Accountable Development

ACORN's Living Wage Resource Center: a clearinghouse for information on local living wage ordinances http://www.livingwagecampaign.org/

BNA Tax Management. Articles and analysis about state and federal taxes. www.bnatax.com/tm/

The Brennan Center for Justice's living wage page, including model legislation: http://www.brennancenter.org/programs/living_wage/index.html

Center for Community Change. Great resource for researching community development block grants. www.communitychange.org

"Corporate Welfare Shame Page." Compiles articles and analysis about current "corporate welfare" issues. www.progress.org/banneker/cw.html

Development Alliance.com: "the site selector's portal for community information." http://www.developmentalliance.com/

Economic and Business Geography Learning Web: a web-based resource for materials developed by University of Washington professor Gunter Krumme. http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/ebg/contents.html

Field of Schemes is the companion website to Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit (Common Courage Press), by Joanna Cagan and Neil deMause. Since 1998, the authors have been casting a critical eye on the roughly $2 billion a year in public subsidies that go toward building new professional sports facilities. www.fieldofschemes.com

Global Direct Investment Solutions. A list of location consultants with links to their webpages: www.gdi-solutions.com/profsvcs/lists/location_consultants.htm

HUD's Community Renewal Initiative homepage: http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/index.cfm

HUD User Policy Development and Research Information Service www.huduser.org/search/search.asp

Internal Revenue Service tax-exempt bond community. A collection of resources about tax exempt bonds. http://www.irs.gov/taxexemptbond/index.html

International Economic Development Council homepage: a non-profit membership organization for economic developers. www.iedconline.org

International Economic Development Council consultant search. http://www.iedconline.org/public_organization_search.php

Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy: in-depth analysis of the effects of federal, state, and local tax code changes and their impact on state revenues and on people of different income levels. www.ctj.org/itep

Knowledgeplex: "the affordable housing and community development resource for professionals." www.knowledgeplex.org

PolicyLink: includes an Equitable Development Toolkit with extensive resources on principles of accountable development. www.policylink.org

Site Selection Network of the National Association of Manufacturers www.namssn.org

Site Selection's Archived Blockbuster Deal of the Week: "Profiles of corporate real estate's multimillion-dollar blockbusters, the facility location projects avidly courted by area economic developers around the world." http://www.conway.com/ssinsider/bbdeal/archive.htm

Site Selection's Archived Incentives Deal of the Month: Highlights of Site Selection magazine plus spotlighted incentive deals.
http://www.conway.com/ssinsider/incentive/archive.htm

Site Selection's Archived Project Watch: "Capsule looks at recent new facilities, expansions and developments that are emerging on the ever-changing landscape that makes up the global real estate industry."
http://www.conway.com/ssinsider/pwatch/archive.htm

State Tax Central: "The only thing you need to know about state taxes." A resource for details on state taxes including extensive frequently asked questions sections. www.statetaxcentral.com

Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch. This site, created by Good Jobs First, brings together all that is known about the U.S. state and local economic development subsidies received by the world's largest retailer as well as the data that have been disclosed about the hidden taxpayer costs associated with the company's inadequate healthcare benefits for its workers. http://www.walmartsubsidywatch.org/

Smart Growth for Working Families

Atlantic Station: homepage for a large transit-oriented development project in Atlanta. www.atlanticstation.com

Big-Box Reuse: How communities are reusing abandoned big-box stores, with photos. www.bigboxreuse.com

Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI) http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/bedi/index.cfm

Bureau of Transportation Statistics: Analysis on mass transportation usage and trends. www.bts.gov

Center for Transportation Excellence Recent Reports and News http://www.cfte.org/news/reports.asp

Cyburbia: a portal for urban planning www.cyburbia.org

Deadmalls: a resource for information and examples of abandoned malls. www.deadmalls.com

Demographia: a collection of articles and analysis on various smart growth issues. www.demographia.com

Local Government Commission Energy Information Clearinghouse. A resource for community leaders on policy guidelines and practical tools for the use of energy which is affordable and sustainable and least harmful to the environment. http://www.lgc.org/energyclearinghouse/index.html

National Transit Database: a collection of statistics and reports. http://www.ntdprogram.com/NTD/ntdhome.nsf/Docs/NTDPublications?OpenDocument

National Transportation Library: "a virtual library for the transportation community." http://ntl.bts.gov

The New Rules Project: a website dedicated to information on "new localism," a form of smart growth planning. www.newrules.org

Office of Highway Policy Information: Highway Statistics Publications dating back to 1992. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/hss/hsspubs.htm

Smart Communities Network: The U.S. Department of Energy's extensive website about sustainable development. http://www.sustainable.doe.gov

Smart Growth America. www.smartgrowthamerica.org

Smart Growth Online, a service of the Smart Growth Network, a partnership of the EPA and several non-profit and government organizations. www.smartgrowth.org

Sprawl-Busters: "an international clearinghouse on big-box anti-sprawl information."
http://www.sprawl-busters.com/

Sprawl City: a site dedicated to using U.S. government data and analysis of that data to see the roles of contributing factors in the sprawl of individual urban areas, states, bio-regions and the nation as a whole. www.sprawlcity.org

Sprawl Watch clearinghouse: a comprehensive list of smart growth resources broken down into categories like Superstore Sprawl and Small Town Decline. www.sprawlwatch.org

Surface Transportation Policy Project: a collection of reports from a broad coalition of smart growth partners. http://www.transact.org/

Transportation Research Board Cooperative Research Programs: final reports on cooperative research findings. http://www4.trb.org/trb/onlinepubs.nsf/web/crp

Urban Futures: a program of Reason Foundation dedicated to providing market-oriented analysis of land use and economic development issues. http://www.urbanfutures.org/