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Planning Your Next Great Read
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It's the perfect time for a smart read. LandOf.org prepared this list of engaging books.
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DEVELOPMENT TRANSACT
What Does It Mean to Make Development Decisions Predictable, Fair and Cost-Effective?
What if our educational system rewarded students for doing badly in school? What if our health care system rewarded patients for taking poor care of themselves? That’s how our transportation and land development system treats our communities.
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The Case for Bigger Cities
Two cities each containing 100,000 people will not fare as well as one city with a population of 200,000. This is what authors Luis M.A. Bettencourt and Geoffrey B. West asserted in the article “Bigger Cities Do More with Less” in Scientific American (September 2011). Why is this?
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Where does it land?
Conventional, smart, smarter or smartest? »
What Does Minnesota Look
Like in 50 Years?
It all depends on how we grow.
LandOf.org is a land use information salon for Minnesota developers, planners and the public to learn about growing smarter. LandOf.org covers everything along the transect from central cities to rural areas with topics such as mixed land use to stakeholder collaboration with experts, downloadable plans, case studies and images for each. LandOf.org is a mingling of voices that asks, “how can we do what’s best for Minnesota?”
LandOf.org uses the term “smart growth.” Why?
LandOf.org uses the term “smart growth” because most people know what it means. Rather than get bogged down in variations of the term, we use it confidently. Let’s get to work planning smart for the next Minnesota!
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How to Navigate This Site
You can browse this site in a number of ways. The transect (central cities through rural areas at the top of the page) and the principles (mix land use through stakeholder collaboration on the left of the page) present a grid of options, much like a multiplication table. So if you were interested in Mix Land Use and Central Cities, you may browse by:
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You can go to any point in the “grid” by clicking the “View the Grid” button on the left.
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If you are on one page and want to move along the grid either side to side (transect) or up and down (principle) use the grid browse arrows. |
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