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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- About this guide
- Counties, cities, towns, communities
- A regional perspective
- What is "smart growth"?
- How does smart growth relate to "sustainable
- development, "sustainability," and "planning"?
- Does smart growth necessarily mean land use controls?
- Why do participatory visioning and planning?
- Summary of Tennessee's new growth policy mandate
- The strong leader model
- The top-down model
- The outside enabler model
- The local partnership model
- The civic infrastructure model
- The "come one, come all" model
Identifying values and setting goals
- Vision statements
- Scenarios
- Surveys
- Visual preference surveys
- Forums
- Town meetings
- Committees and task forces
- Focus groups
- Video-based techniques
- Computer-based polling in meetings
- "Voting dots"
- Nominal group technique
Gathering, integrating, and forecasting information
Community profiles
Indicators Geographic information systems (GIS) Extrapolating trends Making comparisons Intention surveys Scenarios Modeling the future Data center Community drafting Community mapping and information-gathering Research committee
Chapter 3. Visioning and Planning: Smart Steps to Smart Growth (Part 2)
Developing and assessing options
- Charettes
- Key Performance Area task forces
- Decision matrix
- Charting the options' pros and cons
- Delphi technique
- Indicators as assessment tools
- GIS-based tools
- Expert systems and optimization techniques
- Indicators
- Benchmarks
- Surveys
- Data center
- Trustees
- Key Performance Area task forces
Informal monitoring by stakeholdersKey sources
- General strengths and weaknesses
- GIS capabilities in Tennessee
- Criteria used in selecting and reviewing tools
- Tools reviewed
- CITYgreen
- Community 2020
- INDEX
- LandView III
- PLACE3S
- PoleStar
- Smart Places
- Other tools
- Looking ahead
- What is an indicator?
- What are indicators used for?
- What is a sustainability indicator?
- How should you choose your community's
- sustainability indicators?
- How can indicators be organized?
- Linkages of economic, environmental,
- and social dimensions
- Typical or potential sustainability indicators
- Additional data sources for
- sustainability indicators
- Key sources
- Key messages
- A 12-step sequence
- Other things to remember
- Case study: White House, Tennessee
- Case study: Loudon County, Tennessee
- Books, articles, and guides
- Organizations and Internet sites
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