Your Town Alabama: Designing Our Future

Useful Websites Continued

http://www.lisc.org/
Local Initiatives Support Corporation— LISC helps resident-led, community-based development organizations transform distressed communities and neighborhoods into healthy ones – good places to live, do business, work and raise families.

http://www.planetizen.com/
Planetizen is a public-interest information exchange provided by Urban Insight for the urban planning, design and development community. You can subscribe to their twice weekly email newsletter—and for those of you with mp3 players, you can even get podcasts of some of their discussions to listen to on-the-go.

http://www.placematters.com
PlaceMatters.com is a national organization working to engage communities in democratic, holistic and place-based planning. Also check out their Placemaking guidebook, available in pdf format by visiting www.placematters.com/Placemaking/Placemaking_v1.pdf

http://www.greenlaws.lsu.edu/
A resource home page for urban design, city planning, urban forestry, site design, landscape architecture, architecture, site engineering, land use law and land development--highlighting legal standards and technical requirements for site development planning, tree preservation and landscape ordinance legislation. This simple site contains some useful information relating to tree ordinances and urban forestry in general.