierra Club: Sprawl Campaign
- Includes a overview of the topic, reports, and more. - Smart Growth Network
- Encourages development that is environmentally, fiscally, and economically smart and helps create national, regional, and local coalitions to support smart growth. - Sprawl City
- Focusing on consumption and population growth and their roles in urban sprawl and its effect on natural habitat and farmland around U.S. cities. - Sprawl Net, The
- Attempt to collect information, ideas, and opinions about the contemporary sprawling landscape, and to encourage interested people from a wide variety of fields to work together. - Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse
- Provides information, advice, and referrals on issues related to sprawl, smart growth, and livable communities. - Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town
- PBS documentary examining the struggle between the community of Ashland, Virginia and the department store chain. - Urbanity
- Focuses on the differences betweeen urban and suburban development patterns.
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